http://brazilportal.wordpress.com/2012/07/31/quem-roubara-a-cena-em-2016/ Brazil News aggregator, with analysis and commentary Thu, 16 May 2013 09:55:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://brazilportal.wordpress.com/2012/07/31/quem-roubara-a-cena-em-2016/#comment-29417 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 19:22:31 +0000 http://brazilportal.wordpress.com/?p=15162#comment-29417 [...] Last Friday, July 27, 2012, Brazil experienced a contentious moment following the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in London. In attendance was President Dilma Rousseff, who became surprised as she watched Marina Silva, an Amazon rainforest campaigner carrying the Olympic Flag into the stadium. While Silva is an affluent figure for environmentalism, several agents from the Brazilian government were angered that the International Olympic committee chose someone in opposition of the Rousseff government. Being that Brazil is next to host the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the country must now consider how they will approach the ceremony. Paulo Sotero of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’s says rather than succumbing to a 2016 Olympic ceremony of Brazilian propaganda, Brazil should illuminate its hardships to glorify its dignified prosperity. [...]

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