Posts Tagged ‘Brazil’
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
Brazil Gripped by Yellow Fever
2:29 pm By Maegan La Mala · Brazil|Health|Latin America · Comments Off
18 Jan 2008Yellow Fever might sound like a disease from 100 years ago, but it is alive and well and causing panic and death in Brazil. At least seven people have died from Yellow Fever this year, and the government is investigating additional cases. Meanwhile, Brazilians in the most affected areas are lining up get vaccinated. The most recent victims say they weren’t vaccinated against the acute viral disease.
The video above, though only available in Portuguese, will give you an idea of the mood in Brazil will this current outbreak, including which geographical areas are most at risk. A recurring theme in the video is “there’s no reason to panic”, but I’m sure people in those regions aren’t very consoled by that message.
Via / YouTube
Political and Seismic Waves In Chile
9:03 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Bolivia|Brazil|Chile|Politics · Comments Off
17 Dec 2007
These past three days brought three separate earthquakes to Chile. This morning a magnitude-5.3 temblor struck at 6:27 a.m. near Valparaiso. Yesterday a magnitude-6.7 quake rocked northern Chile. And on Saturday afternoon, another quake rattled central Chile causing alarm in several cities, including the capital of 5.5 million people, but there were no injuries or damage.
Yesterday Chilean president Michelle Bachelet was in Bolivia along with Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva pledging to build a highway linking the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean by 2009. Relations between Bolivia and Chile have been historically strained.
Via / International Herald Tribune y Reuters
Chavez and Lula Make Nice Again
11:16 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil|Venezuela · Comments Off
14 Dec 2007
Yesterday in Caracas President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil signed new cooperation agreements including energy, agriculture, and industrial treaties. The Brazilian head of state waxed nostalgic:
la relación comercial entre Venezuela y Brasil era de $400 millones en el 2002, y hoy supera los $4,000 millones.
A jump much needed as Venezuela cut off ties with Colombia after the FARC hostage negotiations with Chavez as mediator collapsed.
Via / El Nuevo Herald
Brazilian capital outlaws the use of gerunds
12:58 pm By Maegan La Mala · Brazil|language · 2 Comments
3 Oct 2007
Can a change in the way we speak change our behavior? The capital of Brazil, Brasilia, thinks so: they’ve outlawed the use of gerunds such as “doing”, “studying”, etc. because this verb form is associated with an inefficient government:
The governor of the Federal District of Brazil, José Roberto Arruda, has ordered regional public employees to abolish the use of gerunds, a measure that he defines as a “nice” message against inefficiency.Upon defending the decision, Arruda said that he has lost patience with some members of his own government who are always “doing”, “getting”, “studying”, “sending” or “preparing” but never finish their work or establish ways to finish it.
Local government calls the use of gerunds “a plague”, which only serves to make excuses for unsolved problems.
Meanwhile, one Brazilian university professor says that Arruda’s measure only shows that he is “profoundly ignorant about the Portuguese language“, since the gerund is a verb category that cannot be eliminated from use.
Via / 20 Minutos
Coppola staking a claim in Latin America
1:47 pm By Maegan La Mala · Argentina|Brazil|business|Celebrities · 2 Comments
30 Aug 2007
It’s not enough that legendary director Francis Ford Coppola owns half of the San Francisco Bay Area, but now the ultra rich film mogul is going to go buy up South America. Coppolla already owns some properties in Buenos Aires, and is looking to expand his investment in hospitality in Brazil:
The five-time-Oscar winning director arrived this week in Florianopolis, on the Atlantic coast some 500 kilometers (310 miles) south of here, in search of real estate for his business venture, said the website without further details.Coppola, 68, already has several investments including a couple of wineries in the US state of California and resorts in Guatemala and Belize.
In June, the director of “The Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now” was in Buenos Aires where he bought a hotel boutique and where he also plans to set up a film production facility and shoot a movie in 2008, G1 said.
I really like FFC’s work and I hope whatever he is doing in Brazil will benefit not only himself but the local economy.
Via / Yahoo! Entertainment – AFP
São Paulo Just Says No to Billboards
5:05 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil|Environment|Marketing · Comments Off
24 Aug 2007Stepping out for a walk in any major city means being bombarded by images and words all with one aim: to get you to want something bad enough to buy it. Call it visual pollution. That’s what the mayor of São Paulo calls billboards and he feels so strongly about it that he made his city the first city outside of the communist world to put into effect a near-complete ban on outdoor advertising. The ban is part of the city’s “Lei Cidade Limpa” or Clean City Law .
Since then, billboards, outdoor video screens and ads on buses have been eliminated at breakneck speed. Even pamphleteering in public spaces has been made illegal, and strict new regulations have drastically reduced the allowable size of storefront signage. Nearly $8 million in fines were issued to cleanse São Paulo of the blight on its landscape.
Wow! I can’t even imagine this here in NYC. See a video story about the ban after the jump.
Brazilian judge: “Soccer is for men, not for gays”
12:40 pm By Maegan La Mala · Brazil|Controversia|GLBT|Justice|Sports · Comments Off
14 Aug 2007
A judge in Brazil thinks that gays shouldn’t be playing soccer. Apparently, they aren’t “manly” enough.
The whole thing started when a player for Sao Paulo, one Richarlyson Barbosa Felisbino, charged that the manager for rival team Palmeiras hinted that he was gay on television. Richarlyson went to the courts to plead a defamation case. All good up until there.
The judge for the case turned out to be a major homophobe and threw out the case. Writer and blogger William K. Wolfrum translated the rambling ruling in a recent blog entry:
“It’s not that a homosexual can’t play ball. If he wants, then play it. However, form his own team and start another federation. Schedule games with those that prefer to fight against themselves.”
Two Amigos : Lula y Calderon
7:09 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil|mexico|Politics · Comments Off
7 Aug 2007
Fidel and Hugo, Evo and Hugo. Ah yes lefty Latin America has its buddies and now Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Mexican president Felipe Calderón are trying to create a new type of Latin American male bonding, aligning their two economic powerhouse nations to work for the growth of all of Latin America. Calderon said :
President Lula and I know that our prosperity will only be complete and permanent if it comes with the prosperity of our neighbors.
This was followed by calls for a group hug. Ok not really but these two are an unlikely pair. Calderon is considered right of center and fairly Bush/U.S. friendly but Lula is considered more left and well left instantly means enemy of the U.S. in most cases.
Brazil leads Latin America in Internet use
1:43 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil|Internet|Latin America|Marketing|Tech · Comments Off
19 Jun 2007
Brazil, Latin America’s largest country, is also the most connected, according to a recent study published by eMarketer. Brazilians are online en masse in numbers that are expected to double between now and 2011, as more and more people get broadband connections.
According to the report Brazil is the country with the third most broadband connections in the Americas, following the United States and Canada.
EMarketer also points out that while high-speed internet connections are still inaccessible to most people because of cost, Brazil leads large Spanish-speaking Latin markets Mexico and Argentina in terms of the number of people connected.
Via / eMarketer
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