This is a link to a nice story taken from Bloomberg about the issue of racial discrimination in Brazil. As the article states “A commodities-led boom is fueling growth; the real beat the Swiss franc as the best-performing major currency during the 12 months through yesterday, gaining 22 percent against the dollar to the franc’s [...]

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We’ve posted here at blogamericas a number of times about the rise in coverage of the new Brazilian consumer. We found a nice TV report (in Portugues) about some of the current trends that are resulting from a more affluent society. The report argues that the one time ‘ice cream cone’ consumers (those who went [...]

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The popular image of Brazil as a nation obsessed by football and sex are potentially challenged by the findings of a recent study by a social research institute based in the country. Whilst the media have focused on the low ranking of sex and football perhaps more interesting is the fact that the most popular [...]

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