Word: brazilianizing
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...think that it could finally set aside its 20th century resentments - which, admittedly, have too often been exploited by Latin leaders as an excuse for their own epic failings and iron fists - and move on to 21st century development. To believe, that is, that the U.S. now appreciates what Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva told TIME in a recent interview - that it's not smart policy for the U.S. to be such a rich country "surrounded by so many poor people...
When union leader Francisco Freitas has something to say, Japan's Brazilian community listens. The 49-year old director of the Japan Metal and Information Machinery Workers called up the Brazilian Embassy in Tokyo April 14, fuming over a form being passed out at employment offices in Hamamatsu City, southwest of Tokyo. Double-sided and printed on large sheets of paper, the form enables unemployed workers of Japanese descent - and their family members - to secure government money for tickets home. It sounded like a good deal to the Brazilians for whom it was intended. The fine print in Portuguese, however...
...unemployed. The virtual collapse of Japan's export-driven economy, in which exports have nearly halved compared to the first two months of last year, has forced manufacturers to cut production. Temporary and contract workers at automotive and electronics companies have been hit especially hard. Hamamatsu has 18,000 Brazilian residents, about 5% of the total in Japan, and is home to the nation's largest Brazilian community. After immigration laws relaxed in 1990, making it easier for foreigners to live and work in Japan, Brazilians have grown to be the country's third largest minority, after Koreans and Chinese...
...Ginza Samba.” Of Ginza Samba, Pinsky said that he likes the “eclectic nature of the American culture” that is conferred by the poem’s title. Ginza refers to an area of Tokyo, while the multicultural Brazilian music genre Samba, which also rings of African religion, culture and dance. Palay said he invited Pinsky to the reading partly because he remembered being impressed by hearing the former poet laureate read during high school. “I just like the way he reads more than anything. He?...
...contrast to the summit in Mar del Plata, Chávez isn't expected to hold the regional reins in Port of Spain or breathe the same anti-U.S. fire. More moderate leftists like Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are regarded as Latin America's standard bearers today. Even if the global economic crisis has borne out Chávez's condemnation of capitalism, it has also sent oil prices plummeting - and his populist largesse along with them. At the same time, some supporters worry that as Chávez accumulates more power at home...