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Buying a Car in Bahia The only thing good about waiting in line while the Brazilian bureaucracy badly attends to its citizens who pay for it to function is meeting people. Bahia is one of the places in the world...

Once again, we revisit Veja Magazine to analyze the week’s events. The interview this week was with Bruno Senna, the nephew of Brazil’s foremost sporting hero after Pele. He has just been drafted onto a Formula I team and seems...

I have read Veja religiously for the almost 15 years of my residence here in Brazil. I find the tone of the journalists horribly condescending, ideologically predictable and in coverage of foreign news, suspiciously similar to what came out in...

At the pool yesterday, there was a raucous on some tables off to the side. Round the tables were about six women and two men, arguing furiously with one of the club’s employees. It was the kind of arguing that...

The Economist Habit Doctors always tell us that addiction is a bad thing, bringing damage to the mind and body. A few exceptions come to mind to counteract this argument, Keith Richards still being alive is perhaps the most obvious....

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Brazilians in general have a very ambivalent relationship with Rubens Barrichello. Although he has been on the Formula One circuit for over fifteen years, many have been derisive about his talent, guts and commitment to victory. He has been scorned...

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The debates surrounding the system of ‘racial’ quotas in Brazil echo previous debates in other countries but is further muddied here because so much ‘racial’ mixing has taken place. That the word ‘racial’ is still being used in discussion of...

There are few people who could maintain their good reputation after being caught in a motel room with a pair of transvestites. That Ronaldo managed to gain sympathy from this tawdry affair rather than scorn is a testament to his...