Slum school symbolizes Brazil's struggle
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The Henrique Foreis school sits at the base of a hill in a shantytown blessed with stunning views and cursed with the kind of violence that rivals war zones. Named after a composer-performer famous for sambas and carnival music, the primary school was supposed to inspire students in the Fazendinha shantytown.
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BRASILIA : Brazilians voted in local elections for mayors and city councilors in a key mid-term test for leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
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LONDON, Jan 24  (IPS) - The World Social Forum that gets under way this  week will bring together a large  number of slum dwellers'  representatives. "Never again an isolated struggle" is  their  slogan as they seek common solutions to common problems.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil, Sept. 30 -- The dividing lines that will determine Brazil's presidential election on Sunday are extraordinarily clear, as plainly visible as the swinging doors that separate a restaurant's dining room from its kitchen.
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PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil  - Brazil's President Luiz  Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday urged the world's poor and  hungry to unite against rich nations' interests before he  jetted off to a meeting of the globe's wealthy elite.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - With his leftist credentials   and background as a factory worker in polluted Sao Paulo,   environmentalists had high hopes of Brazilian President Luiz   Inacio Lula da Silva when he took office in 2003.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil, March 8 -- Thousands of students, workers and environmentalists protesting President Bush's arrival here Thursday shut down a road in a central business district, and some clashed with helmet-wearing riot police who fired tear gas and beat demonstrators.
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Here was the idea: Students from low-income inner-city backgrounds could perform as well as better-off suburban students &#151; if they had a school that gave them proper support.
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By Andrew Hay BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazil made progress in itsambitious plan to hand out land to poor peasants in 2004, butstill fell short of goals aimed at narrowing chronic wealthinequality, government data released on Wednesday show.
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School saga is inflaming old divides between ethnic groups.
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By Andrew Hay RIO CUEIRAS, Brazil  - Brazil's center-leftgovernment will unseal archives of the country's 1964-85military dictatorship in an effort to resolve a painful chapterin the nation's recent history, the justice minister said onTuesday.
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Brazilian flags hang from pubs, posters in   Portuguese advertise the agricultural fair and the vibrant   green-and-yellow paintwork of the 'Real Brazil' food store   stands out in a drab row of shops.
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Cheering Che Guevara and bashing President Bush, anti-globalization activists converged on southern Brazil Wednesday for an annual ritual of opposition to corporate-sponsored capitalism and the divide between rich and poor nations.
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Brazilians vote in local elections - which are regarded as the first political test of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - President Luiz Inacio Lula da  Silva's Workers' Party (PT) won the mayoralty of at least six  state capitals in Sunday's municipal vote but was forced into a  run-off to defend its hold on the race's biggest prize, the  city of Sao Paulo.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil -- Every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, vans and buses full of aspiring models brake to a stop here in front of the unmarked offices of the Daphne Agency. Coming from small towns scattered across the Brazilian countryside, the hopefuls have spent hours on the road, often...
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Brazilian announces a major plan to improve conditions for people living in Rio's violence-hit slums.