Brasil Observer – Issue 30

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(Leia em Português)

 

SUMMARY

 

4 | EDITORIAL

What’s the problem with Brazil?

 

5 | IN FOCUS

Ambassadors defend the BRICS in joint article

 

6 | GUEST COLUMNIST

Costa, B. Fritz and M. Sproll on inequality in Brazil

 

8 | GUEST COLUMNIST

Anthony Pereira on the consequences of Operation Car Wash

 

10 | PROFILE

The look of Maria Luiza Abbott on Brazil’s image abroad

 

12 | GLOBAL BRAZIL

How the government of Dilma Rousseff fell into the austerity trap

 

14 | BR-UK CONNECTION

Rio 2016: A year of the Games, the goals of Brazil and Great Britain

 

16 | BRASILIANCE

An investigation into the formation of the Brazilian Military Police

 

20 | CONECTANDO

The history of resistance of women affected by dams

 

23 | GUIDE

Brazilian movie The Second Mother debuts in the UK

 

26 | CULTURAL TIPS

Marcelo D2 comes to London for presentation in Brixton

Latin American Theatre Festival is back for a new edition

Brazilian Bilingual Book Club: Canaan, by Graça Aranha

 

28 | COLUMNISTS

Franko Figueiredo on ‘Nurturing a new generation’

Aquiles Reis on ‘Old musical friends’

Ricardo Somera on ‘New voices from Brazil’

 

30 | TRAVEL

Florianopolis, the paradise in the south of Brazil

 

 

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