Flying over the countryside north of Curitiba - the Serra do Mar's forested mountains look stunning, as do the series of rivers pouring their sediment-laden waters like opening fans into the ocean. In at least in one case after a very long isthmus parallel to the coast. At 7000 feet you can still make out white horses and the long sandy beaches. Sao Paolo is visible as a circular sprawl inland from...
Sao Paulo – As leaders from Brazil and Iran prepared to meet here on Monday, the Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, defended his decision to play host to the Iranian president at a moment of rising tension over Iran’s nuclear ambitions. In his national radio show, Mr. da Silva said that “you don’t [...]
Sao Paulo State Governor Jose Serra, from the opposition Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB), kept the lead in the voting intentions for the 2010 presidential elections, according to a CNT/Sensus survey released on Monday. According to the survey, Governor Serra attained 31.8 percent of the voting intentions for next year's elections. Meanwhile, President Lula's handpicked candidate, Chief of Staff...
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Eyegunk points us to a series of amazing shots of O Estrangeiro , a public performance in São Paulo by Plasticiens Volants that included an inflatable Os Gemeos character/parade float and the Brazilian duo's trademark giant murals .
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So, once again, for the 23rd time, Museu da Casa Brasileira, in São Paulo, has announced the winners of its prestigious awards. These are a few of the winners, among 13 categories. You can check all of them right here
Thousands take to streets in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro to denounce Iranian president's record on rights and Israel Protests greeted Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Brazil at the start of a South American tour intended to bolster the Iranian president's legitimacy and ease his country's international isolation. Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro on the eve of Ahmadinejad's...
Here are my drawings of the Sketchcrawl in Sao Paulo. There were more than 50 sketchers gathered at Museu do Ipiranga , one of the most beautiful places in Sao Paulo. It was a cloudy and rainy day, but very, very hot. I got to do only three drawigns, using watercolor, pencil and markers.
Michael Fitzsimmons submits: As a follow-up to my last article , here are some interesting facts about Brazil gleaned from this week's The Economist magazine's special report on the country : Brazil is the world's fourth largest democracy. Brazil has the world's largest freshwater supplies, the largest tropical forests, and land so fertile that some farmers can harvest three crops a year. Brazil is...
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The journal, Nature, has an outstanding success story about efforts to protect Brazil's Atlantic Coastal Forest: Stemming the deforestation required a broad set of measures: new laws and governmental incentives, the commitment of researchers and conservationists, increased funding from international donors and the Brazilian government, and a growing community awareness. Lately, a boost has come from...