Brazilian Bruhaha
“I’m enjoying so much this whole bruhaha in Brasilia,” posted a friend on Facebook this morning.
I wasn’t.
I panicked.
I have been progressively severing my ties with Brazil over the last few weeks, not without paying a psychological price. As I wrote before, I had decided to close KBR’s operations there and transfer all my business activities to the US. This was my last month of a double life. I was planning to close my bank accounts by the end of the month.
As you might recall, our move to the US was predicated upon the fact that, after a whole year trying, we had managed to sell our house in Serenity Valley. Next thing, we struggled to transfer our assets — legally, of course, with the exchange currency on a crazy swing
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I don’t remember the dream du jour at that point, maybe a recipe book or a vegetarian restaurant, since for a while I fancied my cooking skills.
So, basically, I was safe. And, in all honesty, I don’t know what took hold of me today.
Maybe, like mentioned earlier today by another friend, who had also moved to the US a few years back, my fear had been triggered by an old “panic gene” inherited from ancestors who had to escape the pogroms in Eastern Europe. Though I can’t remember any family stories of that sort, despite the fact that my father’s family did travel from Poland to Brazil in 1929. Being a Jew, you actually never know.
I guess my memory actually does not fare so far back in my personal history. I don’t remember consciously, but there might be some kind of painful remembrance of the Military Coup in Brazil in1964, delicately dubbed “the 64 revolution.” I was 12 years old, and after a short period of tanks in the streets everything went back to normal, or so I thought. Only this morning I could figure out the kind of fear my parents must have felt at the time, both in their early thirties with two young children to
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Twightlight was falling as sneaked through the shabby building as narrow passage way, no one could see me , that was the way I like it no one could ever see. It was the one thing I had which I could control, constantly all day I was surrounded by “rifle” names drug talk. sometimes I longed for a safe cocoon somewhere where there was no worries. But here it was constant and I excepted that, since whenever I could remember I was on my own, in the dusty red, streets violence fighting violence and not just the outlaws the government too. Rubbish was piled high in some areas a dumping ground of the upper rich. However, this was no slum. The favelas, were small corrupt pockets built up in remote jungles, no one could get out.
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Brazil is one of the most visited place in the world and also one of the most diverse countries in the world. More than 75millon people of African decent live in Brazil, this makes it the second largest black population in the world. Its attracts a large number of people because of it architecture, slums and rainforest. Brazil is contradictory because its was the last country to abolish slavery but also the first to claim that it was a racial democracy. Most people might not know that Brazil has its racial problems and that it has been going on for a long time. Brazilian race relations and conceptions of race are somewhat different from the United States. In Brazil most African descendents are people live in
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My favorite athlete is Trevor Brazil, for many of you who don’t know him, he is a professional athlete in the sport of rodeo. Trevor is an optimum cowboy competing in professional rodeo, leaving very few records in the sport unbroken. Often referred to as the “Michael Jordan of rodeo” , due to his great accomplishment.
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