· January, 2007

Stories about Brazil from January, 2007

Brazil: Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist

“By all rights, Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist should have single-handedly delivered a knock-out blow to any popular conception that Latin American literature is ‘good’ literature. The novel is, simply put,...

24 January 2007

Brazil: Portuguese Slave Trade

With the bold assertion that “the history of Brazil is the history of the persistence of slavery,” The Wolf Report dishes out some statistics about the Portuguese slave trade.

5 January 2007

Brazil: New iCommons Chairman

Heather Ford of iCommons announces that Brazilian lawyer Ronaldo Lemos will take over Joi Ito's role as Chairman. The next iCommons Summit will be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia from June...

2 January 2007

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Fernanda Canofre
Fernanda Canofre is the Brazil editor. Email her story ideas or volunteer to write.