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  • Paraguay becomes South Americas used car paradise

    Paraguay has become the main destination in South America for used cars from Japan, the US and other countries, thanks to new regulations aimed at making it easier to import automobiles so low-income consumers can purchase vehicles. Used cars are all the rage in Paraguay, where vehicles that have been shipped from thousands of kilometers away are put to use as soon as they are repaired and made ...

  • Corinthians beat Santos to win Campeonato Paulista

    Corinthians won their 27th Campeonato Paulista title after a 1-1 draw in the second leg of the final against Santos. The result at the Vila Belmiro stadium Sunday gave the reigning FIFA Club World Cup champions a 3-2 aggregate victory, reports Xinhua. Cicero scored the opener for Santos just before the half-hour with a stunning left-foot volley before Danilo equalised two minutes later with a ...

  • Biofuels a boon for Brazils rural poor but obstacles remain elsewhere | Paige McClanahan

    Brazil , a country that is home to both a sizeable biofuels industry and about 4.1m small-scale family farms. But while some of the country's biofuels policies have fallen short, others have proved a boon to the rural poor. Smallholder farmers have seen their incomes rise thanks to the introduction of more progressive standards and new rules on contract negotiations."The numbers show ...

  • Brazil main opposition party elects a new leader and 2014 presidential hopeful

    Brazilian opposition unified over the weekend behind Aecio Neves who was elected by a landslide president of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, PSDB. His naming opens the way for his candidacy to the 2014 presidential election, when President Dilma Rousseff will be bidding for another four ...

  • U.S. womens soccer stars to Brazil

    When it comes to foreign aid, sending soccer players to Brazil might seem a bit like shipping coals to Newcastle.But when those players are women, the story is different. As part of the State Department’s Empowering Women and Girls Through Sports Initiative, retired U.S. women’s soccer players Julie Foudy and Brandi Chastain (yes, the one who tore off her shirt) are traveling to ...

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Tropic Thunder [Blu-Ray]

Tropic Thunder [Blu-Ray]

The Canadian journalist and critic Robert Fulford once noted that the very narcissism of Hollywood becomes part of its charm, which is an apt description of both Tropic Thunder and its object of satire, which are essentially one in the same. A loud, bombastic, unrepentant, an ... ...

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  • Brazilian Jumper Threatens to Retire Before 2016 Olympics

    Rio de Janeiro, May 21 (Prensa Latina) The Brazilian jumper Maureen Maggi could end her career before the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro-2016 due to inattention, reports O Globo newspaper. Maggi, Olimpic golden medal in Beijing 2008, claimed "a structure behind me" before the appointment of Rio, if not "I retire because it would not be fair to the medal I have and it will be no ...

  • Brazilian president denies plan to end subsidy to poor

    Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Monday strongly denied rumors that the government plans to end an income subsidy program called Bolsa Familia."I want to make it clear that my government's commitment to Bolsa Familia is strong, deep and definitive," Rousseff said at a completion ceremony of an oil tanker platform in northeastern Brazil."We will always guarantee the ...

  • Brazilian president says 4 million jobs created in two years

    Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said Monday 4.139 million full jobs have been created since the beginning of her administration in January 2011.In her weekly radio show "Breakfast with the President," Rousseff said the achievement was much more significant against the backdrop of the global economic woes, which had seen many developed countries struggling with rising ...

  • Brazil China to cooperate on digitalization of historical archives

    Antunes said that Brazil can learn a lot from China when it comes to digital preservation of archives, as China has much more experience on this ...

  • Pregnant Salvadoran woman Beatriz seeks life-saving abortion in El Salvador

    The pregnant woman has lupus and doctors say her baby has anencephaly, a total or partial absence of the brain and the skull. Source: Quest Newspapers A pregnant, chronically ill Salvadoran woman testified before the Supreme Court to urge the justices to allow her to proceed with an an abortion that could save her life. Abortions are strictly forbidden in El Salvador, where the sentence for ...

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