“The Mineiros man one of Brazil’s smoothest political machines. They are a stubborn and clannish people with a sharp eye for the main chance; a man has to fight hard for a living among those scraggly hills” – John dos Passos, Brazil on the Move (1963) Not sure why, but something about Aécio Neves makes [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Lula’
November 9, 2009
The Financial Times interviews Lula
There’s a good, long interview with President Lula that was published yesterday on FT.com. You can read the full transcript here, and here’s a bit of classic Lula charm to give you a taster: FT: The Brics [Brazil, Russia, India & China] are four countries with their own, divergent interests. Do you think it’s a [...]
July 10, 2009
The Tenth Commandment
[via Eyes on Brazil, appropriately enough] Perhaps in an ideal world this wouldn’t be how Barack Obama chose to interact with Brazilian culture. But I suppose we should be grateful that he’s trying… Now what is it they say about coveting thy neighbour’s ass? [Update: this video seems to show that El Presidente was actually just [...]
May 27, 2009
From the Streets to… Congress?
It seems there’s no limit to the Brazilian government’s new-found enthusiasm for graffiti art. Not yet, anyway. The flyer above is an invite to a hip new Street Art exhibition called Recycling Cities and Concepts, which takes place from the 2nd to the 25th June inside the Chamber of Deputies in Brasilia. According to the [...]
April 3, 2009
Cell Phones
Great story in The Guardian the other day about inmates at the Danilio Pinheiro correctional facility in south-eastern Brazil using trained carrier pigeons to smuggle mobile phones into the prison (thanks Guy). Apparently the birds are bred and raised ‘inside’, and accomplices in the outside world fit them with tiny bags containing mobile parts ready to be assembled once [...]
