Proverbial

Träsel (.br) makes a good point, but I think he misses an even larger problem about politics coverage in all of Brazil’s press right now. Yes, editors and reporters should show a little more backbone, but this is not due to productive processes or political agendas. What we’re seeing is just another symptom of our [...]

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A group of state congressmen and representatives from the Brazilian Press Association, the National Newspaper Association and the National Students’ Union, gathered today at downtown Rio de Janeiro to rally in favor of freedom of speech (.br). According to the president of the Lawyers’ Order of Brazil, Wadih Damuz, it was an act “in defense [...]

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The bulk of Brazil’s military history involves skirmishes with its southern neighbors, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay (not to mention its own population). By the start of this century, though, the majority of the armed forces was steadily transferred to the Northwest, to patrol the Amazon border, especially the 1,000+ miles of forest separating it from [...]

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I still don’t know what to make of it, and curse myself for not having a video-capable cellphone at hand. Last monday night, walking away from Via Funchal in search of a cab after the My Chemical Romance concert, in São Paulo, I passed by various street vendors selling water, soda and other liquids. All [...]

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Next time you hear a Brazilian complaining about market inequality among men and women, tell them to tell it to the Senate, that just approved a maternity leave (.br) of six months. Granted, it still has to go through the Chamber and the President, but there seems to be no reason to think it’ll fare [...]

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If you want to read only one thing about Iranian president Ahmadinejad’s visit to the US, go no further than Scott Adams’ blog (yes, that Scott Adams):
And who was the smartest person involved in yesterday’s events? George Bush. Criticize him all you want, but sometimes even a blind squirrel finds a nut. He shrugged off [...]

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As Träsel notes (.br), if you search Google for “national shame” in Portuguese, the first result you get is the link for the Senate*. Which just makes me wonder how long it’ll take before something like this makes its way to Congress.
A Polish paper has reported that a googlebomber (”23 years old Marek W. from [...]

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Well, since Bruce Sterling brought up the billboard ban in São Paulo again, I guess it’s okay for me to link to this transcript of NPR’s On The Media segment on it, a couple of months ago. After all, I had a hand in it, since their producer Jamison York got in touch with me [...]

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Are there political bloggers in Bolivia? Hopefully Gateway Pundit will pick up on this story and find someone with a little more understanding of the situation to comment on it. Anyways, the thing is that after kicking foreign companies from the country and nationalizing the gas industry, thus “reclaiming the country’s main treasure to its [...]

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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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