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Guggenheim Museum - Brazil Body & Soul Brazil: Body and Soul is a major exhibition showcasing the arts of Brazil from two key phases of their development, the Baroque (17th to early-19th centuries) and the Modern (1920s to the present). Brazil is a nation characterized by its diversity, and the exhibition presents a broad definition of the country's artistic culture, with emphasis on traditional religious and secular arts, arts of indigenous peoples, Afro-Brazilian contributions, as well as many Modern and contemporary visual forms of expression. Brazil: Body and Soul begins with a "view from the outside"—depictions of Brazil by foreign artists in the 17th century. www.guggenheim.org /exhibitions/past_exhibitions/brazil/overview.html   (1241 words)

Brazil-Junky.com | Brazil Travel Info Brazil is one of the last provinces of the earth where nobody is a foreign, where it is possible to change a destiny without losing its identity. The purpose of this law is to facilitate the occupation on the South of Brazil, ensuring an attractive country to Castilians. Brazil seems to be one of the only countries in the world to have what is called Equatorial Forest (besides Congo, in Africa) within the Equatorial climate. www.brazil-junky.com /brazil/about-brazil.htm   (4618 words)

Brazil The Military Republic, 1964-85 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ... The victory of the hard-liners dragged Brazil into what political scientist Juan J. Linz called "an authoritarian situation." However, because the hard-liners could not ignore the counterweight opinions of their colleagues or the resistance of society, they were unable to institutionalize their agenda politically. Because Brazil was 80 percent dependent on imported oil, Geisel shifted the country from a pro-Israeli stance to closer ties with oil-rich Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Noting that Brazil was only a "relative democracy," Geisel attempted in April 1977 to restrain the growing strength of the opposition parties by creating an electoral college that would approve his selected replacement. www.workmall.com /wfb2001/brazil/brazil_history_the_military_republic_1964_85.html   (0 words)

Brazil Brazil was first sighted by Europeans in 1500 and developed as a Portuguese commercial colony, based to a large extent on slavery. Brazil received an influx of over 5 million immigrants in the late 19th, early 20th centuries, a period that also saw Brazil industrialise and further expand into its interior. Brazil is characterised by the extensive low-lying Amazon Rainforest in the north, and a more open terrain of hills and (low) mountains to the south, home to most of Brazil's population and its agricultural base. www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/b/br/brazil.shtml   (893 words)

Brazil - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Brazil Brazil protested against the German announcement of unrestricted submarine warfare in January 1917, and the persistence of Germany in that policy led to the sinking of Brazilian ships in 1917. Brazil in World War II During the early years of World War II Brazil strengthened its defences, and Vargas took measures to counter pro-Axis propaganda and to renew economic and military ties with the USA. Brazil entered the war against Germany and Italy in August 1942, and in February 1943 declared adherence to the Atlantic Charter, extending the declaration of war to include Japan. encyclopedia.farlex.com /Brazil   (3404 words)

Brazil (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Life in Brazil has become so hopelessly overcomplicated that entropy has taken over and the world appears to be on the perpetual verge of complete mechanical failure on all fronts. Unlike the austere, rigid society of Orwell's novel, however, the society in Brazil is also characterized by unbridled materialism and superficiality (as represented by female characters' obsession with cosmetic surgery, for instance). Brazil is also the name of the piece of music used as a basis for the film's score: Aquarela do Brasil by Ary Barroso. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brazil_(movie)   (2955 words)

Brazil - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article Brazil had been inhabited for at least 10,000 years by semi-nomadic populations when the first Portuguese explorers, led by Pedro Álvares Cabral disembarked in 1500. Brazil and its 26 states and Federal District are divided by IBGE into 5 distinctive regions: North, Northeast, Center-West, Southeast and South (Division by Regions). Brazil is characterized by the extensive low-lying Amazon Rainforest in the north, and a more open terrain of hills and (low) mountains to the south, home to most of Brazil's population and its agricultural base. www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/b/r/a/Brazil.html   (1754 words)

Military Regime in Brazil Brazil was particularly judgmental of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (TNP), with a view to guarantee the right to develop its own nuclear technology. Brazil's position as to the TNP became emblematic of the negative posture that it would, from then onwards, sustain regarding the power politics of the United States and the Soviet Union. Simultaneously, Brazil tried to strengthen its position with nuclear cooperation negotiated settlements with countries such as: Israel, (1966), France (1967), India (1968) and the United States (1972). www.izquierda.hpg.ig.com.br /ditaduras/brasil.htm   (0 words)

Brazil's Arns embodies Vatican II church. (Archbishop of In Brazil, the world's largest Catholic country with the most diocesan bishops, the curial lash was often wielded by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. For Brazil, this period was a moment of truth: The links between institutionalized violence and the preservation of economic privilege of a few were exposed. The curia is the pope.' (Paulo Evaristo Arns of Sao Paulo, Brazil) www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-18527356.html   (0 words)

Brazil - Uncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Brazil, also known as Brasil, Braziu, Butter or Buttocks, may have been, for many millenia, a hole of political corruption and bad administration. Brazil is divided in 107 regions, subdivided in 974 states, sub-subdivided in 38724 provinces. Brazil has a standing army of 467 paws; Brazil’s army used to have a lot more paws previous to the War Of Canudos however their recent war with the Ninja Chicken island of China has left Brazil without a leg to stand on. uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Brazil   (1324 words)

The Choices Program | From Colony to Democracy: Considering Brazil's Development Facing legacies of colonialism, slavery, and dictatorship, Brazil's history is one of profound social, racial, and political inequalities. Brazil became immersed in a nationwide discussion, engaged by social movements, religious congregations, and political parties throughout the country, about the country's past and future. From Colony to Democracy: Considering Brazil's Development presents students with the questions and challenges facing Brazilians at the close of a momentous era of economic growth and social change under dictatorship. www.choices.edu /curriculum_unit.cfm?id=45   (467 words)

Real Estate in Brazil - Guide to locating & purchasing real estate in Brazil Brazil's $558 billion economy grew 5.2 percent in 2004 as the world's biggest producer of sugar, iron ore and coffee, boosted trade with expanding economies such as China, pushing exports to a record surplus of $96.5 billion, a 32 percent increase over 2003's $24.8 billion surplus. Brazil is overcoming its national debt, which has consumed a disproportionate fraction of its GNP. Brazil Herald is directed mostly to tourists, foreign executives and expatriates. realestateinbrazil.com   (2417 words)

Natal Brazil: March 2006 Brazil doesn't use much nuclear energy - only three plants are working, in Rio de Janeiro; the main source of energy is hydroelectricity, which usually requires the creation of dams, which may have severe impacts on environment. During the 1970s, years of dictatorship in Brazil, the prison was occupied by political prisoners. In the Constitution of 1891, the first after Brazil became a Republic, there was a provision for women's vote; however, some influential Senators managed to exclude the provision from the final text, alleging that "we don't want to drag into the turmoil of political passions the sweet and angelical side of the human genders" !!. www.natal-brazil.com /blog/archives/2006_03_01_archive.html   (3279 words)

Beautiful Horizons: Brazil - Human Rights Brazil, which spends more than $400 million annually on what is regarded as the most successful AIDS program in the developing world, is taking a pragmatic approach in combating the global epidemic, the experts say, while the United States, increasingly, is not. Brazil had the longest running continuous military dictatorship of the Southern Cone countries in the 1960's, 70's and 80's, and it may have made the least progress in facing up to the past. Brazil did not have the disappearances and extrajudicial executions to the same extent that Chile and Argentina did, but torture was widespread and institutionalized. www.beautifulhorizons.net /weblog/brazil_human_rights/index.html   (11409 words)

UE News: For Brazil, a Worker in the White House Brazil, one of the world’s largest democracies with a population of 175 million, is the biggest country in South America and has that continent’s greatest concentration of wealth. The election of Luis Inácio Lula da Silva as president of Brazil is one of those triumphs of democracy that we in the United States used to claim for ourselves. The dictatorship in 1980 sentenced him to jail for violation of Brazil’s labor laws (inspired by fascist Italy’s labor codes). www.ranknfile-ue.org /uen_1202_lula.html   (605 words)

Brazil home   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Brazil is the world’s fifth largest country, extending over half the landmass of South America. Whilst some of the most advanced technology in fields such as medicine and engineering has been developed in the country, the majority of people are denied access to their basic rights and the benefits and income generated remain concentrated in the hands of the elite. However, with the "democratisation" of the country a number of non-governmental organisations and community groups have emerged which are battling to address the problems facing the population and their environment. www.internationalservice.org.uk /latin_america/pages/brazil_home.htm   (1792 words)

Brazil Culture in Brazil - Brazil Visa Service Brazil is the world's fifth-most populous country (with 184 million resi­dents), but it also one of the smallest population densities, with 20 people per square kilometer (the US has 28 people per square kilometer). The rise of Brazil 's great media mogul, Roberto Marinho, was largely assisted by his decision not to criticize the fascistic regimes of the military government from 1964 to 1985. Brazil had one of the earliest feminist movements in Latin America, and women were among the first in the region to gain the right to vote in 1932. www.visaexpress.net /brazil/the_culture.htm   (7090 words)

Cecilia Maria Bouças Coimbra | Ashoka.org She is battling the perpetuation of violence and impunity which characterize the relationships of power in Brazil. Employing psychology, education, and legal action, Cecilia is working to ensure that Brazil not only remembers the terror its citizens went through but also recognizes how atrocities against today's poorest members of society clearly mirror the dictatorship's human rights violations and reflect a social system that preserves impunity and violence as weapons against its people. This "banalization" of violence is the result of years of over-exposure to their own powerlessness against the system, but it is the direct opposite of an active awareness of their rights as citizens and the possibility of exercising those rights for their personal benefit and for the common good. www.ashoka.org /node/3258   (1350 words)

Brazil 1961-1964 KH Quadros, who had been elected by a record margin, was, like Goulart, accused of seeking to set up a dictatorship because he sought to put teeth into measures unpopular with the oligarchy, the military, and/or the United States, as well as pursuing a "pro-communist" foreign policy. He declared that Brazil identified itself "with the democratic principles which unite the peoples of the West", but was "not part of any politico-military bloc". Depending on the setting, either "saving Brazil from dictatorship" or "saving Brazil from communism" was advanced as the rationale for what took place in 1964. www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Blum/Brazil_KH.html   (2907 words)

Brazil - Brazzil Mag - Old Issues Were he to be resuscitated today, Brazil's last emperor, Dom Pedro II, would feel as relieved as someone waking from a nightmare, convinced that Deodoro da Fonseca had not proclaimed... Brazil will be in a unique position in decades to come and it should... Trade fairs in Brazil have been growing from year to year and are now among the most efficient and economic forms for micro and small businessmen to conquer their... www.brazzilmag.com /content/view/2/25   (664 words)

World Development Movement | Porto Alegre, Brazil Recife is a major city in the north-east of Brazil with over 1.5 million inhabitants. More than two thirds of the population live in poverty - only 27 per cent of the population is serviced by sewers, while 12 per cent of the population is not regularly connected to the water pipes. It was one of the state public operators created during the military dictatorship in Brazil, and not surprisingly, it has been called the worst state public services' provider. www.wdm.org.uk /campaigns/water/public/recife.htm   (727 words)

Former Brazil Regime Eyed Nukes, Military Dictatorship Worked To Develop A-Bomb, Former Prez Says - CBS News A former president has disclosed that the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil for two decades tried to develop an atomic bomb, but says the program was scrapped when an elected government assumed power in 1985. The 1964-85 dictatorship was long suspected of seeking nuclear weapons, but ex-President Jose Sarney's comments Sunday were the first confirmation of the program. Sarney, who led the first democratic civilian government after the dictatorship ended and previously denied the existence of the program, said he was informed that the military had dug a deep well for an eventual nuclear test explosion in a remote area of the northern state of Para. www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/08/08/world/main765406.shtml?CMP=OTC-RSSFeed&source=RSS&attr=World_765406   (354 words)

CRIME IN BRAZIL - The New York Review of Books The dictatorship tries to cover up its crimes against the Brazilian nation and her people by boasting of a fake development—speaking in terms of an "economic miracle"—which is but an inane attempt to improve its image before the eyes of the other nations and peoples of the world. Internally, however, the dictatorship exerts a systematic campaign of repression against our people; it imposes a strict censorship of the information media; and it has also constructed a huge propaganda machine to thwart the dissenting spirit of the Brazilian people. Today protests arise in different parts of the world against the tortures and repression in Brazil, and the military who usurped power are frightened with the denunciation of their crimes abroad. www.nybooks.com /articles/10069   (869 words)

Brazil - Brazzil Magazine - In Brazil, Dictatorship Is Back Brazilness will be the theme of the 15th edition of the Brazilian Fair for Intimate,... Similar to Brazil, Sudan wants to have flex-fuel cars, a technology that enables vehicles to be fueled with alcohol, gasoline, or any combination of the two, by the end... Brazil has officially made public its intention of hosting the 2014 World Cup, 64 years after the only and last time the country had as guests the world's top... www.brazzil.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2072&Itemid=75   (0 words)

Jubilee 2000 debt news: Brazil plans tribunal on debt 26-28 April 1999 The debt taken during the 21 years of military dictatorship in Brazil is “illegitimate and against the people. The Tribunal put some of the blame for the debt crisis on “the unilateral decision of the United States at the end of the 1970s to raise the interest rate from 4% to 20% in a few months, which was a breach of good faith and of contract”. Brazil's debt has grown from $ 3 billion in 1964 to $72 billion in 1980 to $115 bn in 1989 to $212 bn now. www.jubileeresearch.org /jubilee2000/news/brazil2904.html   (640 words)

Agrarian Reform In Brazil Brazil for many years has been posed with the problem of agrarian reform, and how they should remedy it. While regional specificities are always relevant to differentiate peasants, especially in countries as large as Brazil, yet in the aftermath of the slave labour system, regional segmentation had specific consequences for the rural labour market(Reis 1998). From the end of the 1890’s with Brazil’s slavery problem to the military action taken place in the late 1970’s, Brazil has seen many drastic changes for the better(Epstein 1998). lilt.ilstu.edu /psanders/litsearch/agreform.htm   (766 words)

Brazil: Crimes Of Dictatorship Resurface - ateaseweb.com | radiohead message board As a result, Brazil is being forced to confront one of the most distasteful aspects of its past: the death, disappearance or torture of political prisoners during 21 years of military dictatorship. Since then, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a former labor leader who was himself briefly jailed by the dictatorship, has been grappling with the problem of what to do with the documents and how to punish senior intelligence and military officials, some still serving, who lied about their existence. The number of people who died, disappeared or were tortured during the dictatorship that seized power in 1964 is significantly less than the thousands who perished in smaller neighboring countries. www.ateaseweb.com /mb/index.php?showtopic=39438   (774 words)

Brazil: "They come in shooting": Policing socially excluded communities Brazil’s cities were badly affected by the growth in the drugs trade and the trade in illegal arms from the middle of the 1980’s. Brazils’ massive social divide can also be seen in the growth of the private security industry, which allows those who can afford it to effectively bypass the public security system. Brazil’s police officers have become so accustomed to being criticized that their ethos is generally defensive, and most react with extreme suspicion to proposals for reform. www.amnestyusa.org /regions/americas/document.do?id=ENGAMR190252005   (19609 words)

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