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  • Fuel Of Future For U.S. Now Reality In Brazil

    via Virtual Entrepreneur:
    Larry Rohter – The New York Times
    PIRACICABA, Brazil – At the dawn of the automobile age, Henry Ford predicted that ‘ethyl alcohol is the fuel of the future.’ With petroleum at about $65 a barrel, President George W. Bush of the United States has embraced that view, too. But Brazil is already there.
    Brazil [...]

  • Brazil Trying To Get Back To Normal

    Calm was returning to São Paulo city, Brazil’s industrial capital, amid a heavy presence of police who frisked motorcyclists and drivers and checked ID cards.
    Yesterday night our State Governor Claudio Lembo announced that all prison rebellions across the state have ended and 200 prison guards held hostage over the weekend have been freed without [...]

  • Bono, Editor For The Day Writes Article On President Lula

    Bono, U2’s band leader signs today’s special edition of the daily British newspaper The Independent . Half of all the reveneus from today’s paper will go to fight Aids in Africa.
    The edition goes on subjects about Africa and also brings an editorial that points towards this very difficult moment that the brazilian President Luiz Inácio [...]

  • Gang Riots in Brazil: It Will Happen Again

    I wish I had better news for my readers tonight but, yes, it’s true, we are living a chaos. It’s all over the blogsphere, in the papers, on Google, Yahoo, on-line news and on telly: CNN, Fox, BBC… Brazilian society panicked today.
    I live in Sorocaba, a city in the state of São Paulo. We had [...]

  • Company From Brazil Discovers Light Market In The Middle East

    Nutrilatina, a Brazilian sports supplement and light product maker from the southern Brazilian state of Paraná, shipped a container of products to Saudi Arabia this year. The company has also already sold to Kuwait and is testing other Arab markets like the Lebanese, Egyptian and Qatari.
    Omar Nasser – Federation of Industries of the State [...]

  • Brazil Expecting 6 Million Tourists, 2.5 Million From Europe

    Juliana Andrade
    Brazil’s Minister of Tourism, Walfrido dos Mares Guia, says he does not believe the country’s tourism industry will be harmed by the weak dollar.
    According to Mares Guia, some 6 million foreigners are expected to visit Brazil this year and spend
    US$ 5 billion in the country.
    The minister points out that last year [...]

  • Brazil: Manners

    Mark Taylor
    One thing I was pleasantly surprised about when I first started living in Brazil were people’s manners. For starters the Brazilian hellos and goodbyes are a lot more effervescent than the chilly reception I’m used to in the UK. Even unknown folks often ‘demand’ a kiss on the cheek (in male/female interactions ordinarily, just [...]

  • Portuguese Hotelier Sees Big Business In Brazil

    Renata Ramalho
    The Portuguese have discovered Brazil all over again. At least that’s the impression you get when you see all the Portuguese flags flapping and waving above Brazilian hotels these days. Companies like Vila Gale and Espírito Santo, among others, have conquered a significant piece of Brazil’s hotel market. One in particular, Grupo Pestana, stands [...]

  • Shanty Town, Samba and Entrepreneurship

    Patricia Slater:
    Although most of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas are controlled by drug gangs, while the residents live in constant fear, I was intent on giving my friend a trip to Rio she would not forget, so we checked into a favela B&B.
    They came at us as if we were Father Christmas bearing gifts. Going [...]

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