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"No human being can accept that, in a country like ours, there are children starving." Edson Arantes do Nascimento is back at it.

Twenty-three years ago, right after making his goal number 1000 — a feat still unequaled — Fele offered the achievement to "the little children". But this time he seems decided to do something about it. And this something is to be the next Brazilian president. Why is he thinking seriously about adding his name to the ballot in 1994? He answers as an old politician: "God has always determined the timing in my life."

"It was a case of results not being the most important thing, but really how we played," said Bora Milutinovic, the coach for the U.S. national soccer team. The Yankee team wasn't bad.

It even had its near brilliancy moments. As good as it was, however, wasn't enough to prevent its bitter defeat before the Brazilian squad. The result was 3-0, but i t could have been much worse for the Americans.

The game — the first between U.S. and Brazil since 1930— took place at Castelao Stadium, in Fortaleza, Ceara, in front of 40,000 fans.

The Brazilians outshot the Americans by 21 to 4, but the Cearenses were generous in victo ry and there was even some cheers from the crowd for the Yankees, when they started to improve in the second half.

CHICO MENDES REVERSAL One of the main suspects in the murder of Brazilian rain forest activist Chico Mendes had his conviction overturned. He is the rancher Darly Alves da Silva, who had been sentenced to 19 years in prison in 1990. The assassination of Mendes, 44, in 1988 opened the eyes of the world to the war between environmentalists and landowners in the Amazon jungle. Legal experts considered the decision of the Rio Branco irregular.

Leva-se 22 dias para se atravessar a pe 600 km da floresta Amazonica, indo-se de Boa Vista, no estado de Roraima, ate' Delegado Chaltaut, uma cidadezinha de fronteira,ja do lado venezuelano. Exis te ali um garimpo ilegal de brasileiros.

As prostitutas boasvistenses nao se preocupam com a distancia. Elas acred i tam que no final dessa supermaratona ha um pote de ouro a espera. Cada relacao sexual esta cotada em cinco gramas de ouro, que podem ser vend idas pelo equivalente a$40, em Boa Vista. Vintee cinco prostitutas ja fizeram a aventura amazOnica. Cada uma fatura em media $320 por dia (cerca de 7 vezes o salario minim° mensal). Garimpeiro em busca de pechincha fica com uma masturbacao. Essa vale apenas uma grama de ouro.

OTE Righf before Carnival, thousands of people marched along Copacabana beach to protest against violence in the streets and the lack of security for the Rio population.

The participants mostly hotel and shop employees carried signs saying "the lack of security is the greatest violence" and "the tour-

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AGAINST VIOLENCE

ists go but the hotel stay'.

The number of tourists dropped from 1.9 million in 1987 to less than 800,000 this year, according to estimates.

The hotels in the city were only half full.

"We want the authorities to take urgente measures do stop the violence," said Sergio Nogueira, president of the Brazilian Travel Agents Association.

The tambourines are now silent. But the big conspiracy of silence on the bad news, in particular on the economic front- even the Escolas de Samba avoided the common complaints in its enredos - stopped when the folioes woke up from their dreams, Ash Wednesday.

And it is back to corrup-

tion, with a former treasurer of Collor de Mello, growing richer by the minute while his businesses go from bad to worse. It is back to violence and misery.

They go together. Our cover story talks about little girls being sold for prostitution and burdened by their gigolos with a debt they hardly will be able to pay.

We also discuss the pros and cons of making dollar the

Brazilian currency. In spite of new and respected voices in favor of dollarization, there is still a lot opposition to do with the money the same experience Argentina is trying right now with mixed success.

But we are having success with our athletes: three of them came among the first at the Los Angeles Marathon. Check it out!

R.M.

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CONTENTS

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Prostitution

Little Girls For Sale

Take a look at dollarization

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In the mean streets of Recife

IMF: A break for breathing

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16 DEPARTAMENTS

Carnaval: Crisis, what crisis?

2 Rapidinhas 7 Cronica 8 Letters 21 Por al

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The godfathers of Samba

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22 That's Brazilian!

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Nestled in the Amazon forest, the village of Cuiti-CuM, in Para, receives waves of little girls coming specially from the North and Northeast. They come enticed by the gold of the garimpo, hopeful they will make money and better their lives. There, they are forced to work in nightclubs as prostitutes and, confined, they become slaves. Violence and even death are the penalties for the ones who try to run away.

Escaping is not easy. To get to the nearest river it takes four hours on foot, on a trail in the jungle. From there, there are more five days by boat to arrive in Itaituba (Center-West of Para). Maria Dominga Rabelo Frazao, 14, was able to do it. But she lives in hiding and afraid.

She was taken in a one engine plane in December 23, with the promise she would work in a fast food restaurant in Cuia-Cuili. Maria Domingas soon found out that she would work In a nightclub called Saramandaia, a place

hey are all minors, many her alY teens, dnit know what ey They I 41 do whenthe,were gol v t y were ngto w e Pm:.sdareoablesal::Yald e ti 0h%ven, decen •Ibou _ ey 0 _ family Wgh hetrt th f und o what w as expected rn them prostitutioil — t eY scovered also they had a e gigolo who bought hell revealed rto . 1* was n 7 ).i .: •-,: ,J461i i ei'C lynewspa! P .l-.w 4 he mate: . .- -n Falha per ,,. . gg' :, :i, :4L: ,„:wiIlbe eased as. a ' 4Itoi cW , : l ,„ i4 44 , : „ , „ , : V;6*mo Ite (Girls of . •- •: Apri What .. .,.:. : ::„. „„,., h _e ig,bt ,.:•. eSeries of 10WSre q "1 •-: : ,:. • ' ;P , published articles ot40qc • :t:l:p T .061 . . . „4.

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frequented by garimpeiros. Antonio Rodrigues, o "Mineirinho", the owner of the nightclub swore he would kill her if she tried to run away.

That's why she hides. Before she went into hiding, however, she decided to go to the Police Department in I taituba. There she made a complaint, saying she was lured with false promises and that she was living under threat of death. She also told the Police, that two of her colleagues — "Tieta", 15, and "Loura", 20, were detained and wanted help.

The Police d-idn't take any action. The chief of Police, Alcir Conde, explains: "I know there is slavery in CuiaCuiu. But what cant do? We have no money to take a plane and go there." The sheriff Amilcar Guimardes also knows.

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"We have our hands tied up," he says. He even has moments for philosophical reflection: "Capitalism is also slavery. What's the difference between the girls from Cui6-Cuiu and a worker?"

When this reporter went to Cui6Cuila he found "Tieta" (Maria Izaide Batista de Oliveira) e "Loura" (Ka tucha Santos Silva). "Mineirinho" also was there. When this reporter went into the nightclub to have a beer, "Tieta", in soft voice, implored : "Please take me out of here."

When the girls are taken to the

"What's the difference between the girls from Cui-taCuiii and a worker?"

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village, they don't know they have to pay the plane ticket, their food and personal accommodation. They already arrive with the debt that is zealously administered by the nightclub's owner.

Normally they buy clothes and get sick. It is also common that they start to drink, making even bigger the supposed debt. "Tieta" and "Loura" still owe, each one of them, Cr$ 200,000 (around $ 130). The debt got bigger thanks to something unexpected. Mad because Maria Domingas ran away, "Mineirinho" charged the two girls for that. •

According to the residents of Cuiii-Cuiir, there are at least 65 prostitutes in the village. There are 3,500 garimpeiros working in the area. The great majority of prostitutes are little girls and teen-agers. In garimpo, it is usual to call women who are more than 18, galinhas (hens). The younger ones are called franguinhas (young hens).

Maria Madalena Costa, who used to work at the Matador nightclub and who lives now in Belem, says that one way to get away of the slavery is to get "bought" by somebody. She tells of a woman called Eva who was constantly beaten.

A garimpeiro "felt pity for her" and paid 55 grams of gold to "Tampinha", nickname of Hamilton Fortes who is the owner of Matador.

He was able to take away the woman when she became his property.

All the nightclub and bar owners of Cuill-Cui6 exploit girls sexually.

The majority live as slaves and the Police know that. They not only know; weekly, they receive money from these owners.

The chief of Police confirmed that sometimes the girls run away. "They are scoundrels," says Jose Souza da Silva. According to him, the women who escaped were not allowed to leave the places where they "worked" because they owed money and they

didn't want to pay.

Rondonia is one of the main routes for the traffic of girl-slaves. There, they become not only prostitutes but also avioes (planes), that is, they deliver drugs. Many of them are drug addicts, and part of their debt is payment for the mela made from coca paste.

In Amapa, there is a town—Laranjal do Jani — that was created to supply the Jani project with prostitutes. That project was created by the late American millionaire Daniel Ludwig. The girl-slaves arrive by boat in Laranjal.

The coordinator of the CBIA (Brazilian Center for Childhood and Adolescence) of Amapa, Marcelo Mazolli,

"Tell me, are you good in bed?" believes that the luring became a "professional" activity. He reveals that one of the tactics is to buy the girls directly from the family. Last year, several girls escaped from Laranjal.

One of them, Miriam dos Santos, 14, was enticed by her own sister. She remembers the way she was received in September when she arrived from Belem in the boat Bartolomeu. A man screamed: "Fresh meat over here, folks." Many were whistling and one man took her by the arm commenting; "I want to know it you are good in bed."

It was a shock. She had left Belem with other girls convinced she was going to work in a store where she would make more than twice the minimum wages. All the girls were taken to the Guajara nightclub and they were greeted by owner Raimundo Nonato Costa, known as "Bucho de Bode" ("Goat Belly"). Soon he told them they would have to sleep with the men and that they had a debt that should be paid.

Almost half of the girls on the streets of one of the main capitals of the country live from prostitution. A research that took as sample, abandoned girls from Recife (Pernambuco) shows that 44.73% of the interviewees, from 6 to 20 years of age, get their subsistence from prostitution.

The study is a detailed portrait of habits and thoughts from children on the streets, prepared by the Brazilian Center of the Child and the Adolescent. The girls reveal also that their biggest problems are the competition and the fight with other people in the same situation. Hunger is the main cause for them to leave their families (according to 24% of the interviewees).

The research, made in 1991, interviewed girls in 24 areas of the city, including whorehouses. The majority of the girls only have the mother (80%) as family reference. The father figure exists only in 45% of the cases (brothers in 69% and grandparents in 13%).

Besides the hunger problem, 18.33%

left home due to problems with the mother, generally single and abandoned by her own family; 15.37% because they thought the streets were fun; 14.68% because of fights or abuse from relatives; 5.71% due to abandon or death of parents; 5.12% because of sexual abuses of parents; and 2.9% due to pregnancy.

The majority (61.3%) live in the streets for at least one year and not more than three. Besides prostitution, 28% survive begging, 9.36% receive help from somebody they know, 9.26% steal, and 7.39% are street vendors.

Ana Vasconcelos, the Center president, is against repression against the girls who are prostitutes. "We want to change the reality, not the law. It is useless to try to end prostitution and not be able to see the cause, the misery of the girls and their families," said Vasconcelos. The Center receives daily 100 girls with ages between 7 and 18, who get help, orientation and even shelter. •

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CRoNICA Um dos fatos mais intrigantes acontecidos em 1991 foi o aparecimento de um jacare de verdade no rio Tiete, na cidade de Sao Paulo. E o mais intrigante do fato 6 que o jacare desapareceu sem deixar nenhum vestigio, de forma tao misteriosa como havia surgido.

0 epis6dio foi exausfivamente comentado pelo radio, pela imprensa e pela televisao e movimentou inclusive a Camara Municipal. Alguns vereadores pretendiam outorgar ao nobre reptilvisitante o tftulo de CidaddoPaulistano., em sessao solene corn discursos de saudacao. Acredita-se que tenha sido esse o principal motivo que levou o jacare, possivelmente avesso a homenagens, a se mandar e nunca 'mais dar as caras.

Contudo, a cidade, unida numa corrente de solidariedade humana, tudo fez para capturar o jacare, sem day ida imaginando que a pobre alma, chafurdando nos miasmas e na pasta gosmenta do nauseabundo rio, em poucas horas entraria em coma e morreria, no minim°, por choque anafilatico. 0 jacare, porem, nao cedeu a tentacao de urbanizar-se e adap tarse a civilizacao. Escapuliu, nao sem antes receber o apelido gentil de "Teimoso" e ser transformado em patrono da causa de recuperagao do rio Tiete e sfmbolo da luta em defesa do meio ambiente.

De modo que, para todos os efeitos, o jacare teve sua utilidade.

0 que pouca gente sabe 6 que o famoso jacare "Teimoso", antes de pa rti r para rios melhores, deu uma entrevista a urn estudante de jornalismo da Escola de ComunicacOes da Escola de ComunicacOes e Arte da Universidade de Sao Paulo — a ECA mas nenhum jornal se interessouem publicar o trabalho por julga-lo totalmente inverossfmil e ate mesmo absurdo. Aborrecido e frustrado corn a falta de sensibilidade da mfdia, o jovem plumitivo já estava a ponto de abandonar a carreira jornalfstica — antes mesmo de have-la iniciado — mas antes teve a fel iz ideia de nos submeter o texto.

Como os leitores verao, trata-se de uma peça de grande valor elucidativo, pois sempre que se fala ou se discute ecologia, meio ambiente, defesa da natureza, pro tecsao a vida, sao o uv id os tecnicos, doutores, especialistas, politicos, sindicalistas e ate mesmo astr6logos, mas raramente -para nao dizer nunca —se ausculta a opiniao de umas das partes mais diretamente interessadas na questa°, que sao os bichos. uma lastima que La Fontaine tenha morrido.

Esta entrevista vem preencher a lacuna: Rep6rter da ECA - E a primeira vez que o senhor visita a cidade?

Jacare - Sim, e nao esperava esta recepOo cordial.

R - Por que escolheu urn rio tao polufdo J - Foi um acidente de percurso. Sou de Jacarepagua mas a maioria da minha familia esta estabelecida em Jacareacanga.

Fui incumbido de procurar um tio que ha muito anos abandonou o lar e, segundo soubemos, estava morando em Jacaref, trabalhando como jacare-propaganda de uma fabrica de biscoitos. Já provou biscoitos de Jacaref? Sao deliciosos. Em Jacaref me informaram que titio se mudara para Sao Paulo e estava hospedado no ZoolOgico. Tudo bem. Peguei a Dutra e vinha calmamente pelo acostamento, urn guarda rodoviario me parou. Perguntou se eu nao sabia ler a placa. Que placa?

"Proibido trafegar peloacostamento." Sinceramente, nem tinha reparado. Pedi desculpas, entrei na faixa da direita. A tras de mim todo mundo buzinando. Nao liguei a minima. Fiquei na minha, em marcha normal. Reconheco que em terra firme sou

meio lento. Falei: "Passa por cima." 0 motorista da jamanta que vinha ants me pressionando, levou tamanho susto que perdeu a direcao e entrou direto no barranco. Al aproveitei que o transit° ficou totalmente congestionado, atravessei calmamente a pista e pulei naquilo que me pareceu um rio.

R - E urn rio!

J - Tudo bent, mas esta mal conservado. Isto aqui precisa de um born trato. Se acaso voces pensam atrair outros jacares para promover o turismo na cidade, vao ter de melhorar muito.

R - Como é que o senhor agfienta ficar al?

J -Per tenco a uma raga bastante resistente. Esta no sangue. Voce deve ter ouvido falar de meu av6. Ele era um atleta.

Contracenava corn o Tarzan. Conhece o Tarzan?

R -0 personagem do Edgar Rice Burroughs?

J - Esse. Vov6 trabalhou nos fumes "Tarzan, o Rei da Selva" e "Tarzan contra o Mundo". Vov6 era o jacare que o Tarzan sempre matava nos filmes. Naturalmente, era tudo efeito especial. La em casa temos uma foto do vov6 entre o Johnny Weismuller e a Maureen O'Sullivan, que faziam os papeis de Tarzan e Jane. Meu av6 era o vilao. Como todo vilao, s6 nao ficou rico porque nao quis. Trabalhav a por amor a arte. Qua nd o abriu os olhos, era tarde, já haviam comecado o movimento para preservagdo dos jacares. Meu av6 achou que nao era Mc° con tinua r in terpretand o jacare morto,bancando o fndio. Tentou pegar uma ponta num filme de terror, no papel de jacare Assassino. Foi mal nos testes, perdeu o lugar para urn tubarao.

R - 0 senhor pretende radicar-se no rio definitivamente?

J - Ate que poderia corn um pouco de boa vontade. Despoluir urn rio nao chega a ser uma coisa do out° mundo.

Se todos colaborarem é possfvel. Mas tenho fei to algumas observacoes sobre o que voces chamam de ...meioambiente. Nao 6 s6 o rio que esta em jogo. E a vida em si. Ja lhe contei o que me aconteceu na Via Dutra. Urn buzinaco infernal, canos de escapamento abertos, por pouco nao morn sufocado. Reparei nos 6nibus da cidade que passam pelas avenidas marginais. Como 6 que voces conseguemviajar d aquele jei to, prensados como... como..

R - Sardinha em lata.

J - Bern lembrado. Adoro sardinha. Mas ao natural. Nao como nada enlatado. Aqui as pessoas comemqualquer coisa que lhes aparece pela frente. Sabe o que vi outro dia? Alguns moleques na barranca do rio, disputando frutas que urn motorita de uma camioneta havia atirado fora. Jamais deixaria urn filho meu chegar a esse ponto.

R - Falar nisso, o senhor é casado?

J - Solteiro. Mas pre tendo cons tituir famflia. Agora, felizmente, temos leis que protegem a familia dos jacares. Qualquerjacare que se s en ti r prejudicado ou ameacado pod e co ntra tar um bom advogado e impetrar habeas corpus, mandado de seguranca, medida liminar.., essas coisas. Mas talvez chegue o dia em que havera menos leis e mais born senso e jufzo. Um jacare sera olhado com naturalidadee nth) causara rebulico. Sera protegido porque é urn dos animais horrorosamente belos da natureza. A proteci.do no futuro valera para todos os bichos e todos os homens. Tambem sera° respeitados os vagalumes que sao as estrelinhas do mato; os peixes voadores que sao os anjos do mar; e o joao de barro, que resolveu o problema de habitacao sem se matar de trabalhar.

R - 0 senhor, pelo jeito, 6 um jacare sonhador.

J - Somos sonhadores. Sem sonho, voce jamais conseguiria me entrevistar. Jacare nao fala. Al entao o jacare sorriu e afundou • no rio.

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CARNAVAL

CRISIS, WHAT CRISIS? To samba till you drop dead was very close to literal to hundreds offolioes who filled up the 80,000 seat of the Sambodromo in Rio. Around 550 people had to be treated by the medical service at that giant samba stadium.

Most were just too tired or had consumed a little more of alcohol that they should. Eight of them had to be dragged out because possessed by the rhythm they wouldn't stop their fre-

Whoever went to the SambOdromo, in Rio, dispelled any notion that Brazil is in a deep financial hole, with a monthly inflation of 25%. The fantasias were never so rich, the floats never so spectacular, and the show never so unforgettable.

Those at least were the remarks of almost every Brazilian TV commentarist. The escolas de samba spent $ 7 million.

Rodolfo Espinoza, Rio de Janeiro

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netic jumping, even though their legs were bleeding.

All the high tech used in the parade almost caused a tragedy. A float from escola de Samba Unidos do Viradouro caught fire inside de Sambodromo. The fast intervention of the firefighers and the prompt action of the sambists who jumped out prevented any serious injury.

Ironically, Unidos, whose vast majority of members — around 4,000 — live in neighboring Niteroi, had as theme: luck

CARNAVAL and magic throughout the times.

Their samba had these lines: "0 so! brilhara / surge a estrela guia/ e sob a protecao da lua /canta Viradouro, que a sorte ĂŠ sua."

Computers were directing the lights on many floats and lasers and neon lights were common sights this year. On the other hand, the very human was also present. For the first time, a man, inside a transparent globe, paraded completely naked, without any feather or vine to cover his most intimate parts.

The prohibition of nudism in the streets didn't do away with the enthusiasm of those who wanted to show it all.Women breas ts were again in large supply all over the country, including Salvador, Olinda, Recife, Belo Horizonte, Sao Paulo e Brasilia.

One of the brightest stars of this year parade was Antonio Carlos Brasileiro Jobim, better known as Tom Jobim.

He was celebrated enthusiastically

by Mangueira, the traditional escola de samba, that put him on a float, six meter high. Jobim, who fears high places, commented: "After that, I don't fear anything else."

Maria da Graca Meneghel, famous as Xuxa, was another favorite in special with the children when showed up in a float of the escola Beija Flor, which decided to tell in its lyrics, costumes and sets the story of the Brazilian TV.

THE GODFATHERS OF SAMBA According to weekly magazine Veja, all the high tech and luxuriouness of the escolas de samba was financed by bicheiros, the numbers men in Rio's hills. These illegal owners of jogo do bicho took over many of the escolas, paying for the costumes and masks, as well as the rich hollywoodian floats.

Veja says that among 15 escolas from the special group, seven have ties with that illegal popular lottery, that only in Rio represents an industry of 40 million dollars a month.

Apparently, to own an escola de samba is one of the ultimate symbols of status for a bicheiro worth his title.

The magazine writes that this has been a good investment and a perfect place to launder money. Using the escolas as private clubs, the savviest among thebicheiros market their products. This year, the escolas received around $6 million, as their share of the tickets sold at the Sambodromo and TV rights.

The Independent League of Escolas de Samba, organized since 1985, controls the royalties for the sambas-enredo composed specially for the parade and have its own recording label.

The bulk of sambistas is still made with those abnegated volunteers who can even go hungry to save for their carnaval costume. But there is now an increasing number of professionals who jump from escola to escola, depending on the monetary offer.

And the godfathers will stop at nothing to win the prize in the Sambodromo.

Right after Carnival, the bicheiros announced that they want the privatization of the carioca Carnival.

They said they are ready to take over all the responsibility of organizing the party, without government interference.

"Withoutjogo do bicho, the samba cannot resist," declared bicheiro Jose Petnis, who is said to have paid $ 600,000 to finance the parade of escola de samba Estacio de Se, the winner of the Carnival this year.

Petrus argued that escola Unidos de Vila Isabel does not have a godfather and therefore "has its earnings taken over by the Justice and it is full of debts." If Riotur gives the responsibility for organizing the Carnival to the escolas, "the State organization will make good money and the parade will be even nicer."

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The proyosal for dollarizing the Brazilian economy is starting to come back to the government agenda. After being forgotten, because the fear of a hyperinflation never materialized at the end of last year, the idea is back, brought now by a heavyweight economist: ex-minister Mario Henrique Simonsen, who served during the Geisel and Figueiredo administrations.

Simonsen is not going as far as to use the term dollarization , but it was exactly that what he meant when he suggested that the dollar be adopted as a basis for a general indexation, in a first step of a plan to combat inflation. That done, he recommends the opening of the economy and, finally, the fixation of the exchange rate, in an article published by Exame magazine.

Simonsen's opinions have a very big weight, since he is very close to Marcilio Marques Moreira, the Economy minister. President Collor himself respects him very much. His name was even mentioned with prominence, beside the one from Zelia, in the original list of would be ministers.

The former minister starts with the

According to him, the stabilization occurs because the exchange works as an anchor that holds prices.

Here's the reasoning: if all prices are indexed according to the dollar, setting the dollar exchange rate should be enough to stabilize prices.

His plan, in reality, is a kind of a more rational freezing than the ones attempted till now. What he criticizes in the heterodox approach is the execution and not the principle. Instead of freezing thousands of prices, you freeze only one: the exchange, that, in turn, freezes all the others.

For him, this plan is tailor made for the IMF. "This program to fight inflation is the only one understood by the IMF theoretically," wrote the ex-minister in Exame.

Simonsen's proposal divided economists and met with very heavy opposition. "Enough with this kind of adventure," said assemblyman Antonio Delfim Nett° (PDS-SP), who during Figueiredo administration replaced Simonsen at the helm of the economic policy. "lam much more in favor of the government doing what is supposed to do: stop faking that it has a surplus and produce a real surplus, cutting expenses and not

premise that countries with a chronic inflation as Brazil, have in common the fact that they change their national currency for a foreign one.

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increasing taxes."

Dollarization would be only one more magic," said Felipe Ohana, coordinator of Macroeconomics at the Instituto de Pesquisas Economicas Aplicadas (Ipea). For him, the issue of cruzeiros guaranteed by dollars would mean a monetary restriction so big that it would prevent the government from honoring its commitments.

The Ipea coordinator defends the idea that the fight against inflation goes through a fiscal reform, "an elegant term to describe the reduction of society's disposable income. The question now is political: it is to know

"Our reserves are a lot lower than necessary" who is going to lose."

For the ex-president of the Central Bank, Fernao Braeher, the dollarization proposal "could be interesting," but there are some conditions that should be reached previously.

"As of now, we don't have the resources for that," he said, referring to the reserves in hard currency, that "are a lot lower that would be necessary."

"The exchange setting is something that does not work in Brazil," remarked economist Yoshiaki Nakano, professor at Fundacao Getulio Vargas, in Sdo Paulo, and somebody who studied the Cavallo Plan, in Argentina.

"In Argentina, even before the law of convertibility, everybody thought in terms of dollar, therefore, it was enough to determine the value of the dollar to lower the inflation," says Nakano. In Brazil, however, practically only the real estate and the art market think in terms of dollar, states the economist.

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The first big step for Brazil to regain the respect of the world financial community happened in January, when the International Monetary Fund approved the Brazilian letter of intent on economic stabilization.

At the end of February, another huge push happened with an agreement between Brasilia and the Paris Club, after three days of hard negotiations in the French capital.

The new document establishes that this year and the next, Brazil will pay 4.1 billion dollars in back interest payments and arrears.

Without this accord, the Brazilian government would have to pay 13.5 billion dollars in 1992 and 1993. The remainder of Brazil's debts, which were rescheduled in 1988, will have to be paid starting in 1995.

The agreement also stipulates for the rescheduling of 11 billion dollars out of the 21 billion dollar debts with the Club. Brazil will have 14 years to pay this debt with a three years grace period.

The Brazilian negotiators wanted 18 years to complete the payments. They had proposed also a disbursement of 3.3 billion dollars between 1992 and 1993 while the Paris Club at first had asked Brazil to pay 8 billion dollars at that same period.

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A reacao comecou quando PC passou a integrar o grupo de arrecadacao da campanha de Collor ao governo de Alagoas em 85, mas ganhou force depois da campanha presidencial de 89, na qual ele foi o tesoureiro de Collor. o crescimento de sua fortuna é um misted°. Em 90, ele tinha apenas duas empresas ativas. Na Tratoral, uma concessionaria de maquinas agricolas, PC retirava o equivalente a 15,6 salarios minimos por mes (cerca de 950 &dares). o outro empreendimento, uma plantacao de cocos, da prejuizo, segundo oagronomo Edmundo Acioly, responsavel pelo projeto.

Apesar disso, em 90 e 91 PC abriu tres empresas: o jornal Tribuna de Alagoas, uma concessionaria Fiat em Macei6 e a Verax, em Sao Paulo. A estimative 6 que s6 nas duas primei-

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ras, PC investiu US$ 9 milhOes. Ele teriaganho ainda uma concessao pare outra revendedora Fiat, em Sao Paulo.

Parte da expansao do imperio de PC se faz em nome de parentes ou executivos. Na Tribuna deAlagoas, ele nao tem nenhuma acao oficialmente, mas controla a empresa atraves de tres executivos que aparecem como "acionistas".

PC esta montando um imperio economic° em meio a crise do pals.

Ele es ta cons truindo em Macei6 (AL), a major concessionaria Fiat do Nordeste, a Favel Veiculos.

Ao mesmo tempo, lance o diario "Tribuna de Alagoas"; incorpora um jato de US$ 10 milhOes a frota de sua empresa de taxi aereo — a Brasil Jet —e abre, em Sao Paulo, uma empresa — a Verax — com previsao em seus estatutos de ter filiais no exterior.

0 investimento na concessionaria em Macei6 6 calculado em US$ 4 milhoes por empresarios do setor.

Os concessionarios da Fiat tern como certo que PC sera tambem revendedor autorizado em Sao Paulo, na Casa Verde, na zona norte da cidade. 0 bairro, segundo eles, faz parte dos quatro tiltimos open points para instalacao de uma concessionaria no Estado.

Na implantacao da Tribuna, PC teria gasto US$ 5 milhoes, pelos calculos do Pedro Collor de Mello, irmao do presidente Collor e d iretorda organizacao Amon de Mello, que edita a Gazeta de Alagoas.

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zacao, a Verax, ocupa o 16Q andar do Centro Empresarial Terra Brasilis, no Brooklyn, na zona sul de Sao Paulo.

La um andar custa US$ 500 mil e o aluguel é de US$ 5,6 mil por mes.

Segundo o superintendente da Tratoral, Giovani Fernandes de Melo, o movimento daquela firma nao poderia sustentar tantos investimentos.

De acordo corn ele, a empresa teve urn faturamento de CR$ 392 milhOes corn a vend a de 72 tratores em 1990 — correspondente em valores atuais a Cr$ 3,5 bilhOes (US$ 2.3 milhOes) de faturamento anual.

Giovani nao revela o lucro do empreendimento, entretanto.

Em 89, quando a Tratoral teve queda de mais de 60% nas vendas, segundo Giovani, PC foi tesoureiro da campanha eleitoral de Collor, acompanhou um acordo entre o

govern° estadual e os usineiros para a devolucao de ICMS (no valor de US$ 120 milhOes) e construiu sua atual casa em Maceio, coin elevador, piscina e quadra de tenis.

Foi ainda o ano em que montou a Brasil Jet. Alem disso, umaplantacao de cocos vai mal ha alguns anos e tampouco sustenta a expansao dos negocios. PC iniciou-a em 84, quando registrou a Florag — Flores tamento, Reflorestamento e AgropecuariaLtda — e comprou a Fazenda de Santara, em Porto de Pedras ( a 149 km. de MaceiO).

Tinha pianos de plantar 100 mil pes e ser o major produtor do Nordeste. Plantou 75 mile, segundo o agronomo responsavel Edmundo Acioly, a plantacao cid uma receita de US$ 240 mil por ano.

PC já teve outras tres empresas: a

Dicasa, revendedora da Chryslerque fechou em 82; a Terral, Terraplanagem de Alagoas Ltda, liquidada em 86, e a Planal, Planejamento e Assessoria de Alagoas, liquidada em

Uma plantacao de cocos vai mal e nao seria dal que sairia o dinheiro para os investimentos de PC 84, ambas devido a prejuizos.

Em 87,0 Banco Central proibiu PC de operar corn credit() agricola, por ter apurado irregularidades em financiamentos oficiais da Tratoral em 82. Em 90, ele quitou uma divida e teve seu nome reabilitado.

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This way will be allowed an artistic treatment to a subject generally only approached from political, economic and ecological points of view.

The guests will come from Germany, Brazil, and from other South-American countries and from the rest of the world. Working in specially prepared locations (the port warehouses, in Manaus, or the former slaughterhouse, in Belem), the artists will be able to travel trough the river and the jungle.

They will have the chance to be introduced to Indian villages, to talk to scientists and town folks. A team of guide-interpreters will take care to In concert with the United Na- guarantee the establishment of their tions Conference on the Environment, relationship with the environment to be held in June 1992, in Rio, the and the people.

Cultural Institute Brasil-Germany During ECO 92, the finished (Goethe Institute of Brasilia) will pro- works will be exposed in the Mumote in February an International seum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Workshop of Artists in the Amazon. going to Brasilia and Sao Paulo, beAround 25 artists from around sides some South-American capitals, the world, with a recognized interna- as Buenos Aires, Montevideo and tional career, will be invited to Santiago. In Berlin they will be shown Manaus, Belem and Porto Velho. in the Staaliche Kunsthalle, and in There they will work for an entire Madrid in Casa de America. month about themes related with the The objectives of the workshop

In a parallel happening to coincide with Eco 92, two dozen artists from Brazil, US, and from all over the world will be showing their vision of the Amazon, its mysteries and its people.

will be reached, according to the proposed program, through the development of works of dissimilar origin and achieved through in loco experiences of the artists with the environment and interacting with themselves.

The idea is to transfer to the interior of the work of art itself the dialogue of civilizations, with a mix of artists coming from Europe, America, Africa, Asia, from industrialized countries and from those in the Third World.

The organizers forecast that most works will be tridimensional, using local material and taking into account the original space and environment where they are going to be produced.

Behind this project there are art experts, professors, Brazilian and German art critics. The budget of around $300,000 is being paid by hotels and transportation firms, as well as universities and cultural services from Germany, Britain and France.

Among the artists participating will be Roberto Evangelista from Brasil, Don Baechler for the United States, Jochen Gerz for Germany, and Woodrow, Tony Cragg and Gomerley for Great Britain. •

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E tat desempenho de excelencia voltou a ocorrer a 1° de marco, em Los Angeles, durante a VII Maratona desta cidade. Tres brasileiros acabaram chegando entre os seis primeiros colocados. Marcia Narloch, 22, foi a sexta-classificada entre as mu lheres.

No lado masculino, Joseildo Rocha, 27, nao so bateu seu proprio record como terminou a corrida em segundo lugar, 25 segundos apenas apOs o camped() John Treacy, da Irlanda. 0 tempo do brasileiro foi de 2m12s54 Um minuto e meio mais tarde, foi a vez de Jose Santana, um outro brasileiro, cruzar a linha final.

Por alguns instantes, a altura do quilometro 37 e a dez minutos do final da corrida, Rocha, que venceu a ultima maratona de Chicago, colocou seriamente em perigo a lideranca de Treacy.

Antes disso, a partir do km. 23, por sugestao de Rocha, o irlandes e o brasileiro haviam feito urn pacto comum entre maratoneiros, de compartilhar a lideranca para poupar energia. Mas Treacy diz que logo se cansou do joguinho, quando percebeu que Rocha nao avancava, quando era a vez de o brasileiro assumir a frente.

ApOs a corrida, Rocha, urn alagoano de Macei)5, se queixou da organizacao da competicao que colocoucarros no meio dos primeiros colocados, dificultando sua visa() de onde estava seu desafiante. "Estou indignado, muito chatiado", disse Joseildo, logo apes o final da competicao, "porque fui impedido de conseguir urn atuacao melhor na corrida. Nao quero tirar o credito de Treacy, que venceu uma grande corrida. Mas se eu pudesse pelo menos ver que a distancia entre nos dois estava diminuindo, eu teria tido o estimulo necessario para apressar o passso, e, eu pelo menos teria melhorado minha marca."

Usando Jose Santana como interprete, Rocha urgiu os organizad ores da Maratona angelina a evitarem o mesmo problema no futuro. 0 brasileiro, resignado, já estava pensando em participar de um outra maratona, em breve, para

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Joseildo, urn brasileiro, em segundo.

garantir seu lugar na delegacdo brasileira que vai a Barcelona, para os Jogos Olimpicos. Segundo o proprio atleta, sua posicao agora é precaria, uma vez que os resultados de Los Angeles o colocaram no terceiro e ultimo posto no time brasileiro. Qualquer resultado melhor que o dele, o deixaria em casa.

0 sucesso de Marcia Narloch acabou sendo urn anti-climax. Eta havia chegado em segundo lugar na Maratona de Los Angeles do ano passado e era uma das favoritas para vencer a competicao este ano. Em 1991, Narloch concluiu os 42 quilometros da corrida em 2m29s38, urn recorde para Los Angeles. Desta vez, entretanto, eta nao conseguiu repetir o mesmo pique, levando 2m32s56 para concluir o percurso. E o record do percurso foi diminuido para 2m26m23 pela vencedora Madina Biktagirova de Belarus, uma das republicas da ex- Uniao Sovietica.

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New consulate

HOME TO BE PROUD OF Brazil has a new house in Southern California and the address couldn't be classier.

Forced to abandon the building at Wilshire Bldv., corner of Western, because of asbestos/ and disrepair, the Brazilian Consulate emigrated West in the same Boulevard. What a difference! And for the same price, according to the Consulate.Brazilians are sharing space now with Great Western Bank, in an award winning, all windows, garden-and-sculpture-surrounded building, on the corner of La Cienega. The Consulate will continue all the services rendered before and as a bonus — to the delight of Deputy Consul General, Paulo Wolowski —the Consulate will have now a special space for shows and exhibits, in the same address. Jot down on your Calendar some names: anthropologist and photographer Manic Fort, professor Christina Malaga, and plastic artists Julinha Vidigal and Zebi. All of them should be showing their stuff very soon at the new abode. Check at That's Brazilian, page 23, the new address and telephone of the Consulate.

And the winner of the Carnival in the %Vt coast ws once more, to nobody' surprise, the Samba e Saudade extravaganza at the Palladium. Extremely well planned and organized, the big partvshowed that sweat together with talent is still the main inendeavor. Lead by Maria Lucien, the Carnival Bill showed why Samba e Saudade is called by some as the Mangueira in I-Tolly wood. The overflow Cn)wd of 3OOflfiuiewho went to the Palladium, on February 29, had a taste of Brazilian sounds, and and plates. Bring more parties like this and the world will

ID° b° OBA, "OBA OBA"!

In a not scheduled stop, "Oba Oba" landed for a short run of five weeks at the Pantages, in Hollywood. Apparently, the producers of the show received an offer they couldn't refuse.

And they, as always, brilliantly accomplished their mission as the most visible and colorful representatives of the Brazilian pop culture. For those who saw the spectacle previously the surprise had gone. But choreographer Roberto Abrahdo still can draw some very energetic creations from his top-hat. Besides all the color and exposed breasts, "Oba Oba" counted again with the charismatic and seductive talent of El iana Estevao as a soulful soloist. For those who live a little far from L.A., stay tuned. "Oba Oba '92" has just started and could be showing up on a theater near you, one of these nights.

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The Prudential Bryant Buyand Sell Property All Over the United States (213) 255-8062 Restaurants The Amazon Cafe 2301 Artesia Blvd. #5 Redondo Beach, CA 90278 (213) 371-2915

By Brazil 1615 Cabrillo Ave. Torrance, CA 90501 (310) 787-7520 Carioca 10831 Venice Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90034 (213) 837-8957 The Copacabana 1562 N. Cahuenga Blvd.

Hollywood, CA 90028 (213) 957-0616 Pan Handler 18601 Yorba Linda Blvd.

Yorba Linda, CA 92686 (714) 970-5826 Rio Express 950 E. Colorado Blvd. #101 Pasadena, CA 91106 (818) 577-6010 Yolie's Brazilian Steak 2646 Dupont Dr. #220 Irvine, CA 92715 (714) 251-0722

Money Remittance

Vigo-California Red River Dr. San Diego, CA 92120 (619) 286-2979

Consulate

Brazilian Consulate 8484 Wilshire Bl. Suites 711 Ss 730 Los Angeles, CA 90211 (213) 651-2664

Publications Luso-Brazilian Books P.O. Box 170286-N Brooklyn, NY 11217 News From Brazil P.O. Box 42536 Los Angeles, CA 90050 (213) 255-4953 Vigo Brazil Tropical 1085514 Venice Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90034 (213) 839-2934

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Service Aloha's Carpet Upholstery and Janitorial (818) 797-0356 Soccer Brazil Soccer 21053 Bloomfield Ave. Lakewood, CA 90715 (213) 865-4276 Translation/Interpretation

Brazilian Intern. Affairs 256 S. La Cienega Blvd.

Beverly Hills, CA 90211 (310) 854-5881 Tocantins Communications (818) 343-4451

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Brazil Expert Travel 3810 Wilshire Blvd., #611 Los Angeles, CA 90010 (213) 387-2111 Brazil Tours 8416 Lankershim BI. #204 Sun Valley, CA 91352 (818) 767-1200 Brazilian-American Travel Ctr 5777W. Century Bl. #1150 Los Angeles, CA 90045 (213) 670-9347 Cheviot Hills Travel 9819 National Blvd. - Suite 1 Los Angeles, CA 90034 (213) 202-6264 Costa Azul Tours & Travel 955 S. Vermont Ave. - Suite N Los Angeles, CA 90006 (213) 384-7200 Dynasty Tours & Travel 334 N. Victory Blvd.

Burbank, CA 91502 (818) 845-5757 RTB Travel 6065 Whitsett Ave. suite 15 N. Hollywood, CA 91606 (800) 974-4RTB South Star Tours Inc. 302W. Grand Ave #8 El Segundo, CA 90245 (800) 654-4468 Southwinds 8921 S. Sepulveda BI. #202 Los Angeles, CA 90045 (213) 568-8426 Yes Brazil 1600 N. Highland BI. #6 Hollywood, CA 90028 (213) 461-2233 Video

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