Category Archives: Brazil is the Bomb!

Festive Left Friday Blogging: Simon Bolivar goes to Rio

Posted on March 3, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Woo-hoo! Congratulations are in order to Hugo Chavez and PDVSA for scoring a major, MAJOR victory: The annual parade competition at Brazil’s famous Rio de Janeiro carnival has been won by a samba group largely funded by the Venezuelan government. … Continue reading →

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Festive Left Friday Blogging, Too: Tropicalia comes to “London, London”–again

Posted on February 17, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Anyone know where I can get really, REALLY cheap airfare from Toronto to London so I can catch this?Wacky TV variety-show host Chacrinha (José Abelardo Barbosa de Medeiros, 1916-1988), an inspiration to the Festive Left artistic movement, adorns a poster … Continue reading →

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: The art of Marti

Posted on February 17, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Raul Martinez’s painting “Marti y la Estrella” during the first day open to public of the “Art of Cuba” exhibition in São Paulo, Brazil. (Photo credit: AFP/Mauricio Lima)

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