Archive for the ‘Brazil’ Category
More Martes Musica: Zeca Baleiro’s Bandeira
27 Jan 2009It’s been too long since there’s been some Brazilian sounds on VL, so to lighten up your Tuesday afternoon, I give you a tune you’re bound to love (though the video could be more compelling): Bandeira by Zeca Baleiro. Lyrics in Portuguese after the jump (beautiful!)
Brazillian Soccer Team to Go on Viagra
10:40 am By Maegan La Mala · Bizarro|Brazil|Drugs|Sports · Comments Off
14 Jan 2009You’ve heard of athletes using steroids to soup up their game, but what about Viagra? Well one Brazilian soccer team is about to get a prescription for the wonder drug, allegedly to help them fight the effects of altitude sickness. Yeah…
The possibility was admitted by the club’s doctor in the city of Porto Alegre, Alarico Endres, who has been studying if the blue pill might help oxygenization of the blood in athletes and help reduce the effects of altitude.According to Endres, some specialists believe that the remedy used by men with erectile problems can benefit athleses who need better blood oxygenization in adverse conditions.
“Based on assumptions we won’t do anything, but if research shows scientifically that Viagra improves performance in [high] altitude, we can offer it to players,” said Endres.
I don’t want to think about the atmosphere in the locker room after one of these “altitude” treatments. Look what happens in the commercial when only ONE person is on the stuff!
Via / 20 Minutos
Brazil to Pay for Sex Changes for its Citizens
4:25 pm By Maegan La Mala · Brazil|GLBT|Latin America|society · Comments Off
21 Aug 2008
A major move in the right direction in Brazil with regard to trans rights: the government has decreed that it will subsidize all gender reassignment procedures for its citizens:
The decree was published in the official bulletin and recognizes sex changes as a “right”, as was defined in a 2007 decision which the government denied a reversal, in spite of protests by conservative and religious groups.
The only requirements for the subsidized procedure is that the patient be over 21, and have undergone 2 years of psychological evaluation, which means that the first procedures will not take place until 2010.
Spain’s 20 Minutos reports that the Brazilian Health Ministry projects that without the economic barrier, the procedure might be requested by one out of every 10,000 Brazilians.
Via / 20 Minutos
The Myth of What is Lost or Discovered
7:58 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil|Media|Peru|Politics · Comments Off
24 Jun 2008
When the story about the “lost Amazon tribe” or the newly “discovered tribe” hit the news, complete with deeply painted bodies pointing arrows threateningly up into a camera lens, I shook my head. The media ran with it and the people ate it up. The idea that people who already existed could be discovered only when mainstream, Euro-North American media found them, wasn’t anything new, but that didn’t make it any less disturbing. Now the news is that the whole thing was a hoax. But even the context of this “outing” of reality is filled with distortions and stereotypes ranging from the typical noble savage to appropriation of people’s very presence.
Sergio Mendes Encanto Out Today
1:55 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil|Music · Comments Off
10 Jun 2008
Today, Concord Records and Starbucks Entertainment released Encanto (Enchantment), the newest record from the legendary Brazilian musician Sergio Mendes. Encanto is the follow-up to 2006’s highly acclaimed collaboration with will.i.am called Timeless. On Encanto, Sergio takes us even deeper into Brazil , recording all the basic tracks in Rio and Bahia . Mendes enlists several guest musicians from all over the world including Latin superstar Juanes from Colombia, multi-talented Carlinhos Brown and Vanessa da Mata from Brazil, and Italian rapper Jovanotti, as well as American stars like Fergie, Ledisi, Natalie Cole, Herb Alpert and his wife, original Brasil ’66 singer, Lani Hall.
To watch the video for Funky Bahia off the album click here.
Summer Musica 2008 : Sonantes
2:30 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil|Music · Comments Off
20 May 2008
I was marveling that next week is the unofficial start of summer (it doesn’t feel like it yet). With the summer comes new, good musica to listen to at the beach, pool, or bbq. Today Six Degrees Records released the debut album Sonantes. This year Brazil celebrates 50 years of bossa nova and the debut album of this SÃ¥o Paolo musical collective features some of the newer well known voices of the genre like Céu The album was recorded not in a traditional studio setting, but rather mostly at home and the entire 10 track cd overall is sexy, in a moody languorous way, one that reminds me of sitting with a caipiriña, thinking of a lost love or plotting my next conquest.
It’s a low key album that doesn’t scream “listen to me” but rather serves as the perfect soundtrack for lazy summer days and nights. Some of the songs like, Miopia and Toque de Coito featuring Siba, sound sad, as if full of longing, even with it’s electric guitar and synthesizer sounds.
One of the most fun tracks on the album is Mambobit, which is “poppy” and nostalgic and I dare you to try and not move with Quilombo Te Espera.
Start your summer 2008 playlist with Sonantes.
Brazilian Olympic Hopeful Suspended for Drugs
2:00 pm By Maegan La Mala · Brazil|Controversia|Sports · Comments Off
15 May 2008
Brazilian swimming star Rebeca Gusmao, widely expected to represent her country in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, has been suspended by the International Swimming Federation from the sport for two years for allegedly using performance-enhancing drugs.
Testosterone was apparently found in Gusmao’s system after a test at the Panamerican Games in November of last year, and her suspension is retroactive to that date. According to Venezuela’s El Universal, as a result, Gusmao has lost the 4 medals she won at the Rio Games, as well as 2 won for the 50 and 100 meter categories, which have been given to her Venezuelan competitor, Arlene Semeco.
Dubbed “the giant” because of her impressive body mass, it is believed that her particular body type and rapid change in appearance (that’s her before, check out her ‘after’ picture after the jump…if you dare) can be attributed to the use of testosterone. Just days ago, Gusmao said that she would go to Beijing and bring a medal back for Brazil, saying “No athlete is psychologically stronger than I am, and no athlete wants to win as much as me.”
What Colombia’s Like…Or Not
2:29 pm By Maegan La Mala · Bizarro|Books|Brazil|Colombia|Controversia · 3 Comments
14 Apr 2008
Next time you’re about to take a trip, you might want to think twice before you pick up a Lonely Planet guidebook. Apparently at least one guidebook author thought it was OK to write about countries he’d never visited, among them Colombia:
A former Lonely Planet travel writer who provoked controversy after he admitted he did not always visit the places he reviewed today played down the “hyperbole” surrounding his revelations.Thomas Kohnstamm’s book Do Travel Writers Go to Hell? contains tales of living with a prostitute, dealing drugs and in one case, writing about Colombia, without actually visiting the country.
“They didn’t pay me enough to go to Colombia,” he told Australia’s Sunday Herald Sun newspaper.
“I wrote the book in San Francisco. I got the information from a chick I was dating who was in an intern in the Colombian consulate.”
Kohnstamm told the paper he had worked on more than a dozen books for Lonely Planet, including their titles on Brazil, Colombia, the Caribbean, South America, Venezuela and Chile.
The author claims that as a writer, it just isn’t possible to visit all the places you are asked to write about because you aren’t paid enough. Lonely Planet is denying that similar white lies are being told in any of their other guidebooks.
Via / Guardian
Timber Mill Raids in Brazil
7:42 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil|Environment · Comments Off
14 Feb 2008
Not too long ago , I wrote about the alarming rate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Well finally the Brazilian government has taken some action, raiding 8 illegal sawmills and confiscating 10,000 cubic meters of lumber.
Police began moving in on the sawmills in the town of Tailandia on Monday.The town, which is home to dozens of sawmills, is in the south of Para state, one of the worst-hit areas by Amazon deforestation at the hands of loggers.
Hopefully this wasn’t a one-off of the Brazilian government and they will continue to make sure that more of this precious resource is not lost.
Via / BBC
Chop Chop : Rate of Brazilian Deforestation Up
9:39 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil|Environment · Comments Off
24 Jan 2008
Green is the new black unless you’re the Amazon forest in Brazil which has recently seen a spike in deforestation.
In the last five months of 2007, 3,235 sq km (1,250 sq miles) were lost.
Officials say rising commodity prices are encouraging farmers to clear more land to plant crops such as soya.
Via / BBC
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