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Brazil: The Cybercrimes Bill meets the “Cybercriminal” Camp

The Brazilian Cybercrimes Bill proposed by Senator Eduardo Azeredo [Pt] is always a source of big controversy (read more here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here). It's no surprise then that the controversy should grow further when this bill ...

From DANIEL DUENDE, Global Voices Online,  4 Feb 2009

Brazil: Against Illegal Abortion or Against Women?

Abortion is a very complex issue in Brazil [1, 2], just as almost everywhere else in Latin America. It is considered a crime in the country, not punished only in proven cases of pregnancy caused by sexual abuse or that put the mother's live at risk. ...

From DANIEL DUENDE, Global Voices Online,  20 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Popular Science,  Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva,  U.S. Congress

Brazilian myths and haunts on the Lusosphere - Part 3

To bring this series about Brazilian myths, legends and haunts as seen on the Lusosphere to a great close, we couldn't choose a better entity to speak about than Saci Pererê. After being introduced to mythic beings like Cuca, Boitatá and Curupira in ...

From DANIEL DUENDE, Global Voices Online,  31 Oct 2008

Brazil: Grandma Aggie, Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers and the Pope

Lou Gold, a North-American blogger and nature-person turned “brasileiro', blogs about [En] Grandma Aggie and the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, re-telling some of the adventures of these courageous indigenous ladies and ...

From DANIEL DUENDE, Global Voices Online,  27 Oct 2008

Brazilian myths and haunts on the Lusosphere - Part 2

On the first article of this series, we searched Brazilian websites that could tell us some stories about the haunts and the mythical beings of Brazilian folklore. Now, in the second article, we will sit and listen to the tales of myth, legend and fear ...

From DANIEL DUENDE, Global Voices Online,  23 Oct 2008

Brazil: A Musical Doctrine

Lou Gold, from VisionShare, blogs (in English and Portuguese) and posts some videos about the musical doctrine of Santo Daime and his personal happiness about the recent visit of an important Daime family and its musical entourage to Brasilia, Brazil. “ ...

From DANIEL DUENDE, Global Voices Online,  22 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Colin Powell,  Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  Gerard Latortue

Brazilian myths and haunts on the Lusosphere - Part 1

Now you've already met and been frightened by some of the Latin-American frights, legends and popular myths selected by Juliana Rincón in her two articles (here and here) about this subject for Global Voices, it's time to plunge headfirst into the ...

From DANIEL DUENDE, Global Voices Online,  15 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Blondie

Brazil: “Abortion is a Right, not a Wrong”

Sapataria [Pt], a Brazilian blog about LGBT and women's rights, posts pictures of a recent protest promoted by gender-issues-related groups against the legal views on abortion in Brazil, and shares their two-cents on the issue: “In many countries, the ...

From DANIEL DUENDE, Global Voices Online,  2 Oct 2008

Brazil: Who is behind the ‘Cybercrimes Bill'?

Blog do Tião writes [Pt] about the companies and political groups behind Eduardo Azeredo, the Brazilian Senator that proposed a controversial Cybercrimes Bill that's being largely discussed in the Brazilian Blogosphere. The same post presents data that ...

From DANIEL DUENDE, Global Voices Online,  28 Jul 2008

Brazil and Orkut: made for each other?

Orkut, Google's experiment on Social Networking Services, is extremely popular in Brazil. More than 53% of Orkut users is Brazilian — even more, if you take into account Brazilian's profiles that don't show their country information and profiles by ...

From DANIEL DUENDE, Global Voices Online,  8 May 2008
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Wordpress

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