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Brazil: Capoeira on the big screen

“It was high time capoeira were represented in the big screen in all its glory”, says Regina Scharf. She talks about a just released movie about the Afro-Brazilian martial art/dance. Watch Besouro's trailler on the Deep Beazil blog. All comments are ...

From PAULA GóES, Global Voices Online,  23 Nov 2009

Brazil: Do banks have metal or melanin detector doors?

On the eve of Brazil's Black Pride Day – celebrated on November 20th, when the country renews its ongoing fight against discrimination – the Circo Voador Audiovisual Collective did an experiment. They filmed two members of their group, of apparently ...

From PAULA GóES, Global Voices Online,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Santos, Ltd.

Brazil: Was the blackout caused by hackers or UFOs?

The worst blackout on record that cut electricity to 18 of Brazil’s 26 states leaving nearly 60 million people in the dark last Tuesday has been this week's hot topic on the Brazilian blogosphere. Power went out for more than five hours in most ...

From PAULA GóES, Global Voices Online,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Dilma Rousseff,  Fernando Henrique Cardoso,  IBM,  Google Inc.,  Twitter Inc

Brazil: Pictures of the Rio2016 celebration

See below a selection of Twitpics and Creative Commons pictures posted on Flickr showing the celebration, the Brazilian sense of humor and also the concerns that the news have brough. Brazilians wait the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to ...

From PAULA GóES, Global Voices Online,  10 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  International Olympic Committee,  Flickr,  Creative Commons

Brazil: Socio-digital Inclusion through the Lan House Revolution

Bruno Fernandes, from Patos de Minas, Brazil. Photo available under a Creative Commons license. Acredito que vocês devam está habituados em ver os pais levarem e buscarem seus filhos em lan houses. Esta é uma locadora que fica aqui na minha cidade, ...

From PAULA GóES, Global Voices Online,  28 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Creative Commons,  Google Inc.,  Harvard University,  Banco do Brasil

Brazil: Photos of a country hit by hail, rain and high winds

The past week was marked by violent storm in many Brazilian states. Seven people died in the southern Brazilian states of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, while four people died in a São Paulo slum after a mudslide swept into a slum last Tuesday. ...

From PAULA GóES, Global Voices Online,  12 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Creative Commons,  Flickr

Brazil: Photos of an outrageous squatter settlement eviction

Get summaries of new stories from Global Voices in your inbox daily, weekly, or just sign up for important announcements. While you are in a desperate situation, look around to see if you can find a solution or if oth... wow, I had never heard of ...

From PAULA GóES, Global Voices Online,  26 Aug 2009

Brazil: Newspaper tries to silence a blog and the blogosphere reacts

All comments are moderated. Do not submit your comment more than once or it may be identified as spam. Please treat others with respect. Comments containing hate speech, obscenity, and personal attacks will not be approved. Repeating Islands notes ...

From PAULA GóES, Global Voices Online,  17 Aug 2009

Brazil: Lawsuits force popular political blog to close down

Over the past five years that the blog has been online, Nova Corja stood out mainly because of its coverage of corruption scandals in the Rio Grande do Sul Government, accusations that have now led the Federal Public Ministry of that state to ...

From PAULA GóES, Global Voices Online,  16 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Electronic Frontier Foundation

Alex Castro: A liberal, libertarian and libertine Brazilian blogger

Alex Castro is a barefaced shameless liar, as all fiction writers. Never trust a single word he says. In his flickr profile, Alex Castro defines himself: Hedonist, novelist, atheist, foot fetishist. The Liberal, Libertário, Libertino [LLL] has been ...

From PAULA GóES, Global Voices Online,  7 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc

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