Articles by Brazzil Magazine's News Team http://brazzilfile.com Thu, 15 May 2008 07:32:20 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://brazzilfile.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://brazzilfile.com Articles by Brazzil Magazine's News Team http://brazzilfile.com/content/view/9979/80/ The Brazilian and Chinese governments should sign a long-term agreement (35 to 50 years) regarding these long-term Chinese investments in Brazil including schedule of interest payments and so forth. Brazil... 2007 - October 2007 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:39:53 +0100 http://brazzilfile.com/content/view/9978/80/ During the past few months, I have spent my free time traveling around Brazil, spreading a campaign called Educação Já (Education Now). As in the time of the Diretas Já... 2007 - October 2007 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:23:17 +0100 http://brazzilfile.com/content/view/9977/80/ On March 2, 2007, Brazzil magazine published the original article of this series of articles about Brazil and China: "Here Is Why Brazil Should Adopt the New Asian Currency." As... 2007 - October 2007 Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:32:01 +0100 http://brazzilfile.com/content/view/9976/80/ What do you get when you fuse the most brutal landowners of the Global South with some of the most powerful corporations of the North, such as Monsanto, DuPont, British... 2007 - September 2007 Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:18:37 +0100 http://brazzilfile.com/content/view/9975/80/ An old adage stated, "Brazilian, profession hope." Today, it would be more correct to say, "Brazilian, profession prisoner." Prisoner of transit, in cars that are ambulatory cells in slow march,... 2007 - September 2007 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:54:02 +0100 http://brazzilfile.com/content/view/9974/80/ Given that the two American pilots of the Legacy 600 are now on trial, in absentia, on criminal charges that carry prison time in Brazil, it's interesting to see how... 2007 - September 2007 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:47:09 +0100 http://brazzilfile.com/content/view/9973/80/ On a Tuesday, a regular day, it is virtually impossible to walk along 25 de Março (25th of March) and its neighboring streets. Pedestrians are the ones who run over... 2007 - September 2007 Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:35:54 +0100 http://brazzilfile.com/content/view/9972/80/ Brazil's senators showed their contempt for the people who elected them by spitting in their faces when they absolved the chairman, Renan Calheiros, of unparliamentarily procedure on September 12.... 2007 - September 2007 Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:49:33 +0100 http://brazzilfile.com/content/view/9971/80/ Agrofuel development has arrived on the global stage. Just this year, the number of declarations, dollars, and development plans that have gone to agrofuels are unparalleled in any other sector.... 2007 - September 2007 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:53:04 +0100 http://brazzilfile.com/content/view/9970/80/ Recently I visited the Cariri region, in the interior of Ceará State, to take part in marches for the "Educação Já" Campaign. While visiting the region, I listened to and... 2007 - September 2007 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:48:18 +0100 http://brazzilfile.com/content/view/9969/80/ It shouldn't be a surprise that India is extending a widening presence in the Western Hemisphere. With Washington focused on Iraq and its "War on Terror" in other parts of... 2007 - September 2007 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:43:13 +0100 http://brazzilfile.com/content/view/9968/80/ The genocide that occurs in a continuous and silent manner in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, against the Kaiowá people is a reality constantly denounced by indigenous leaders, by representatives... 2007 - September 2007 Sun, 09 Sep 2007 22:16:47 +0100 http://brazzilfile.com/content/view/9967/80/ The Lord Mayor of the City of London, Sir John Stuttard, has been visiting Brazil, touting London as the world's leading financial center and trashing the New York Stock Exchange.... 2007 - September 2007 Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:41:31 +0100 http://brazzilfile.com/content/view/9966/80/ There is an old adage your mother may once have taught you about the neighborhood weirdo - commonly referred to in English Literature as the "village idiot" - which goes... 2007 - September 2007 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:02:50 +0100 http://brazzilfile.com/content/view/9965/80/ Brazil and Portugal have signed a few orthographic (spelling) reform agreements in the past, but could never come to an understanding. Portugal enforces the 1943 agreement. Brazil goes by the... 2007 - September 2007 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:48:04 +0100 http://brazzilfile.com/content/view/9964/80/ Once again Latin America is confusing development with economic growth, and economic growth with increased investments and exports. These same ideas have come up again and again over the... 2007 - September 2007 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:02:42 +0100 http://brazzilfile.com/content/view/9963/80/ The long interview given by Brazilian President Lula to O Estado de S. Paulo newspaper on August 26th shows the enigma, the contradiction he and his government represent, in... 2007 - September 2007 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:52:33 +0100 http://brazzilfile.com/content/view/9962/80/ "I'm also tired of people who only want to take advantage, of the traffickers' parallel government, of paying so many taxes for nothing, of so much impunity, of so... 2007 - August 2007 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:18:43 +0100 http://brazzilfile.com/content/view/9961/80/ The main leader of Brazil's Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST), João Pedro Stédile, defends the need for the Brazilian agrarian policy to prioritize income distribution. The MST considers classical... 2007 - August 2007 Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:38:00 +0100 http://brazzilfile.com/content/view/9960/80/ The possible elimination of a 54 cents-per-gallon tariff on imports of Brazilian ethanol has become a vital issue in Brasília due to the country's potential economic, environmental, and social repercussions.... 2007 - August 2007 Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:43:49 +0100 http://brazzilfile.com/content/view/9959/80/ Last week the Chamber of Deputies conducted an opportune debate around one question: "Why is education succeeding in other countries and not in Brazil?" The answer requires merely three words:... 2007 - August 2007 Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:28:57 +0100 http://brazzilfile.com/content/view/9958/80/ The largest social movement on the continent, and one of the most important in the world, held its 5th Congress in mid-June 2007 in Brasília. Despite successful mobilization of masses... 2007 - August 2007 Fri, 24 Aug 2007 08:47:31 +0100 http://brazzilfile.com/content/view/9957/80/ Episodic international criticism of Brazil's aviation system, as well as a huge triggering of public outcries over the recent crash of the TAM Airbus A320, has forced senior officials... 2007 - August 2007 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:36:21 +0100 http://brazzilfile.com/content/view/9956/80/ Brazilian emigration to the United States is directly related to globalization, international mobility, technological revolution and domestic economy. The phenomenon presents a long-short term impact on political, economic, socio-cultural,... 2007 - August 2007 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:00:14 +0100 http://brazzilfile.com/content/view/9954/80/ A couple weeks ago in the Santa Catarina city of Joaçaba, in southern Brazil, a young woman placed a recorder in front of me and asked, What would... 2007 - August 2007 Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:11:20 +0100 http://brazzilfile.com/content/view/9953/80/ At the recent Pan American Games, the world saw the flag of Brazil raised at the podium 161 times. To the surprise of many, our flag is different from the... 2007 - August 2007 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:29:19 +0100 http://brazzilfile.com/content/view/9952/80/ Did you know that the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), a very well-known international financial organization, gave money to the past Bahian government mostly used to buy fake sculptures and to... 2007 - August 2007 Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:39:14 +0100 http://brazzilfile.com/content/view/9951/80/ I recently went into a big supermarket in a down-market shopping center in São Paulo on a Sunday afternoon to buy a laptop computer. The place was teeming. On one... 2007 - August 2007 Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:39:27 +0100 http://brazzilfile.com/content/view/9950/80/ President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva returns home from his six-day five-nation trip that began Sunday August 5 and took him to Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Jamaica and Panama. Stressing his... 2007 - August 2007 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:46:29 +0100 http://brazzilfile.com/content/view/9949/80/ Brazil is staking its claim as a great emerging power thanks to the leadership it maintains in biofuel production. The price of this ambition is paid by the environment... 2007 - August 2007 Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:22:34 +0100