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Long exposure shot, taken from the Brazilian side, looking across to Argentina. Water is in such a frenzy here.
Brazilian Drummers waiting to perform in the city center of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. www.muttiah.com
Colibrà Colirrojo, Brazilian Ruby, Heliodoxa rubricauda.
Endemic´s Brasil
Especie # 1.990
Trilha dos Tucanos Lodge
TapiraÃ
Estado de Sao Paulo
Brasil
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A Shawãdawa men, also knowed as Arara do Acre, was happy at the Indigenous Meeting.
I'm also happy to tell you that after many letters that you sent this week, it finally happened the approval of the Draft Law on Conversion (PLV) 08/2010, at the Brazilian Federal Senate.
After the vote, the Indians moved, gathered at the entrance of the Congress and celebrated the victory, after almost two years of intense mobilization of indigenous leaders and organizations, calling for the end of the participation of Funasa.
With nearly 300 years of delay, the Senate approves creation of the Special Secretariat of Indigenous Health. A historical neglect should start to be repaired.
The final design of the National Congress of Brazil, originally made in 2013. The model uses 262 pieces. If you guys like it please show your support on LEGO Ideas!
Brazil. Yellow rumped cacique in the Pantanal.
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Milky Way over Santa Helena de Minas, MG, Brazil.
"He counts the stars and calls them all by name."
Psalm 147:4
Likely impeachment against Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff for manipulating government accounts ...
Brazilians have had enough - but what happens if they fire the politicians?
Brazil is heading into political chaos. President Dilma Rousseff made probably impeached, but accusations of corruption adheres also to her potential successors in office.
Everything went well in Brazil in 2014.
As one of the few countries in the world, and particularly in the latitudes of South America, the economy of the country in growth and growth constantly increasing. After many years of inflation and political instability, the exchange rate was reversed. Helped by rising oil and commodity prices and a hefty boost in exports to the Chinese market.
In the midst of this success story - are also included, the unemployment rate was historically low and middle class in the great country with one had much money in his hands - stood Dilma Rousseff. The popular president of the Labour Party PT and the successor to people hero 'Lula' da Silva.
But nothing lasts forever. Shortly after Brazil this year had been the head of an otherwise relatively smooth organization of the World Cup in football, things started to crumble. And so it went quickly.
Everything indicates impeachment.
We turn the run-up to Sunday evening. After the longest debate ever in the Brazilian House of Commons, should members of Congress one by one vote for or against the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff.
The now faded president accused of whitewashing the key figures in the Brazilian economy up to elections in 2014. Specifically, she must have moved money from several state-owned banks over to national accounts and thus have had a budget deficit look less bad than it was .
367 members in the House voted for impeachment. 137 voted against.
As such, the same question - probably within a month - to a vote in the upper house Senate. And most political analysts expect it here will be a vote for the impeachment of the incumbent president.
If this is the outcome, suspended Dilma Rousseff with immediate effect for 180 days.
"The politicians in Brazil are good to read the community, and they can feel that people want her (Dilma Rousseff, ed.) Out," said Paulo Sotero, head of the Brazil Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington , to the New York Times.
In other words, there is strong evidence that Dilma Rousseff is complete.
Or as Steen Fryba Christensen, associate professor at the Department of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University, says it:
»Dilma Rousseff has gradually gained an image as an anonymous president. She does not have a clear idea of ​​what Brazil need to do to perform well. Therefore, burning her former alliance partners bridges to her. The crisis in the country has been going on for two years, and things are going badly with the economy. Added these scandals and corruption allegations, there are now many who do not want to be associated with her government. "
Operation Carwash public concern.
But how is it all gone so far?
Several places in the media in Brazil identifies precisely that Dilma Rousseff has long since lost control of both his own party, but also in the political landscape in general.
Rousseff has been too arrogant and headstrong, she has been too poor to engage in dialogue, it said. And when it starts to go bad with the economy, so the people are not slow to rebel against the rulers, shows the history of the country.
Where Brazil before was a beacon among developing countries, the economy the past two years have been worse than most could have predicted. Growth has fallen by more than 3.5 percent each year and countless Brazilians have been fired from their jobs.
"People are fed up with mismanagement and of Dilmas economic mistakes and corruption and arrogance of the Labour Party. But no one is nevertheless optimistic about the what's next, "says Raul Juste Lores, editor of a leading Brazilian newspaper, Folha de S.Paulo.
"She has taken too many resources from the private sector, she was arrogant to Congress for a long time, and her economic policy was wrong," said Luciano Dias, a political consultant in the capital Brasilia, to The New York Times.
On top of all this must be added that Dilma Rousseff - and especially her mentor, former President 'Lula' da Silva - linked to the scandal that goes under the name 'Operação Lava Jato', the Danish 'Operation Car Wash'. The case is basically that the state oil company Petrobras must have channeled millions of dollars into campaigns for 'Lula and Dilma Rousseffs Workers Party.
'Operation Car Wash' is the biggest corruption case in Brazil ever and has threads to large international companies like Samsung, Rolls-Royce and A. P. Moller - Maersk. These companies all suspected to have paid large sums in bribes to have bartered giant orders for equipment with concessions or contracts to sail with oil.
"The current situation is mainly due to Brazil's dependence on export prices. Commodity prices have fallen a lot, but after the past year's diverse scandals of corruption, the economic picture has become even more aggravated. There are budget deficits and balance of payments. Interest rates have gone up, and the demand has gone down. Many have been unemployed. There is also a lack of clarity about who exactly will be responsible for the political management of the country, and it has been natural for the opposition to milk the situation, so to speak, so they can get a regime change after the fourth period with the same government "says Steen Fryba Christensen from Aalborg University.
After Effects is also under indictment.
On Sunday evening after the vote in the lower house in Brasilia went thousands of protesters on the street, both in the capital and cities in the rest of the country.
Most require that Dilma Rousseff and 'Lula' da Silva put on the gate. The President and her mentor self-recrimination reverse the opposition to carry out a coup.
In any event, the people that cleaned up the too-close ties between the political establishment and businesses.
The problem is that the people who stand to possibly having to replace Dilma Rousseff, even been accused of corruption.
Vice President Michel Temer expected to replace Rousseff temporarily if she should be brought to impeachment. Temer is a leading member of the party PMDB - the largest party in the coalition that has struggled to get the impeachment of Rousseff voted through. He is 75 years and accused of having been involved in a skandalesag the government's purchase of illegal ethanol.
The next in line, can replace Dilma Rousseff, is Renan Calheiros, leader of the Senate. Also he is under investigation in connection with 'Operation Car Wash' and the scandal surrounding Petrobras.
The following mentioned as a possible replacement for the current president, Eduardo Cunha, the powerful leader of the lower house. He is accused of using a Swiss bank account to hide up to $ 40 million in bribes.
»Eduardo Cunha, you're a gangster, and the only thing that keeps you on the record, is the smell of sulfur," said therefore Glauber Braga, a member of the Social Liberal Party, during the hearing in the lower house up to Sunday's vote.
The people are rebelling.
One of those who were on the streets and demonstrate in front of the Congress in Brasilia immediately after the vote, was Patricia Santos, a 52-year-old business owner.
"I'm happy because I think Dilma will have to go by, but I am also sad that it has come to this and also really worried that the next president may be even worse," she said to the news agency AP.
Many others among the 200 million inhabitants of South America's largest country shares the position. They believe that heads must roll among corrupt politicians. But unfortunately for the residents there is no quick fix that can remedy the chaos unfolding in Brazil right now.
"Many are accused of corruption in parliament. Therefore, we see a large degree of political alienation in the population. It turns out time and again that many of the politicians are corrupt. Now it was believed just that there were new for that were not so corrupt. But those could we not believe. Therefore, the situation in Brazil right now expression of popular protest. For the people's resentment against the government. But it's actually quite surprising how deeply rooted culture of corruption in Brazil. It makes it hard to change, "says Associate Professor Steen Fryba Christensen from Aalborg University.
Anders Hjort, Journalist from the Danish newspaper "Politiken"
friend Roberto's place about an hour or so outside of sao paulo; spotted a toucan in the morning and some fast green parrots; a very beautiful spring
could also hear monkey across the water;
no mosquitos, lovely weather
Appro. 1 hour drive east of Rio De Janeiro is this beautiful town of Marica with wonderful clean beaches.
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Fernando de Noronha is an archipelago of 21 islands and islets in the Atlantic Ocean, 354 km (220 mi) offshore from the Brazilian coast.
Only the homonymous main island is inhabited; it has an area of 18.4 km2 (7.1 sq mi) and a population estimated at 2,718. The archipelago's total area is 26 km2 (10 sq mi).
In 2001 UNESCO designated it as a World Heritage Site because of the importance of its environment. The local population and travelers can get to Noronha by plane from Recife or Natal. An "environmental preservation" daily fee is charged from tourists, while another fee is paid once to have access to the National Park attractions.
The United Nations Environment Programme lists 15 possible endemic plant and two endemic birds. The archipelago is also an important site for breeding seabirds.
The life above and below sea is the main attraction of the island. Sea turtles, cetaceans, most common among these are spinner dolphins, spotted dolphins, humpback whales, , short-finned pilot whales, melon-headed whales and albatrosses.