Brazil

military dictatorship

A military dictatorship is a form of government different from civilian dictatorship for a number of reasons: their motivations for seizing power, the institutions through which they organize their rule, and the ways in which they leave power.

Bric's nation

BRICS is the acronym for an association of five major emerging national economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Originally the first four were grouped as "BRIC", before the induction of South Africa in 2010.

Deforestation (of the amazon rain-forest)

Deforestation is a particular concern in tropical rainforests because these forests are home to much of the world's biodiversity. For example, in the Amazon around 17% of the forest has been lost in the last 50 years, mostly due to forest conversion for cattle ranching.

Dilma Rousseff

Dilma Vana Rousseff is a Brazilian economist and politician who served as 36th President of Brazil from 2011 until her impeachment and removal from office on 31 August 2016.

Bolsa Familia

Family Allowance) is a social welfare program of the Brazilian government, part of the Fome Zero network of federal assistance programs.

Recession

In economics, a recession is a business cycle contraction which results in a general slowdown in economic activity.

Christ the redeemer

It is 98 feet tall (not including the 26 foot pedestal), and the arms stretch to 92 feet wide. Christ the Redeemer is located in the Tijuca Forest National Forest, at the top of the Corcovado Mountain. The statue is considered an icon of Rio de Janeiro and Brazil. Christ the Redeemer is the 5th largest statue of Jesus.

Joao "jango" Goulart

João Belchior Marques Goulart was a Brazilian politician who served as the 24th President of Brazil until a military coup d'état deposed him on April 1, 1964.

Luiz inacio Lula de Silva

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, originally Luiz Inácio da Silva, by name Lula (born October 27, 1945, Garanhuns, Brazil), Brazilian politician who served as president of Brazil from 2003 to 2011.

Michel Temer

Michel Miguel Elias Temer Lulia is a Brazilian lawyer and politician who is the 37th and current President of Brazil.

"Car wash" scandal

Operation Car Wash (Portuguese: Operação Lava Jato) is an investigation being carried out by the Federal Police of Brazil, Curitiba Branch, and judicially commanded by Judge Sérgio Moro since March 17, 2014. Initially a money laundering investigation, it has expanded to cover allegations of corruption at the state-controlled oil company Petrobras, where executives allegedly accepted bribes in return for awarding contracts to construction firms at inflated prices. This criminal "system" is known as "Petrolão - Operation Car Wash".[4] The operation has included more than a hundred warrants for search and seizure, temporary and preventive detention and coercive measures, with the aim of ascertaining a money laundering scheme suspected of moving more than R$30 billion (approx. US$8.94bn as of November 22, 2016).[citation needed] Because of the exceptionality of their actions, lawyers accuse the operation of "selectivity" and "partiality" in their case, being "a criminal case that violated minimum rules of defense for a large number of defendants".[5]

2014 world cup

The 2014 FIFA World Cup was the 20th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's national football teams organized by FIFA.

2016 Olympics

The 2016 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad and commonly known as Rio 2016, was a major international multi-sport event held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 August to 21 August 2016.

Tropicalista movement

Tropicalism was a movement of rupture that shook Brazilian popular music and culture between 1967 and 1968. Its participants formed a large collective, whose stars were the singer-songwriters Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, along with the singer Gal Costa and the singer-songwriter Tom Zé, rock band the Mutantes and arranger Rogério Duprat. Singer Nara Leão and lyricists José Carlos Capinan and Torquato Neto completed the group, which also included the graphic artist, songwriter and poet Rogério Duarte as one of its principal intellectual mentors.

favela

a Brazilian shack or shanty town; a slum.

Indigenous

originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native.