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PresidentFernando Henrique Cardoso seems to have all his priorities in the right order. He knows the importance of education to take Brazil a step beyond underdevelopment and give the country a crack at modernity. That's why the has picked up education as priority number one. The task however is more for Superman than the Sociologist that
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Cardoso is. An unpublished study from UNICEF shows that in some Brazilian municipalities more than 80% of the youngsters between 11 and 17 are illiterate. It took the whole last decade for the country to cut its illiteracy rate from 25% to 20%. It's a dismal situation made even more dramatic when compared to Brazil's neighbors such as Argentina and Uruguay where the percentage of illiterates is a mere 4.7% and 3.8% respectively. Once again we dedicate our cover
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to a subject in which Brazil is not excelling. As in past issues dealing with less than flattering subjects our intention is not only to point fingers and show wounds. We want to provoke thought, raise consciences, awaken your fury not against the messenger who brings you the news but the situation itself. Some people (the lazy ones) prefer to cover the mess with a flashy cloth. If only they could understand that cleaning it would make much more sense. R.M.
33 Florid() makes his mark in Hollywood
Education: we're flunking the challenge
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23 When marijuana is a sacrament
27 Film: starring in Chicago
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DEPARTMENTS 6 Rapidinhas 14 Letters 45 Brazilian Notas 46 The Cultural Pulse 47 Por ai 49 Classifieds 50 U.S.A. Calendar 52 That's Brazilian
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42 A sextet who's rewriting our music
54 Taking shots and laughing in the Amazonia
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RIIP11311YHRS Nobody beats the Carioca (native from Rio) ingenuity. Robbers from the "marvelous city" have created the ultimate car hold-up.You need three people. While two of them stick a weapon to the driver's head, in front of the car, the third thief is driving a ... wheelchair, thus preventing any escape. A pioneer project in Latin America, Rio has just opened its first gay resort. It's located on an island 40 miles off the coast of Rio. At this stage the place has accommodations for 20 couples only. All employees at the hotel are gay, but the policy of the resort is to accept any person independent of their sexual preference. The project was opened on time for the Gay International Congress to be held in the city in June. Spike Lee, who has been to Rio's Film Festival a few years ago, can't believe the situation of Blacks in Brazil. "You say you have no prejudice, but if you are black there, you're relegated to the last rung of society." So said the movie director in a recent interview to daily Folha de Sao Paulo and continued, "Brazil assumes the faรงade of one blood one people, but the White Brazilian is the one who has the power. To me this seems like a remnant of slavery." Lee has also revealed that Dori Caymmi is the arranger for a new song for Clockers, his next movie.
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The Brazilian touch After all. the Bobbit episode does have its Brazilian connection. -Lorena. whose name inspires terror in men of all persuasions. is in real life from Peru. InJohn Bobbit Uncut, the uncensored. X-rated version of John Bobbit's life, however, the disgruntled wife gets a Portuguese accent thanks to the interpretation of a very patriotic Brazilian porno actress. Veronica Brazil. Brazil is the woman, who feeling betray cd by her husband. decides to extirpate the root of infidelity by cutting off his fornicating penis.
Collor among us Armed with a Social Security card and a Driver's License, Fernando Collor de Mello, 45, the impeached ex-president of Brazil, is spending his next two years in Miami. The decision to come to the US was made after the expresident's 100-dayaround-theworld vacation. "I'm back on the public road," he said in his first interview since imbeing peached. Even though he is forbidden from being voted in for any public post until the year 2,000, Collor said that he is ready to participate in
national debates about the country. He has also announced that he will start writing a book in which he promises to reveal "minute details, names and affiliations" of those who participated in his administration. His intention, Collor says, is to prove that he has not taken part in "any prank that some people wanted to do in the incestuous relationship between the state and certain sectors." Miami seemed an obvious choice: it has Maceio's (Collor's hometown) climate and is the most Brazilian of any foreign city.
Competing with 17 American companies including such giants as IBM and Unisys, the Brazilian firm Ensec has won the bid to install the security system in New York's World Trade Center garage, the same place that was hit in 1993 by a car-bomb that killed five people and injured 250. The $2.6 million contract was signed after a careful checkup of the company in Brazil, including consultations with Brazilian clients of the firm. The feat is just one more item on Enscc's resume. The security system at the White House's Old Executive Building was also installed by the Brazilian company. Guarana, Amazon's natural energizer, has been selling as a smart drug in London and New York. Bought in powder form or in capsules the product is being ingested k*, huge doses with vodka. The recommended dosage for reaching a blast is 20 guarana capsules for a bottle of vodka. The biggest consumers of guarana are the clubhers, who are abandoning ecstasy in favor of a product that's cheaper,ttiarantees ilarieffe'ets and is
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Ai AGENDA' DO PREZIPIENFTE
In Brazil, until now, fans of the liquid kind o guarana, the only typical Brazilian soft drink, had only one real choice, the Antarctica guarana. Several smaller companies have launched the so-called tuba inas, a poorer cousin of the guarana, and the Brahma company had its version of the Amazon beverage, but real lovers of the infusion would only have the Antarctica rendition of it. After years of testing 2000 different formulas an having spent $30 million in this process, Brahma is giving it another tty. Why all this interest? In the soft drink market, guaranti only loses to Coca-Cola. h leftist-leaning PT The (Worker? Party) is fast learning how to raise money the capitalist way. After the launchin of the IT Visa Card in partnership with Bradeico bank; pa leaders, are'thinking about creating a telebingo TV show and transforming the annual meetings of the party into a festival. The idea is to multiply by ten times the party's present income.
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President's Agenda Monday: 'Read polls - Drop lips Tuesday: Meeting with legislators - Burn ears Thursday: Follow vote in Congress - Open eyes VI ide. Saturday: Speech to the nation - Reactionary left. corroded right, gutless. dim-w itied - loose tongue In h)lho de Soo Paulo
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Poor pretty girl The Miss Brazil contest has changed somewhat in the last few years. Up until the 70s. the competition drew a lot of media attention. being televised live to the whole not i on. The inner used to adorn the cover of the variety magazines. There was little of the old charm when Renata Bcssa Soares. 18. uas crowned the most beautiful Brazilian last April. At Rio's Scala club where the contest was held there were no TV cameras nor any sponsor. And the show had to end hurriedly at 9 PM so it wouldn't interfere with the daily highlight of the club: a show with imdatas.
According to the Guinness'. Book of Records French' author Jules Romain's'L Ilottones de Bonne Volonte/ with its 4959 pages and 14 volumes is the most extensive book ever written. Gaucha (fromRiO Grande do Sul) writer, Tania Jamardo Faillace; 56, is ready to beat this record. She has juSt registered at Rio's Biblioteca Nacional her 0 Beco do Velha (The' Old Lady's Dead End Stret with 7748 pages in 19 volumes. It took her 10 years to write this saga' with a gallery of -200 characters who portiiy' Porto Alegre's society' during the 70's. Faillace not in a hurry. She's been• "showing the eggs like a proud mother hen" tri, friends, but hasn't startedX the search for a publishing house yet.
Since returning to Ne York from a trip to Bra7iI''' Malcolm Forbes Jr.' Forbes magazine editorin-chief and president o Forbes Inc, has beeh,. active in search of partners to invest in Brazilian businesses. The 'Forbes June 19 issue will early a special section on Brazil in which the publication will make the point that ; Brazil is no Mexico According to Maleolm;' countrY is living in heexceptional moment an didn't hide his'enthusi= asm with then " government's seri 'oew''' 'ti nesi"
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1,:rv,rial'al 44G.: I. On level, IS so loW in Latin America The'El t that on and Haiti , i1flI n have it W Siazillans who are 15 or older are'il e their owrl names and 40% don't get as *.de. President Fernando Cardoso, a scholar, well knows the situation and has de education his number 1 priority. That will be an attle, however. In addition to the chronic lack of d unprepared teach: eta are science t haven't bees IildrAF= d In 10 years — in es even 4. renrtt —;r" d history ooks that ntion the ma firoirris.'ci the cou 's past. . . ome aslitha educat. w • are sinri and prod • g smal KATHERYN GALLANT
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February 9. 34 students of Dr. Jose Borba elementary school. in the town of Santa Maria da Vitoria. Bahia. had a s' substitute teacher. The kids were all on their best behavior, because every minute of the lecture was being shown on TV throughout Brazil. The substitute. although an academic of great distinction. has no desire to teach at the primary level: he already has a job that pays much better than the $200 a month most teachers earn. President Fernando Henrique Cardoso's reason for coming to Santa Maria da Vitoria had little to do with enlightening a classroom full of Brazilian y outh. but every thing to w ith the marketing of politics. It was the debut of "Acorda Brasil! Ta na Hora da Escolil (Wake Up. Brazil! It's Time for School). which is intended to fulfill Fernando Henrique's promise to make education "priority number I - of his administration. This was not the first time that Cardoso arrived in Santa Maria da Vitoria to put OR a TV show. He launched his presidential campaign there last year with a rally introducing the real. the new currency that much helped his winning in the first round of the elections in a field of seven candidates. When a campaign worker threw a 5-centavo piece on the platform. the then-candidate caught the coin and declared. "I'm going to keep it. because this money's worth something now.But when President Cardoso came to substitute at Doutor Jose Borba. the lesson plan turned into a disaster. The students were more interested in waving at the cameras than in hearing the presidential lecture. Fernando Henrique. w ho was trying in vain to avoid using difficult words like "equivalency- or "motivation.- chose democracy as the theme of his lesson. In an attempt to bring this abstraction to life. Cardoso compared politics to a soccer game. He. the president. is the coach, while the members of his Cabinet arc the players. According to FHC. the Brazilian people are the fans up in the grandstand. where the most they can do is to boo or cheer. Back on his University time as a teacher when Cardoso was popularizing the Dependency Theory. he would have doubtlessly thought this comparison an elitist way of seeing the problem. After the lecture. Cardoso graded himself on a curve. 1 think I deserved a C-minus.- he
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said. If Fernando Henrique had not decided to give a lesson for the TV cameras. the regular instructor at Doutor Jose Borba would have been a 20-year-old student teacher. Marilene de Souza Rosa. Although. as an intcrn, she earns only the mini mum m wage. Souza Rosa considers herself lucky: her paycheck comes on time. In a neighboring public school. the teachers are three months behind on their salaries. The main memory that Souza Rosa has of her days in elementary school, when she herself was a student at Doutor Jose Borba, is of the leaky roofs. "Whenever it rained, we got soaking wet and we had to leave.- she told newsw eekly I it/. The current crop of students at Doutor Jose Borba do not have that particular worry, if only because the school was remodeled for the first time in almost 30 years. in preparation for the presidential visit. Fernando Henrique has a good reason to put education at the top of his agenda. Leaky roofs are far from a rarity in many Brazilian schools. but students and faculty at all levels often have greater troubles to deal with. According to a survey made by UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund), more than half of all Brazilian first-graders have to be held back. In Latin America. only Haiti. the Dominican Republic and Guatemala have a greater percentage of what seems to be student failure. but which is actually a reflection of the failure of the educational system. One of the main reasons that poorer students come to school unprepared to learn is because their parents cannot give them the social, cultural and learning enrichment that children from more affluent families receive as a matter of course. Nonsense textbooks - In Rio de Janeiro state. the Cieps (Integrated Centers of Public Education) have attempted to meet the needs of poorer children in the first four grades of elementary school. Three hundred fifty thousand students attend 406 Cieps from 8 AM to PM daily and cat three meals for free. When the Cieps first opened a decade ago. they were denounced as a publicity stunt by opponents of then-governor Leonel Brizola. who had championed the plan. However. Marly de Abreu Costa.* a professor at the State University of Rio dc Janeiro who is finishing a doctoral dissertation about the Cieps. says that the schools have succeeded. A survey made in 1993 by three universities showed that 93% of Cicp students did satisfactory work up to the third grade. But the reluctance of teachers to work more than the 31/2 hours that Brazilian elementary schools are usually in session has been detrimental to the Cieps. Rio de Janeiro's current state governMent. which has no love lost for the controversial and flamboyant Brizola, also does not care for the ex-governor's pet project. Ana Galheigo. Under-Secretary of Education for Rio state. told Rio newspaper domed do Brasil. -We have Cieps without students.With few exceptions. textbooks used in Brazilian schools are inadequate not only in quantity, but also in quality'. According to a recently-published study that was commissioned by the Education Ministry. many of the textbooks which the ministry .
19 teachers threw away their textbooks and followed the itself distributes are composed of lines and lines of "pure nonsense." constructivist path. In 1992, when students at the Maria de For example, high school students who use the textbook Mundo Magic° will find Lourdes de Oliveira elementary school in Belo Horizonte were failing their Portujust one mention of Tiradentes. The book states that this was the nickname ofJoaquim guese tests, the faculty decided that the (Percentage of Gross Jose da Silva Xavier, but there is not one outdated textbooks were the problem. The National Product word about the life of the 18th-century teachers asked their pupils what they wanted invested in education) revolutionary or of his importance in Brato read and then composed a textbook just zilian history as a fighter for the country's for them. The Maria de Lourdes textbook Sweden 7.6 liberation from Portugal. Canada 7.4 teaches Portuguese using the poems of 7.0 Russia Many students in public schools also Carlos Drummond de Andrade and lyrics United States 5.6 cannot keep up with the latest conquests in by Chico Buarque, as well as the rock England 5.2 science and technology, because many scigroup Legiao Urbana. In 1994, almost 70% 5.1 Japan ence textbooks have not been updated for of the students at Maria de Lourdes passed Germany 4.6 at least 10 years. There are even instances their Portuguese tests. 4.0 Italy BRAZIL 3.7 of textbooks published as long ago as 1950 Abolishing entrance exam - Illiteracy ,Soinh Korea 3.6 which are still being used in Brazilian continues to be a problem in Brazil: 18% of Spain 3.2 schools, according to Lea Gaudenzi, a the population over 15 cannot read or write teacher, member of the Student Assistance even their own names. If the criterion for Association (FAE) and coordinator of the illiteracy were less than four years of commission of academics that wrote the schooling, as educators recommend, there would be twice that Education Ministry's textbook study. percentage of Brazilian illiterates — 60 million, more than the In frustration with the lack of textbooks entire population of France. On average, it takes a Brazilian which students would find both informative student 12 years to complete the eight years of elementary and worthwhile, some teachers have decided school. However, the high dropout rate (some 75% of all to resort to newspapers, comic books, lyrics students do not finish elementary school) makes this statistic from popular songs and even cookbook recinearly meaningless. Worst of all, approximately 5 million pes in order to make learning more relevant children between the ages of 7 to 14, whom Brazilian law states to their pupils. While many teachers and must go to school, have no access to classrooms. parents have resisted constructivism, as this Maria de Fatima de Moraes, 20, lives in Novo Airao, method (or rather, anti-method) is called, Amazonas, which UNICEF has revealed to have the highest rate the results are eloquent. At the Maria Cristina of illiterate teens in Brazil. Of those between the ages of 15 to Schmidt Miranda elementary school in the 17 in this town of 13,000, 81.23% cannot read or write at all. industrial Sao Paulo suburb of Sao Bernardo Like her the vast majority of her slightly younger contemporardo Campo, the rate of student repeaters fell ies in Novo Airao, Moraes has never been to school. "When I from 32% in 1991 to 10% in 1993, after the want to send a note to some boy, I have to ask for help from a girlfriend. The problem is that then she knows my secretS," Moraes told newsweekly isto E. Her difficulties are similar to those encountered by many young people in the North and Northeast of Brazil. According to Agop Kayayan, UNICEF representative in Brazil, "The situation is so critical that in some locations, there are more young illiterates than old ones." While 13-year-old Julio Omar Ferreira has gone to school, he is not much betNEWS from BRAZIL - MAY 1995
ter off than Moraes. It took him four years to finish the first two grades of the elementary school in his hometown of Sao Sebastiao do Oeste, Minas Gerais. At the end of the last school year, Ferreira was promoted to the third grade only because his teacher feared that Ferreira's father would take him out of school. But like his brothers, who dropped out of school and were put to work after completing the fourth grade, Ferreira is condemned to enlarge the army of Brazilian kids who are functionally illiterate despite some time in school. "I can make million teenagers who graduate from high out some words, but I almost always need help to read," Ferreira school each year. They are painfully aware says. that there are not enough spaces for them in For those students who are able to make it to the secondary Brazil's universities: only about 25% of them level, the main trouble has traditionally been the vestibular, the will be admitted into college, and just a bit dreaded entrance exam to university. Like the Scholastic Aptimore than half of those will get their degree. tude Test (SAT) in the US, students who can afford it go to cram But since those who do not graduate from courses — called cursinhos in Portuguese.— in order to get as college will find it difficult to find fulfilling high a score as possible. But unlike the SAT, which is only one and well-paid careers, they are in search of factor in college admission (others include high grades and the right college and the major that will extracurricular activities), the vestibular has been the only propel them to success. gateway to Brazil's colleges. Students who want to major in medicine, With the extinction of the vestibular, scheduled to take dentis ry, psychology, architecture, public effect this year, that is going to change. Students and adminisrelati ns and journalism (all of which are trators do not plan on mourning its demise. "A good student can under raduate programs in Brazilian uniget nervous and do badly," 17-year-old high school senior versities) compete for a limited number of Fernanda Pereira Coelho, who has the equivalent of a B averspaces. Teacher-training programs, on the age, told Rio newspaper 0 Globo. "Others, other hand, go begging for prospects. who never worked hard in school, go running The work conditions in most schools CLASS TIME off to a cursinho, find out what's going to be are not attractive enough to make the on the test, and pass. One test doesn't measure low salary worthwhile. If one is goNumber of School anybody's knowledge." ing to invest time and money in higher The vestibular may not be entirely elimiDays per Year education, the profit should be worth nated, however. . One of the proposals being more than a few hundred dollars a 243 Japan considered by Education Minister Paulo month. Spain 220 Renato Souza is giving a comprehensive test Unlike the US, where many priRussia 208 at the end of all three years of high school. vate colleges are considered more Germany 200 to 226 The average of the scores would be the colprestigious than all but a few state 200 to 210 Italy lege admissions offices' guide. But for the universities, Brazil's public institutes Hong Kong 195 England 192 first time in Brazilian academic history, the of higher learning are held in greater Canada 186 grade point averages of students would be the esteem. Although the tuition-free United States 180 main basis for university acceptance. public colleges are far from being BRAZIL 180 The best is public - "I only want to know the exclusive haven of the rich (74% about what can make it... I haven't got time to of all public university students come waste." This pragmatic assertion by the Paulista (from Sao from families where there is less than $150 Paulo) rock group Titas seems to be the motto for some 2 per person each month), it is true that stuNEWS from BRAZIL. MAY 1995
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dents whose families would be able to afford private college tuition do their best to avoid attending a private college. Students The federal government who are less affluent or whose spends each year: vestibular scores are lower often $5 billion in universities pay what they barely afford for $2.75 billion in basic education what is too often a second-rate $550 million in technical education education at a private college. and high school At the private Catholic University of Pernambuco (Unicap), classified in 1992 by the BrazilThe country has: ian Ministry of Education as one 304.000 public schools of the 20 worst colleges in the 40.000 private schools nation, 2600 students pay an av241 public universities erage of 200 reais a month to 652 private universities enroll in classes with 70 students. 42 million elementary and secondary' The normal size of a Brazilian students college class is closer to 30. In 1.6 million university students some classes, five students must 2 million teachers (elementary. secshare one computer. The tiny colondary and university levels) lege library has not bought new 5 million children between ages 7 to books for years. But what is truly 14 who are not in school shocking is that only 5% of the faculty has ever gone to graduate school. "The lack of post-graduate degrees among the professors is going to turn Unicap Ministro da Educacao Paulo Renato into a huge high school," says Sergio Galdino, a computer science professor at the univer-
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Report Car Brazil approaches the year 2000 with 30 million '!`declared" illiteraies, 20 million o • Industrialized nations have a work force with an average of 11 years of schooling. In is less than four years :comparison made by the International Institute for Management Develop Switzerland tabout the''qualification of the workforce in 41 different Countries, Brazil The quality of public education and the amount of learning in high school e,ntered in t • If the trends of the past decade continue. Brazil should attain a 90% high school year 308Q, according to the CNPq (National Counsel of Scientific and Technolog • According to UNESCO, 95% of Brazil's students have access to elementary ed finish the fourth grade • Only 12% of the economically' active population of Brazil are being prepared for • (FAO) usl two in every 100 Brazilians in the seventh grade understand more than 70 e in last place in a survey made by UNICEF about the 10 yorst countries where the Percentage ho get to the fifth grade is significantly worse than expected considering the Gross' National abon, preceded by Haiti. On the list of the 10 best, China appeared in first tan elementary and secondary teachers is, at best, $300 a month 12
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sity. has pointed a finger at "educational middlemen" who spend The deficiencies of many private colleges cannot 30% to 50% of the total expenditures meant for education. be attributed to lack of money. The University of Despite the inequities in the Brazilian educational sysNova Iguacu should be the wealthiest in Brazil. Betem, there are some success stories. Israel Luziano Dias sides students' tuition payments, it received grew up in a Sao Paulo tenement with parents who only $15,000,000 in federal subsidies between 1989 and knew how to write their own name. He was in and out of 1992. The owners of the university are the family of school until he quit after being suspended for fighting. But ex-Congressman Fabio Raunhetti, one of the "dwarves" Dias fell in love with literature and the theater after he investigated by the Budget Joint Parliamentary Combefriended amateur cultural groups. "It was then that I mittee (CPI) in 1994. Despite its wealth, the Univerperceived that in order to do well and enjoy life, you need sity of Nova Iguacu Medical School has labs where to study a whole lot." He went to night school, got his there are only 80 microscopes for 120 students. One supletivo (General Education Diploma, or GED), and took the vestibular. Now Dias, at age 32, is a freshman history immunology professor asked to resign a year ago, but the medical school still has not found a replacement. major at the University of Sao Paulo, the most prestigious college in Latin America. In spite of the odds against him, Owning a college can be a very profitable business, as Agripino Lima has found out. He began as a Dias is a winner. farm laborer, truck driver, and door-to-door bookseller. Now, in addition to owning the 12,000-student University of West Sao Paulo (Unoeste), Lima has four ranches with 25,000 head of cattle and is the mayor of Presidente Pmdente, the city in western Sao Paulo state in which Unoeste is located. Lima has no scruples in admitting that he uses the college's planes — bought tax-free — for private purposes, such as travel with his family and transporting political friends. "The college is $599 LIMA mine," Lima told newsweekly $549 BOGOTA magazine Veja. It must be. $649 BUENOI AIRES Unoeste's graphic arts depart$649 MONTEVIDEO ment prints free of charge two $649 ECUADOR daily papers and a weekly for $670 HONG KONG the non-student population of $720 BANGKOK Presidente Prudente. All three • newspapers are favorable to $676 RIO/IALVADOR/BRAIILIA the mayor. $676 BELO HORIZONTE/RECIFE A success story - While $722 PORTO ALEGRE Brazil does not invest as much of its Gross National Product in education as the US or many other industrialized nations, Brazil's percentage is higher than South Korea or Spain. RT OPEN RETURN IF However, the World Bank estimates that of every $100 set PRICES SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE aside by the Brazilian government for educational purposes, only $20 actually gets to the classrooms. President Cardoso
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Inflation has never been t low in recent times, in Br The country is enjoying record exports ($3.8 billi in March alone), the harve (78 million tons) has never been so abundant, and i March the Revenue Serv collected $7.2 billion in taxes, the biggest in the last ten years. The Brazilian economy will increase th equivalent to a Chile this year. Crime is being dealt with, with the use of the Federal Police, the Pres' is personally engaged in a fight for better educatio people have been spend money like crazy. Why in hell then is everybody still complaining? EMERSON LUIS
"What's happening to our Fernando Henrique?" The question was recently put to a friend by ex-vice-president Aureliano Chaves, a politician known for his circumspection and economy of words. Chaves was wondering aloud about the changes Fernando Henrique Cardoso has undergone since being inaugurated president January 1. The 100-day trial period has just passed and the rest of the country seems to be asking the same question, as though everyone felt personally betrayed by the President. His old friends from the left remembering that Fernando Henrique Cardoso had to live in exile due to his views accuse him of abandoning his socialist ideals. Former allies such as le
ex-presidential candidate Lula, ex-Rio Governor Leonel Brizola and Pernambuco Governor Miguel Arraes have even created a united front to fight his Social Security reforms and favor maintaining the state monopoly in several areas. His more recent friends on the right have been castigating him for reneging on his promises of opening the economy and privatizing most of the state monopolies. Despite all these complaints the Brazilian President has ended his first 100 days in better shape than his predecessors. His biggest accomplishment has been to maintain the inflation rate at less than 2% a month, in a couniry where a 40% a month inflation rate had become the rule. He has been praised by political analysts for humbleness, something seemingly incompatible with his famous vanity. Having won in the election's first round, with 34 million votes in a field of six other presidential contestants, Cardoso and his closest aides seemed convinced that the President had so overwhelming a mandate that he would be able to reform instantly the constitution with an assured majority in Congress. This didn't prevent the President from suffering at least three important defeats in Congress. One, when the Senate approved a new law limiting annual interest rates to 12%. The measure was classified as an "atomic bomb" by Jose Serra, the Planning Minister. The other lost battle was the heavy opposition to the Security reform that forced the President to retreat and restudy his position. More recently, Congress voted for the abolition of the Referential Fee (TR) a fee used for correcting agricultural loans. With this reversal the federal government, through Banco do Brasil, might lose $3 billion. The biggest change in Cardoso's behavior since he assumed the presidency has been his abandonment of precaution when making promises. He has been announcing the construction of infrastructure projects with parallels only to the economic miracle times of the 70's, with the difference that he has no money in the bank and no forthcoming foreign loans to NEWS from BRAZIL - MAY 1995
Day by day Januai I - Fernando
Henrique Cardoso is inaugurated. January 2 - CoMinunicaL tions Minister Sergio Motta provokes the fist. argument accusing PFL's (Party of the Liberal Front) senator Antonio Carlos MagaMacs.. an ally of the President Of -using politically- that ministry in the 80-s. January-, 4 - Administration suffers its first defeat in Congress: For lack of a quorum Persio Arida is not sworn in as the Central Bank Chief. That will happen on January 10. ,after some concessions by the government. January 11 - Finance. Minister Pedro Malan announces that the foreign deficit ha§ reached $884 million, a record. ' January 18 ,House symbolically votes in favor of raising the minimum wage from $80. to $120. Cardoso announces veto and loses prestige. •, January 19 The foreign. balance deficit for December is $884 million reveals Malan: after. previous ainiounceinent that the amount was Only $47 million. February 3 The:President goes: on. TV for the first time and talks -about the need to veto the minimum wage :increase.. February 10' - Cardoso pummels the table white defending reforms . before Nudism (from SO Paulo) businessmen. February 14 - President says to unionist he is not a . neo7liberaL This talk about him being one. he , say s. is nothing more than ithenheithem:. :The. • little , NEWS from BRAZIL MAY 1995
help him. To Nicias Ribeiro (Para's PMDB — Party of the Brazilian • Inflation is low and the IPEA Democratic Movement), (Institute for Applied Economic for example, he promised Research) forecasts that the to pave not only the 400 index will not go over 2% a km. of Transamazonica month until the end of June. To roadway as requested by accomplish this the government the congressman but also has not used any type of price the remainder 2.400 km of freeze or savings confiscation as in past administrations. the road. • The Palacio do Planalto had In confidences to its structure overhauled. Chief friends Fernando Henrique of Staff Clovis Carvalho went has said that he has been back to his managerial funcshot three times since taktion after a fruitless stint as ing office. He was referpolitical articulator. ring to the Mexican eco• Public expenditures have been nomic crisis, to a Central reined in. Finance and PlanBank resolution that dening Ministries as well as the pleted the treasui, and to National Treasury have been his inability tp build strictly keeping their accountbridges with the congress. ing books. Except for the Mexican • Tax collection has been at fiasco, which has forced record highs. It's estimated an overhaul of the exthat the federal government will change policy, the other get $63.5 billion in 1995,11.5% shots referred td by the more than in the last year. President were caused by his own doing. And, maybe as a courtesy to his predecessor Itamar Franco, he didn't mention another very dangerous bullet: the import feast promoted by Itamar and his Finance Minister Ciro Gomes which while giving an ephemerous first world air to Brazil, significantly helped to consume in a few months one third of the Brazilian reserves. In February, Brazil's commercial foreign balance closed with a record $1,095 billion deficit. In addition to imports former Finance Minister Delfim Netto, who called the measure an "elephantine mistake" nobody seems to have raised their voice against the administration when the president decided to raise to 70% the import tariff on 109 durable goods, mainly on auto's and appliances. The main target of the bitter pill was foreign cars which in February were imported in record numbers, contributStumbling ing $655 million to the defi• The House of Representatives, cit. But there were also moin a symbolic vote, approves torcycles, bicycles, toasters the $120 a month minimum and even orange juicers on wage. The President gets mad the list of undesirables. and says the measure would Mario Henrique break the government. Simonsen, another ex Fi• Government has lost its first nance Minister, justified battles on constitutional reform Cardoso's action. "The alfor lack of an effective dialogue ternatives," he said, "would with be a heavy devaluation of • Congress. The same shortcomthe real, which would send ing is delaying the discussion of inflation through the roof or the Social Security reform. we would enter into a very • Cardoso until now has also serious recession." A real been unable to communicate to devaluation would make evthe public his thoughts and poliery Brazilian a little poorer cies. A telling example was the overnight and would also change the administration made in its exchange policy. The conserve to increase inflation . fusing communiqué from the There's fear now that inflaCentral Bank provoked more tion will soar anyway since confusion and a run on the stock the imported products were market. being used to spur competi-
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used word from TupiGuarani - Origin which means idle talk becomes a star in the media. February 18-Vox Populi poll shows. 75% of Brazilians against the promised veto against the minimum. March 6 • - Reacting to Mexico's economic crisis. real is devalued and government institutes the system of exchange bands. The dollar starts to fluctuate between 0.86 and 0.90 mats. March 9 - Central bank spends about $5 billion trying to stop the dollar's fall on the black market. March 17-Cardoso faces in Rio the first organized protest against his administration. March 24 - New protest. Now in Ceara. March 2 —Former Rio governor Brizola and expresidential candidate Lula get together in Rio and Witch the front against: government reforms. March 28 Government retreats from the Social Security ' reform after noisy protests from the public and Congress. March 29 - The import tariff on 109 products is raised to .70%, March 30 -. National secretary- for Social Communication. Roberto Muylaert, presents his letter of resignation and accuses Cardoso of asking from him What he was not . supposed to do. April 5 - Congress ends the use Of the 'TR (Referential Fee) to index agricultural loans. CUT (Unified Workers Federation) promotes a nationwide day of protests against the . reforms.. April 7.7 New protests in Recife. . April 10 - Day 100 for the president., There arc protests everywhere he goes. 17
tion and keep down domestic products' prices. In announcing the tariff , Malan had insisted, " The decision does not represent — I want to underline the 'not' — in any way — an abandonment of Brazil's opening policy towards the rest of the world." According to Simonsen it is pure semantics and a waste of time to debate whether the administration's measure should be called a retreat or a detour. For him, all the difficulties Cardoso's policies have endured have to do with unrealistic expectations. The Real, the new currency created by Cardoso when he was Finance Minister of the previous administration, has been the biggest vote-getter for the President. But, according to polls ordered by the government itself, people grew accustomed to the new money and don't feel any special emotion towards the currency anymore. That led Fernando Henrique to declare to a group of Ministers, "We need to regain the emotion towards stability." The President, who has participated in protests against the government beside the steelworkers of Sao Paulo's ABC during the 60's, feels uncomfortable on the other side of the fence. Since March 17 when Cardoso had to face a protest against his government in his native Rio, where 500 protesters calling the President a safado (rogue) and other epithets confronted an Army battalion causing light injuries to four civilians, he has been the target of discontented chants, boos and an arsenal of tomatoes and eggs. Protesters were again in the streets of Sao Joao do 18
The fingers He said "Let's not talk about the first one hundred days, about bombastic announcements, but about four years of continuous advancements tow ards reforms." (December. Two weeks before being inaugurated.) "This year will be better. And the next even better."Brazil is in a hurry." (Januar . Inauguration speech.) "When the Republic's powers fight, it's Brazil that ends up losing... (February ) "While it's not possible to pay at least $10() (as the minimum wage), the ministers will do without the recently created job gratification. which represents about 25% of their salaries, and so the President and the vicepresident will do with their salaries.- (Februzq ) -- There are the professional pessimists — some because of temperament, others because of naivete and still sonic out of bad faith who continue to preach - failuremania.• They try to scare the country with the ghost of the Mexican crisis Our reserves continue high: around $38 billion. Our exports have reacted: we had another surplus in January." (February) -We are living in a time of tests. The financial market has tested our economic policy by attacking the Real. Congress is testing the reforms and, meanwhile, people test our ability to find solutions.- (March. During a meeting with aides.) "Only those with any sense of responsibility will not retreat. When one sees a mistake one retreats. In battles whoever does not retreat, will lose.- ( March - In a press conference) "Or democracy puts an end to injustice or the injustice — Fin not even going to utter the rest, but it is true. (March. Same press conference) "The same as you. This is a demagogical question. What Would you do? The individual gets desperate. And we cannot let millions fall in despair. So we have to do the reform, so we have to he serious and not little jokers.- (March. Same press conference, answering to William Franca from Folk, de Sao Pardo who asked, "What citizen Fernando I lenrique Cardoso would do if he earned the minimum wage of $80?") -These are not complaints. they are interests. I have to take care of' the national interest. Then they take care of their own.- (March - Answering a question why businessmen were complaining about the nonprivatization of Telebras and Petrobras — state monopolies for communications and oil, respectively.) "They have lost the elections. They have the germ of backwardness in their heads and they want to win by shouting. "Hwy have despaired and have lost their minds too.- (End of March. Commenting on street protests against him in Rio.) "We have changed the course of the economy because the world has changed. We are not going to repeat what was done during the cruzado (a currency created in place of then current cruzeiro) time when President Jose Sarney didn't have the courage to take unpopular measures. We will take every required measure be they popular or not." (March. Talking to Ireland's President Mary Robinson.) "We are living an extraordinary moment, but everybody seems to be afraid.-( April) "Brazil cannot have the luxury of not having a surplus in its conunercial balance. And luxury is a good wordThr this. We were importing billions and billions in luxury cars.-
Fernando Henrique Cardoso used the fingers of his hand to announce his five-priority electoral platform. Bow are they, surviving the reality onslaught?:, Agriculture I. Record crop, announced: 81.6 tons of grain 2. I million hectares of rural land expropriated. 3. More than 16 thousand rural families settled. Education 1. Campaign "Wake' up Brazil, it's time for school". 2. Proposal to end vestibular,1 the exam which now is the sole 1 det ant for admission tol colleg Health 1. Tighter monitoring of 150 pharmaceutical industries. Z. pcbt payment of the UniverfHealth System (SUS) Jobs - Reissue of presidential j decree on employee's profit partic ipatian. Seerity. - 1. A bigger contingeri demi Police to partic%in Operacdo Rio. an :4 Operatt9,11 against crime and drugs. 2; A pact,,betwcen. the US and Brazil to.fight drugs. .
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il rdaicayl,d;6 ': 174' 11:::..1:1t11 4s1h -id e‘ g:ia\t}osshrWitr -a arties ., only diLlni t.isPoo: aw (I)it,B oti (Party of 741:0i: tChaert:8:: the (Party Pef the Front) and the BrazilshaiPta'i(liiul erygie'vm ; eP D : r r ie,s,r7 tr'a:n: :p .leM rliloi: eilfrx,iti/ing two " t;44 r tl5 i& 711A tnt i*V el-1r-tY : the oil and Co wn,""ttiolis secSein::.°n°P°1'ec tors defeated .c Cardoso ngre has sl slowed Cons co `te:Le.miS;'' lldle tsoy;x :Iggene 'chM 491. pTursill1 "o': riet; -rfinc Geirng n nMP es things the way they now. NEWS from BRAZIL - MAY 1995
Jaguaribe in Ceara where he had gone to give land titles to new farmers. The President called the 30 or so hecklers present as belonging to the "false left and to the old putrefied right". On March 22 with the help of Brasilia's governor, ( who lent buses and brought food to public workers), 10,000 people protested at the Federal Capital's Esplanada dos Ministerios,( where the Ministries buildings are located), to condemn the Constitutional reforms. At the end of March, the President canceled a trip to Conceicao do Araguaia, state of Para, after the Federal Police found out that 3,000 people were planning to boo and pelt him with a battery of rotten eggs and tomatoes. On April 7, in Pernambuco, in a protest organized by CUT (Unified Workers Federation) the protesters armed with eggs, sticks and stones were repelled by police. Every morning, the President has been stretching and reserving at least half an hour for swimming. These activities are less to keep Cardoso in shape and more to help relieve his back pains. However, these problems have not slowed the President, who also has made three trips abroad. He went to Uruguay for the inauguration of President Jalio Maria Sanguinetti. He called on Chile in a nostalgic journey and it was there that he first took refuge when forced to leave Brazil after the 1964 military takeover. In April he came to the US where he met President Bill Clinton on April 20. After 100 days and beyond it's clear that the most powerful man in the cabinet after the President is the Planning Minister, Jose Serra, whose last name means saw. He made good on his fame by expanding his control and won the nickname of MotoSerra (Chain-saw), a nickname he seems to relish. His power can be shown by the number of cellular phone he pilots: four, and the number of visits to the President cabinet: at least one a day. Choosing him as the interlocutor for the tributary reforms that the administration wants NEWS from BRAZIL. MAY 1995
Since March 17, wherever he goes, President Fernando Cardoso has been the target of discontented chants, boos and an arsenal of tomatoes and eggs. In his native Rio, protesters called him a safado (rogue) and other epithets.
implemented by Congress, Fernando Henrique has snubbed Finance Minister Pedro Malan, who would normally be the presidential spokesman in this area. It was Serra who also convinced Cardoso in the administration's first week to announce a $4-billion budget cut. Another mighty aide is Communications Secretary Sergio Motta, called Serjdo by friends. For more than three decades he has been a partner, friend, and adviser to the President. He has been holding down a heavy workload that starts at 9 in the morning and often extends until midnight. According to another aide, "It's Serjdo who says the things that the President would like to say but might put him in a bad light. •
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No Brazilian state is growing at Minas Gerais's pace. The state which had been rich in precious stones in the past is having another gold rush. Minas is a real Brazilian tiger. The United States will be opening a consulate in the state very soon and American Airlines has just started a direct flight to Belo Horizonte from Dallas. CARLOS EMMANUEL DA FONSECA BARRETO
The proverb says, "all roads lead to Rome," but in Brazil a single road leads to a region ranking among the world's highest in rate of development. The economic boom that the state of Minas Gerais, (translated general mines), is experiencing is due to the expansion of a highway that connects the state's capital, Belo Horizonte, to Sao Paulo, the economic heart of South America. The 590 kilometers (366 miles) of the Feniao Dias highway is leading the state to a steady 10% growth per year in industrial activity, a figure attained only in China. The New York Times appointed Minas as the region on the planet with the highest growth outside the belt formed by the Asian Tigers. In past years, the south of Minas alone received $5.6 billion in capitalized investments towards new factories, creating approximately 83,000 new jobs. The state has contributed outstandingly to the country's GDP (Gross Domestic Product). Between 1981 and 1992, Brazilian industry grew 6% but Minas reached 20% growth while in second place, the state of Parana, grew 14% and the powerful state of Sao Paulo a miserable 4%. Minas Gerais has a population of 16 million people, producing $40 billion annually, a figure equal to Chile's economy. The state's economy surpasses Hungary, Puerto Rico, Peru, and many other smaller countries. Minas today represents the second biggest economy in Brazil surpassing the long time second place Rio de Janeiro, NEWS from BRAZIL - MAY 1995
and only behind giant Sao Paulo. The significance of this growth is such that the United States Ambassador to Brazil, MelvynLevitsky, has mentioned opening a Consulate in the state's capital by the end of the year. American Airlines saw the sun rising in Belo Horizonte long before the Ambassador, and on April 3rd, started daily flights from Dallas/Fort Worth. More travelers means increased demand for hospitality, and investments have been pouring into the hotel business. A $12 million investment has just opened its doors, the four-star Merit Hotel. Another two five-star hotels will require a $75 million investment and will open by 1996. Belo Horizonte was considered by the Population Crisis Committee in Washington, the Brazilian capital with the best quality of life. The Tomorrow's Fernao Dos state government has also created incentives for partnerships between local government offices and private enterprises to invest in landscaping of the city's parks and squares. The state as a whole has been witnessing what is called "the domino effect," where one event leads to another, a giant snowball that shows no signs of faltering. The locomotive of this economic growth is the implementation of the Fernao Dias highway. "The construction project of the highway will require an investment of $540 million, but it is much more than just a duplication," states Paulo Paiva, Secretary of Urban Planning of Minas Gerais. "It is a new axle of development being built, the partnership with Sao Paulo." The region has easy access to the two biggest participating markets in the country's GDP. Over the past two years, an increasing number of entrepreneurs from Sao Paulo are moving to the region due to the availability of raw resources, proper infrastructure, fiscal incentives, and above all, locality. Moreover, the state-run electric power company, Cemig, promises energy in abundance to support the continuous growth of the area. Cemig plans in partnership with the private sector to build 15 new hydroelectric power plants along the five rivers that run through the region. It has been estimated that 20,000 new small, medium and large sized businesses will emerge in the hilly area south of Minas in the next few years. Another positive factor is that in Minas the industries find an environment free of strikes by unions and lower operating costs. Fiat Automoveis, the biggest subsidiary of Italy's Fiat Spa, has been operating there for 11 years without any strikes. For its employees, the region offers a much better quality of life. The residential areas are sacred according to local governments. Ample avenues lined with trees provide a welcome invitation for residents to enjoy long walks and bicycle rides. The region also has a highly qualified work force, the great majority of the popuNEWS from BRAZIL - MAY 1995
lation has a high school diploma. In terms of higher education, the cities in the south of Minas offer 48 different university courses and 24 technical training schools. The most important city in the hilly south of Minas is Pouso Alegre. The city was chosen from 50,000 other cities in Brazil as one of the 10 best for living and for business. It has 83,000 inhabitants, an airport and the largest industrial sectors in the region with 800 industries varying from food and clothing to metal-mechanics and automobiles. The giant shoe manufacturer Alpargatas chose the city to locate its biggest manufacturing plant. Another newcomer is JPX, a producer of jeeps with technology from the French Auverland. They have just built a plant there, but future plans are to buy all parts presently used in their factory from auto-parts manufacturers that are moving to the area. General Motors is also considering building in Pouso Alegre a plant to produce the Corsa model. RefinacOes de Milho Brasil, a corn mill corporation, is old and well known to local people. They believe in the region's potential for development and invested $60 million implementing new technology in their factory. Santa Rita do Sapucai with 27,000 inhabitants is the Brazilian Silicon Valley. There are 78 firms exporting computer chips and electronic components alone. The city has also computer manufacturers and telecommunication industries. Varginha has 90,000 inhabitants and it is called the "dry-port." It has the first custom house in the interior of the country. From there the products leave packed inside locked containers that go directly to the ships. A simple and practical way to solve the bureaucracy of exports and a major reason why exports grew 80% in the past few years in Minas. Minas also has Alfenas and Lavras which have respectively 54,000 and 67,000 inhabitants. They b6th have very good infra-structures and their industrial sectors are mainly textiles. There are other attractions in the region, located at a high altitude with mild climate and natural spas with therapeutic baths. Pocos de Caldas is the region's retreat and center of tourism. The industry is the city's main source of income. When the new road opens, the distance between Sao Paulo and Belo Horizonte will shorten to a one and a half hour journey and growth will enter a new era. "The duplication of the Fend() Dias Highway will have a greater economic impact on the country than the opening of the Via Dutra," a highway connecting Rio de Janeiro to Sao Paulo, stated professor Clelio Campolina from the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Even before its completion, the highway has generated for the region 77 new projects and investments totaling $350 million. What would be the figure one year after the inauguration of the new • highway? 21
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Tea party There are signs that the Brazilian government might intervene in a cultural-religious practice in the Amazon: the consumption of an halucinogenic beverage called ahyauasca.Taken during ceremonies by some cults, these "rites" have been occurring since the 30's when the Santo Daime was created, inspired by traditions from Peruvian Indians. KATHERYN GALLANT
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A middle-aged Englishman named Gordon Sumner spent five days in Brasilia last December, in complete anonymity. This would not be anything extraordinary, except that Gordon Sumner is better-known as Sting, pop star, activist for ecological causes, and advocate for indigenous peoples throughout the world. Sting, who has sung to enthusiastic crowds in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, did not come to Brasilia to perform. But how could an international celebrity go incognito for so long in the capital of one of his favorite countries? Edison Saraiva Neves, president of the Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, has the answer: it was his religions who brought the singer in total privacy to the federal capital. Neves says that Sting, who has long been concerned with the Amazon and with spirituality, became fascinated with the religion developed by rubber tappers and cashew-pickers in the western Amazonian state of Acre, and all but demanded an invitation to find out more first-hand. While at the headquarters of the Uniao do Vegetal, located in the Brasilia suburb of Planaltina, Sting participated in the holiest ritual of the Ulna() do Vegetal and 21 other officially recognized religious sects in Brazil. He drank ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic tea made from extracts of the mariri orjagube vine (both regional names for Banisteriopsis kaapis) with the leaves of the chacrona or rainha plant (Psychotria viridis). The combination of these two flora gave the name to the religion. Sting's participation in the rite leaked out to the press and brought suspicions that the singer had decided to convert. Romeo Elias, a lawyer who is a mestre (literally, a master or teacher, but in this context, a spiritual leader) at the center, denies this. "Like anyone else, he was invited to participate in a session. This doesn't mean that he committed himself to our religion." Elias says that Sting's real interest in the Unido do Vegetal is Novo Encanto (New Enchantment), a churchsponsored ecological project in Acre. "He was a little stressedout and took advantage of a session held especially for him," Elias states. When most Brazilians think of a religious sect which has the use of ayahuasca as a sacrament, they do not immediately think of the publicity-shunning Unido do Vegetal, which has 5000 adherents in 60 centers throughout Brazil. Instead, they think of the far more flamboyant and controversial group that goes by the name of Santo Daime. The Santo Daime sect was founded in the 1930s by the 23
Maranhense (Maranhao state native) Jose Costa Sobrinho, Coordinator of MenRaimundo Irineu Serra, who worked in the tal Health for the Federal District and counAmazonian rain forselor for Confen, is preest with Marshal Canparing a lawsuit against dido Rondon (after Santo Daime. Costa whom the state of Sobrinho discovered Rondonia is named). that ayahuasca is being .•Iyahtiasca (Quechua for -wine of the soul-) is prepared from After Peruvian Indiexported to Santo Daithe woody stem ofBaasteriopsiskaapisand the leaves ofP.sychotria ans who used ayame churches abroad, to viridis. After the stem and leaves are cut and boiled to release the huasca for ritual purbe sold at prices between alkaloids from the plant tissue, the plant material is discarded. The poses gave him a 35 to 40 dollars a liter. remaining liquid is boiled down to a concentrate which can be sample, Irineu had In one of the sect's commixed with water to produce a potent herb tea. miraciies (as he, and munes in Amazonas, apTraditional among the indigenous peoples of the Amazonian his followers, came to proximately 400 followrain forest, ayahuasca was first popularized in Brazilian urban call ayahuasca-iners spent a month precenters in the I 930s by Irineu Serra. founder of Santo Daime. In the duced visions) of Our paring 700 liters of ".50s and '60s. American authors William R. Burroughs and Allen Lady of the Annunayahuasca for foreign Ginsberg wrote about their encounters with avahuasca and other ciation. She told him consumption. mind-expanding drugs. By the mid-1970s. when Jack Epstein (a that she was the queen An example of Santo former Peace Corps volunteer in Brazil) wrote .11ong the Gringo of the rain forest and Daime's commercial :frail: .1 Budget Travel Guide to Latin .imerica. backpack travelers made him the second self-exploitation is a were warned that shamans, fed-up with the deluge of North Christ. tourist brochure in EnAmerican and European tourists in search of a drug trip without the Mestre Irineu (as glish which invites fortraditional spiritual underpinnings, were slipping -jungle Mickey he was henceforth Finns- to unsuspecting gringos. thus necessitating stays in remote eigners to stay at the called by his followColonia Ceu da Monhospitals until the bad trip wore off. ers) told his growing tanha in Visconde de Werner Jourdan, a journalist from Stuttgart. Germany. unwitband of disciples that Maud, near Rio. A comtingly had the same experience that Epstein had warned about they should all drink plete package, includnearly 20 years before. According to an article that Jourdan wrote ayahuasca. The name ing air fare, room and for the newsweekly Der Spiegel, Jourdan paid 500 Deutsch-marks Santo Daime ("St. for ayahuasca smuggled into Germany by two renegade members board, and participation Gimme") comes from in Santo Daime serof Santo Daime. Jourdan says that at first he saw marvelous images one of their hymns vices, costs $10,000. with his eyes closed — "rich ornaments, gold. silver, precious which begins, "DaiIn order to better stones. I felt as if I were flying." me forca, dai-me accomodate tourist After a day. though. Jourdan found it so hard to breathe that he luz..." ("Give me groups, Jose Rosas, thought he was going to die. A week after he had taken the -sacred strength, give me leader of Ceu da Montea.- the German journalist still had the hallucination that people's light"). Mestre Irineu tanha, built two pouheads were not connected to their necks. When Jourdan took a died in 1971 at Colosadas on commune urine test in a Stuttgart lab, he discovered that the ayahuasca had ma Alto Santo, Santo grounds. In November been contaminated with a synthetic narcotic. Daime's first com1994, 14 Americans visIn 1985. based on anonymous accusations that marijuana was mune, located near ited the commune, takbeing used during Santo Daime services, a committee established Rio Branco, capital of ing part in Santo Daime by the Federal Narcotics Council (Confen) began to investigate Acre. ayahuasca. In 1989, it was removed from the list of toxic subservices and doing spiriIn the following tual works commanded stances published by the Medical Alert Division of the Ministry of years, the sect grew. by Rosas. On the 15th Health. In 1992, the Confen committee unanimously approved the There are now Santo use of ayalwasca for 22 religious groups. and 30th of every Daime churches in month, when services The chemical composition ofayahtunca is as powerful as LSD. the US, Europe, and are held, followers not It has three alkaloids which cause a high degree of psychic Japan. However, the only drink ayahuasca, dependence. However, a psychiatric evaluation by three doctors of cornerstone of daibut also smoke marithe Paulista Medical School concluded, after examining members mista ritual could be • of an unnamed religious group which uses juana, which is praised ayahuasca. that "there kicked away in its in hymns as "Santa does not exist any standard of dependence. abuse. overdose, or country of origin. Maria." social damage" for its users. Luis Matias Flach, Even more controDespite recognizing the hallucinogenic effects of ayahuasca. president of the Fed- , Wilson Costa. a psychiatrist who was a member of the Coleco versially, Alicia Castileral Narcotics Counla, an astrologer who committee. prefers to call the substance an entheogenic. or a cil (Confen) and nawas a daimista for ten producer of a divine moment. - Edison Saraiva Neves, president tional Secretary of years, has accused the of the Uniao do Vegetal and also a physician, has a slightly Narcotics, wantsayasect's leaders of braindifferent view: -Actually, the tea is a dishallucinogenic. We're huasca to become ilwashing her 18-year-old already hallucinating." legal again. Flach has daughter Veronica, who a dossier which alleges marijuana use in left her mother four years ago to live on a religious ceremonies, the brainwashing of Santo Daime commune in Acre. followers, exploitation of the sect for tourisAccording to Alex Polari, leader of Santo tic purposes, and illegal export ofayahuasca. Daime (and an ex-terrorist who helped to
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Quem conhece Santa Maria Fat uso todo dia E vive sempre cm agonia Mas agora chegou como cu qucria Men senhor Rio Joao Batista Jesus Cristo c Sao Jose Agora chegou como en queria Agora. chegon como Deus quer Chegando como Dens quer Dai tudo fica bern Chegando como men pai quer Chegou como en quero Na vontade da Virgem Maria Eta agora Val vigorar Eta e do men comando E manda en comandar En comando aquele que cre Em Jesus Cristo c Sao Joao (hie esta ĂŠ verdadc Que temos ern nossa uniao
Whoever knows Santa Maria Uses her every day And always lives in agony But now she came as I wanted My lord St. John the Baptist Jesus Christ and St. Joseph Now she came as I wanted Now she came as God wills Coming as ,God wills Therefore all is well Coining as my father wills She came as I want In the will of the Virgin Mary She's going to be in effect now She's under my command And orders me to command I command those who believe In Jesus Christ and St. John That this is true That we have our union
kidnap the German and Swiss ambassadors to Brazil in the late '60s), Alicia Castilla is merely out for revenge. "She had a combative relationship with her daughter and asked us to help. Now, she wants to attack us," Polari says. Marco Gracie Imperial, leader of a Santo Daime commune in Pedra de Guaratiba, Zona Oeste, met Veronica Castilla in October 1994, when he visited Acre. "She's a pretty girl and is very happy there. I only saw her crying twice, and that was when they told her that her mother wanted her to go back home." As for brainwashing, Imperial says that it does go on, but in a positive sense: "With Daime, I was able to wash my brain of the bad things which I had known before." Suspicious deaths have also occurred in Santo Daime communes. One of these cases is that ofJambo Veloso de Freitas, a 19year-old who set himself on fire in June 1991, less than a month after he arrived at a commune in Amazonas. Polari says that the young man was struggling against cocaine addiction. "Things happen against our will. Unfortunately, he killed himself in a Daime commune. If he had been drinking guarani, none of this would have happened." Polari thinks that the sensationalistic news coverage of Santo Daime is due to ignorance about the sect's true aims. "I'm not afraid of the truth. Whoever wants to
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know about Daime will see that we have only good things. Daime never made anybody crazy. We're doing charitable work." And what is that charitable work? Polari replies that Santo Daime has cured physical illnesses, alcoholism, and drug addiction among its adherents. Wilson Costa, a psychiatrist who was on a Confen panel that approved the ritual use of ayahuasca, fears that the prohibition of the beverage would discriminate against law-abiding sects like the Uni5o do Vegetal. "That type of accusation is only emerging from the Daime. The other sects cannot be harmed. I think that the Confen should be very careful and not generalize." Nelson Saraiva Neves would doubtlessly agree. In an interview with the Brasilia newspaper Correio Braziliense, he insists that the only thing the Uniao do Vegetal and Santo Daime have in common is the use ofayahuasca. While Santo Daime is composed of autonomous churches that have little contact with each other, the UniAo do Vegetal has a hierarchical structure. The Uniao do Vegetal also restricts ayahuasca drinking to adults who are not in a psychotic state. No more than 150 milliliters of the drink, which is only allowed during the bimonthly services, can be consumed at a time. As for Sting, one thing is certain. He came, he saw, he drank the sacred tea of the Amazon, but did not convert. He remains faithful to the (non-hallucinogenic) five o'clock tea of his homeland. •
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Wildman. Tells the story of a woman on the verge of suicide,a check list of ' despair. The Stage (1992, 7 min.). Directed by Christian Louis Saghaard. A young woman searches for a ceremonial act in a world of rituals. Jo (1993, 7 min.). Experimental film directed by Beto Brant and Ralph Strelow which bring God and the Devil into Jo's life. on a deserted beach. Then there were videos; Taking Aim (1993, 41 min.). Directed by Monica Frota. It chronicles the struggle of the Kayap6 nation in the Brazilian rain forest for political power and cultural representation. Pictures in Black and White
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que., estaN a decidido haNIa anos. tinha cspaco e tempo para aloiar ank ersariante — c como Zilda estax a na coiinha ti Ultimar coin a empregada os croquetes e sanduichcs ficarant. a nora de Olaria empertigada coin setts filhos de coracao inquiet° no lado. a nora de Ipancina na fila oposta das cadeiras fingindo ocupar-se corn o bcbe para niio cncarar a concunhada de Olaria: a baba ociosa e uniformuada. corn a boca aberta. E i cabeceira da mesa gran& a 11111\ crsariante que fa/ia hoje onenta e 11ON C allOS.
A fantilia foi potico a pouco chegando. Os que vicrarn de Olaria estaN am Mutt° , bfliestidog. porque a visita significava ao mcsmo tempo um passel° a op4cabatia, A 'lora dc Olaria aparcceu de azul-marinho. coin cache de ,pailletes",e um drapeado disfareimdo a barriga sem cinta. 0 initrido rub cio poi taides 61;1 Ms: ntio qucria \ cr os irntaos. Mas mandara sua mulher pant que neiti,todos os tacos (assent cortados — c esta vinha corn o sett mentor vcstido . Ora mostrar qi no precisava dc nenhum delcs. acompanhada dos tras filhos: duas Meninas ja de peat) nascendo infantilizadas cm btibados cor-de-rosa c antiguas engontadas. c o menino aco‘ ardado pelo terno 1101 0 c pela grax ata Tendo Zilda — a filha coin quern a aniversanante moraN a — disposto cadeints unidas ao long das paredes. como numa festa cm que se \ al (kitten. , a no!, de Warta. depois de cumprimentar corn cara fechtula aos de casa. itolosati4si nuriut „ cadeiras e emudeceit. a boca em bico. mantendo sua , (lag Posic,i0 de Yltrafada. -Vim para nao deixar de ir'. dissera cla a Zilda c cm seguida Sentara-se- ofendida. As duas mocinhas de cor-de-rosa e o menino. antarolos e de cabelo pcntead(y. nao sabiam bent clue atitudc tomar c ficaram de lado da mac., impression tdos corn scu cstido aiul-nuirinho c corn os , rt, , PIS Vei0 a nora de Ipancina corn dois nctos c a baba. 0 marido Nina unicl miner cure as scis irmaos homcns c a Unica is. E coma. Zilda
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Zilda. a dona da casa. arrumara a mesa ccdo. enchera-a dc gitardaimpos de papel colorido,c copos de papelao alrisk os a data. espalhara bat° es sungados pelo teto em algtms dos (mats estaN a escrito "Fiapp Birthdik !". cm outros Aniverstirior. No centro havia disposto o cnorme bolo acucarado. Para adiantar o expediente. cnfcitara a mesa logo depois do al moco. encostara as cade was a parede. inandara os minims bri near 110 V ui nho para nao desarrumarem a mesa. E. pant adiantar o expediente. cstira a aniversariontc logo depois do almoco. Pusera-lhe dcsdc cilia° a presillta em torn° do pescoco e o broche. borrifara-lhe um pouco de agua de cologia para disfarear aquele scu che iro de guardado semara-a a mesa E desde as duas horns a aniversariante estik a sentada a cabeceira da longa mesa azia. tcsa na sala silenciosa. De v cz CM qUalld0 COnSCiCille dos guardanapos coloridos. Olhando curiosa um ou outro balao est remecer aos carros clue passavain. E de \ CZ cm qua ndo aquela angngtia muda: qua ndo acompanhava. fascinada c impotente. o voo da mosca em tomb do bolo. Ate que as quatro horns entrara a nora de Olaria c depois a de loanema. Quando a flora de Ipanctua penSou que nib suportaria nem um segundo m:tis a situacao 4c estar sentada defronte da concunhada de Olaria -que chem das ofensaspassadas nao via mu moth.° para desfitaidesafiadora a entmram enfini nora de Ipanema Jose c a familia. E mal cies sc beijik am. a sala comecou a ficar clicia de genie que ruidosa Sc cumpriMentava como Sc todos tivessem esperado embaixo o momento de. cm afobacao de atraso. subir os tits lances de escada. falando. arrastando criancas surprcendidas. c inaugurando a enchendo a sala festa. Os musculos do rosto da aniversariante nao a interpretavam nuns. de 29
modo que ninguOm podia saber sc cla estava alcgre. ESUIN a era pasta a cabeccira. Tratav a-se de uma Yenta grande. magra. imponente e morena. Parccia oca. — Oitenta c OOVC anos. sim senhor! disse JosO. filho mais clho agora que Jonga 'Infra morrido. Oltenia c fore anos. sim senhoral disse esfregando as maos em admiracao publica c coma mai imperccptiv el para todos. Todos Sc interromperain atentos c olharain a aniv ersana Inc dc um modo mats Alguns abanaram a cabeca cm admiracao coma a um recorde Cada aim cncido pcla aniversariante era u ma iaga ctapa dafamilia toda. Sim senhor! disseram alguns sorrindo tiniidamc nte —Oitenta c noN e!. ecoou Manoel que era socio de JosO. E um brotinhol. disse espirituoso c nen oso. c todos want menos sua csposa. A \c11111 M10 SC manifestav a. Alguns nao the haviam trazido prescnte nenhum. Outros trouxeram sabonetetra. uma combinacao de jersei. um broche de fantasia. um vasinho de cactus — nada. nada que a dory da casa pudessc apro‘ eitar para si mesma on para sous filhos. nada quo a propria aniversariante pudesse realmente aprov char constituindo assini ulna economia: a dona da casa guardav a os presentes. amarga. ironica. Oitenta c nov e anos! repot iu Manoel Alto. olhando para a esposa. A v ciha MO SC MallifCStal a. Entao. coma se todos tiv cssem tido a pro% a final de que nao adiantava Sc esforcarem. corn urn levantar de ombros de quern estivesse junto de uma surda. continuara m a fazer a festa sozinhOs. comenclo os primeiros sanduiches de presunto mais coma proN a de a nimacao que por apetitc. brincando de que todos estavam morrendo de' 30
fame. 0 ponche foi scrvido. Zilda suava. nenhuma cunhada ajudou propriamente. a gordura quente dos croquetes dava um chciro de piqucnique: e de costas para a aniversariante. que nab podia corner frituras. cles riam inquietos. E CordOlia? Cardona. a flora nuiis moo. sentada. sorrindo. - Nao senhor! respondeu Jose corn falsa severidade. hoje nao se fala cm negocios! — Esta certo. esta certo! recuou Manoel depreSsa. olhando rapidamente para sua muffler que de longe estendia um ouvido atento. — Nada de negocios. gritou Jose. hoje é o dia da mae! Na cabeceira da mesa ja stria. os copos cla era a mile. A maculadOs. so o bolo inteiro aniversariante piscou os olhos. E quando a mesa cstava imunda. as macs enervadas coin o barulho que os filhos faziam. efiquanto as twos se rccostavam complacentes nas cadeiras. entao fecharam a infitil luz do corredor para acender a vela do bolo, tuna vela grande corn urn papelzinho colado onde estava escrito -89". Mas ninguem elogiou a idaia de Zilda. c cla se perguntonangustiada se cies nibo estariam pensando qUe fora por cconoinia dc velas — ninguam se lembrando de que 'Unguent havia contribuido coin uma caixa de fosforos sew= para a comida da festa que ela. Zilda. servia coma ulna cscrava. as pes exaustos e o coracao revoltado. .Entao accnderam a Vela. E emit() Jose. o lidcr. canton coin nmita forca. entusiasmando coin um olhar autoritario os mais hesitantcs au. surpreendidos. -vamos! todos de uma vez!" — e todos de repente comecaram a cantar alto como soldados. Despertada pclas VOZCS. CordOlia olhou csbaforida. Como nab haviam combinado. uns cantaram em portugues e outros cm ingles. Tentaram entao corrigir: c os que haviam cantado em ingles passaram a portugues. c os que haviam cantado em portugues passaram a cantar bem baixo cm ingles. Enquanto cantavam. a aniversariante. a luz da vela accsa. meditava coma junto .de uma larcira. Escolheram o bisncto mcnor que. debrucado - no cobo da MAC encorajadora. apagou a chama coin um imico sopro cheio de saliva! Por urn instante bateram palmas ii potencia inesperada do mcnino quo. cspantado c exultante. olhava para todos encantado. A dona da casa esperava corn o deck) pronto no comutador do corredor — c acendeu a himpada. -- Viva maniac! -- Viva vovo! — Viva d. Anita. disse a vizinha que tinha aparecido. — Happy Birthday! gritaram os nctos do Cologio Bennett. Bateram ainda algumas palmas ralas. A aniversariante olhava o bolo apagado. grande C SCCO.
- Parta o bolo. Nava! disse a mae dos quatro Mhos. é cla quern deve partir! assegurou incerta a todos. corn ar intimo c intrigante. E. coma todos aprovasscm satisfeitos c curiosos. ela se tornou de repente impetuosa: parta o bolo. vova ! E ,de siibito a velha pegou na faca. E sem
hesitacao. coma se hesitando um momenta eta toda caisse para a frcnte. den a primeira talhada cam punho dc assas' sina. — Que forea. segredou a 'lora de Ipanema. c nib° Sc sabia se estava cscandalizada ou agradavelmente surpreendida. E.stava um pouco horrorizada. — Ha um ano atrtis cla era capaz de subir cssas escadas com mats felego do que cu. disse Zilda a ma rga. Dada a prime ira talhada. como se a primeira pa de terra tiVCSSC sido lancada. todos se aproximaram de prato na ma°. insintiando-se em fingidas acotoveladas de animacao. cada um para a sua pazinha. Em breve as fatias cram distribuidas pclos pratinhos. num silencio cheio de reboIlea. As criancas pcquenas. corn a boca escondida pela mesa c os olhos ao iii el dcsta. a co mpa nhavam a 'distribuicao coin muda intensidade. As passas rolavain do bolo entre farelos sccos. AS Criancas angustiadas Vialll se desperdicarem as passas. acompanhava in ate 11tas a queda. E quando foram ver. nibo •d que a aniversariante jib estava devorando o sell ultimo bocado? . E por assim dizcr a testa •,c,staVa terminada.. Cordelia olhava au.scnte para todos. soffit). JO lhc disse: !tote no se fala em negacios! responder' Jose radiante. Estti certo. esta certo! recolheu-se Manoel conciliador sem olhar a esposa que nab o desfitava. ESta certo. tentou Manoel sorrir e urna contracao passou-lhe rapida pelos mitsculos da cara. — Hojc d dia da mac! disse Jose. Na cabcceira da mesa. a toalha manchada de cocacola. o bolo desabado. ela era &mite. A aniversariante piscou. Eles se mexiam agitados. rind°, a sua familia. E ela NEWS from BRAZIL - MAY 1995
era a infic de todos. E se dc repente nao se ergueu. coino um morto se levanta dcvagar e obriga mudez c terror aos vivos. a aniversariante Ikon mats dura na cadcim e mais alta. Fla era a mac de todos. E como a presilha a sufocasse. cla era a mac de todos c. impotente a cadeira. desprelaVa-OS. E olhava-os piscando. Todos aqueles sous filhos e netos c bisnetos que no passavam dc carne dc sett joclho. pcnsou de rcpente conto se cuspisse. Rodrigo. o ncto de setc anos. era o nine° a ser a carne de seu coracao. Rodrigo. corn aguela carinha dura. viril c despentcada. Cade Rodrigo? Rodrigo coin olhar sonolento entumescido naqucla cabccinha ardente. confusa. Aguele seria um homcm. Mas. pi scando. cla olhava os outros. a aniversariante. Oh. o &sore/0 pela vida que falhava. Como? ! como tend° sido tao forte pudcra dar luz aquelcs sores opacos. corn bracos moles c rostos ansiosos? Ela. a forte. que casara cm hora e tempo dcv idos coin um born homem a quern. obediente c indcpendente. eta respeitara: a quern respcitara c clue the fizera filhos c the pagara os partos c lime honrara os resguardos. 0 tronco fora born. Mas dcra Nudes azedos e infelizes frutos. sem capacidade sequer para uma boa alegria. Como. pudcra ela dar a luz Nudes scrcs risonhos. frocos. sem austcridadc? 0 rancor roncava no sett pcito vazio. Uns comunistas. era o tate cram: tins comunistas. Olhott-os coin sua Mora dc venni. Parceiam ratos se acotoVelando. a sua htcoercivel. virou a cabeca e com forca insuspeita cuspiu no chao. -- Maniac! gritou mortificada a dona da casa. Que d isso. mamac! gritou ela passada de vergonha. e nao quo ria sequer olharosoutros. sabia clue os desgracados Sc entreolhavam vitoriosos como se coubesse a cla dar educacao a voila. c nao
faltaria muito para dizerem clue cla já no daN a mais banho na- mac. jamais compreenderiam •o Marne. que é issol sacrificio que ela fazia. dissc baixo. angustiada. A senhora nunca fez isso! acrescentou alto para que todos ouvissem. qucria se agregar ao espanto dos outros. quando o gale, cantar pela terceira vez reneg,aras ttta MAC. Mas sett enorme vexame suavizou-se quando ela percebeu clue des abanavam a cabeca como se estivessem de acordo clue a velha nao passtn a agora de uma crianca. — Ultimamente ela deu pra cuspir. terminou entao confessando contrita para todos. Todos olharam a ann ersariante. compungidos. respeitosos. em Parcciam ratos Sc acotoN eland°. a sua familia Os meninos. embora crcscidos — provavciniente já •atom dos cinqiienta anos que sci co! — os meninos ainda consen avant os tracos bointinhos. Mas que mulheres haviam escolhido! E quo mulhercs os netos — ainda mais fracos e mais azedos —haviam escolhido. Todas vaidosas e de pernas finas, corn aquelcs colarcs falsificados de mulher que na hora no agilenta a mao. aquelas mulherezinhas cute casavam mal os filhos. que nibo sabiam pôr uma criada em sett lugar. c todas clas corn as orelhas cheias de brincos — nenhum. nenhum de ouro! A raiva a sufoca‘ a. -- Me da mu copo devinho! disse 0 silencio se fez de siibito. cada um corn o copo imobilizado na mao. Vovozinha. nao vai bite fazer mar insinuou cautelosamente a neta rolica e baixinha. — Que vovozinha que nada! explodiu amarga a anix crsariante. Que o diabo Vos carregue. corja de maricas. cornos e vagabundas! Mc (la um copo de vinho. Doroth) I. ordenou. Dorothy no sabia o que fazer. olhott para todos cm pedido comic° de socorro. Mas. como mascaras isentas e inapelaveis. de snbito nenhum rosto se manifestava. A festa interrompida. os sanduiches mordidos na mao. algum pedaco que estaN a na boca a sobfar scco. inchando tao fora de hora a bochecha. Todos tinham ficado ccgos. surdos c mudos. coin croquetes na mao. E olhavam impassiveis. Desamparada. divertida. Dorothy deu o aStliCi0Salllellte apenas dois dedos no copo. Inexpressivos. preparados. todos esperaram pela tempestade. Mas nab so a aniversariante nao explodiu corn a misdria de vinho que Dorothy Ihe dera como nao mexeu no copo. • Seu olhar estava fixo. silencioso. Como se nada tivesse acontecido. Todos Sc entreolharam polidos. sorrindo cegamente. abstratos canto se um cachorro tivesse fen° pipi na sala. Corn estoicismo. recomecaram as N'OZCS C risadas, A nora de Olaria_ que tivera o scu primciro moment° unissono corn os outros quando a tragedia vitoriosantente parecia prestes a sc deseneadear. teve que retornar sozinha a sua severidade. sem no mottos o apoio dos hes fillios quo agora Sc misturavam traidoramcnte corn os ontros. De Slia cadeirareclusa. ela analisava critica
aquelcs vcstidos scut nephiun model°. sent um drapeado. a mania quo huh= dc usar veshdo preto corn colar de pdrolas. o clue nao era moda coisa nenlitima. nao passava era -de economia. Examinando distante os sanduiches que mime nao tinham "outdo manic iga. Ela nflo se servira de nada. de nada!' So comera uma coisa de cada. para experimentar. E por assim dizcr. dc 110V0 a fcsta cstava tenninada. As pc ssoas ficaram sentadas benevolentes. Algunias corn a atencao voila& para dcntro de si. a cspera de alguma coisa a dint.. °turas vazias c expectantes. corn um sorriso amavel. o estomago chcio &quotas porcarias que nao alimentavam mas titavain a fonte. As criancas. já incontrolaveis. gritavam cheias de vigor. Umas jit estavam de cara imunda: as outras. menores. ja molhadas: a tardc caia rapidamente. E Cordelia? Cordelia olhava ausente. corn um sorriso estonteaclo. suportando sozinha o scu scgredo. Quo é gm ela tern'? algitem perguntou corn mita curiosidadc negligente. indicando-a de longe corn a cabeca. mas tambem nao responderam. Acenderam o resto das luzes para precipitar a tranquilidade da noitc. as criancas co mecav a m a brigar. Mas as Inns cram mais palidas que a tensao palida da tardc. E o creptisctilo de Copacabana. scum ceder. no entanto se alargava cadaVCZ IllaiS c penetrava pclas janelas como um peso. — Tenho quo ir. disse perturbada lima das noras levantando-sc e sacudindo os farclos da saia. Varios se eigueram sorrindo. A aniversariante reccbeu urn beijo cattteloso de cada um como se sua pelc tao infamiliarfossc uma a rmadilha. E. impassive'. piscando. reccbett aquclas pa lay ras propositadamcnte atropcladas que Ihe diziam tentando 31
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dar um final arranco de efusao ao qucnao era mais semis° passado: a noite jã Niera quase totalmente. A luz da sala parecia emit° mais amarela c mais rica. as pcssoas envelhecidas. As criancas ja estaN am histericas. — Sera quc ela pensa que o bolo substitui o jantar. indagava-sc a Cilla IlaS suas profundezas. Mas ninguem poderia adivinhar o quc ela pellSaVa. E pant aqueles que junto da porta ainda a olharant uma vez. a .aniversariante era apcnas o clue precut scr: scntada a cabcceira da mesa imunda. corn a ma° fechada sobre a toalha como cncerrand° um cetro. c corn aqucla mudez quc era a sua Ultima palm ra. Com um punho fechado sobre a mesa. nunca mais cla seria apenas o quc eta pensasse. Sua aparencia au nab a ultrapassara c. superando-a. se agigantaN a serena Cordelia olhou-a espantada. 0 punho mudo e SCA ero .sobre a mesa dizia para a infcliz nora quc sem remedio antava tal‘ cz pela miltima VCI: E precis° que Sc saiba. E precis° que se saiba. Oue a vida é culla. Que a vida é curia. Porem nenhuma VCI mais repetiu. Pontiac a verdade era um relance. Cordelia olhou-a estarrecida. E. para nunca mais. nenhuma vet repetiu cnquanto Rodrigo. o neto da aniversariante. puxava a mao daquela mac culpada, perplexa c desesperada que mais ulna VCZ oihou para tnis nnplorando a velhice ainda um sinal de que tuna mulher do e. num impeto dilaccranle, eight) agarrar a sua derradeira chance c viver. Mais uma vez Cordelia quis olhar. Mas a esse 110V0 olhar -a aniversariante era unta velha a cabeccira da mesa. Passara o rclance. E arrastada pela mao pacieme e insistente de Rodrigo a nora seguiu-o espantada. — Nem todos tern o privilegio c o orgulho dc sc reunirem em torno da mac.
pigarreou Jose lembrando-:se de quc Jonga fazia os discursos. — Da mac. virgula! nu baixo a sobrinha. riu sem achar graca. — Nos temos. disse Manoel acabntnhado sent mais °Mar pant a esposa. Nos tcmos csse grandc privilegio. disse distraido enxttgando a patina nmida das maos. Mas nao era nada disso. apenas o mal-estar da despedida. nunca Sc sabendo ao certo o que dizer. Jose esperando de si mcsmo coin perseveranca e confianca a proxima frase do diseurso. Otte nao vinha. Otte nao vinha. Oue nao vinha. Os outros aguardavam. Como Jonga fazia falto nessas horas — Jose enxugou a testa corn o leiwo — corm Jonga fazia falta nessas horns! Tambem fora o Unico a quern a velha semprc aprovara c respeitara. c isso .clera a Jonga tanta seguranca:: E quando etc morrera. a N•elha nunca mais falara nele. pondo um muro enure sua !none c es outros. Esquecera-o talvez. Mas nao esquecera aquele.mesmo olhar firme e dircto corn que dcsde sempre °Mara os outrosfilhos. fazendo-os sempre dcsviar os olhos. Amor de mae era dttro de suportar: Jose enxugott a testa. heroic°. risonho. E de repentc veio a frase: — Ate o ano que vein disse Jose subitamente coin malicia, encontrando, assint. Sent mais nem menos. a frase certa: tuna indireta feliz! Ate o ano que vein. hein?. repent' corn receio de nao scr comprcendido. Olhou-a. orgulhoso da artimanha da velha que espertamente sempre vivia mais urn ano. • — No ano quc \ 'cm nos Veremos4iante do bolo accso! csclareceu inelhor o filho Ivlanoch aperfeicoando o espirito do sOcio. Ate o ano que vein. mamae! e diante do bolo aceso! disse cle bent explicado. perto de sett ouvido. enquanto olhava obsequiadorpara Jose. Ea Velha de sabito cacarejou um riso frouxo. compreendendo a alus.io. Entao ela abriu a boca e disse: Pois C. Estimulado pela coisa tet clado tao inesperadamente certo. Jose gritou-the emocionado. grab. COm os °tilos funidos: --- No ano que 'Vein nos veremos. maniac! Nao sou surda! disse a aniversariante rude. acarinhada. Os filhos se olharam rindo. vexados. felizes. A coisa tinba dado ccrto. As criancas foram saindo alegres, corn o apetite estragado. A nora de Olaria ,deu um cascudo de vinganca no filho alegre dcmais e ja sem gravata. As escadas cram dificeis. escuras. incrivel insistir em marar num prediozinho que seria fatalmente demolido mais dia inenos dia. e Naacao de despejo Zilda ainda ia dar trabalho e querer ernpurrar a velhapara as floras — pisado o ultimo degrau. coin alivio os convidados se etwontraram na tranqiiilidade fresca da rua. Era noite. sim. Como seu primeiro 'arrepio.. Adeus. ate outro dia. precisamos nos ver. Aparecam. disseram rapidamente. Alguns conseguiram olhar nos olhos dos outros coin uma cordialidade sent receio. Alguns abotoavam os
casacos das criancas. °thando o ceu a procttra de um si nal do tempo. Todos sentindo obscuramente quc na despedida se podcria talvez. agora sem perigode compromisso. ser borne dizer aquela palavra a mais — que palavra? Elcs nao sabiain propriamente. c sorrindo. mudos. Era um' instante qtte pcdia para scr vivo. Mas que era mono. • Comccarani a sc separar., andando mei() de costas. sem saber como sc dcsligar dos parentcs sem brusquidito. Ate o ano gm: vent! repetitt Jose a indircta fell,. accnando a ma° com*vigor efusivo. os cabelos ralos e brancos esvoacavain. Elc cstava era gordo. pensaram. precisava tomarcuidado corn o coracito. Ate o ano que vein! gritou Jose eloquentc c grande. c sua altura parccia desmoronavel. Mas as peSsoas ja afastadas nao sabiam sc deviam rir alto pant dc ouvir ou se bastaria sorrir mesmo no escuro. Alein de alguns pensarem quc felizmoue havia ma is do que uma brincadeira na indireta e que so no proximo ano seriam obrigados a se encontrar diante do bolo accso: que outros. jä . , mats mais , 110 no escuro da rua. pensavain se a velha resistiria mais tun ano ao Demos° c ii impaCiencia de Zilda. nuts cies sinceramente nada podiam fazer a respeito. 'Tel° menos noventa anos". poison melancolica a nora dc Ipanenta. 'Tara, completar uma data bonita". pensou sonhadora. Enquanto isso. hi cm cima. sobre escadas c contingencias. cstava a aniversariante sentada a cabecerra da , mesa. erecta. definitiva. maior do que cla incsma. Sera que hoje nab vai ter jantar. mcditava eta. A 'none • era o seu misted°. •
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are his primary passion. A talented, Marilia Pera. Other credits include a dozen additional charismatic and humorous Brazilian, Marcelo unproduCed screenplays. Marcelo's current projects in production are Surprising Florid째 has come a long way. Today he's a Movies successful screenwriter and he's now on his way to produc- Call and Joca Pivete. Surprising Call is a modern day ing his own movies. Marcelo was born and raised in Rio Hitchcock style piece about three characters trapped in a Comprido, a small suburb of Rio de Janeiro. Fourteen years nightmare of their own creation. The script was co-written ago he dreamed of coming to the United States to study with Mineiro (from Minas Gerais state) Leonardo Veras who will also direct the movie with Florio, as a low budget film. His passion for film began very early during his adoles- film project to be shot in Los Angeles. Joca Pivete is based cence. He occupied his time by watching American movies on a Brazilian book by Helvecio Siqueira e Silva. It's about and eventually became fascinated with cinema. He loved a group of abandoned minors brought to a rural reform American Film so much that he realized he had to come to center where they struggle to reshape their lives. The film Los Angeles and immerse himself in American Cinema. will be directed by Capixaba (from Espirito Santo state) Deonizio Pinto who will "I am first, secalso produce it withFlorido ond and lastly a with the support of Polo film-oriented perCinema of Vit6ria, the son," he says, "havcapital of Espirito Santo. ing seen about 7,000 Despite all these acfilms, from the sicomplishments, Florio is lents through my fastill struggling for an opvorite decade, the portunity in Hollywood. 30's, to the present." "This is a very hard busiToday Florid째 ness," he remarks. "In the has accomplished not beginning of my career I only his aspiration of tried personally to deliver studying film in L. my scripts to big directors A. but also the dream and stars, so I would attend of actually writing Golden Globes and Acadand producing his emy Awards to meet people own movies and in the hopes that they would plays. He received a be interested in my master's degree in scripts," he laughed. "SoFilm and TV Arts metimes it worked, people from Columbia Colwould grab my scripts and lege in L.A., howeven called me but it never ever, his main intergot anywhere". est is writing screenMarcelo also recalls the plays. "Basically I time when he worked in am interested in a the offices of Hollywood wide range of subproducers and they conjects both Brazilian While half of L.A. residents dream of getting stantly received scripts and American," he from well known actors and a stint at the movies, Brazilian Marcelo notes, adding, "I also actresses. "People like Paul love European movFloriao has had his share of the Hollywood Newman and other huge ies and I would say dream. He has been producing and writing stars were also trying to that I'm very influplace their scripts just like smaller plays and films while drafting enced by Hollywood I was so I realized that I films as well as Euthe Big American Movie. was competing with Paul ropean films." Newman trying to sell my CRISTINA M LEIBSCHER One of his previscripts," he laughed. But ous projects included Autobiography of a Star, a play starring British actress the obstacles didn't stop Florid째. Persistence is one of his Catherine McGoohan. Written and produced by Florid째 in greatest qualities. However, writing and producing films and plays are not 1994, the play is about the ups and downs of a Hollywood star who reviews her life as she writes her own autobiogra- Marcelo's only talent. This gifted Carioca (from Rio) phy. "I first wrote this play in Portuguese for Marilia Pera writer speaks seven languages, which he considers a (a prominent Brazilian actress, producer and director) who "hobby." He's fluent in French, Italian, Spanish, German, suggested many script changes for production in Brazil, English and Portuguese off course. "I have worked in jobs that required my use of these languages. First tourism for though it never became reality," he laments. Floriao has also written several screenplay adaptations seven years, and now international film distribution, dealsuch as Prisoner of Rio, a Polish/Brazilian film shot in Rio ing with foreign clients." Marcelo is interested in real life subjects and his favorin 1987 about British Ronald Biggs, of the "Great Train Robbery" fame, as well as the screenplay adaptation of The ite writers and producers are Woody Allen and Almodovar. Prima Donna, a hit play in Rio being adapted for film "I like people-oriented films dealing with human nature production. "The play was originally written by Alcione and man's quest for self-knowledge and growth," he exAranjo, and it's about an opera singer with no talent who plains. Marcelo resides in the Hollywood Hills and when he's braves the hinterlands of Brazil to delight and disgust her audiences with her tragicomic tales and songs," he ex- not working he's either watching movies or talking about them. This L.A. resident of more than 14 years, who came plains. In addition, Floriao translated into Portuguese and from Brazil determined to pursue his dream, has shown his adapted for television two highly acclaimed Noel Coward talent and the future looks very promising. We wish him plays: Waiting in the Wings and Present Laughter, also for well.
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Chicken Soup (Canja de (ialinha)
In the Kitchen with Tie Her parents are Chinese. She was born in Indonesia. The US has been her home since 1979. But you probably won't find anyone in the US who knows more about Brazilian cuisine than Eng Tie Ang. DARLY SERQUEIRA
Ask Eng Tie Ang what her nationality is and she will answer "Brazilian" without a second thought. And she is Brazilian. She was five when her parents emigrated from Indonesia to Suzano, a town in the interior of the state of Sao Paulo. It was there that Eng Tie went to grammar school, high school, and the University of Braz Cubas, where she graduated from the School of Architecture and
1 tablespoon fresh Italian parsley, finel %chopped I tablespoon green onion. chopped
3-4 lb. chicken, cut into small pieces 3 quarts water 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon ground white pepper I cup white long grain rice. washed, drained I yellow onion. chopped 1 carrot, finely diced 1 clove garlic. crushed 3 medium tomatoes. peeled. seeded. chopped
In a large pot, combine the chicken, water, skill and :White pepper and cook for 1 hour or until the chicken is tender. Add the rice, onion, carrot, garlic and tomatoes and simmer until rice is well-cooked. approximately 30 minutes. Garnish with parsley and green onion. Serves 6-8.
Urbanism. Despite a valuable diploma, an assured career as an architect and a promising future, Tie, as she likes to be called, wanted to travel. The young architect initially went to Taiwan. While there she developed her artistic talent for painting Chinese watercolors. She started to teach her hosts what she appreciated and learned with her mother — the cook for the small family restaurant -- about Brazilian cuisine. Her classes became a hit and Tie found a new vocation. When, at age 21, architect-painter-cook-instructor Eng Tie Aug swapped Taiwan for the US and decided to study at a computer college, it was her Brazilian food knowledge that helped her pay for the studies. Settled in Seattle, where she has worked as an architect for two years, Tie finally decided to make her cooking expertise her main career. Today she teaches Brazilian and Thai cooking at
the Washington University in addition to schools like Kitchen Kitchen and Bon Marche. At the insistence of her students she released in 1993 Delightful Brazilian Cooking, a compilation of the best Brazilian recipes she knows. She found her editor at home. He is her husband Donald Richard Bissonnett who writes children's books and teaches English at Washington University. Tie, who has two small children (Alex, 10 and Andre, 7) has become a celebrity of sorts. She has been invited to TV programs, and articles about her and her work have been published frequently inthe mainstream American press. She's even got her own TV show. Too much success can be dangerous though and the Brazilian master cook found that out the hard way when she was told that she was being prohibited from participating in culinary competitions from now on. The reason given was that she was al-
Stuffed Green Peppers (Pinteotao Rec./war/a
1/2 lb. ground pork I cup cooked rice 1/2 teaspoon salt I small yellow onion, chopped 3 cloves garlic, crushed 4 tablespoons cooked ham. chopped I teaspoon ground black pepper I egg, beaten 4 large green bell peppers. seeded, cut lengthwise
I can tomato SaliCe 115 0/.1 In a howl, mix the pork. rice. salt, onion, garlic, ham. pepand egg. Stuff the peppers xvith this mixture and place into a 9x13 inch baking pan and pour the tomato sauce over the peppers. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees for 5 minutes, then bake the peppers, covered, at 350 degrees for 30 minutes or until the peppers are cooked. Serves 6-8.
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Bahian Fish Muqueca (.Ihtqueca de Peixe) 4 tablespoons den& oil 1 chow onion. finely chopped 1 fresh red hot czff cone pepper. chopped 3 cloves garlic, crushed 2 teaspoons ground coriander 2 lb halibut. cut into 4-inch sq wires 1/2 teaspoon salt 4 tablespoons fresh lemon juice 4 large tomatoes, peeled. seeded. chopped I teaspoon ground w hite pepper
I can coconut milk (14 11. oz.)* 2 teaspoons Italian parsley. finely chopped teal the oil in a medium-sized pot and stir-fr the onion wail golden brown. Add the enne. garlic, coriander and halibut. Stir-fry for 3 minutes. Add the salt, lemon juice. tomatoes. white pepper. coconut milk and parsley. Simmer for 10 minutes or until the fish is cooked. Serve w ith Brazilian Rice. Serves 4-6.
she delights her students ways the winner! How does Tie explain her with some of Brazil's finest book's success? "The work culinary treats. Tie says that her heart is a hit because the American-style recipes are easy to continues to be in Brazil, her adopted and cook homeland. people con"One of the sider them the Cachava (Brazilian Spirits) Cocktail benefits of real thing," (Catpirinha) offering she says. Toclasses in day, with Brazilian all 2 tablespoons sugar spices 2 fresh limes, finely grated cooking," around, she and squeezed says Tie, plies her trade 1 cup cachaca or white rum "is that I in the Green- 1 cup crushed ice get to meet wood area of Seattle in her In a small bowl, combine the a lot of inultra-modern sugar, grated lime peel and teresting kitchen. She lime juice. Let stand for 5 people who teaches ethnic minutes. Add the cachaca. have either cooking two Pour the cocktail mixture into traveled to evenings a small glasses filled with ice. or lived in Serves 4. Brazil. It's in week nice being classes that are always full, with stu- with them, telling stories, dents on a waiting list hop- and teaching them to cook ing for an opening. One of authentic meals. Even after her specialty courses is en- 16 years inthe United States, titled "Delightful Brazilian I still consider Brazil to be Cooking", the same as her my home." In Delightful Brazilian cookbook. From feijoada completa to pao de queijo, Cooking, there are over 130 Coconut Custard Witindins de CI co I cup sugar 1/2 cup water 2 tablespoons butter or margarine. melted 4 tablespoons fresh coconut. Intel' grated 6 egg yolks, beaten 12 custard cups In a small pan. combine the sugar and w ater and cook over a low heat until it spins a thread. stiffing occasionally. Add the butter. Cool. Mix the NEWS from BRAZIL. MAY 1995
coconut and egg yolks and add ' to the s‘ nip. stirring w ell w ith w ooden spoon. Pour into small, individually buttered custard cups and put in a 9x 13 inch baking pan. containing 1 inch of hot water and bake in a 350 degree oven for 40 minutes The top of each custard should be light brown in color. Let cool. then place upside down in white paper baking cups. When turned over, the bottom should have a tender, jelly-like consistency. Makes 10-12.
Breaded Veal Cutlet 3ife Milanesa ) 2 lb. veal steak. 1/2 inch thick individual servings 4 cloves garlic. crushed I teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon ground w kite pepper 2 tablespoons Italian parsley. chopped 4' eggs. beaten 2 cups tine bread crumbs 1/2 cup vegetable oil for deep-frying
Rub each piece of steak on both sides w ith garlic, salt. pepper and Italian parsle . Dip each piece of steak in the egg and then coat the steaks w ith bread crumbs. Deep-fr the breaded meat in a large Irving pan over medium heat for about 3 minutes on each side or until golden brow n. Serve with pepper and lemon sauce. ( .1'he same recipe can be used for beef. chicken. fish or shrimp. ) Serves 4-6.
recipes which Tie has dili- a dozen eggs or more are gently collected, over the really a thing of the past. years. Many of her recipes With my recipes, I have have been modified, how- maintained the integrity of ever, due to health con- the dishes, as well as the sciousness concerns on the excellent taste, but I have author's part. As she says, paid close attention to health "With all that science and concerns. Therefore, things medicine have told us about like fios de ovos (a sweet fatty foods and foods high whose main ingredient are in cholesterol, it would be eggs), though delicious, almost criminal on my part simply couldn't be included to continue using the tradi- in good conscience in Detional oils and huge egg lightful Brazilian Cooking." counts for some recipes, The book is available in when there are other oils bookstores, but you might available in the US that taste prefer to write, call, or fax just as good, and are far less for an autographed copy to harmful to our bodies." Ambrosia Publications Tie continues, "The PO Box 30818 same is also true for items Seattle, WA. 98103. like eggs and sugar. Cakes Tel. and fax: and other recipes calling for (206) 789-3693.
Brazilian Black Beans (FeOada ('ompleta) 2 tablespoons vegetable oil 1 large yellow onion. chopped 4 cloves garlic. crushed 4 cups dried black beans, soaked overnight. drained 1 lb. salt pork. boiled for 5 minutes. cut into I-inch cubes 2 lb. Portuguese sausage (lingiiica)or Italian sausage I lb. smoked lean ham hocks 2 lb. corned beef. cut into 2-inch cubes 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons ground black pepper 4 bay leaves I fresh orange, washed very W ell, cut in half 2 1/2 quarts water 6 oranges, peeled, sliced
Heat the oil in a large. heavy. deep pot and stir-fry the onion and garlic for I minute or until light golden brown. Add the beans, salt pork, Portuguese sausage. ham hocks, corned heel. salt, black pepper. ba leaves, halved-orange and water. Cover and simmer for 2 hours or until the beans are tender, stirring occasionally and adding water if needed. Serve with sliced oranges, manioc meal with butter and eggs. Brazilian rice, collard greens. vinaigrette sauce and atchaca (Brazilian Spirits) Cock[All of which is taught in the hook.] Serves 8-10
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matched only by the awe which the early travelers described on their arrival by sea, when Guanabara Bay was the ideal harbor for the Portuguese fleet on its regular visits to pick up the gold from the "Capitania de Minas Gerais". For more than a century after Brazil was discovered, the Atlantic Forest was "the Brazil," and most of Brazil's history is along this coastal belt. The area between Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, going inland towards the mountains of Minas Gerais has been of difficult access until quite recently, and hence many treasures from the past have been preserved, and are still little known despite their great cultural interest and scenic beauty. The mountains rising to over 7000 feet in the Serra da Bocaina and Serra dos Orgaos, and 9000 in the Agulhas Negras at Itataia Park, acted for a long time as a barrier to expansion inland. The surviving areas of the dense Atlantic Rain Forest which covered them still contain flora and fauna as diverse as in any tropical forest. Parts were cleared in the 17th century to plant sugar, in the 18th to feed the increased population of the gold mining areas, in the 19th for coffee. Modern paved roads replace the ways which formerly carried gold and coffee to the coast, slaves and merchandise inland. They still wind along the river valleys that awed the early settlers, between and over the iron mountains of Minas Gerais and the granite mountains of the "Serra do Mar" whose forests go down to the sea. A week or two between the airports of Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte is rewarded with more of the real Brazil than a 5000 km. circuit of its capitals. An association of private hotel owners has recently been formed which pools their first hand knowledge to help plan such tours. The name "Roteiros de Charme," implies that the journeys can be as pleasant and interesting as the inns on the way. SAFE HARBORS AND GOLD ROUTES Rio de Janeiro was discovered for the Portuguese crown in January 1531, but was first colonized by the French. In 1555 a knight of Malta, Nicholas Villegagnon, landed in Guanabara Bay on an uninhabited island, which now bears his name and lies beside the present Santos Dumont airport, and built a fort which he named after the French admiral Coligny. The French allied themselves with the local Tamoio Indians, but a Portuguese force from Bahia, reinforced by Indians from Padre Anchieta's settlement in Sao Vicente, drove them out. Not till 1570 was Rio firmly in Portuguese hands. 40
No way could be found through the wild forests and mountains above and behind Guanabara Bay for at least another century. It was not till the beginning of the 18th century that a pass was discovered by the picturesque "Black River" (Rio Preto) that permitted a direct route to Guanabara Bay for the gold from the mines in Minas Gerais, and for soldiers and supplies from the capital. After many vicissitudes, including a second landing by French corsairs in Guanabara Bay, the "Caminho Novo" was inaugurated in 1723. Parts of the old road, and the once impassable "Rio Preto," can be seen from the modem highway; this eear and turbulent river is still the border between the modem States of Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais. Previous to this time, gold from the recently discovered mines had been taken by routes nearer to Sao Paulo, along the "Costa Verde" or Green Coast, where several donkey tracks were in use down the forested escarpment above the sea known as the "Serra do Mar." It was natural that when corsairs threatened the Portuguese fleet in Rio de Janeiro, Parati should continue to be the safe harbor which received the gold. Its well-preserved colonial streets and fine houses testify to the importance of the old port. Long abandoned cannons lie on some of the many islands in the clear waters of the bay, now frequented by fishermen and small groups of snorkeling tourists on their isolated beaches. PETROPOLIS, A ROYAL RETREAT The gold mines were mostly exhausted by 1821 when Dom Pedro, son of the Portuguese king, rode to Vila Rica to prevent an uprising of the discontented mineiros. He was then able to assume, as Pedro I, the crown of a Brazil independent of Portugal. His way took him past the junction of the rivers Rio Quitandinha and Piabanha where 30 years later his son Pedro II established Petropolis, the summer retreat of the Brazilian court. The basis of the economy that built Petropolis was coffee. The modem road to Minas crosses the river Paraiba, along whose valley can be seen some of the great plantation houses of the "coffee barons" of Dom Pedro's court. Petropolis, now an hour's scenic drive from Rio, has become a busy town, with good restaurants and hotels nearby. The Summer Palace, now a museum, has been maintained much as it was when occupied by the Brazilian Royal Family. NEWS from BRAZIL- MAY 1995
MINAS'S BAROQUE MONUMENTS Another mountain range, the Serra da Mantiqueira, lies between the mansions of Petropolis and the Paraiba valley, and the Portuguese colonial towns which in the 18th century sent gold on donkey-back through the "Serra do Mar" to the coast. Here the unspoilt colonial buildings, the baroque churches, astonish and delight the modern visitor by their grace and surroundings. These are towns where the traveler can walk unmolested through the winding streets, or rest with a good book in a garden or beside a fountain, or swim in a clear stream among the mountainous landscapes which frame the rich Portuguese colonial architecture that has made them famous. Old gold workings can be seen, and the colonial centers maintain cultural traditions ranging from handicrafts to locally composed church music. TIRADENTES AND OURO PRETO The closest of these towns is Tiradentes, the old Vila Sao Jose whose rich Portuguese colonial architecture is framed by a part of the surviving forest at the foot of the Serra Sao Jose. The mountain is now an environmental preservation area, good walking country with streams and small waterfalls in the high Savannah, and paths through the forest at the foot of the cliff. Its main church of Santo Antonio is one of Brazil's finest baroque masterpieces, dating from the first half of the eighteenth century, its drinking fountain, the "Chafariz," fed from springs in the forest is one of the finest of its kind. Fifteen km. away by road is Sao Joao del Rey, another colonial town of importance; these two towns are also joined by a narrow gauge steam railway, inaugurated by Dom Pedro in 1889, which still runs at weekends using the original rolling stock. The museum in Tiradentes is a fine 18th century house once occupied by Padre Toledo, a priest who played a leading part in the abortive uprising known as the "Inconfidencia," inspired partly by the republican ideas of the French Revolution and the American Independence, and partly by the need of some of the owners of the gold mines to avoid paying taxes overdue to the
Portuguese Crown at a time of diminishing revenues. Tiradentes was the nickname of the idealist among the conspirators, born in the administrative district of Vila de Sao Jose. He was executed and the other conspirators exiled. In 1889 Brazil became a republic and Tiradentes a national hero; his birthplace was renamed after him. Further inland, a picturesque and interesting road leads to Congonhas do Campo and Ouro Preto. The first is notable for the inspired Basilica and Stations of the Cross by the Brazilian sculptor Aleijadinho, also responsible for the facade of the Santo Antonio church in Tiradentes, and other masterpieces in Ouro Preto. Ouro Preto, formerly "Vila Rica," 18th century capital of the gold-mining capital of the "Capitania de Minas Gerais," has been considered one of Mankind's Cultural Heritage Centers by UNESCO since 1983. Its many churches, fine houses, and urban spaces were preserved intact as the 19th century capital of the Province of Minas Gerais, and constitute the greatest concentration of B razil ' s unique baroque architecture. Close by is Mariana, seat of the bishopric since colonial times. Three weeks is a reasonable time to enjoy this part of B razil, divided approximately into a week for touring, a week by the seaside, and a week in the mountains. But a week's itinerary of less than 800 km gives a good taste of what is available: It is one hour's drive from Galeao airport by Rio de Janeiro to Petropolis where the museum opens at mid-day. You may lunch at Itaipava and have leisurely drive to Tiradentes or you can ride the direct bus from Rio to Sao Joa'o del Rey. Three nights at the Solar da Ponte (to allow two full days — a minimum). By road to Congonhas and Ouro Preto (about five hours including lunch and a visit to the Basilica). Allow not less than two or three nights in Ouro Preto. The Pousada Mondego can arrange direct transport to or from Belo Horizonte airport (about two hours). No Brazilian itinerary is complete without at least a week among the treasures left by Brazil's two great economic cycles: gold in the eighteenth century and coffee in the nineteenth.
BRAZIL'S GOLD TOWNS IN THE ATLANTIC FOREST A week of re-discovery from airport to airport OURO PRETO: TIRADENTES: PETROPOLIS:
2 hours' drive from Confins Airport (Belo Horizonte) Your host in Ouro Preto: Ricardo Pereira at the Pousada Mondego* 11/2 hours' drive from Congonhas which is 11/2 hours from Ouro Preto. Your host in Tiradentes: John and Anna-Maria Parsons at the Solar da Ponte* The Imperial Summer Palace: 3 hours's drive from Tiradentes and 1 hour from Galeao airport (Rio de Janeiro). There are good Pousadas* nearby.
*The Pousadas are members of the exclusive Association ROTEIROS DE CHARME* Tel/FAX(Brazil 55) (21) 273-1592. Phone or fax your program for advice about transport, meeting at airport, special itineraries, beaches, etc. SOLAR DA PONTE 55 32 355 1255 FAX 1201 - POUSADA DO MON DEGO 55 31 551 2040 FAX 3094 NEWS from BRAZIL - MAY 1995
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The representaye • , the latest generation of gif :d composers of Brazilian Popp r. music (mPB) arc neither in their fifties nor are lheY nam Gi berto Gil. Caeta no VcMEG, I ilton , Nascimento and Chico Barque de Holanda. They aren't: i their forties either and . ,. they .4ton't called Djavan. Joliet . BOliO, qr Ivan Lins. Good . li IMian music is not the . so ilroperty of some - •:01 geniuses who tat d their careers itinhf. I 960s and 70s . /„.tzuf8 continue actwely to this day. , ..i No, the lates gibp of Brazilian tal , 'ented composers is z , group of musicians i ir twenties an . ly thirties. Even, t ugh they come 1 rttin different regions , 0,,trhkecou i itl'hiethey il 1%eets- .. among themselves. mpesing in partnership, singnig each other' s songs. iey are not committed to ytparticular style of music , yl they glide with ease from neptisical style and rhythm to oUter;be it jazz. samba. reggA' rock. Some of them have eyed' ; .a serious crush on rock and g11 before moving with their rock i.Iggage to MPB. 4\N/rite their names down. You *going to hear a lot about this '. ill* sextet. Three of them are / 1: Marisa Monte. Cassia Eller riana Calcanhoto. The other ire Arnaldo Antunes. Cortilos Brown and Nando Reis. They .. n't have a leader per se. but arisa Monte has been the most otic.tive of the group. having released ier latest CD (Green, alne,l'ellow, Rose and ('harcoal) at the end of at year simultaneously in 39 counfrJ tries. Carlinhos Brown. who has always composed for other inter- Eetife, Ffr, Gra ndr; • opreters, is the most prolific. havi • -F.. rrfe;. ii r -. toihpOsed about 600 tunes - I II rr if; orsou J which have been recor ed. rne tog jarri 'Two of Brown's ecords have th received interna ional prizes. sëè11Oflto ma • Sergio Mendes -, on the World iri Fr,prrie new waVe of Braz M usic Grammy- ward for BrasiMusic. They're r if '9eir)„. a record:w.th six songs cornthey're good and 'Ii y rr posedby Brow His group Timbapleasing tne'cro la • (Brcin ,'s the creator of the tin Le0 s a nd) was considered ALESSANDRA DALE / I jjp magazine as the best
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Latin American release m1993. ow, finally Carlinhos is going to lord his own music. For that he already signed with Brazil's EMI iad British Virgin Records. Virginf cords has signed him for ;lime ea. a„.7si),c year period. How i71, his Brown receiving? ri i-ireferr.: .2 e his earnings as well ar:lijag.,6 ret. He's 33, but ie. riecrnt-i .ve opped celehraiing„ yAit 30. There is r:.1617 IWO n had initially offered him. an, ..clvancfment of 00 them:and f, iic4li,rec-record paci7age. fndigi 13 he would have told the mc hag company 'Thir the kind of rrirotey you pay alio/ ician starving in lien, 741, 's subway." VIN76.41116 As11 4" Mai ir; Ingri; r ofthree 'lJriaid n addifrainibalada. Iiert oladha ,;e 4fircriiaotTofliT I brnaallaed a and b;r ()raja, eiOntpor.ed fit ildren 'whote dnim ar : made riiilfr and ice-cream .ans.TMre ti 1 a rilifirigrS'Ii 1- 11452 ng'fag la the mga ft n al U" enratite. the new group playrican origitliatcd in blac Born Ant Carinc tos de 'vitas, an tarred in the a oor neigborhuo rif Canderif. in 2,11, a-dor (Bahia' capita!) iie the name Br •Veri al the end (if ill 70's when b ackr. wearing i;iaci •. power hairsty 112 alled "brown hy EaUitarleir reci ents Much o wlual he doe!: Ic ti-, hock and mor ify people. P yvadays, he co ild aritilTi a fir,iit:r. ny neighborh )tld he'd : move fr iV Inc clilidhoed eighborhood o t CandeaI, He left Chool by secon • grade. Ar.: a child he was forced t a cot hit: hair hort and dress aroperl3r. Tod:13'. he glong locks, .)earr: r.virtc. color_ful shirts and ragged bernynda !shorts, adorns Ivith ;mgt. ...wears wrist ba dr.z. hiiJigc roEarir. font his ears .nd ireepr.: glas,Ses on most tor file unto. Cntcthing he docsn' .lnuoii ic dingc and lcohol. NEWS frum BRAZIL - MAY 1995
Brought up religiously in an evangelical family, he used to secretely go to Candombleceremonies --- something considered from the devil by his parents. In a very racially divided society such as Salvador's, he was married to Raquel, who is white (they divorced and she is now in the US with Nina, their four year old daughter). He is now romancing Helena Buarque, 19 (the youngest of Chico Buarque's children). Wealthy , he employs about 200 people and has funded an educational and urbanization project called TA Rebocado (It's Towed). Brown has been making music for 15 years. "I lack partners," he frequently complains. One of his most constant partners nowadays though is Nando Reis, Marisa Montes's boyfriend and one of the members of the rock band Titas. "I'm always have some lyrics by Carlinhos and he always has something that I've written," says Nando. Reis first solo album has just been released, but he is already a hit through the voices of Cassia Eller and Marisa Monte. Eller recorded his "ECT" ("Mail & Telegraph Company"), which was made in partnership with Monte and Brown. Marisa Monte has recorded Reis's "Ao Meu Redor" and "0 Cell." Nando Reis is a typical example of the new generation of composers. He has made his career as a singer and bassist for a rock band while composing for himself and his group. With the demand from new female singers he started composing for them, the same way Chico Buarque and Caetano Veloso have been doing for three decades. Composer Adriana Calcanhoto's, latest album, A Fabrica do Poema (The Poem Factory) doesn't hide her enthusiasm about this close relationship between the members of the new musical generation. "This generation has given us a fresh approach in order to show the will we have to be Brazilian, a certain pride at being part of a musical tradition. And we try to appreciate everything that was done before. The references are explicit and clear in our work. We've all listened to Caetano, Gil, and rock. There is no such thing anymore as the Mineiro (from Minas),the Carioca (from Rio) or Paulista (from Sao Paulo) group. Carlinhos is from Bahia, I'm from Rio Grande do Sul, Marisa is from Rio, Arnaldo is from Sao Paulo and so forth. Whenever I listen to one of their records, NEWS from BRAZIL. MAY 1995
I identify with them." a new generation of musicians. Very Born in 1965, Calcanhoto started singing articulate, she has also become an at Porto Alegre's (her hometown, and Rio unofficial spokesperson for these Grande do Sul's capital) night-clubs. Her young composers. "Yes, you can first record was a selection of old Brazilian call us a generation," she told Caclassics of different genres. Little by little rioca daily Jornal do Brasil, reshe started to show her own composition's cently. "We are all around 30 and too, as well as those from her younger musi- all of us make music together. We cian colleagues. ended up singing what we heard Carioca Cassia Eller, 31, stronger at in- when we were young, from rock to terpretation than composition, began her primitive Brazilian music, street career in Brasilia, where she used to sing music, market music, bossa nova everything, in her characteristicly bluesy and tropicalismo. These are all accent. She has gone through a phase of characteristics of popular Brazilheavy drinking and drug using, but since the ian music to which we are continubirth of her son Francisco at the end of 1993, ally adding". Monte talks about who she she seems to have cleaned up her act. Cassia Eller, her third CD, released in loves, "There are some rock'n'roll the middle of last year, shows that the singer, musicians who I love: Rolling chosen in the beginning of her career by Stones, Nirvana, Velvet UnderPolyGram to be a rocker, has style. Eller ground, Elvis Presley, and the learned to play the guitar singing Beatles' Beatles. These are things that I songs, but nowadays she can comfortably listened to in the past and still lissing from classic Ataulfo Alves to contem- ten to nowadays. For me the rock porary Brazilian rocker Rita Lee. For her made in Brazil is MPB. It's music, latest album she preferred to work with mu- it's popular, it's Brazilian. I am sicians from her own generation like Herbert talking about our generation. Why separate rock and MPB, this is foVianna, Roberto Frejat and Renato Russo. At 34, Arnaldo Antunes is the oldest of cusing on the past. My vision of this new generation of musicians. Multita- MPB is directed toward the year lented, music is just one of his many artistic 2015, when Brazil will be part of passions that include film, painting and con- the world, communicating and receiving new information all the crete poetry. A former member of Titas, he also started time." with rock songs but now has been composRique, former Cam a de ing sambas andbaicies Gatos keyboardist and such as "Alta Noite" arranger, has been one of the ("High Night"), "Bern best selling artists of instrumental records in Leve" ("Very Light") Brazil. He has played for and "De Mais Ninsome of the top Brazilian guem" ("Nobody Else artists such as Ivan Lins, "), all of them reGilberto Gil, Milton Nascimento, Djavan, and corded by Marisa also Chet Baker and Ernie Monte. Watts. His partnership On this five album you'll find with Monte has been the warmth and energy of one of the best performers very fruitful. Marisa of Contemporary Brazilian talks about it: "I usuMusic. ally send several songs to Arnaldo who selects the ones he prefers and in turn sends me lyrics to be set to music". Marisa, 27, is a phenomenon. She started composing drums when she was 7, inter- STEVE TAVAGLIONE - sax JOEL TAYLOR preting plays at home RICARDO SILVEIRA - guitar CASSIO DUARTE - percussion with musical themes bass RIQUE PANTOJA - piano/vocals for the characters. At JIMMY EARL 9, she started to play Send your check or money order of $13 piano and percussion (postage included) to: and by 14 she was NOT NOT studying singing. The RIQUE PANTOJA MUSIC SOLD SOLD ANYANYeclectic interpreter P.O. BOX 42536 WHERE has become the eclec- WHERE LOS ANGELES, CA 90050 ELSE ELSE tic composer and the For contact: Tel/Fax: (213) 344-0421 favorite showcase of
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Brazilian Notas SCOTT ADAMS Its no accident that bassistJohn Patitucci's new GRP Records album carries the title o fMistura Fina (or Fine Mixture), given his penchant for blending world beat influences with his own special brand of jazz fusion. After all, the famous Rio jazz club that shares the albuth's name is just one of this world-renowned bassist's many Brazilian influences.
Mistura Fina is a deeper look into the side of Brazilian fusion that has given us inspired recordings from groups like Cama de Gato and musicians like trumpeter Marcio Montarroyos and saxmen Mauro Senise and a Nogueira. Both the bassist and his Brazilian guests excel within this musical framework that's so richly developed throughout Rio's jazz scene.
Patitucci's performance on the six string J.P. Yamaha bass is the perfect underpinning for his collaboration with Job() Bosco's percussive guitar play and Brazilian scatting on the samba flavored "Varadero." Ivan Lins' harmonizing on "The Four Loves" illustrates John Patitucci's creative talent in leadPatitucci, who's been ing the Brazilian singer into voted into Bass Player uncharted musical waters, almagazine's /Top Ten list ev- lowing Lins to stretch out as ery year, first came into con- he plays off John's melodic tact with Brazilian music in lines. And his beautifully penthe 70s, listening to Sergio sive "interaction with Doni Mendes, a natural source of Caymmi conjures up sauinspiration for his lyrical bass dade-filled images of Brazilplay. As his career expanded, ian day dreams. so did his musical horizons and a move to Los Angeles Patitucci's acoustic bass brought him to the band of play on Mistura Fina shows famed Brazilian percussion- another side of his talent. The ist Airto Moreira. open, unstructured qualities of tunes such as "Soul Song" "I couldn't have been which features Lins's emomore than 14 or 15 when I tional wordless improvisaheard Airto's CTI recordings, tions set against Steve Tavaand then I wound up playing glione's soaring sax lines, are with him. I also worked with transformed by Patituce s coOscar Castro-Neves and my hesive presence. Instead of connection with Brazil kept allowing the musicians to going from there. Dori wander away in true avant Caymmi appeared on my ear- garde style, the bassist directs lier Sketchbook album, and I and controls the musical played on one of his. I've also pulse, and the only thing that played with Ivan Lins so I wanders is your imagination, wound up being involved with enhanced by John's musical a number of Brazilian cats." instinct.
As the guitar continues in its evolution as the defining instrument in Brazilian music, the opportunity for players to showcase themselves in the revealing light of a solo setting is perhaps the greatest test of creative distinction. Toninho Horta's Durango Kid (Part Two) from Big World Music is a continuation of a bold, innovative recording project that has quickly established kis musical mastery. The presence of music in Horta's life is as natural as the album's title: his nickname from growing up on the Brazilian frontier Where the inspiration and values of family and friends are reflected in his creative ease and expertise. This high quality quality digital in recording was clone studio, and Horta s nylon string guitar play is without equal. You'll' be impressed with his ability to author an unending variety of style and nuance, by melding his voice with mesmerizing rhythmic, harmonic and melodic elements into each of the 13 tracks. Durango Kid (Part Two) opens with his most famous song, "Aq9elas Coisa Todas," which gained popularity as "Distant Horizon," when he recorded it with Brazilian vocalist Kenia in l988.i There's an immediate sense of freedom in emotion with Horta's voice and guitar that carries through the rest of the album, a reminder of the trqe artistic product —the elemental quality — that is too often overlooked in production and packaging.
The anthem-like "Canto de Desalento" (Without Hope) shows a reflective side, while other originals, such as the exuberant "Aqui 6" (Check This Out), with its powerful guitar play, the romantic "Liana" and `Pedra da Lua" (Moonstone) receive interpretations that -showcase the writer and the performer in a way that is rarely experienced. Durango Kid (Part Two) also pays tribute to Brazil's legendary composer Dorival Caymmi with `Saudade da Bahia." Horta begins by duplicating Caymmi's style, then gracefully allows the song to develop as it unfolds into his own trademark signature, with beautifully shifting harmonies that add a playful quality to the song. No other single guitarist can accomplish what Horta crafts with this flawless play: at times, it will seem that you're hearing two guitars. And that's the true magic of Durango Kid (Part Two) and the solo setting. No overdubs, no blending of tracks to build a perfect tune. Just Toninho Horta naturally, in the singular form, playing as if he were at home with his family and his friends. I've found that both Mistura Fina and Durango Kid (Part Two) are available nationally at Tower Records. You can sample these albums 24 hours a day by calling The Brazilian Music Review Listener Line at (708) 292-4545.
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Seveirrtia Marco Nanmi
A Comedia dos Erros - An adaptation of Shakespeare by Caca Rosset. With Cristiane Tricerri and Maria Alice Vergueiro. In Sao Paulo. Fogo Morto - Based on Jose Lins do Rego's novel. Blind minstrels reminisce about the old sugar cane plants. Directed by Sidney Cruz. In Rio A Gaiola das Loucas - Twenty years later, Rio's Cage aux Folles is back with the same duo who starred in it two decades ago, Jorge Doria and Carvalhinho. 0 Homem da Pizza - A comical view of a woman's loneliness. Written by Darlene Craviotto. As Guerreiras do Amor- Sparta and Athens women decide to end the war between the two cities through a sex strike. In Sao Paulo.
Louro, Alto, Solteiro, Procura - Miguel Falabella, who wrote the text, plays all 17 characters of this comical monologue. In Rio. 0 Livro de Jo - Based on the Bible, it discusses divine intervention and God's power. Directed by Antonio Araujo. In Sao Paulo. Nas Raias da Lou cura - Name inspired by interpreter Claudia Raia. Lyrics by Silvio de Abreu and directed by Ze Rodrix. In Rio. Querida Mamde - Maria Adelaide Amaral play about a touchy mother-daughter relationship. In Rio. Trair e Cocar E SO Comecar A loony maid makes life miserable for her bosses. In Sao Paulo. Vestido de Noiva - Nelson Rodrigues play about Alaide's dreams and her frustrations when facing reality. Eduardo Tolentino de Ararijo directs. In Sao Paulo. 46
Fiction 1. A Ilha do Dia Anterior Umberto Eco (Record)
2. Na Margem do Rio Piedra Eu Sentei e Chorei Paulo Coelho (Rocco)
3. A Profecia Celestina James Radfield (Objetiva)
4. 0 Didrio de um Mago Paulo Coelho (Rocco)
5. Nada Dura para Sempre Sidney Sheldon (Record)
Movies American films just released: Outbreak (Epidemia), My Father, the Hero (Meu Pal Heroi), Star Trek - Generations (Jornada nas Estrelas: A Nova Geraca-o), Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Ate as Vaqueiras Ficam Tristes), Hard Boiled (Fervura Maxima), The Real McCoy (0 Grande Assalto), Live Wire (0 Detonador, em Alta Voltagem), Dream Lover (A Mulher dos Meus Sonhos), Burnt by the Sun - Russia- (1994) - By Nikita Mikhalkov. A romance between a Stalin agent and a naĂŻve girl during the 30s. Carlota Joaquina - Princesa do Brazil Brazil - (1994) - Directed by Carla Camurati, it tells the story of Dom Joao VI's wife.
La Fille de D'Artagnan (A Filha de D'Artagnan) - France - (1994) - Betrand Tavernier's story of a youngster willing to take the law into her own hands.
Stalingrad - (Stalingrad° - A Batalha Final) - Germany - (1993) - Historical drama about youngsters who fought at Stalingrad, one of War War II bloodiest battles. Hard Boiled - (Fervura Maxima) - Hong Kong (1992) - Private eye breaks all rules to get justice done. Louco por Cinema (Crazy for Movies) - By Andre Luiz Oliveira. After the death of the director, one of the actors, from an insane asylum, decides to restart the shooting. Gaiola das Loucas
6. Bricla Paulo Coelho (Rocco)
7 .Comedias da Vida Privada 101 CM' nicas Escolhidas Luis Fernando Verissimo (L&PM)
Laos Eternos Zibia M. Gasparetto (Espaco, Vida e Consci'encia)
8. 0 Fisico Noah Gordon (Rocco)
9. Violetas na Janela
Vera Lircia Marinzeck de Carvalho (Petit) 10. 0 Fantasma da Meia-Noite Sidney Sheldon (Record)
Nonfiction 1. Anjos Cabalisticos Monica Buonfiglio - (Berkana)
2. A Magia dos Anjos Cabalisticos - Monica Buonfiglio (Oficina Cultura Esoterica)
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Paulo Coelho (Rocco)
4. Chato, o Rei do Brasil
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5. Auto Estima - Aprendendo a Gostar Mais de Voce Lair Ribeiro (Objetiva)
6. Caminho das Borboletas Meus 405 Dias ao Lado de Senn a Adriane Galisteu (Caras)
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CULTURE FEAST Dubbing itself a "Celebration of the Latin Culture," and with special room for Brazilian literature, the LibroFest Latino BookFest 95 is happening once again from May 4 through May 7 in New York. The book festival's main goals are to promote Latino writers living in the US as well as the dissemination of material dealing with Latin culture. Brazil is being represented by poet Fernando Tanajura Menezes and Wilson Loria, writer, and editor of Samba, the only publication dedicated to Brazilian arts in the US. Both authors will be reading from their work. The festival is being held at CUNY's (City University of New York) Hostos Community College. Would you like to know more? Call (718) 518-4195 or (718) 937-0574.
THE BEST FUTEBOL Now you can learn soccer at the site where World Champion Brazil's players practiced for their victorious * campaign in the US last year. The Brazilian Youth Soccer Association (Brasoccer) is promoting a three-week program that starts in Santa Clara, California and continues in Rio, at the Brazilian Army Center for Physical Fitness, at the foot of Sugar Loaf mountain. The program for children 8 to 18 years old will start June 26 and will be supervised by Brazilian Soccer Confederation (CBF) coaches. Brasoccer is also offering other courses, all with highly qualified Brazilian coaches. The CBF-approved, non-profit organization has just hired former Brazilian professional soccer player and respected coach Felipe Guimarks as coach-coordinator. For more information please call (408) 292-6271. NEWS from BRAZIL - MAY 1995
THE ART OF NAZA From the end of April through the month of May. Palm Beach's (Florida) prestigious Governors Club w ill been showing paintings by Brazilian artist Naza. The painter, who lived in Washington and North
Carolina. is now a resident of Boca Raton. Florida. where she owns her ow 11 gallery. the Naza Art Studio. Naza. who has been called by critics the -painter of emotions" due to the w ay she mixes photographs and abstract art, has a prestigious track record with several prizes in the US and individual exhibits all over the country. . The artist will present her work at the Governor's Club reception on May II. You can contact her at (407) 347-8345.
CHIC PICNIC Brazilian music, art and dance together w ith gourmet Brazilian food will be served at Viva Brasil. a gala picnic and entertainment festival being organized in San Francisco by the local Brazilian consulate and the International Diplomacy Council. A trip to Rio will be raffled off during the event. The fest will happen on Saturday. May 20. 1995. from 1 to 4 PM and reservations must be made by May 18. Want to know more? Call (415) 986-1388.
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6:00 PM - Amazon Week - Opening Cerimonies with shaman Davi Kopenawa Yanomami and Guarani leader Marta Silva Vito Guarani at the United Nations (43rd St. & 1st Ave.) - (212) 925-5299 ZABU MBA HAS LIVE MUSIC DAILY. SEE AD AT PAGE 4
BOSTON Coracao Brasileiro - Every Sunday, 12:00 noon with Dennis Miller - 88 1 FM WMBR
CHICAGO The Sounds of Brazil - Every Saturday, 10:00 pm Midnight, 95 5 FM, WNUA with Scott Adams
ALL MONTH - Northeast artist Rosamaria shows her oil on canvas at Timbuktu - 1661 Superior Ave. (714) 650-7473
TUESDAY 2 5:00 PM - Amazon Week - Master Weavers of the Amazon: The Kaxinawa at yang (45 Rockefeller Plaza) - (212) 925-5299
WEDNESDAY 3 5:00 PM-Amazon Week- Environmental Protection vs. Development in Brazil at Columbia School ofJournalism (45 Rockefeller Plaza)-(212) 925-5299
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Sounds of Brazil - Every Thursday Noon - 2:00 pm, KPFK, 907 FM with Sergio Mielniczenko Brazilian Hour -Every Saturday and Sunday, 9:00 am - 10 00 am, KXLU, 88.9 FM with Sergio Mielniczenko
9:00 PM - Carlao and guitar at Nino's
MIAMI RADIO Brazilians Love Jazz -Every Sunday, 5.00 pm - 6.00 pm with Gina Martelli- 93.9 - Love 94
BTN (Brazilian TV Network) - 11 00 pm - 1.00 am, DCI ch 40, S South ch. 51, Adelphia ch. 52, Gold Coast ch. 99 Luqui Corporation -Jornal Bandeirantes - 11.00 pm 1.00 am, Dynamic ch. 20, S South ch. 41, Gold Coast ch. 44, DCI ch. 45
9:00 PM - Katia Moraes at 14 Below
FRIDAY 5 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM - Capoeira Angola at Amazon Expo - Saint Peter's Church (54th & Lexington) (212) 925-5299 9:00 PM - Entre Nos & Brazil Show at Bahia Cabana
SATURDAY 6 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM - Capoeira Angola at Amazon Expo - Saint Peter's Church (54th & Lexington) (212) 925-5299 9:00 AM - Brazilian Dance Party at SOB. -204 Varick St. (212) 2434940
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Lisa Silva at Bahia Cabana, in San Francisco
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ALL DAY - Artists Julinya Vidigal and Ricardo Morita at the Hollywood Bowl Arts Fair. Arth show with food and entertainment. (213) 876-4556 5:00 PM - Amazon Week - Closing Picnic at Sheep's Meadow, Central Park - (212) 925-5299
SAISCERANCTSCO 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM - Brazilian Soccer Tournament. See ad p. 38 9:00 PM - Zeca do Trombone & His Band at Bahia Cabana
WASHINGTONZIM 2:00 PM - 8:00 PM - Brazilian Folklore at 14 La Perla Restaurant, 1832 Columbia Rd. - (202) 723-5854
OS, ANGELESnta 14L Below- ,114.811,4thSt o , Sa MonicaP, 31,0)„451-5 40 BokaosTC1 . 8689 Wilshire Beverly Hillt (310) 659-1200 Cafe Danssr-11533 W. Pico BI. West L A.- (310) 478-7866 Caffe Rom a - 350 N Canon Dr. Beverly Hills - (310) 274-7834 Century Supper Club - 10131 Constellation BI.-(310) 553-0000 Fais-I)o-Do - 5257 W. Adams L.A. - (310) 842-6171 Foothill - 1992 Cherry Ave. Long Beach - (310) 983-9190 La Ve Lee- 12514 Ventura Bl. Studio City - (818) 980-8158 Saint Marks-23 Windward Ave. Venice - (310) 452-2222 Tatou - 233 N. Beverly Dr.Beverly Hills - (310) 274-9955 Zabumba -10717 Venice Blvd Culver City - (310) 841-6525
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7:30 PM - Master Preguiga & Omulu Capoeira Group at San Francisco State University's McKenna Theater - 1600 Holloway Ave. (415) 695-8845
9:00 PM - Viva Brazil & Ginga Brasil Show at Bahia Cabana
9:00 PM - Kleber Jorge & Rique Pantoja at 14 Below
7:30 PM - Street Beat's Brazilian Carnaval at Unity Center, 412 S Park View St. (213) 383-7342 9:00 PM -Noite Baiana with Renni Flores & Samba Reggae Band at Fais Do Do FAIMANgt= 1:00 PM -4:00 PM -Viva Brasil Gala Picnic at Charles Krug Winery in St Helena (415) 986-1388 9:00 PM -Banda Pandemonium Brasil Show at Bahia Cabana
9:00 PM - Carlao and guitar at Nino's
FRIDAY 12 9:00 PM -Som Brasil & Aquarela Show at Bahia Cabana
SATURDAY 13 9:00 PM -Entre Nos & Ginga Brasil Show at Bahia Cabana
SUNDAY 14 7:00 PM - Marcos Santos & SambaLa at Foothill Club 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM - Brazilian Soccer Tournament. See ad p. 38 9:00 PM -Zeca do Trombone & His Band at Bahia Cabana IMMINTrag 2:00 PM - 8:00 PM - Brazilian Folklore at 14 La Perla Restaurant 1832 Columbia Rd - (202) 723-5854
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Alberto's - 736 W. Dana St., Mtn View, (415) 968-3007 Aioli - 469 Bush Street San Francisco- (415)2490900 Ashkenaz - 1317 San Pablo Ave.-Berkeley (510)525-5054 Bahia - 41 Franklin St, - S. Francisco (415) 626-3306 Bahia Cabana - 1600 Market St. - S. Fco. (415) 861-4202 Chambord - 152 Kearney St, S. Francisco (415) 434-3688 The Ferryboat -Embarcadero St, Pier 3, SF, (415) 788-8866 Nino's - 1916 Martin L. King Jr., Berkeley (510) 845-9303 Pasand Lounge - 2284 ShattucicAv.,Berk. (510)848-0260 The Ramp -855 China Basin San Francisco (415) 621-2378 Yoshi's -6030 Claremont Ave. Oakland (510) 652-9200
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NEW YORK/ NEW JERSEY RADIO Brasil corn S - Every Saturday, 9:00 PM with Judith King, 88.3 FM - WBGO Brazil FM - Every Sunday, 10:00 PM with Tulio Reis 105.9 FM - WNWK Brazil Street Samba - Every Friday, 10:00 PM with Leo Costa & Alberto Lopes - 89.9 FM - WKCR
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2:00 PM - 8:00 PM - Brazilian Folklore at 14 La Perla Restaurant, 1832 Columbia Rd - (202) 7235854
Brazilians in America-TV - Every Sunday, 5: 30 PM Channel 16
THURSDAY 25
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SANTA1,MONICATCM. 9:00 PM - Hugo Jojo at 14 Below
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9:00 PM - Som Brasil & Aquarela Show at Bahia Cabana
6:00 PM - Carnaval Festival at Harrison St. between 16th & 22 (415) 824-8999 9:00 PM - Carnaval Ball with Lisa Silva at Bahia Cabana
SUNDAY 28 CORWLES 7:00 PM - Marcos Santos & SambaLa at Foothill Club SWERANNSZCI 11:00 AM - Carnaval Grand Parade - Starts at 24th St. and Bryant (415) 824-8999 9:00 PM - Carnaval Ball with Lisa Silva at Bahia Cabana
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2:00 PM - 8:00 PM - Brazilian Folkloreat 14 La Perla Restaurant, 1832 Columbia Rd. - (202) 7235854
The Sounds of Brazil- Every Sunday, 11 00 pm-1. 00 am, KSSJ FM, 101.9 with Scott Adams
S. FRANCISCO Agora Brasil - Every Saturday, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, KPFA, 94.0 FM with Elvira Cola and Eric Taller Brasileirinho- Every Wednesday, 9:30 PM, KZSC, 88.1 FM with Renato Frota Canta, Brasil - Every Sunday, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM KKUP, 91.5 FM, with Xuxu, Maria Jos6 and David Heyman Programa de Domingo Every Sunday, 1:00 FM 2.00 PM, KSQQ 96.1 FM with Lino Bugatti A Taste of Brazil - Every Sunday, 10:00 PM - 11:0 PM, KKSF, 103.7 with Dick Conte Tropicalia Brasiliana Every Friday, 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM, KUSF, 90.3 with Raimundo Franco
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lighting For the Sind of Brazil, Edited by Kevin Danaher and Michael Shellenberger, Monthly Review Press, New York, NY, 1995, 274 pp CHARLES L JOHNSON
When most folks think about poverty in the Third World, the prevalent image is one of urban crowding in favelas or colonias. These are words for the shantytowns that "symbolize what is wrong" with the countries where they exist. Outside of its major cities, the Brazilian Amazon is not known for favelas, although the poverty is nonetheless real. Isolated communities appear as islands of misery in the midst of splendor. These are places that suffer from a lack of resources, detached from the amenities that "civilized people" enjoy itti-,N1¹„;v010
When the circus comes to town in the Amazon, it's not only fun and games. The juggler might be a doctor, the clown a nutritionist, and the tightrope walker a community development expert. Here's some rural assistance that is too small and sensible for the World Bank, too remote from Brazil's political and economic turmoil perhaps even to survive, but too good a model to lose.
Water, Water, Everywhere... But not a drop that is potable without treatment. Though many species of Amazon wildlife depend on the flood cycle for their survival, it can be hazardous to humans. Rainy-season flooding means less land for farming, fewer pastures for livestock, more difficulty in catching fish and pollution from human waste that mixes with the drinking water. The result is disease caused by poor sanitation and undernutfition.
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This describes the situation faced by Dr. Eugenio Scannavino when he arrived in Santarem, a city in the heart of the Amazon, near where the Tapajós and Arapiuns Rivers meet the Amazon River. It was early in the 1980s, and Dr. Eugenio had just finished a stint in the favelas of Sao Paulo. He could see that there was little medical care outside of Santarem, and an even shorter supply of technological skills for utilizing the area's available resources. It wasn't long before he developed a plan to deal with these problems — the Health and Happiness Project (Projeto Saftde e A legria). Founded in 1984, the project soon came to a halt due to a lack of funds. It got off the ground again in 1988, and since then has become a popular and effective means of improving the quality of life of people living in virtual isolation: there are no roads connecting the 19 communities and 94 settlements which the project covers, other than the rivers. It reaches more than 20,000 people. The 32-member staff is divided into seven sections: Health, Education, Art, Communication, Rural Production Development, the Information and Research Center, and Administration. If any undertaking is to be successful, it first has to get the attention of its target, which is every member of the community. What better way than to stage a show, an idea that led to the creation of the Great Mocorongo Health and Happiness Circus. (Mocorongo is the local name for people living in this area.) The circus is in town The circus is a lot more than a bunch of clowns and jugglers and tightrope walkers. Behind the masks and greasepaint hide doctors, nutritionists, veterinarians, agronomists, educators, and other communitydevelopment experts. When the circus rolls into town — make that "sails into town" — it is first of all a call to work. The Health and Happiness team uses the spectacle as a means of generating excitement in order to promote its three main community-oriented objectives: health, rural development, and maintaining the local culture. The show is a drawing attraction that helps teach
example. Among North Americans, the word has a somewhat humorous connotation—the "trots" and so forth. But among these riverbank people, it is a matter of deadly seriousness, especially in the case of infants. Sudden dehydration through diarrhea in young children is a common killer. It can be treated with a homemade oral rehydration solution of sugar and salt in water. Other simple yet lifesaving methods include adding a chlorine solution to polluted water to make it safe to drink. Monitors are the educational link in making their fellow community members aware of the effective home remedies at hand. The name "monitor is significant since these workers are also taught how to keep records to track the status of public health in the community, as well as to detect and advise health authorities of impending problems, such as threatening outbreaks of disease. This is truly a Is Health What You "bootstrap" program, in that trained Haven't Got? As the project was getting under- monitors fan out into surrounding arway, community members were asked eas to pass on their skills to others. about their conception of health. They H&H estimates that these monitors tended to define it as "getting sick and are now able to handle upwards of 70 then getting well." Since there were percent of health problems, evidence essentially no clinics or medical per- of their crucial role within the project. It is common for children to be left sonnel, prevention was mostly an unknown process. A clinic, for most in charge of their younger siblings people, was a place where you went_ when mom and pop are out farming, only when you were severely sick or hunting and the like. Consequently, hurt. The low economic level pre- H&H has created a Kiddy Monitor cluded any sort of investment in this program, whereby children between area. And when one lacks the means the ages of six and fourteen are taught and the know-how to stay healthy, the basic skills that they apply to caring result is, not surprisingly, a fatalistic for their brothers and sisters. These programs indicate a core attitude toward death and illness, poignantly reflected in the high infant concept of H&H: To endeavor to involve 100 percent of the people in the mortality rate. Once the emergency situation was decisions that will lead to improving under control, the time came to go their quality of life. Realizing the need to break away beyond merely treating injuries and illness and providing medicines. The from the fish-and-chiba cycle, the next phase involved training what are project has put teeth into its nutrition called "health monitors" in each com- program. It has a team of agronomists munity. These people learn medical that work with farmers to show how skills at a paramedic level: first aid, the quality and yield of local plants giving vaccinations and performing can be improved, with a number of emergency tooth extractions. Equally experimental farms now in progress. important, they teach community A veterinarian provides small animal members the fundamentals of good raisers with support, knowing that health, stressing preventive measures. increased production means a diminAs far removed as these communities ished need to deplete wildlife in the are from medical facilities, fast ac- surrounding forest. In the belief that knowledge of the tion is often required to combat chronic problems. Diarrhea is one environment enhances respect for it,
people about health care, how to boost production, and how to improve other activities such as gardening, smallanimal raising, handicrafts, rubber tapping, teacher training and tree raising. The key is environmental education. The H&H staff quickly focused on two emergency needs: health care (there were few medicines, almost no clinics, and a slew of misconceptions about good health practices) and improving the output and variety of foods available (especially during the flood season, when fish become scarce and most people subsist on a mixture of manioc flour and water known as chib a). The first programs to be carried out reflect these priorities: "Contamination and Illness Cycles," "Life and Environment Cycles," "Community Health" and "Human Ecology."
the H&H approach strives to make community members aware of the resources available in the surrounding forest — food, curatives, housing and potential income — while emphasizing the need to properly use and preserve these resources. Education forms part of an ambitious H&H project intended to revamp teaching methodology along two lines. First, the overriding philosophy is that teaching should be tailored to local realities, drawn from the geography, climate and culture of each community. This concept stems from the fact that in Brazil, education curricula are based on a national "standard" that reflects little of the country's vast cultural spectrum. Secondly, learning should be based on gameplaying; things that are fun sink in deeper. With their obvious reflection of the good feelings produced by the circus, games are an important educational tool that can be applied to virtually every activity. After all, it's much more exciting to learn about bees if, for example, for a brief while you can actually be a bee. A Day in the Life As the H&H boat chugs in, it is greeted by the community amid much hullabaloo. Since many of the staff show up in clown garb, the walk into town often becomes a mini-parade, jugglers juggling and musicians playing. But hold everything. Business before pleasure. During the day, activities are mainly divided between checking and doing. In conjunction with health monitors, children are examined and weighed (especially the newborn), expectant mothers are given checkups in the presence of midwives, community health status records are updated, and immediate medical problems are treated. Each community has a Mothers Club, one of whose duties is to work with nutritionists to learn how the family diet can be improved. This may include pointing out the medicinal herbs that are found nearby, plus tips such as
using ground eggshell as a handy source of calcium, or sticking a rusty nail in an orange to furnish iron to combat anemic deficiencies. Another program that ties in With the Mothers Clubs is called "Women: Body and Soul." It deals with a wide range of subjects, such as mother-child relations, body awareness, cottageindustry production and handicrafts. Experts in the Rural Production section work with community members in many agricultural areas. Included are chicken and pigraisers, rubber tappers and farmers who are being taught to develop new and more nutritious species of plants, particularly the ubiquitous manioc. Another good * ')*
tip is the use of the termites that abound in the region as a source of protem for feeding chickens. In communities with a school, H&Hers meet with children and teachers to check on programs such as proper tooth-brushing techniques or the tree nursery, a popular activity among children. Part of the Fruition project, the latter is an attempt to preserve and upgrade local varieties
of trees, as well as to introduce useful species that are not found in the region, such as certain citrus fruits. As the day wears on, preparations begin for the evening performance of the circus. Once again, the goal is educational entertainment. No way is it merely a show for the people, it is a show with the people. The local pavilion is made ready, costumes are prepared, and skits are rehearsed. H&H acrobats set up their gear — they, too, often pass on their skills, training aspiring tightrope walkers, jugglers and other performers. Not long after night falls, the curtain rises. The circus is open to everyone; it is a showcase for local talent such as musicians, storytellers, hams and anyone else who might have something to contribute. Those with well-hidden abilities can slap on a little greasepaint and clown around. This is no spectator-in-the-bleachers event but most definitely a hands-on production reminiscent of street theater. At each performance, the community joins with the H&Hers to put on skits with a message: the benefits of forming co-ops; how contagious diseases are spread; the causes and prevention of undernutrition; the dangers of drinking untreated water. These "household hints" are intended to save lives, rather than make your shirts a whiter white or remove that nasty stain from your carpet. Some places have formed what's known as a Headcold Choir, which sings about respiratory problems that can result from neglecting a simple cold or from the overuse of medicines. By the time the evening's festivities have ended both H&H staff and community members have had quite a workout. And this is a project that works. Its ingenious blend of learning and having a good time leaves people feeling good in body and spirit. Visits normally last three to four days. H&H staff members may also come to call under specific circumstances — the agronomy section, or the medical team in case of a disease
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given the task of documenting the local life, which may range from interviews (oral history) to acting as recording secretaries for meetings of community groups. There is also Live Radio, with recorded material first "aired" to the community itself in a simulated broadcast (at a circus performance, for example) and with some material taken to Santarem for actual broadcasting as part of a Rural AM program. Toward this end, Grassroots Communications provides training in the methods of broadcasting. There are also community and intercommunity newspapers that offer prospective journalists a chance to work in The Caboclos — this medium, as well as serving as a Preserving a Culture The current world focus on the tool for the exchange of ideas. Other popular media forms are Amazon has almost exclusively dealt with the Indians. Very little has been educational photo-comics with plots said about the ethnic group that makes developed by community members up the great bulk of the Amazon popu- and then shot by the H&H crew, and lation— the caboclos (Portuguese for a News Wall, a large bulletin board mixed Indian and white: the majority where community news, photos, and of the population in the area covered other items are posted. The outcome by the H&H Project). The caboclo is two-pronged: media skills are culture is perhaps less flamboyant than taught, while the people gain increased that of the Indians. There are no tribes awareness of their culture and how they can improve it. of caboelos, no ritual The Information dances, no tribal gods (or and Resource CenHollywood movies). Howter puts out the word ever, translating the someabout the project, what high-falutin Portualong with serving guese word acervo, these as a center for repeople are the "storehouse" search on present of folklore in this part of and future activithe Amazon, a valuable ties. It works with body of knowledge. virtually all media . Herein lies another goal — still photograof the project: to keep alive phy, video, and aua culture threatened by two diotape recordings problems confronting most — to compile data developing areas, rural on community life flight and the encroachment and lore. The arof the outside world. Here's chives of the IRC where the Communications are available to anySector steps in. Besides one who would like documenting activities, further information great efforts are dedicated on the project. caboclo to recording the culture. As always, the key The Future of is to get people involved, as the Project evidenced by the program's Project schedulname, "Grassroots Commuing is naturally nications." Teenagers and youth — being the keyed toward expansion, aimed at most likely candidates to skip town reaching more and more of the isoand head for the big city — are en- lated communities in the mid Amacouraged to become what the project zon. The ultimate goal is for these calls Local Correspondents. They are communities, through their health
outbreak, and so on. A recent event of great significance has been the cholera epidemic in Latin America. It is to the credit of the Health and Happiness Project that cholera has thus far been kept away from the areas where the project operates. This is most likely due to three factors: the effectiveness of the health-monitor program, the three years that the project's Hygiene, Rural Sanitation and Diarrhea Prevention Program has been implemented, and the widespread use of chlorine solution to create potable 'water.
These "household hints" are intended to save lives, rather than make your shirts a whiter white or remove that nasty stain from your carpet.
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monitors, teachers, mothers clubs and other involved groups, in tandem with general awareness campaigns, to be self-sufficient to the greatest possible degree. It's good to know that your problems are being solved, but even more satisfying is the sense of pride in realizing that you have taken an active part in the process. The demand cannot be underestimated. As neighboring communities learn about the project there is an increasing number of requests for information, assistance and training. The Health and Happiness Project is a nongovernmental organization administered by the Center for Advanced Studies in Social Care. Its main headquarters are in Rio de Janeiro, and there is a regional office in Santarem. In mid-1991, government funding for the H&H Project was put on hold for ten months. The circus came to a halt. This was not the first time a shutdown had occurred. The subsequent release of governmental funds in no way implies that the flow will be constant. For this reason, the project is attempting to assemble backers to ensure that at least current work will not be halted. Any type of support is useful, including donations of money or equipment. Additional information on this project may be obtained from the following addresses: Projeto Sande e Alegria (CEAPS) - Rua Paulo Barreto, 23 - Botafogo CEP 22.280-010 Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL - Tel.: (55) (21) 266-7896 - Fax: 266-7897 Email (AlterNex): Ax!ceapsrio Projeto Sande e Alegria - Av. Borges Leal, 2284 - Cx Postal 243 CEP 68.040-080 Santarem, Path, BRAZIL - Tel. (55) (91) 523-1083 Fax: 523-1083 You can order Fighting for the Soul of Brazil, the book from where this article was excerpted by calling (415)255-7296 or mailing your request to Global Exchange, 2017 Mission St., Suite 303, San Francisco, CA 94110. Each book costs $14 plus $2 for postage and handling. Visa and MasterCard accepted.
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