A double tribute to Bossa Nova

Miami Herald, 09/28/2008
by Evelyn Mcdonnel
With his band, the Jobim Trio, and iconic Brazilian singer Milton Nascimento, Paulo Jobim, son of Antonio Carlos Jobim is celebrating the 50th anniversary of bossa nova with an album, Novas Bossas, and a world tour that comes to the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday night. The [...]

Brazil’s Lula Riding New Popularity Wave

Angus Reid Global Monitor, 09/26/2008
Many more Brazilians are backing their president’s policies, according to a poll by Instituto Sensus. 77.7 per cent of respondents approve of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s performance, up 8.4 per cent since April.
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Brazil: Stumble fails to push economy off course

Brazil’s economy has been transformed over the past five years. As recently as 2002, the economy was on the verge of bankruptcy and Brazil was forced to seek and receive emergency financing from the International Monetary Fund. The mark of the change is not that those loans have been paid off long ago, but that this summer the IMF gave Brazil an enthusiastic stamp of approval.

“Brazil is now in a significantly stronger position than in the past to withstand a deterioration in the external environment, as demonstrated by the limited impact that the global financial turmoil has had on Brazil,” the Fund’s executive board noted as it welcomed the upgrading of the country’s debt to investment grade.