World Cup 2014 – What Could Be Stolen, Is Stolen
Brazil lives crazy moments at the eve of the World Cup. Just 14 days to go before the kick-off and all sorts of happenings are colouring the TV-screens and daily […]
Brazil lives crazy moments at the eve of the World Cup. Just 14 days to go before the kick-off and all sorts of happenings are colouring the TV-screens and daily […]
The verdict of the Brazilian people is negative. 56.0% of the football fans think that the national team will play at a low quality level. 23.0% expect a more or […]
In my series of articles about the World Cup in Brazil, and there is more to come in the near future, I have written about the street protests in Brazil […]
Don’t think that the street protests contra the World Cup Football 2014, organised by Black Bloc and supported by a wide range of social movements, is a minority affair. It […]
The protesting mob messed with the parliament, the presidency, while the actions echoed in the international press. The end of the year 2013 was marked by flooding streets after heavy […]
Don’t think I am the only one frustratingly writing about Brazil at this moment. Luckily you meet others also struggling with the present disastrous political situation in Brazil and what […]
There were 93 million Brazilians, the industry still crawled and inflation edged at 20%. This was the 1969 profile of Brazil. Four decades later, Brazilians have experienced the effects of […]
(In this post I will use a lot of names anybody outside the Brazilian inner world doesn’t know. But that’s not important; it is the context of the story that […]
As incoherent as a Wild West shooting was the dialogue between the TV reporter and a woman, who was crying on the sidewalk in front of a prison where a […]
With Lula ‘highly commended’ in the world, my last series of posts may have created the impression that I’m negative about Brazil and everything the government Lula does or fails […]