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...before,” he said. Assistant Professor of Medicine Joia Mukherjee emphasized the role of the Brazilian government, and specifically the universal healthcare and free antiretroviral drugs it provides. “Brazil was twenty years ahead of where most places are today,” she said. Paulo R. Teixeira, former director of the national STD/AIDS program of the Brazilian Ministry of Health, said that although the government was pleased with the low rate of infection, it recognized the price tag that comes with increased life expectancy of those using antiretrovirals. “We need to take...
...Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata, Argentina, Bush was greeted by violent demonstrations and angry speeches from leftist leaders like Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. But the five countries Bush has chosen for his six-day Latin America tour that starts today in Sao Paulo, Brazil, are led by either kindred conservatives or more moderate leftists. And the venues he's visiting are often far from metropolis hotbeds of anti-yanqui sentiment - like Merida, on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, a sleepy Maya world away from the Mexico City streets that were paralyzed by leftist protests last summer after conservative...
...PAULO Even though the Asics Gel Kinsei ($373) costs more than most other sneakers in Brazil, its launch caused wait lists throughout the city...
...president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is assuming his second term in office with a whopping 62% vote mandate. But look at some of the people he has to deal with in the country's congress: Fernando Collor de Melo, a former president impeached in 1992 on corruption charges; Paulo Maluf, a two-time Mayor of Sao Paulo convicted of fraud; and Clodovil, a camp television presenter and former stylist to the stars who, when asked to name some pet projects he would bring to the new parliament replied, "I have no projects." And this was after Brazilians voted...
...Even with their beach heaven going to hell, Rio residents laughed it off. Small businessman Paulo Rodrigues came to work and found two burnt-out cars blocking the road in front of his tiny shoe shop. When he heard of similar incidents on the normally safe South Side of Christ the Redeemer and Sugarloaf mountain, he couldn't resist a wry smile. "They're seeing it in Ipanema now," he chuckled quietly. "They've globalized violence...