Stories about Brazil from February, 2008
Brazil: Blogging helps the police to mobilize and protest
They have no rights to join a union or to go on strikes, but they can blog. More and more police officers, from all ranks and states in Brazil, are discovering this. They use blogs to spread information about future meetings and to quickly mobilize protests, to make their claims known to the greater public, to comment on reports by the mass media, to produce their own independent journalism.
Brazil: Police is after lieutenant blogger
There are more than 100 comments showing solidarity with lieutenant blogger Melquisedec Nascimento [pt]. According to him, Rio de Janeiro's Governor Sergio Cabral ordered yesterday that he was arrested immediately. The Police force in charge of the task paid visit to his home this Saturday, but he was nowhere to...
Discovering the Peruvian Carnival
The author of Tordesilhas [pt], a blog by a Brazilian living in Lima, is surprised to discover that there is a beautiful tradition of carnival in Peru. In this post, he explores the Cajamarca, Ayacucho and the Amazon areas carnival.
Paths of the Portuguese Language: Africa-Brazil
Luiz Felipe de Alencastro [pt] publishes the transcription of a a speech by him in 2006, in the symposium “Paths of the Portuguese Language: Africa-Brazil”
East Timor: On the Human Rights Watch report
A comment left at the Timor Lorosa e Nacão blog contests the reliability of today's Human Rights Watch report on violence in the Portuguese speaking countries Angola, Brazil e East Timor: “Of course, as an NGO based in Washington and financed by the State Department North American (and by a...
Brazil: Last minute ban on Holocaust-themed carnival float
A few days before the official Carnival kicks off, Unidos do Viradouro samba school has had a float banned from the parade, after Jewish groups took a stand against it for featuring a pile of dead victims of the Nazi Holocaust. The controversy has divided the Brazilian blogosphere.
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