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Hey, guess what? Not all Brazilian women are supermodels with perfectly taut bubble asses from which you can bounce a quarter two feet into the air! I know, right? Shocking.

Managed by their parents, on tour 365 days a year, and charging $900 for a two-hour sermon, child preachers are big business in Brazil. Each event is a finely tuned marketing maneuver promoted with posters, magazine coverage, and radio ads.

In São Paulo I took a course in styling while I worked on a social project at the university. After a while I’d had enough and decided to move here.

The Prestes Maia building was once home to the largest concentration of squatters in Latin America. Condemned and abandoned for 12 years, the once-glorious skyscraper became an infested shithole.

In 1982, Rio de Janeiro had a lower crime rate than New York City. This was the year that the Calabrian Mafia began using a South American smuggling route affectionately known as the Cocaine Corridor.

Brazil and the US are the world’s largest producers of biofuel, cranking out 72 percent of the global ethanol supply every year.

We asked some buddies of ours in Brazil to sate our curiosity. They gave us three simple recipes for frying up neurons that can be made with crap lying around the house.

We called our pal in São Paulo and had her round up her cute friends to pantomime some of the most useful undercover Brazilian hand gestures—and explain the finer points of interpersonal Brazilian communication.

I was forced to interview the 101-year-old Mr. Niemeyer in my bathing suit like a total dick, as you can see above. The urchins had taken not only my cheap souvenir ring, but also my dignity.

Photos by Marcelo Gomes Styling by Leticia Toniazzo

In February 2008, Senator Mário Couto of the Brazilian Social Democratic Party came down from the podium and threw himself toward his rival, Gilvam Borges of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party.

In order to find said frog and subsequently get high on its venom, we had to travel for three days on a boat through the rain forest.