Brazil’s Bolsonaro requests US tourist visa amid investigation into inciting violence
Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro fled the country for Florida two days before the inauguration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Daily Express :: World Feed
Rough politics in Brazil’s Amazon: mayoral candidates fight in the ring
Politics is often rough and tumble in the Brazilian Amazon, but in one small city two mayoral candidates literally came to blows over the weekend during a bruising election campaign. The incumbent mayor of Borba, a city of about 41,000 people upriver from Amazonas state capital Manaus, is known for appearing in political ads with […]
Brazil’s golf history would fit on back of a scorecard (The Associated Press)
The history of golf in Brazil would fit on the back of a scorecard. It begins at the turn of the 20th century, when English and Scottish railway engineers convinced some Benedictine monks to set aside a parcel of land for the game on a monastery near Sao Paulo. ”What’s happening here, we hope, will […]