Faking It: A Brazilian Success Story
Brazil is certainly getting its play in the international press lately. Electing a possibly illiterate clown to congress by a landslide will do that for [...]
Suggestions for Lula’s Second Career
The results are in and we’re headed toward a runoff. In Brazil, you cannot be elected with a mere plurality. Because no presidential candidate managed [...]
Election Day in Brazil
Tomorrow is election day in Brazil. Thank God! If I hear one more election jingle being blasted from the propaganda cars driving through the city, [...]
Happy Birthday, Vitoria!
Today, the city of Vitoria turns 459 years old. A long time ago, September 8, 1551 to be exact, the Portuguese fought and won a [...]
World Cup Trivia
Americans are embracing soccer as never before. According to FIFA, Americans bought more tickets to the World Cup than any nation other than South Africa. [...]
The World Cup aka The Single, Most Exciting & Greatest Event Ever
In case you’ve recently emerged from a cave or live in the United States, the World Cup, the global soccer tournament which occurs once every [...]
Combatting Hypertension and Puritans
Rio has a way of bringing out the Puritan in me. I see a fourteen year-old girl in a thong and I’m thrown into what [...]