Rio, Brazil, Gets Its Own Body Count Site: 44 Dead in 4 Days

( We don't do body counts )

Google Gives Brazilian Cops Special Tool to Censor Internet Content

(NB: Hyperlink for reference purposes only. Don't click unless you want to end up in Brazzil Mag popup/spyware hell.)

Google is giving the Brazilian Federal Police the weapons they always wanted to clean up the Internet. The cops are being allowed to browse Orkut, Google's social ( Read more... )

Defining Brazilian Popular Music (MPB)

Probably the best short article I've seen on the subject, with the added bonus of actually being written in English.

Marisa Monte prepara CD só de sambas ( Read more... )

Brazilians fear U.S. is plotting to take Amazon

BELÉM, Brazil - Afghanistan was the first to fall. Iraq, with all that oil, was next. And Socorro Leite says she has a fair idea of what else lies in the sights of the American imperialists ( Read more... )

make him better than he was before!

With the help of specialists from the Syrian-Lebanese Hospital on the surgical team, within about three years, the first operation in the world to implant a neuro-prosthesis (brain-machine interface) to restore mobility to the arms of a patient with severe body paralysis should take place. The patient will use ( Read more... )

There was an interesting article in Slate earlier this week (The World Is Phat: Reggaeton, grime, baile funk, and the globalization of hip-hop) that caught my eye because it mentioned some stuff about baile funk (pronounced bye-lee), which is home-grown, garage-made funk from the favelas of the big cities in Brazil, especially Rio. I have been ( Read more... )

Multinationals Implicated in Deaths by Brazil's Dictatorship

Major U.S. and European corporations collaborated intimately with Latin American military dictatorships in the 1960s and 1970s, fingering militant workers for arrest, torture and often death, according to an article that appeared this week in the Brazilian daily O Globo ( Read more... )