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PHOTOS: Rachel Roy Celebrates Brazil With New Clothing Collaboration

Huffington Post | Julee Wilson | Posted 05.24.2012

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Fashion designer Rachel Roy is hitting us with another brilliant fashion collaboration. After the slam dunk success of her RACHEL Rachel Roy colle...

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The Independent Traveler's Guide To Carnival

Off Track Planet | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Fiesta, Travel, Independent Travel, Brazil, Drinking, Carnaval, Dancing, Guide, How-To, Backpacking, Rio De Janeiro, Party, Sex, Dance, Rio, Samba, Sexy, Brasil, Mardi Gras, Holiday Travel, Travel News
Off Track Planet

Arguably the greatest party on the planet, Rio's Carnaval falls right at the top of every partier's puke bucket list. Here's how to do it right.

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Cameraman Killed In Police Operation In Rio Slum

AP | Posted 01.06.2012

Read More: Journalists, Brasil, Latin America, Shantytown, Gangs, Rio De Janeiro, Slums, World News

SAO PAULO -- A Brazilian television network says one of its cameramen has been shot to death during a police operation against drug traffickers in a R...

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The Surprising Truth About The World's Most Expensive Cities

Posted 09.12.2011

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Want to know where you'll spend and where you'll to save? Each year, consulting firm Mercer carries out its Cost of Living Survey and compiles a ranki...

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Rio de Janeiro: 60,000 Unsolved Murders In 10 Years

AP | Posted 09.09.2011

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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Rio de Janeiro's public defenders' department says the Brazilian state has accumulated more than 60,000 unsolved murders in the last...

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Soccer Smackdown: Russia and FIFA sandbag Brazil

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 09.03.2011

Read More: Futebol, Adidas, Lula, Nike Dilma, Sports Marketing, Coca Cola, Fifa, Brazil, World Cup, Putin, World Football Forum, Moscow, Russia, Jack Warner, Soccer, Qatar, Brasil, Valcke, Blatter, Football, Corinthians, 2014 Olympics, Sports Crime, Antonio Palocci, World News
Eric Ehrmann

Brazil has been getting bashed in the global sports press for not making enough progress in constructing stadiums with the amenities FIFA likes to offer its fat cat supporters. But these critics miss half the point.

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PIMCO CEO: U.S. Quantitative Easing 'Overinflated' Brazil, China

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 08.09.2011

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Forget the United States, maybe it should be called the Federal Reserve of the world economy. El-Erian, CEO and co-CIO of PIMCO, the largest bond ...

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Brazil´s Biofuel Drama Goes Global

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 07.18.2011

Read More: Germany, Robert Zoellick, Corn Ethanol, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Flex Motor, Commodities, Brics, Hedge Funds, China, G-20, Food Price Inflation, Brazil, France, Barclays Bank, Biofuels, Argentina, Ethanol, Sugar Ethanol, Derivatives, Larry Rohter, Brasil, Brazil Biofuels, World News
Eric Ehrmann

Brazil's biofuel drama is a reminder that solutions packaged in green wrappers fail to scale with billions facing starvation in the Americas, Africa and Asia.

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FILM: Is Brazilian Film The Future?

Lauri Lyons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Latin America, Films, Vik Muniz, Sao Paulo, Rio Film Festival, South America, Dzi Croquettes, Sao Paulo Art Biennale, Brazil, Lauri Lyons, Movies, Reidy Building Utopia, Cinema, Art, Filmmaking, Film Festivals, Rio De Janeiro, Dance, Museum of Modern Art, Premiere Brazil, Brasil, Terras, Social Justice, Terra, Peru, Urban Planning, Flag an American Story, Recycling, Maya Da Rin, Tropicalia, Recolumbia, Alfonso Reidy, Revolutions, Performance Art, Flag International, Ana Maria Magalhaes, Architecture, Moma, Social Activism, Gilberto Gil, Future, New York Art, New York, Museums, Urban, The Waste Land, Gay, Columbia, Colombia, Arts News
Lauri Lyons

This year's Premiere Brazil film festival hosted by the Museum of Modern Art and the Rio Film Festival produced a line up of films that can best be described as the art of social activism.

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World Cup 2010 and Growing Up Latina

Kety Esquivel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Uruguay, Latina, Mom, Brazil, Mexico, Italy, USA, El Mundial, World Cup, France, Futbol, Ricky Martin, Dad, Soccer, Latino, Goals, China, Brasil, Sports News
Kety Esquivel

My love for soccer might also have something to do with the fact that everywhere I've lived, my life has been touched by the sport.

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Afro-Brazilian History, Beats and Culture

Lauri Lyons | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lauri Lyons

While Africa and America are often recognized as the book ends of the African Diaspora, there is an additional link in the Middle Passage that is less publicized, but no less important.

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Brazil Passionate to Host 2016 Olympics

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011

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Eric Ehrmann

The International Olympic Selection Committee just completed a week long visit to Rio and prospects seem good that the Olympics will come to South America for the first time.

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