Word: brazile
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...made smaller-scale dramas for Latin American countries like Argentina and Brazil. But this is its first venture into Mexico, the undisputed leader in Latin American film and TV production. While Mexico's steamy telenovelas are cheap to make, they are wildly popular across the globe, being translated into over 50 languages from Russian to Indonesian. Teaming up with Mexican production company Argos, HBO brought in top cinema talent such as Carlos Carrera, director of the controversial hit film The Crime of Father Amaro, about a priest's affair with a teenage girl. It also persuaded Mexican authorities...
...Morning, noon and night, the people of Brazil's biggest city are stuck behind the wheel. Saturday morning, Sunday evening, weekday afternoon, the panorama is the same: cars, bumper to bumper. "Here you go," says Alexandre Teixeira, slowing to a crawl one recent weekend. "Sao Paulo, 7:30 on a Sunday night, and we are in a traffic...
...then made the nation's Roman Catholic bishops declare him a saint; its equally villainous 20th-century tyrant, General Alfredo Stroessner, turned the country into a haven for Nazi war criminals. Ever since, Paraguay has struggled to be seen as something more than a benighted agricultural backwater wedged between Brazil and Argentina...
...liberal whose base is the poor rural heartland, where he is popular for his work with landless peasants. If elected, Lugo would be the first former Catholic bishop ever to become President of a nation. He has also pledged to tear up electricity price contracts with neighbors like Brazil, deals that he charges cheat Paraguay out of hundreds of millions of dollars in sales of its vast surplus power. "Our victory will mark a historic break with the past," says Lugo's campaign manager, Miguel Lopez. "A spontaneous, popular movement taking power in Paraguay. It's incredible!" In a recent...
Lugo sees the electricity deals as one solution. Rising demand has created an energy crisis in South America, especially in growing economies like Brazil; and Paraguay's hydro-electric dams on the Parana River provide one of the nation's most valuable commodities (and almost two-thirds of its GDP). The market value of the electricity Paraguay sells to Brazil and Argentina each year is estimated to be more than $3 billion; but Paraguay receives less than $1 billion for it. Lugo wants to renegotiate that arrangement, and many if not most Paraguayans back him. "We've been robbed...