200 Killed in Brazil Nightclub Fire

January 27, 2013 | Jon

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WorldView: Scary Corpse Elevator Prank In Brazil

December 3, 2012 | Sanders

Scary Corpse Elevator Prank In Brazil!

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WorldView: Extremely Scary Ghost Elevator Prank in Brazil

November 20, 2012 | Sanders

Extremely Scary Ghost Elevator Prank in Brazil.

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Hide Your Kids, Hide Your Wife, Hide Your Husband, and if You Live in Rural Brazil, Hide Your Farm Animals!

November 18, 2011 | Jon 589

A new study from Brazil has found that men who have Read More

Brazil makes History & Elects Dilma Rousseff 1st Female Prez; Long Trek for many Voting Machines

October 31, 2010 | Dos Lives Team 557

We shared our predictions on last week’s podcast for the Brazil elections and…drum roll please…Dilma Rousseff is Brazil’s new president-elect after defeating her opponent Jose Serra, the former governor of São Paulo, with 56 percent of the vote to 44 percent.

“My mission is to eradicate poverty,” Dilma Rousseff said after the country’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal declared her the winner in Sunday’s runoff election, according to CNN.com.

This shows that Brazilians voted strongly in favor of continuing the economic and social policies of the popular president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, according to the NYT.

How did Brazil get their new voting machines to the most remote villages in the Amazon? Read More

The Dos Lives Weekly Podcast with Jon and Mariana

March 6, 2009 | Mariana

This week: 287(g), the child custody case in Brazil and those Puerto Rican bus drivers.

Grab your ipod, MP3 or just listen on your computer and join the weekly podcast as Jon and Mariana explore issues of interest for Latinos … Read More