Salvador :: Brazil
| updated Sun Nov 15 08:21:52 -0800 2009
| your-story
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...
Salvador :: Brazil
| updated Mon Nov 09 10:19:51 -0800 2009
| political-news
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...
Salvador :: Brazil
| updated Tue Nov 03 10:16:24 -0800 2009
| political-news
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...
Salvador :: Brazil
| updated Wed Oct 21 06:10:07 -0700 2009
| your-story
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...
Salvador :: Brazil
| updated Fri Sep 18 06:11:48 -0700 2009
| odd-news
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....
Salvador :: Brazil
| updated Fri Sep 18 04:21:37 -0700 2009
| sports-news
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...
Salvador :: Brazil
| updated Mon Jun 01 07:35:15 -0700 2009
| political-news
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...
Salvador :: Brazil
| updated Thu May 07 08:11:08 -0700 2009
| sports-news
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...
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