Stories about Brazil from December, 2006
Lusosphere: Who? Me? You!? Why not Hugo?
TIME Magazine's choice of ‘You’ as the ‘Person of the Year’ has created interesting reactions in Lusophone blogs. The coddling move from the editorial giant towards the new class of...
The World Championship of Brazilian 2.0 Football
Brazilians still have fresh memories of the defeat of the national team in the last World Cup in Germany, when the group of international shining stars was unable to show...
The ‘Aerial Blackout’ in Brazil
Ten weeks have passed since the mid-air collision that produced Brazil’s worst air disaster, but the issue is still bouncing around many levels. As the investigations progressed, the blame game...
Trinidad & Tobago: Review of “I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth”
Studio Film Club talks about Brazilian director Vicente Ferraz's documentary I am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth, which chronicles the making of the 1960s film Soy Cuba: “Interspersing shots from the...
Brazil: Sao Paulo's ICANN Board meeting has online participation website
Kieren McCarthy reports about the setting up of an online participation website for the ICANN Board meeting in Sao Paulo.
The Laptop “To Conquer Them All” Arrives in Brazil
The “$100 laptop” has arrived in Brazil and so has a significant discussion in the blogosphere. Last week, in a much-hyped ceremony at the Palacio do Planalto in Brasilia, MIT's...