A page for people who plan to visit Brasilia and for those who want to know more about this singular city. It was 1965 in a bookstore in São Paulo.   A guy in his mid-thirties comes up to me and asks if I speak English.  I said yes.  He said he needed help to buy [...]...

A worker on a plane production line for Embraer in Brazil. The company has doubled in size since the start of the decade. New York Times By ANDREW DOWNIE Published: July 2, 2008 SÃO PAULO, Brazil — For almost any nation other than China or India, achieving more than 5 percent growth a year is hard. Doing it without [...]...

He looked like an extra from an old John Wayne movie; in his early fifties, tall, and slim.  When he called he only mentioned that he was an American and would like to drop by for a chat.    The chat turned out to be an interesting 30 minutes. I don't recall his name. He was [...]...

As stated here previously, it is best to come to Brazil as an employee of a multinational.  They pay higher salaries, offer numerous benefits such as paying for your children's schooling, housing, transportation, full medical and as a rule take care of all the little problems that you would have to resolve back home.   This [...]...

"Marvelous city, full of a thousand charms," sang Aurora Miranda, in a 1934 Carnival hit that's now Rio de Janeiro's anthem. To put this song to the test, each year as many people visit Rio as live there—riding cable cars up to Pão de Açúcar, and trams through Santa Teresa; going inside belle epoque palaces [...]...