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A Brazilian In... Barcelona & London
I’ve been here for nine months. I could’ve had a Spanish baby by now!
SANTIAGO SALVADOR, ELERI POWELL
5.2.09
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Household Highs
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.
Adriana Alves, Artur Tavares, Beatriz Ramello
5.2.09
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Welcome To Brazil
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.
Santiago Stelley
5.2.09
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A Brazilian In... Paris & Melbourne
In São Paulo in 1978. My dad, who’s a British native, used to work in a slaughterhouse. He’s part of the dynasty that imported zebus into Brazil.
JULIEN BÉCOURT, BRIONY WRIGHT
5.2.09
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A Pit Stop On The Cocaine Corridor
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.
BRIAN MIER, DOUGLAS ENGLE
5.2.09
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The Horny Humanitarian
While it’s true that Maroni publishes the Brazilian editions of Hustler and Penthouse, he also owns cattle ranches, a mixed-martial-arts fighting league, hotels, and some of the most notorious nightclubs in South America.
Laura Wrona
5.2.09
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Plowboys And Indians
Rita, an indigenous Piripkura Indian, speaks only rudimentary Portuguese, and I can’t understand her native language, Tupi-kawahib, any better than I can pronounce its name.
FELIPE MILANEZ, ARAQUEM ALCANTARA
5.2.09
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Bloody Memories
Better known as Carandiru, it was once the largest prison on the continent. On October 2, 1992, a massive fight broke out between prisoners that ultimately resulted in 111 inmate deaths.
Colevito Garapa
5.2.09
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The Sapo Diaries
In the Amazon rain forest, there lives a very special frog called the Phyllomedusa bicolor, otherwise known as the Sapo. Traditionally, the Mayoruna tribe uses this frog’s gooey secretions to gain superpowers.
Hamilton Morris, SANTIAGO FERNANDEZ-STELLEY
5.2.09
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Hand Jobs
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.
MARIANA METRI, FERNANDA NEGRINI
5.2.09
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A Brazilian In... Milan & New Zealand
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.
Serena Pezzato, Royce Akers
5.2.09
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More Brazilian Girls In Bikinis Shot By A Brazilian Photographer
Photos by Marcelo Gomes Styling by Leticia Toniazzo
Marcelo Gomes
5.2.09
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