Proverbial

At the blog next door, Rico - also this blog’s landlord - posted some very cool pictures of Sao Paulo then and now. Curiously, he passed the chance to talk about how the “Clean City” billboard ban, which he detests on moral grounds, is affecting the city’s landscape.
A friend of mine was there recently [...]

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Guilherme Fiuza wrote a great book on the FHC administration and how much we owe them, and has been one of my favorite Brazilian conservative pundits for quite a while. Lately, though, he seems to have joined ranks with the most reactionary right-wing bloggers in just being against anything the government proposes or the society [...]

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Last friday, president Lula promised rebellious air traffic controllers they wouldn’t be punished for striking, and that the government would have a solution to their problem by tuesday, when it was supposed to send a Provisory Measure (.br) to Congress demilitarizing the sector. On monday, back from Washington and after talks with military advisors and [...]

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Well, it wasn’t quite concerns with imagery of Av. Paulista or Rio de Janeiro’s beaches, but it sure was fast (.br):
“It’s not only your image that’s exposed. You lose the tranquility of doing whatever you want in your residence”, says the attorney. According to Nicolau, the Public Ministry could file a preventive public civil lawsuit [...]

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When he nationalized Bolivia’s natural gas companies, soon after being elected, Evo Morales threw Petrobras out of the country, leaving Brazil close to an energy crisis while he threatened to increase the fuel’s price. The situation still hasn’t been solved, since Morales says he’ll only negotiate with diplomats, while Lula’s Foreign Relations Ministry says this [...]

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With the US dollar getting cheaper and cheaper in Brazil, several economists and businessmen are complaining about the country’s inability to have competitive prices in foreign markets. Former Ministry of Finance, Rep. Antonio Palocci, says there’s no need to worry, that it’s only a matter of time (.br) until a rise in imports balances the [...]

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In an online chat with 321 people (.br), this thursday, Folha de S. Paulo’s science editor Claudio Angelo said the Earth will “certainly survive” global warming, but it won’t be such a good place for people - especially the poor - to live in. Pretty much par for the course, these days. But then, he [...]

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As is also usually the case, the whole Congonhas’ situation keeps getting sillier. Denise Abreu, an Anac (National Aviation Agency) director said that nearby airports, such as Viracopos (in Campinas) and Cumbica (in Guarulhos), would only be capable of handling 30% of the traffic (.br) that would otherwise be operating in São Paulo. If that [...]

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These days I cringe whenever I see a news piece start with “Judge John Doe from São Paulo’s XXth Federal Court today determined (…)”. Why? Things like this (.br):
Judge Ronald Carvalho Filho, from São Paulo’s Federal Court’s 22th Judgeship, determined this monday that all flights operating with Fokker-100 and Boeing 737 aircrafts in Congonhas airport [...]

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An uncle of mine, a Worker’s Party (PT) loyalist and pretty much what you’d call a rabid leftist, sends me yet another diatribe by a communist against Brazil’s “neoliberal” MSM. The author, Ronaldo Carmona, is a member in Brazil’s Communist Party’s (PCdoB) International Relations Comission, and writes for the party’s website, Vermelho.org (which translates to [...]

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