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LulaMeter 2.0: A Nightmare On Wall Street
Update March 2022: With Lula’s freedom to run for president, the “LulaMeter” is back. By Louis Smith “A metalworker with a Socialist background had …
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SESC Pompeia – Concrete Oasis
SESC Pompeia is a cultural centre in the east zone of São Paulo, designed by the architect Lina Bo Bardi, and opened in 1982. The …
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Brasil Today, Yesterday & Tomorrow – Still fighting its past
Brasil today sits at a rare turning point for any country. Despite the furore surrounding the Petrobras scandal and the water crisis in São …
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Niemeyer – Brasília
Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho, known simply as Oscar Niemeyer was born December 15 1907. Niemeyer’s work dominated Brasil’s 20th Century architecture …
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Nara Leão – The Music of Protest
Podem me prender, podem me bater / Podem até deixar-me sem comer / Que eu não mudo de opinião They could arrest me, they …
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Lina Bo Bardi – 100 Years
Lina Bo Bardi is revered in Brasil as one of the country’s greatest architects and December sees the 100th anniversary of her birth. Her …
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8 Essential books on Brazilian architecture
Neither is it the right angle, which attracts me, nor the straight line, hard, inflexible, made by men. What attracts me is the curve, …
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Dilma Rousseff
Dilma Rousseff is often regarded as a great unknown outside of Brasil but she has been an active force in official politics since the …
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8 Essential books on Brasil
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Blaming the Victim: Brazil’s Adolescent Mass Consumer Market
by Louis Smith Brazil’s internal consumer market is the frequent topic of a lot of hand-wringing and disdain from both the financial media and people …
