Dave Zirin on June 26, 2013: As reported on the website of The Nation Institute, Galeano has spoken. Here is what he has to say. "As far as I’m concerned, the explosion of indignation in Brazil is justified. In its thirst for justice, it is similar to other demonstrations that in recent years have shaken many countries in many parts of the world. Brazilians, who are the most soccer-mad of all, have decided not to allow their sport to be used any more as an excuse for humiliating the many and enriching the few. The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it. That is a fire police violence will never put out.” That second to last sentence—“The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it”—is one we shouldn’t forget. You see it in the streets, favelas, and beaches of Brazil, where soccer hasn’t stopped just because the season of protests has started. You see it in the great Brazilian players like Neymar and Hulk who have supported the protests. You see it in the calls by demonstrators for “FIFA quality hospitals and schools.
Le président Sarkozy n’a-t-il fait de l'exportation de la technologie nucléaire française une de ses priorités diplomatiques et commerciales ? Si la conférence de Copenhague débouche sur un traité (peu probable) ou des engagements politiques fermes sur le
A temporary WhatsApp shutdown is not even close to the craziest thing happening with the Brazilian internet right now. If Brazil’s conservative Congress..
"The biggest Brazilian investor in Africa - and one of the biggest investors in the continent from anywhere - is Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, which is usually known as Vale. It is one of the three biggest mining companies in the world and is the world's biggest iron ore miner, controlling about 27% of the global market. It also produces coal, nickel, copper, bauxite, alumina, aluminium and a wide range of other commodities. As a result of the needs of its mining operations, it also invests heavily in power plants, railways and port infrastructure. Vale currently has investments totalling $7.7bn in nine African countries and plans to invest more than $18bn in Africa over the next five years but much will depend on the direction of global markets over that time." "The firm's biggest investment, however, is its Moatize coal mining project in the Moatize Basin of Tete Province in northwestern Mozambique."
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(Santiago, den 28 januari 2013). Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Organizaciones del Campo (Cloc VC) beklagar och fördömer mordet på ledaren för MST i Brasilien, Guedes Cicero dos Santos, 54, som sköts till döds 25 januari i Campos dos Goytacazes. Cicero deltog i ett möte på lägret och blev skjuten i ett bakhåll när han återvände med cykel till sitt hem i Zumbi Dos Palmares. Cicero var en av ledarna för MST i Rio de Janeiro.
Die brasilianische Regierung plant am Xingu-Fluss das drittgrößte Wasserkraftwerk der Welt. Am Montag [8.2.2010] erteilte das staatliche Institut für Umwelt und natürliche Ressourcen (IBAMA) dem umstrittenen Wasserkraftwerksprojekt „Belo Monte“ eine erste
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz bit the dust Monday in Brasilia when President Luiz Inàcio Lula da Silva refused to support Ukraine even verbally and rejected the European leader's invitation to join his Climate Club initiative. Furthermore, Lula also turned down a German request to send ammunition to Kyiv.
Senaten i Brasilien godkände på tisdagen en banbrytande lag som ska garantera nätneutralitet. 23 april 2014 president Dilma Rouseff har förklarat att hon ska underteckna lagen, som ska presenteras på en global konferens om internets framtid under onsdagen.