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Carta Capital
''CartaCapital'' is a weekly Brazilian newsmagazine published in Santana de Parnaíba, São Paulo and João Pessoa, Paraíba and distributed throughout the country by Editora Basset. The main focuses of the magazine are politics, economy, social issues and culture. History ''CartaCapital'' was created as a monthly magazine in 1994 by Mino Carta, an Italo-Brazilian journalist. In 1968, Carta founded Brazil's leading newsmagazine '' Veja'' alongside Victor Civita. Eight years later, he founded '' IstoÉ'', another popular newsmagazine. Unsatisfied with the result of the magazines he helped to create, Carta founded ''CartaCapital'' as an alternative to these. ''CartaCapital'' is noted for its small crew; it only has eleven journalists. The magazine was published on a monthly until 1996 when its frequency was switched to biweekly. Its frequency was changed to weekly in 2002. The magazine is known for supporting causes such as both of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's candidacies, the le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanessa Grazziotin
Vanessa Grazziotin Bezerra (born June 29, 1961) is a Brazilian politician. She is a member of the Communist Party of Brazil (PC do B). Although she was born in Videira, Santa Catarina, Grazziotin based her political career in the state of Amazonas. After serving three terms in the Chamber of Deputies, she was elected to the Federal Senate in the 2010 parliamentary election. She is the fourth Communist Party senator in Brazilian history after Luís Carlos Prestes, and Leomar Quintanilha. She is also Amazonas' first Communist Party senator. Vanessa served a single eight-year term as senator. Career In 1985, Vanessa Grazziotin graduated in the Pharmacy College of the Federal University of Amazonas. She has been a member of the Communist Party of Brazil (PC do B) since 1980, when the party was still illegal. Through the PC do B, she was a councilwoman for Manaus for nine straight years, from 1989 to 1998, when she successfully ran for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies. She was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Civita
Victor Civita (February 9, 1907 - August 24, 1990) was an Italian-born Brazilian journalist and publisher. His family emigrated from Italy to New York in 1938 following passage of the Race Law. In 1949 Civita relocated his family to Brazil, where he established the publishing house Editora Abril in São Paulo, which developed into Grupo Abril, one of the largest publishing houses in the country. Early life and education Civita was born in New York City, to Italian parents Vittoria Carpi and Carlo Civita (his mother was an opera singer and his father a businessman). The family returned to Italy, settling in Milan, where Victor grew up with his older brother César and younger brother Daniel. Their father was Jewish. After school and college, Victor followed his older brother into the publishing business. In 1938 the extended family of parents, grown sons and their families, all left Italy because of enactment of the Race Laws against Jews under the Fascist government of Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drauzio Varella
Antônio Drauzio Varella (; born May 3, 1943, in São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian physician, scientist, writer, and medical science communicator. Varella has often commented publicly on issues such as prison conditions, social welfare, government, literature, medicine, and skepticism, and has frequently debunked pseudoscientific medical claims. Varella was born in the Brás district of São Paulo to a family of Portuguese and Spanish descent and studied medicine at the University of São Paulo. While an undergraduate, he co-founded preparatory course Sistema Objetivo, where he taught chemistry for several years. The institution was later expanded into Universidade Paulista Varella received the 2000 Prêmio Jabuti for his book '' Estação Carandiru''. Career After his 1967 graduation, Varella specialized in infectious disease, studying under Vicente Amato Neto at the University of São Paulo and at the Hospital do Servidor Público de São Paulo. This work led him to devel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sócrates
Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira (19 February 1954 – 4 December 2011), simply known as Sócrates , was a Brazilian footballer who played as a midfielder. His medical degree and his political awareness, combined with style and quality of his play, earned him the nickname "Doctor Socrates". Easily recognizable for his beard and headband, Sócrates became the "symbol of cool for a whole generation of football supporters". In 1983, he was named South American Footballer of the Year. In 2004, he was named by Pelé in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest midfielders of all time. Socrates played for Brazil for seven years, scoring 22 goals and representing the nation in two World Cups. He captained the team in the 1982 FIFA World Cup; playing in midfield alongside Zico, Falcão, Toninho Cerezo and Éder, considered one of the greatest Brazil national teams ever. He also appeared in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antônio Delfim Netto
Antônio Delfim Netto (; 1 May 1928 – 12 August 2024) was a Brazilian economist, academic, and politician who was the Ministry of Finance (Brazil), Minister of Finance, Ministry of Agriculture (Brazil), Agriculture, and Ministry of Planning, Budget, and Management, Planning, as well as a National Congress of Brazil, congressman. During his incumbency as Minister of Finance of Brazil, the country experienced the so-called Brazilian Miracle, Economic Miracle, a time of unprecedented economic growth. The Milagre Econômico overseen by Delfim Netto relied on a heterodox, developmentalist model. The economic expansion relied on low wages, rapidly rising exports, and foreign capital inflows. Delfim Netto gave another added meaning to the phrase "cake theory" in reference to this model: the cake had to grow before it could be distributed. Although the "cake" in his metaphor did grow, it was highly unequally distributed. Delfim Netto died in São Paulo on 12 August 2024, at the age o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cesar Calejon
Cesar Antonio Calejon Ibrahim (born 11 July 1979) is a Brazilian journalist and writer. Since the general elections in Brazil in 2018, he has been a critic of Jair Bolsonaro and the movement known as “Bolsonarism”, having written several books on the subject. He also participated in debates on TV and radio, especially in Grupo Jovem Pan, where he became embroiled in some controversies with other commentators. The journalist has contributed as a columnist to the newsmagazine CartaCapital, the ''Trip'' magazine and portal Brasil 247. Calejon has a specialisation in International Relations from the Getulio Vargas Foundation and a master's degree in Social Change and Political Participation from the University of São Paulo The Universidade de São Paulo (, USP) is a public research university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, and the largest public university in Brazil. The university was founded on 25 January 1934, regrouping already existing schools in .... B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulo Henrique Amorim
Paulo Henrique dos Santos Amorim (22 February 1942 – 10 July 2019) was a Brazilian blogger and journalist. Biography Amorim worked as a sociologist and political scientist for many of the larger networks of the Brazilian mass media, such as Manchete Network, Grupo Abril, Jornal do Brasil, Globo Network, Bandeirantes Network and TV Cultura. From 2003 on, he worked for Record Network. Online-wise, he worked for Zaz, Terra, UOL and Internet Group (iG). He also owned an independent web portal nameConversa Afiada "located somewhere in the Web 2.0". He died on 10 July 2019 at the age of 77. Convictions in court On May 31, 2011, the 18th Civil Chamber of the Court of Rio de Janeiro upheld the sentence of first instance that Amorim condemned to pay R$30,000 in damages to Ali Kamel. In the first degree sentence, Judge ledir Dias de Araújo stressed that journalistic criticism are sustainable and encourage people to form their opinions, but can not randomly or falsely impute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Márcio Alemão
Márcio José Narciso (born January 21, 1981), known as Márcio Alemão, is a Brazilian footballer who most recently plays for Saipa in the Iran Pro League. Club career In 2009, Narciso played 17 games for Guarani Futebol Clube Guarani Futebol Clube, colloquially called Guarani, is a Brazilian association football club in Campinas, São Paulo. Guarani is the only club not based in a state capital or coastal city to have won the top tier of the Brazilian Championsh ..., scoring 1 goal. In 2010 he was transferred to Iran Pro League team Naft Tehran. After playing all his career in Brazil. He is one of the key players for Naft in 2011-12 season. References 1981 births Living people Brazilian men's footballers Brazilian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Iran Persian Gulf Pro League players Naft Tehran F.C. players Saipa F.C. players Guarani FC players Esporte Clube Noroeste players Associação Desportiva Confiança players Esporte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dilma Rousseff
Dilma Vana Rousseff (; born 14 December 1947) is a Brazilian economist and politician who served as the 36th president of Brazil from 2011 until her impeachment and removal from office on 31 August 2016. She is the only woman to have held the Brazilian presidency. Since March 2023, she has been the Chair of the New Development Bank. She also served in the cabinet of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva during his first presidency—first as Minister of Mines and Energy, from 2003 to 2005, then as Chief of Staff from 2005 to 2010. Rousseff was raised in an upper middle class household in Belo Horizonte. She became a socialist in her youth. After the 1964 coup d'état she joined left-wing and Marxist urban guerrilla groups that fought against the military dictatorship. Rousseff was captured, tortured, and jailed from 1970 to 1972. After her release, Rousseff rebuilt her life in Porto Alegre with her husband Carlos Araújo. They both helped to found the Democratic Labour Party (PDT) in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keynesian Economics
Keynesian economics ( ; sometimes Keynesianism, named after British economist John Maynard Keynes) are the various macroeconomics, macroeconomic theories and Economic model, models of how aggregate demand (total spending in the economy) strongly influences Output (economics), economic output and inflation. In the Keynesian view, aggregate demand does not necessarily equal the aggregate supply, productive capacity of the economy. It is influenced by a host of factors that sometimes behave erratically and impact production, employment, and inflation. Keynesian economists generally argue that aggregate demand is volatile and unstable and that, consequently, a market economy often experiences inefficient macroeconomic outcomes, including economic recession, recessions when demand is too low and inflation when demand is too high. Further, they argue that these economic fluctuations can be mitigated by economic policy responses coordinated between a government and their central bank. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Military Dictatorship In Brazil
The military dictatorship in Brazil (), occasionally referred to as the Fifth Brazilian Republic, was established on 1 April 1964, after a 1964 Brazilian coup d'état, coup d'état by the Brazilian Armed Forces, with support from the United States government, against president João Goulart. The Brazilian dictatorship lasted for 21 years, until 15 March 1985. The coup was planned and executed by the most senior commanders of the Brazilian Army and received the support of almost all high-ranking members of the military, along with conservative sectors in society, like the Catholic Church in Brazil, Catholic Church and anti-communist civilian movements among the Brazilian middle and upper classes. The military regime, particularly after the Institutional Act Number Five, Institutional Act No. 5 of 1968, practiced extensive Censorship under the military dictatorship in Brazil, censorship and committed Human rights abuses of the military dictatorship in Brazil (1964–1985), human ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cesare Battisti (born 1954)
Cesare Battisti (born 18 December 1954) is an Italian former member of the terrorist group Armed Proletarians for Communism (PAC), who is currently imprisoned after years on the run. PAC was a far-left militant group active in Italy in the late 1970s during the period known as the " Years of Lead". Battisti was sentenced to life imprisonment in Italy for four homicides (two policemen, a jeweller and a butcher). He fled first to France in 1981, where he received protection under the Mitterrand doctrine. Battisti was tried ''in absentia'' and sentenced to 12 years for being a member of an armed group and for the material killing of two people and instigating another two homicides, based on testimony from Pietro Mutti. He was sentenced to life in prison in 1995. After the '' de facto'' repeal of the Mitterrand doctrine in 2002, Battisti fled to Brazil under a false identity to avoid a possible extradition, where he lived as a free man until an order of extradition issued in Dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
