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Battisti: The Italo-Brazilian Imbroglio over Shadows of the Past

Brazil and Italy will meet in a football game today in London. The friendly match is far from having the importance of other disputes in the past, world cup decisions included, but the mood built around the game has set the national blogospheres on ...

From JOSE MURILO JUNIOR, Global Voices Online,  10 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Tarso Genro,  Silvio Berlusconi,  Francesco Cossiga,  Carla Bruni-Sarkozy

Brazil: The (r)evolution of Lusophone music

LabCult provides a torrent link of a documentary about Luso-Afro-Brazilian music and sounds: “Lusophony - The (R)Evolution“. From hiphop to rock, visiting the Portuguese fado and Angolan and Caboverdian rhythms like the kuduro and the morna, the doc ...

From JOSE MURILO JUNIOR, Global Voices Online,  6 Feb 2009

Lula on the US ambassador’s expulsion: “Evo is right”

The New World Lusophone Sousaphone translates a comment on the expulsion of the American ambassador in Boliva by Brazil’s President Lula da Silva: “If it is true that the U.S. ambassador was meeting with the opposition to Morales, then Morales was ...

From JOSE MURILO JUNIOR, Global Voices Online,  18 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva,  John McCain

Brazil: Inventive censorship, and the case for anonymity

Brazil got used to being recognized for it's Internet savvy and large population of early web-adopters. Nevertheless, or maybe exactly because of that, the country is rapidly becoming a haven for novel and inventive models and tactics of Internet ...

From JOSE MURILO JUNIOR, Global Voices Online,  7 Sep 2008

Cuba: Developing Hackers

André Deak is a Brazilian blogger who has recently visited Cuba, and in ‘‘ [PT] he tells about the ‘Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas‘ (Informatic Sciences University), where local developers are learning to create code in one of the most ...

From JOSE MURILO JUNIOR, Global Voices Online,  28 Jun 2008

Brazil: The Black President Before Obama

The sweeping Obama phenomenon has caught Brazil, and it comes as no surprise in the country with the world's largest population of African descendants. Blogs are commenting on all things Obama, from his stand on ethanol to the ‘rumors‘ of his appraisal ...

From JOSE MURILO JUNIOR, Global Voices Online,  16 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party

Brazil: Visible and Invisible Indians and Scoops

Here is the Brazilian GLOBO video of the engineer's encounter with the Indians. Since the gathering in Altamira, the Brazilian media have focused mostly on the issue of violence. GLOBO included a special report in its extremely popular weekend TV ...

From JOSE MURILO JUNIOR, Global Voices Online,  31 May 2008
Related Topics: Tom Phillips

Brazil: Can the Amazon problem be solved with new management?

Changing the command in a Brazilian Ministry used to be a domestic affair, but the resignation of the renowned rainforest defender Marina Silva from the Environmental Ministry has sparked global reactions. Ms. Silva's replacement was quickly announced ...

From JOSE MURILO JUNIOR, Global Voices Online,  23 May 2008
Related Topics: Blairo Maggi,  Green Party,  Harvard University,  Al Gore

Brazil: Images of the ‘Invisible Indians' in the Amazon

Altino Machado presents pictures [PT] of what could be the last isolated ethnic group in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, the so called ‘Invisible Indians'. The pictures were taken from a plane by José Carlos dos Reis Meirelles Jr., coordinator of ...

From JOSE MURILO JUNIOR, Global Voices Online,  23 May 2008

Brazil: The prohibited march that keeps marching

After a long period of dictatorship, and since the political liberalization of the 80's, Brazilians have learned to value freedom of expression as a key democratic right. But the last weeks have shown that some issues such as marijuana legalization ...

From JOSE MURILO JUNIOR, Global Voices Online,  15 May 2008
Related Topics: Gilberto Gil,  Bill Clinton,  Fernando Henrique Cardoso,  U.S. Congress

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