Mangueira

is much more than a traditional samba school. This school is one of a kind in the way that they manage to show true neighborhood support and the ability to help a community and its members succeed with pride all year long. These lovely dancers not only train year long to create the perfect story they also work within the community to better Rio de Janeiro and the neighborhood they have considered home for so long.

Samba schools took longer to rise from the poorer neighborhoods in Brazil but like more influential neighborhoods they less fortunate managed to rise and make their ability to samba not to mention their love for their culture, known.

One of the first schools do to this was Mangueira. Originally in the slums, this samba school was born near a hill of the same name and decided to use it as an offering to their people.

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Brazil Stocks Rebound on Steelmakers, Vale; Mexico Declines

By Alexander Ragir and Emily Schmall

Sept. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil’s Bovespa index rose as steelmakers and miners climbed on the prospect the recovering economy will bolster earnings, overshadowing declines for banks.

Gerdau SA led gains for steelmakers after Itau Unibanco Holding SA said Brazil’s largest steel producer may outperform on the outlook for “stronger than expected” third-quarter earnings. Vale SA, the world’s biggest iron ore miner, climbed 1 percent after a central bank survey showed Brazil’s economy will extend its recovery from the global financial crisis in the second half of 2009 and won’t shrink for the year overall. Banco Bradesco SA led a decline in financial stocks after Spain’s Banco Santander SA said it aims to raise as much as $7.2 billion by selling shares in its Brazilian business.

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Brazil is One of Few Winners in Global Crisis

The financial market meltdown a year ago brought Brazil's three-year economic spurt to an abrupt halt, silencing those who had previously held that the country would be able to weather any global financial storm because of its strong domestic economy and stable banking system, reformed after the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980s.

As raw-material prices plummeted and investor risk-appetite dried up, hopes were quenched that Brazil's economy might be immune to the woes of the global markets. The economy contracted 3.6% in the fourth quarter of 2008 and a further 1% quarter-on-quarter in the first three months of 2009.

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Brazil to become first foreign customer for French jet

BRASILIA (AFP) – France has struck a landmark outline accord to sell 36 Rafale fighters for between four and seven billion dollars to Brazil, potentially the first foreign customer for the expensive jet, officials said.

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced on Monday after meeting French leader Nicolas Sarkozy that advanced contract talks were being held, though French maker Dassault Aviation said it did not expect a final accord until 2010.

France has been seeking a foreign buyer for the multi-role combat jet for more than a decade.

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Brazil Property News: Brazilian property owners get new minimum wage

September 2009 12:51

Brazil's planning minister Paulo Bernado has announced that the South American country's minimum wage will rise by 8.8 per cent in 2010.

The news was released at the 2010 budget proposal which was presented to congress recently.

Minimum wage increases above the rate of inflation, welfare programs and other social policies have helped boost the Brazilian economy since President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took charge six years ago.

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