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BRAZIL TAKES

ORA PRO NOBIS

THE BIG ONE

Apes uma doenca prolongada, que a prostrou em uma cama de hospital por mais de um ano e meio, faleceu a 13 de marco, em Salvador, na Bahia, irma Dulce, 77. A religiosa, que era chamada por muitos de a Madre Tereza do Brazil, e a quem legiOes de admira-

It was a surprise. 0 Corpo (The Body), a story of happiness and unrestrained love won first prize at the 32nd International Film Festival of Cartagena, Colombia.

The movie, directed by Brazilian Jose Antonio Garcia, took home the Golden Catalina for best film, besides awards for Antonio Fagtmdes, as best actor, and Alfredo Oroz, as author of the best script. The story is based in a romance by Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector. For Brazil wasn't the sweetest of victories. Critics were appalled by the bad quality of the participating films and some were talking about the death of the cinema in Latin America.

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dores consideram uma santa, era um exemplo marcante de abnegacao e caridade. Irma Dulce aceitou coin resignacao e fe em Deus o diagnostic° dos medicos do hospital Sao Joao que qualificaram seu estado de irreversivel. 0 maiorproblema era a retencao urinaria, que provocou umaumentode 20 quilos no peso da religiosa.

Former priest Clodoaldo Silva really loves God's creatures.

Despite Adam and Eve, he still has a soft spot for serpents.

So much so that he is raising dozen of them, loose, inside his apartment in Feira de Santana, Bahia. "They are just part of my family," says Silva with a warm smile. The serpents, the mucurana kind, don't scare anybody and are not poisonous, according to the ex-religious. Recently, 50 mugurana eggs opened. Silva is delighted as a new father: "As a good father, I am going to raise all of them." On weekends he puts them in bottles and takes them for a stroll in the park.

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TRAG ED IA UMA FAVELA SOTERRADA As primeira informaciies falavam na possibilidade de ate 400 mortos, apos um

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deslizamento de terra em uma favela do bairro de Barraginha, dia 18 de marco, nos arredores de Belo Horizonte.Dos 800 barracos, 200 foram inteiramente soterrados, na comunidade de cerca de 4 mil pessoas. Nas primeiras horas apos o acidente, 61 pessoas foram resgatadas de entre os escombros, alem de 31 corpos. A maioria das vitimas eram criancas deixadas sozinhas em casa, enquanto os pais trabalhavam.

In Recife, some graveyard diggers have been wearing boots, rubber gloves and masks. They are also wrapping their bodies in chemically prepared cloths. They are the workers of a new special cemetery for cholera victims. With a population of 1,3 million people, Recife has been severely hit by the cholera epidemic and is trying to prevent its spread.

There is no sewage system in about 2/3 of the city's households. A total of 53 Brazilians have died since the outbreak of the d isease a year ago.

It is not a surprise that the Catholic church which has taken the moral leadership in many parts of the world, including Brazil itself, in the past, have raised the voice against the corruption that's eating the Brazilian soul. The bishops seem convinced that it is a sick

country that one whose political leaders again and again use their positions to fill up their pockets.

What kind of new Brazil are we creating, the bishops are asking, if the only example we can give our children is of our authorities repeatedly pulling the getrich quickscheme? Sure, Brazil is not alone in this club of corruption. Rubbergate, in the American congress, is proof that

power corrupts as well in the Third World as in the First.

One little difference is that our public men is incapable of showing any remorse. He is only mortified for being so stupid as to be caught.

Trying to bring more of the taste of Brazil, we are opening an eye at the cultural scene there. In this issue, we talk about best-sellers and best plays. Enjoy!

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The Church_points the finger

15 Acabou a folia, voltou a bagunca

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There it goes a good one!

DEPARTAMENTS 2 Rapidinhas 8 Letters 9 Salada geral 20 The Culture Pulse 21 Por ai 22 That's Brazilian!

23 Calendar

12 Everybody but Collor

13 Can they take the heat?

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17 Eco-92: we are getting there

19 Joao Bosco: reborn again

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"In Brazil, only chicken thieves go to jail."

Paulo Ponte, archbishop of Sao Luis, Maranhao

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"Damned be the poor! For them there are no projects, only crumbs."

Augusto Rocha, bishop of Picos, Piaui

The Catholic church which was for sometime, during the repressive 60s and 70s, the only voice for some Brazilians tortured and denied their basic human rights — although some of its bishops looked the other way — is raising its voice again. This time the fight is not against poverty or police brutality but against corruption in the government.

The president of Brazil's National Conference of Bishops (CNBB), Luciano Mendes de Almeida, bishop of Mariana, Minas Gerais, says that all cases of corruption in the government should be investigated with exemplary punishmentbeing given to those found guilty. He wants a clean sweep that would not concentrate only in the executive but would deal also with the Legislative and the judiciary.

CNBB is planning an all out national campaign against the new wave of corruption cases in the country, including the ones involving two former ministers: Alceni Guerra, from the Ministry of Health and Antonio Rogerio Magri, from the Labor Ministry.

According to Mendes de Almeida, impunity has encouraged many people to try to get rich quick usurping public money or using their power and influ-

ence for bribes and other illicit ways for filling up their pockets.

"When I think about these things, the corruption of the men in the government, I am ashamed of being a Brazilian," says Paulo Pontes, the archbishop of Sao Luis, Maranhao. He was, in some way, echoing president

The catholic leaders in Brazil are not happy with what they see. More than They are fe up with what is happening. And theyiare - :tgging to sit bY40.01.0re looking the parade of corruption soiling and degrading the Bishop Celso Queiroz country. They want the had examples to "When I think about stop. Now. And the corruption, I am they want the ones "Brazil today is a festiashamed of being val of impunity" responsible for them Celso Queiroz, bishop, Brazilian." to be put behind Paulo Ponte, archgeneral secretary of miumewaraim

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Fernando Collor de Mello who said: "Each charge of corruption is like a knife buried in my heart."

Bishop Pontes tells that everybody loses when society allows people to get away with unethical schemes to get rich. The example is even worse, according to him, for the young people, who are just learning about values and morality.

"Government should give the example in combating corruption not only inside its own body but also in the area of commercial contracts, regulation of prices and bids that deal with the use of public resources," says the president of CNBB. Both princes of the Church don't believe the present wave of corruption is anything new. Concurring with them, bishop Luciano Rocha, from Picos, Piaui, says he is convinced that the only difference is that all these scandals are now being made public by the media.

He concludes, however, with little hope: "Unfortunately, this disclosure does not imply in exemplary punishment for those who make use of people's money for their own benefit."

"Corruption," says Rocha, who is also national president of the Pastoral Commission on Land (CPT), "unfortunately, is a constant in the national picture, it has turned almost into a tradition in this country."

For him, the system itself adopted in Brazil helps to perpetuate this status quo. He lambastes the way Brazilian institutions work to help only a handful of privileged: "I have condemned this model adopted by Brazil for a long time This is a model in which a few take

unduly what belongs to everybody, without anyadequa te punishment. Unfortunately, the logic of this system is 'poor people be damned'. For the poor there's no project, only crumbs."

Avoiding to trace a parallel between the Sarney and Collor administrations, the president of CNBB observes that for a long time it has been open season for those interested in cheating, reminding that white collar crime pays in the country. The fact that nobody goes tojailorsuffer any serious damage, would make this type of transgression more and more appealing.

Bishop Mendes de Almeida cites the example of the impunity given gunmen and their bosses after killing posseiros trying to live in lands these poor people acquired. Says he: "Among 1,600 murders in the country land, only 26 processes came to the phase of judgment and there were a mere 13 convictions."

"A Festival of impunity." That's the expression the general secretary of CNBB, Celso Queiroz, uses to describe the Brazilian situation. He wants to see changes very soon and shows all his disgust in view of the perversion of values.

"We think is normal, nowadays, that bicheiros are owners of escolas de samba and soon it will be considered normal to have drugs at home."

Queiroz also denounces that the attitude prior administrations had never helped to solve the problems. He reminds people that president Jose Sarney when told about charges of

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corruption would answer with a "give me the names."

Names are not enough anymore, according to the secretary of CNBB. The cases of corruption became so frequent in the media that many people are looking the other way when they see or hear about them, with some asking themselves if this is not pure gossip orjust one more plot of the press to sell newspapers.

"More than anything else," says the bishop, "is important that the guilty parties be punished."

Archbishop Paulo Ponte, in a recent visit to Germany, had a chance to see first hand how corruption in the Brazilian high circles is impairing the capacity of the country to do business with the rest of the world and to be taken seriously.

He relates the reactions he had when talking to the German authorities: "In Germany, the government says that it will not lend money to Brazil because they know the money will be embezzled, " revealed the archbishop.

One of the biggest problems of Brazil. according to the bishop is the lack of seriousness among those people working for the government. He believes politicians and people occupying public duties are still serious fans of the famous Gerson Law. (In an old ad for a cigarette, football player Gerson used to say: "I always want to take advantage.")

The worst part, for the president of CNBB, is that "the white collar criminals don't go to jail. In Brazil, only chicken thieves go to prison."

Just in time, the Vatican announced its new catechism. For the first time the priests from Brazil and the rest of the world will be teaching that to defraud the IRS, bounce checks and offer bribes, are all mortal sins, all against the seventh commandment: "You shall not steal." last year 57,000 Brazilian companies were found guilty of defrauding in its taxes. And 6,5 million individuals wrote checks with insufficient funds. •

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AFTER THE FALL How deep was ex-minister of Labor Antonio Rogerio Magri involved in corruption? How much did he accept in bribes to oil the wheels of bureaucracy? For how long has he been trafficking influence to fill up his own pockets? With whom was he involved? Who knew of his acts and did nothing? These are just some of the questions, the Federal Police of Brazil will have to answer in the following weeks and months Emerson Luiz, Brasilia "For God's sake, Jam not a bandit, I am an ex-minister, a human being in freedom with a right to restart his life.

Until now I was not accused formally with anything." The anguished appeal of former minister of Labor and Social Welfare, Antonio Rogerio Magri, was made in front of his house to a battalion of journalists that have been following him tirelessly, since he was accused by the ex-director of Collection for the National Institute of Social Security (INSS), Volnei Abreu Avila.

The siege has been non-stop. The exminister became a hostage in his own house. The trash of the Magri family was "analyzed" at least twice, relatives and friends cannot visit him without being harassed and the lack of ethics of some reporters has been raised to new highs. Even the mail brought by the postman was taken by three reporters. And they were not open only because some with some sense left vehemently protested.

At the end of February, Magri was accused of receiving bribe to facilitate the payment in installments to the INSS, by the big companies.

Veja magazine, in a cover story, released the content of a tape, where Magri incriminates himself, admitting he received a bribe of $ 30,000. He says in the transcription of the conversation with Avila: "The guy came here and gave me 30,000 dollars. He gave me. It fell from the sky."

The tape shows Magri trying to persuade Avila to reduce de debt of $ 426 million that Confederal Vigilartaa e Transporte de Valores had with the INSS. The conversation has plenty of four letter words, when Magri talks about him and Avila sticking together to make money, not knowing Volney was giving him the kiss of Judas, with a hidden tape recorder.

"We must be patient, we have to know how to manage. This is a Mafia against us," he is heard saying. "It has been two years since we started here...

The proposal that lam making is not a proposal of a corrupt person. Volnei, other people are making money... Why can't we make 50 million, 100 million?

Why? One day we are going to die, we are gonna get to heaven and what are we going to say?"

The now infamous tape was almost forgotten in a drawer. That's because Volnei, instead of going to the Police was trying to deliver it personally to the president, hoping to add some points to his own career. The existence of the tape was made public only when congresswoman Cid inha Campos, 49, an ex-s inger and actress, made another secret tape where Volnei talked about his conversation with Magri.

For three months, Avila tried to approach Collor, without success.

Many weeks after the taping, he hasn't been able to go beside the office of a secretary of general Agenor Homem de Carvalho, chief of the president's Military Staff. Nobody took him seriously.

He was persistent, however, until Carvalho scheduled an appointment with him for January 22, when both would meet together with Justice Minister, Jarbas Passarinho. The meeting was canceled when Magri left the gov-

Magri: a siege by the press.

ernment. There are many people already asking for Agenor's head. Veja wrote that the general is "the new rotten minister of Collor" and that he has lost all authority.

The gravity of the situation, apparently, hasn't sunk yet in Magri's mind.

He says he is not worried with the repercussion of the case and he is promising to run for Congress in 1994. "You cannot deny that I am a well known man," he justified. Magri — who was a union leader —says he is convinced he will be found innocent. "People are going to thing like this: 'since this young man is in government, it has been only blow after blow." He also sent a veiled and threatening message to Avila: "Something is coming. And very big."

The governor of Rio, Leonel Brizola, sees a conspiracy of the press against Collor, in this last scandal. "This is an operation to catch chicken thieves", says he, "aimed at covering bigger problems such as the bleeding in the public coffers caused by the privatization of State companies, like Usiminas.

The headaches of the government with the case have just started. Attorney General Aristides Junqueira declared that minister Passarinho could be charged for omission. The Justice minister knew Volnei had serious charges to present, although he says he didn't know they were against Magri.

Junqueira said also tha t Collor de Mello himself could be involved in the process if there is proof that there was omission by the president.

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0 Brasil quer entrarpara o primeiro mundo enganando a si mesmo.

Brasil moderno A televisaobrasileira parece ser um prenfincio do que espera nossa industria corn a abertura do mercado: sucata. Exceto a Globo, por razOes obvias, nenhuma rede consegue mais competir corn as novelas latinas. A Manchete afunda cada vez mais corn sua Amazonia, o SBT e a nova rede OM Brasil já anunciaram que nao tern condicifies de prod uzir novelas no pals.

Sai mais barato importar. 0 mesmo deve-se aplicar para quase tudo que diga Made in Brazil. Estamos todavia deitados em berg() esplendido e os carteis nos chupam o sangue sem do. TV é urn bicho voraz e nao mede qualidade do que pOe no ar. A audiencia assiste a tudo.

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A revista semanal Veja publica materia simpatica ao Estado. A Folha diz que a Abril (editora que publica Veja) tern o rabo preso corn o Estadopois ambos detem o monopolio de publicacao das listas telefonicas. A Veja tambem nunca explicou porque sua irma MTV tern garantida a exclusividade de video clips por quatro meses, virtualmente secando o mercado para outros canais.

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THERE IT GOES A GOOD ONE! Emerson Luis, Brasilia

The ex-spokesman for the presidency, Claudio Humberto Rosa e Silva, said that the government's "you hit, you get" style will continue. "If the government is hit or unjustly insulted there will be an immediate response," said Rosa e Silva.

According to him, the retort will come from "the former spokesman or the future press Secretary".

He also denied that his departure has anything to do with the last ministerial changes.

"I consider my cycle concluded and two months ago I had expressed to the president my wish to leave the position," said he.

The journalist has served the president for six years as spokesperson, having started when Collor was still the governor of Alagoas. He was probably the only aide who had the total confidence of the president.

Claudio Humberto said that president Collor lamented his departure, but understood that this was a moment for making a change. As cultural attachĂŠ in Lisbon, the ex-spokesman said he will be working to im-

Veja and also with Folha de Sao Paulo. Not even

the White House has been that magnanimous.

Rosa e Silva called his indication for the job in Lisbon as "an honor being bestowed to a loyal aide." The post, the ex-spokesman is going to take in Lisbon is part of a chic "job agency", adopted by Collor. Normally, the cultural attachĂŠ is a career diplomat. But Rosa e Silva had the total confidence of the president. Collor is handing out the positions as gifts for friends.

The new Press secretary, Pedro prove overseas the image of Brazil.

Luiz Rodrigues, 42, who came recHe denied any rift with Collor, qualiommended

by Claudio Humberto, fying his relationship with the presidefined his strategy plan with the dent as excellent.

Latin expression: "suaviter in modo, He also thinks he is leaving office fortiter in re", that means "gentle in at a good time for Brazil, "with inflamanner, hard in action".

Curiously, tion controlled and the international Collor de Mello had already used a debt being rescheduled satisfactoTshirt with this inscription in one of rily". his Sunday joggings.

The ex-spokesman was highly reHumberto promises no false ingarded by the Brazilian press. In spi te formation will be left without a reply. of his caustic comments and his eye "My character," said he, "is very simifor an eye policy, he was considered lar to minister Marcilio's (Marques fair. Even after the worst accusations Moreira, of Economy).", who is conagainst the government by some pubsidered calm almost phlegmatic And lications, he would keep his doors there is some reason for that. He was open for that organization.

It happened with newsmagazine the Press aide for that minister.

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tive points in child mortality, The departure of Claud io unemployment and inflation.

Humberto Rosa e Silva reinEVERYBODY BUT COLLOR With the departure of Claudio forces a simple and indisputHumberto, familiar with the able truth: Fernando Collor Life is ephemeral for the Brazilian palatial routine and trade still is in the Palacio do Planalto ministers.

One after the other have mark of the administration's only because the system is first phase, it is still more appresidentialism. Were it been taking to the streets, willingly or parent that Collor has made parliamentarism, he would not. In the midst of all this commotion, an experiment that failed. be in the opposition or writhowever, the president resists. Strong With an exception: the several ing memory books. changes were for the better.

The second anniversary as a rock. Stubborn as a rock. If only In spite of all this commoof " Brasil Novo" happened rewe had a parliamentary system. tion of oversights and bluncently. It wouldn't be necesGilberto Dimenstein, Brasilia ders, the president remains the sary that long to conclude same â&#x20AC;&#x201D; what would be unacthat Collor chooses badly his an inflation that nobody knows when ceptable in a private venture. Even advisors. They have fallen, almost and how much is going to fall. Nei- Coca-Cola would go bankrupt if every one of the ministers chosen to ther the havoc it is going to wreck. In Collor were its main executive, chooslast five years. She has fallen, Zelia the a parliamentary system, the re- ing advisor as the ones for "Brasil Cardoso de Mello. And when it hapsponsible for the disastrous choices Novo". pened the president said he himself would fall down. After all, it is pure Patience. Collor was elected and would be the minister of Economy. nonsense to change the horse when the rule of the democratic game has The president was always saying the jockey is not good and he is fat to be respected. Whoever tries to he took responsibility for his minisbesides. hurt it should be questioned and ters' mistakes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and as we all know The sad part is that Brasil has no fought. Taking into account, howhis ministers have done stupidities. time to lose in experiences, so huge is ever, the experience of 100 years of At end, they all have fallen for incomits social tragedy. Every day lost, Republic, added to the Collor's expepetence. Except the president who every plan that's frustrated, every rience, only stubbornness can warchose the incompetents. The result is incompetent minister turn into nega- rant the survival of presidentialism. here: a social crisis made worse and â&#x20AC;˘

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ECONOMY

The econonu iste increasin diver Cab hle dent behin could c as prom Marcilio Marques Moreira, on a tight rope.

Sylvia Costa, Brasilia

Governors and ministers prepare a new offensive to change the present economic policy. The pressures against the recessional program of Economy minister Marcilio Marques Moreira are placing on the same side ministers Ricardo Fiuza (Social Action) and Joao Santana (Infra-structure), and suchgovernors as Antonio Carlos Magalhaes (Bahia) and Luiz Antonio Fleury Filho (Sao Paulo).

The offensive should have begun at the end of March. If inflation does not show signs of decline very soon, Marcilio will start to get direct pressure to change the ship's direction.

Some of the discontents are already acting.

One of them is governor Luiz Antonio Fleury. "We have to change immediately the economic policy because the strategy for controlling inflation through recession has ended its usefulness," said Fleury.

Bahia's governor thinks the same and he is releasing a document where he chose as main culprits the high

interests and the reduction of import tariffs.

Told about Magalhaes intentions, Marcilio called him on the phone to ask him to wait till he went back Brazil â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the minister was in New York, renegotiating the Brazilian debts with banks â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to release the document. The governor accepted the suggestion but refused to lower the intensity of the criticism.

After consulting businessmen and labor unions, Magalhaes decided to train its gyrating machine gun mainly against what he calls the "deleterious effects of recession". Says he: "It's nonsense to live with the madness of a monthly inflation of 26% and with unemployment rates as high as the present ones."

Marcilio is facing less noisy adversaries at the Ministry Esplanade itself. The most notorious is Santana, recently defeated when he tried to get more generous increases for the public tariffs.

A little more discreet, Fiuza also hasn't spared Marcilio from criticism, in private conversations. His concerns are very real: how to win the municipal election in a year marked by recession and high inflation? Fiuza believes that the government will be forced to review the economic policy

unless there is an expressive fall in the inflationary indexes.

Vilson Kleinubing, governor of Santa Catarina, is another one adding his voice to the choir of discontents. Helio Garcia, Minas governor, is an exception. He backs Marcilio's program and sees a great influx of foreign capital following the end of the debt renegotiation. "We are on the right track," he says. "What we can't have is a shock."

The last assault on the present economic policy happened at the end of 1991, when a group of businessmen went to the president to ask for lower taxes and more incentive to production. Collor promised to examine the suggestions but ended by accepting the arguments of his Economy minister and kept intact the policy of monetary and fiscal squeeze.

Just before leaving Brazil for New York, Marcilio declared: "We intend to pay what we owe." He was echoed

by Central Bank president, Francisco Gros, who said: "We must not build false hopes. We have to regain our credibility by paying off our debts."

According to Paulo Nogueira Batista, an economist for the Getulio Vargas Foundation, the interest alone of the Brazilian debt will be over $11 billion, this year. This, for an estimated debt of $120 billion.

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WHAT A JUMP! During a period when inflation was 52%, medicine labs were having a much faster run to guarantee what they called their profit margin". In some cases, it meant to raise their products 500% or more. //

Antibiotics, analgesics, vitamins and ointments are some of the medications that had their prices readjusted by up to 588,12% from the beginning of December to the middle of February.

The inflation from December 1 to January 31 added to 52%, according to Fundacao Instituto de Pesquisas Economicas(Fipe). The Vick VapoRub, unguent, 19 grams, made by Merrell Lepetit, jumped from Cr$ 648.87 in December to Cr$ 4,465.00 at the beginning of February (588.12%).

The analgesic and antipyretic Novalgina, 20 mg, produced by Hoechst Laboratories, increased from Cr$ 745.00 to Cr$ 2,614.00 at the same period (250,87%). Farmitalia Carlo Erva increased the price of a flask of antibiotic, 500 mg, by 239.3%. It went from Cr$ 2,005.00 to Cr$ 6,802.00.

"Some industries are replacing their margin of profit faster than others," explains Roberto Santucci, president of the Associactio Brasileira da Indastria Farmaceutica (Ainfarma).

Valmy Kfouri, sales manager for Farmitalia says the readjustments are occurring proportionally with the increase in the costs of production.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Brasil S/ A has also adopted the same strategy of replacing the profit margins. The vaginal cream Talsutin that cost Cr$ 1,888.00 in December arrived at the shelves at the beginning of February with a new price: Cr$ 6,552.00, that is, an increase of 247%.

According to Rubens Macedo, Bristol's legal director, the practice is legitimate: "when the prices were released in October, we had a accumulated discrepancy of 60% and, if the replacement of the margin is slow we will stop producing."

Abifarma's president, Kfouri, says that the real increases in prices for most industries are between 2% and 5% a month. A Fipe's study, however, shows that in December of 1991, vitamins increased 92.93%; analgesics, 82.36%, and antiphlogistics, 67.95. The inflation went up to 23.25%.

Last month the medications for the

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respiratory system that increase the most â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 57.57%. The antibiotics had an increase of 54.03% and vitamins of 48.85%, all against an inflation of 25.89%.

The high prices are causing a fall in demand," says Pedro Zidoi, president of Sindicato do Comercio Varejista de ProdutosFarmaceuticos.In 1991, the sales had a real decline of 10% comparing to 1990, says Zichii.

"With some medicines there was an exaggeration in hiking," agrees Oswaldo Zambom, owner of the chain of drugstores Farmabom. Although he does not have the data, he says that "the consumer is buying only the strictly necessary." A Drogaria Sao Paulo is having a hard time with a real red uction in business between 3% and 4% every month, says Ronaldo de Carvalho, superintendent-director for the company.

OPINIAO

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gam seus lucros diminuindo.

A Fiesp, a CNI e todas as confrarias industriais comecam a gritar contra o livre mercado que tanto reivindicam. A industria de brinquedos pede mais tempo, a textil quer urn folego.

0 governo nao tern coragem de mexer corn os setores estatizados, a exemplo das montadoras, bancos ou aviacao civil, que dependem de Ricardo Semler, SO° Paulo ligacOes incestuosas corn o Planalto para sobreviverem. 0 governo ira Acabou o Camaval e a folia. A ceder. Nao tern forca para resistir. folia inocente, isto 6. Assim a folia Assim, os setores que puderem set-la pode voltar a imperar. Voltamos chantagear o Planalto ( e nao sao ao giro cotidiano de escandalos, poucos) terao concorrencias protecOes espefraudadas e ciais. Havera al/CAM Olv‘h impunidade gum tipo de re0A cos.% u ?a5s ciu nacional. Eta, NO MU aquecimento, e ?

IrSTai Ricardo, vai voltudo que foi feito tar corn essa laate agora sera dainha?Nao esta jogado pela jatodo mundo de nela. saco cheio de saA tat da elite ber? exigira a volta do 4 Mas o assunlucro e da capitato nao é o Magri, lizacao, e o pals : : :7:1111111111111 -: Alceni, garotos que se lixe. Pasde rua, prostisado algum temtuicao infantil, po, voltaremos a violencia domicrise. Nada de esciliar, grupos de trutural foi muexterminio, dado. Quase tocorrupcao de das as politicas juizes, desatinos do governo frade governo, descassaram ou focontrole de inflaram a pique por cao, marketing Cs04.M. pressOes ilegienganoso ou timas, desvio de mesmo degenemilhao de pessoas, e o dragao da verbas, ou incompetencia generaraga° moral. Ufa... (e pensar que foi o inflacao se mantem incOlume, dando lizada. que me ocorreu em apenas uma frase). gargalhadas de satisfacao.

Opals se curvou aos FMIs e Clubes Nao. 0 assunto 6 desorganizacao Capitulo seguinte de uma novela de Paris da vida, fazendo acordos economica disfarcada de politica in- como esta: todas as forcas da muito piores do que os do Mexico, dustrial. Ou seja... sociedade comecam a se articular Argentina e mesmo Filipinas.

Comecando pela hiperinflacao. contra a recessao. A base politica do Entregamos as calcas a tat ponto Continua o bla-bla-bla sobre inflacao presidente, composta pela direita, que os proprios bancos estao estabilizada. Uma sand ice sem prece- pelas oligarquias atrasadas e pelos preocupados corn nossa generod entes. Inflacao que aumenta es tavel- premiados cartorios, subsidios e sidade. Born dia, reaquecimento, mente a 25% ao mes 6 o mesmo que benesses do Planalto (pratica inaltera- adeus politica econ6mica. Vamos o Delfim Netto engordar, estavel- da para os amigos), pressionam o retornar do Carnaval para o tar da mente, 2,5 quilos ao mes. Estamos governo, na medida em que enxer- folia eterna...

• num processo inexoravel de hiper-

FOLIA,

VOLTOU A BAGUKA

inflacao e descontrole da economia.

Afinal, istosignifica que uma recuperacao economica nao 6 possivel?

Ironicamente, nao. 0 marasmo nacional vai se tornando politicamente inviavel. 0 ACM e o Fleury, alem do Medeiros e o PT, ja perceberam que abrir as portas para a importacao, praticarjuros escorchantese fomentar o desemprego nao é conjunto de medidas aceitavel por longo periodo.

0 longo periodo es tá acabando, e o governo perdeu mais urn de seus famosos tiros itnicos. Praticou uma recessao brutal, desorganizou a producao, tirou o emprego de urn

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Brizola said he had felt the warmth of the foreign delegations and used the opportunity to show them the importance of Eco-92 and "our responsibility as piano movers," he explained. The governor also said that the image of his city wasn't damaged by all the reports of violence and children's executions.

"They know there is a Mafia of tourism, throwing blows and trying to harm the city. We need to embark in an international plan of clarification," he added.

Boris Yeltzin, the Russian presi-

dent, is going to Rio. In the United States, Congress and the press are increasing their pressure for George Bush to also go. The American delegate at the UN commission that is preparing ECO-92 announced that the U.S. is offering $75 million to those Third World countries interested in implementing measures to combat the greenhouse effect.

To create a strategy of ecological lobbies all over the world, the Legislative Assembly of Rio is going to be hosting the Parliamentary Earth Summit, June 6 and 7. Among the participants are expected 350 international legislators, as well as 80 other guests, including religious leaders and artists. One of the goals of this meeting is to create the Green Cross, an international movement to establish a fund that would be tapped after environmental disasters.

The major stumbling block to reach the goals of cleaning up the whole world is money. Nobody knows if the richest nations would agree to advance even a fraction of the estimated $125 billion that this job would cost. The politically more realistic figure, according to Martin Khor of the Penang-based "Third World Network", is about five to $10 billion as start-up costs.

The 128 developing countries that are part of the "Group of 77" (G-77) insist that the money used to make the planet environmentally safe, shouldn't be just a relocation of other aide being given already. They want what they call "new and additional financial resources."

Brazil heard with interest the sug-

gestion by Werner Fornos, president of the Washington-based Population Institute, who proposed that all Third World debt be wiped out in exchange for programs dealing with natural resource preservation, family planning and literacy.

Putting its check where its mouth is, Bank of America announced it will donate $ 2 million in Brazilian loans to Conservation International for economic programs designed to save three regions of the Brazilian rain forest: the Atlantic Forest, the Amazon Basin and the Pantanal. The first one is almost extinct, with only 1% of it intact. Pantanal is the world's largest wetland.

"Brazil is the most important country in terms of biological diversity on the planet," said Peter Seligmann, president of Conservation International.

Actor Harrison Ford, a board member of the institution made an universal appeal for help: "Each of us â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not just field biologists, but men and women from all walks of life -needs to be a conservationist. Only this kind of commitment can help us save our planet."

According to the Smithsonian Institute, the destruction of the world's rain forests continues at a rate of 100 acres per minute, leading to the destruction of 50,000 species daily. "We are literally burning the very library we need for a sustainable future," he said. â&#x20AC;˘

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MUSIC bass and Carlos Bala at the percussion goes beyond a support role to shine itself equally inseveral instances since there is room for everybody.

After ending his association with Aldir Blanc, the musician developed a formula that allowed him to maintain his music intact with lyrics bordering the poetic minimalism.

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This problem was solved with the addition of not only one but two

REBORN AND REBORN AGAIN

Joao Bosco is again among us, with "Zona de Fronteira", his last release. His guitar leads the way and again he is the magician we've been used to. Add to this a new found partnership with two great lyricists and the new record turns into a sublime journey through the waterways and freeways of Brazilian music. Close your eyes and enjoy.

Roberto Lestinge, Los Angeles

What does Joao Bosco do to maintain intact his creativity after almost two decades as a player in the main team of MPB (Brazilian Popular Music)? In theory, that's simple. He keeps this really open and prejudiceless attitude before other musical styles.

When he says he listens to everything, it seems clear that this is not only a "politically correct" statement.

Joao has already mixed Jackson do Pandeiro with Mayakovsky, VillaLobos with poetry and Ravel with morro songs, without losing his rebolerado.

Many people have already tried the same formula with not so convincing results. In this sense Zona de Fronteira (Sony - Brazil) is a triumph.

Everything works. Here, Jodo's musicality runs as loose as ever. It seems he has no problem in letting his guitar show the direction in almost the whole record.

This allows both excellent guitarists, Ricardo Silveira and Victor Biglione to let loose fearlessly their own instruments because he who leads the way knows what he is doing. The result is exquisite. Taste Trem Bala or Ho/ofotes.To turn the guitar into an almost percussion instrument has been a trade mark forJodo Bosco, but in this record he finds his synthesis. All sound as natural as if it has always been like this.

It's finally the electric guitar arriving at the Brazilian music without existential problems. The rhythmic section with Nico Assumpcdo at the

lyricists. Antonio Cicero, responsible for his sister Marina lyrics, and Waly Salomao with his ceaseless Bahiana inspiration give that zing of poetry that was missing at specific moments of jodo's music.

If there's no moment that catches one's ear immediately, that's because the reading of the times in Brazil requires something more complex than yesteryear analogies that so easily captured the imagination of our festive left.

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In spite of the crisis, the Brazilian theater seems to be doing well. Having survived the crisis during the dictatorship years, the present situation is not as bad as it could be. All considered, however, the tendency is for tragedy and mysticism. A common element is the quality of the staging, what helps to explain why the public is giving all its support to the plays.

The main productions are: Macbeth- It has just opened in Sao Paulo, with Antonio Fagundes, entirely bald, and Vera Fischer, who remains gorgeous despite frequent sessions of ' slaps and kisses with her sweetheart.

Trono de Sangue/Macbeth - The same play with a different vision opens in May, in Sao Paulo. Directed by Antunes Filho and with Luis Melo as protagonist.

Antigona - The Sophocles tragedy, in Rio, has Marieta Severo as Antigone and italo Rossi as Creon. It is dragging crowds. It should surpass the mark of 40 thousand spectators until the Pnd of the season, in April.

Romeu e Julieta - Shakespeare at the Curitiba Theater Festival, directed by Moacyr Goes.

Brida - It was inevitable that the book by Paulo Coelho would end up on the stage. After all, the public who read the book is very close to one million.

- How many will see the play? Rio gets into the mystic wave following Brasilia and Goiania. The director is Luis Carlos Maciel, who only those which are 35 or older will be able to remember. Carlos Vereza and itala Nandi are the two main characters in this play that also has music by Osvaldo Montenegro. Do you wonder if he is going to play "Bandolim"?

0 Sonho de Alice - And our local little fairy went really back to Brazil. At ! least, while the success of the play, now in Sao Paulo, lasts, Myrian Rios shouldn't come back to L.A. Based in Lewis Carroll work, the play has been receiving good press and the children are enjoying. The production cost $200,000 and has music composed — guess by whom? If you said Roberto Carlos, you won the candy.

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ft b° BRAZILIAN EYES IN L.A. DLA is a new video production company and it is also the working title fora cultural interest program made in Los Angeles. The acronym stands for Descobrindo Los Angeles or Discovering L. A. The firm has just produced a thirty-minute video about Brazil Carnival '92 at the Hollywood Palladium.

The people behind the project, including one Brazilian, say their goal is to strengthen the ties between the Brazilian and American film and video market.

KEEPING THE FLAME Its purpose is to promote the Portuguese language and to improve the ties among all Portuguese speaking people in Southern California and the United States. Already aboard of the Portuguese Cultural Foundation, according to founder Jim Martins, are among others, business people, college professors and community leaders. The group intends to offer two scholarships to any highschool senior wishing to continue his or her study of Portuguese.Fora getacquainted and fundraising meeting, the Foundation scheduled a dinner for April 4, at the Portuguese Club in Artesia. More information? Call (310) 431-2272

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The Brazilian Indians had a helping hand from some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry, in the United States.

Among the names who lent their talent and support to the cause of the Rainforest Foundation were Whoopi Goldberg, Natalie Cole (photo), Don Henley and James Taylor. They all sang at the Carnegie Hall, in New York during a benefit for that organization. The foundation protects the Indians, preserving the jungle where they live and defending their human rights.

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Clubs & Associations Clube Brasileiro da California (714) 542-9135 The Brazilian Club of San Diego P.O Box 83502 San Diego, CA 92138 Brazil California Trade Associat.

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Insurance Super Insurance Services (213) 725-3350

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Escritorio de Advocacia (213) 387-0500 Marisa's Legal Services (310) 439-6512

Dental Care Gilberto Henriques, D.DS (213) 663-8363

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Consulate Brazilian Consulate (213) 651-2664

Restaurants The Copacabana (213) 957-0616 Lulu's Alibi (310) 479-6007 Pan Handler (714) 970-5826 Rio Express (818) 577-6010 Yolie's Brazilian Steak (714) 251-0722

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Grand Prix 415 589-5069

Catering Sabor do Brasil (415) 826-2010

Clubs Friends of Brazil (415) 982-2438 Brazilian American Social Org. (415) 661-2788

Consulate Brazilian Consulate (415) 981-8170

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