Brasilia
The thousands of yuppies who revel in increasing numbers in the impromptu bars by Brasilia's Lake Paranoa would consider themselves unlikely representatives of a defining era in world history.
Brazil Battens Down For Test Of The Real And Unreal
Sao Paulo
Sao Paulo's Avenida Paulista is a gleaming testimony, and a sobering reminder, of the economic crisis that threatens to engulf Brazil, and possibly the Americas.
Brasilia
A cheeky Gough Whitlam once mused that Canberra had "a whiff of Brasilia" about it. Gough may have been right about many things but that wasn't one of them.
Brazil Aims To Hang On By A $US30 Billion Thread
Rio De Janeiro
It was a bikini - not something you'd ordinarily find on Wall Street, Threadneedle Street or at the Australian Stock Exchange for that matter. And it was on sale in the souvenir shop at Rio de Janeiro's stock exchange.
Kaleidoscope Of Doubts Clog Poll
Rio De Janeiro
With a gallows humour that could only come from the world's most uneven distribution of income, Brazilians describe themselves with two great cliches.
The Real Talk Is About The Latino Dollar
Brasilia
It's an idea that's been aired recently in Hong Kong, in Brussels, and with the simultaneous advent of the euro in Europe and the ongoing economic turbulence in Brazil, it's an idea that's gaining, er, common currency in smart Latin American salons.