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...pessimistic," Roberto Scaringella told the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper last month. "There's a limit to the amount of construction. And to the motorization too. But the consequence is that we are going to have to learn to live with longer traffic jams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World's Worst Traffic Jams | 4/21/2008 | See Source »

Approximately 40 minutes earlier, I had exited the bathroom to find two large clusters of colleagues in the newsroom of Folha de São Paulo. The first surrounded an Internet video of someone apparently holding a press conference. Unable to understand what he was saying, I moved on to the other group sitting around a television set that depicted a fiery but indiscernible image. “An airplane crashed,” someone said in Portuguese. Suddenly, our editor Denise started screaming reporters’ names and the newsroom plunged into frenetic activity. Vinicius, a reporter, stopped...

Author: By Matthew S. Blumenthal | Title: Tragedy at Congonhas, As I Saw It | 7/20/2007 | See Source »

...flaming wreck and the amputated tail of TAM flight JJ3054 will haunt me—and Brazilian aviation—for years to come. Matthew S. Blumenthal ’08, a Crimson news editor, is a history and literature concentrator in Pforzheimer House. He is interning at Folha de São Paulo as part of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) Summer Internship Program...

Author: By Matthew S. Blumenthal | Title: Tragedy at Congonhas, As I Saw It | 7/20/2007 | See Source »

...past 15 years, the government has conducted a very aggressive and effective anti-AIDS campaign that has included universal free treatment and television advertisements featuring parents giving condoms to progeny of various sexual persuasions. However, the system has been criticized: The Minister of Health faced audience participation at a Folha-sponsored panel ranging from questions about unequal access to a religious fanatic heckling the minister about providing healthcare to homosexuals...

Author: By Matthew S. Blumenthal | Title: Favelas, Feijoada, and a Festa Junina | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

...Matthew S. Blumenthal ’08, a Crimson news editor, is a history and literature concentrator in Pforzheimer House. He is interning at Folha de São Paulo as part of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) Summer Internship Program, and has four friends on Orkut, the Brazilian version of Myspace...

Author: By Matthew S. Blumenthal | Title: Favelas, Feijoada, and a Festa Junina | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

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