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...violence in Sao Paulo's history - are no laughing matter. They're the mafiosi who run the First Command of the Capital (PCC), Sao Paulo's predominant organized crime faction. And now they've proved they are shrewd, ruthless and powerful enough to bring a place like Sao Paulo, Brazil's most important state and South America's largest city, to its knees with just a phone call from their jail cells. Just as important, the five-day-long attacks that left 137 people dead are evidence that what these gang bosses do over the next few months will...
...crush a stumbling Adidas--which had lost $100 million in 1992--for good. By 1997, in true Nike fashion, the company signed an iconic endorser--the Brazilian national team, fresh off its '94 World Cup victory--to a 10-year, $200 million contract. "Football is dance," says Remlinger. "And Brazil dances magnificently...
...presence on Harvard’s campus—it now has programs that promote teaching and research on Latin America that reach every part of the University.” A regional office in Santiago, Chile, a scheduled summer opening of an office in São Paulo, Brazil, and plans for a third office in Mexico mark other significant developments. “These outposts, these regional or national offices abroad help us to do a much better job helping both faculty and students get to know the region better,” said Coatsworth...
...behind closed doors, say analysts, Chavez has to help devise a way for Bolivia to realize the steeply increased share of gas and oil revenues it wants, while making sure foreign companies like Brazil's Petrobras and Spain's Repsol don't face expropriation of the hundreds of millions of dollars worth of investments and infrastructure they have staked in the Andean nation. That balance will probably require Venezuela to help subsidize the nationalization by pouring some of its own prodigious petro-wealth into Bolivia's threadbare state energy company, YPFP...
...fields this week - and that he brought in auditors from Venezuela's state-run oil monopoly, Petroleos de Venezuela, to seize and examine the books of the foreign energy firms operating in Bolivia - may not have been the most tactful thing to do before sitting down with Brazil and Argentina...