Word: brazilian
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...world of trade negotiations, Cancún is already legendary. In September, as Caribbean waves lapped the beach outside their hotel, Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim handed U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick a new set of demands from a coalition of 22 developing countries, led by Brazil, China and India. If the U.S., the E.U. and other developed nations failed to slash their hundreds of billions in agriculture tariffs and subsidies, the poorer nations would refuse to discuss issues dear to the rich, like investment rules and intellectual-property rights. Zoellick stood up, Amorim recalls, and said that while...
...favorite place to eat in Cambridge is the Midwest Grill, a Brazilian steakhouse in Inman Square...
...vacationing friends feel compelled to send from every Internet café they visit. Technology has suddenly made it all too easy to dispatch gushing, gee-whiz accounts of trips to the Pompidou or dives off the Great Barrier Reef, not to mention tediously unedited recollections of meals eaten on Brazilian beaches or at Bangkok street stalls. When several paragraphs about transport hassles and hotel mix-ups are tacked on, you start to realize that whatever the postcard's failings, it at least had the merit of brevity...
...hadn’t seemed particularly important at home, where, on various occasions I was mistaken for a Brazilian, an Irishwoman and a Russian. But I do not possess a true cultural identity. I am a mongrel—an improbable amalgam of Midwestern white trash and New York City Jew (which makes for an interesting holiday season, culinarily speaking). Back home, I took my status as a cultural chameleon in stride. In my eastern Massachusetts hometown, where your roots need to extend five generations before you’re counted as native, and where non-natives are branded...
...With far left Hugo Chavez leading next-door Venezuela into financial ruin, Bolivia stands particularly vulnerable; rumors of Chavez’s involvement in this latest uprising should be enough to rouse U.S. attention to this region’s fragility. If America learned nothing else from the last Brazilian economic crisis and its extraordinary domino effect, it is that the U.S. ignores the plight of South America at the risk of its own economic health...