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The Glamorous Life
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.
Thiago Da Costa
5.2.09
The Brazilian Issue

A Brazilian In... Mexico City & Vienna
I’m from a very small town called Gravataí. It’s near Porto Alegre, which is a very beautiful place near the border of Uruguay and Argentina.
ZARATUSTRA VÁZQUEZ, KEMI SUSANNE FATOBA
5.2.09
The Brazilian Issue

Bible Babies
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.
Martina Kix
5.2.09
The Brazilian Issue

Torsos Of The Amazon
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.
Ilana Bessler
5.2.09
The Brazilian Issue

Squat Thrusts
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.
COLETIVO GARAPA
5.2.09
The Brazilian Issue

Coffin Joe’s Subterranean Secrets
Though he’s responsible for gems like 24 Hours of Explicit Sex and its sequel, 48 Hours of Hallucinatory Sex, the true lunacy started with a nightmare featuring a faceless undertaker that he transformed into his alter ego, Coffin Joe.
CHRISTIANO ABRAHAO
5.2.09
The Brazilian Issue

A Chat With Fernando Gabeira
Fernando Gabeira is one of Brazil’s best-known politicians, an author, and an activist revered as a former member of the far-left urban guerrilla group Movimento Revolucionário 8 de Outubro—aka the MR-8.
ACER BICUDO, MARCUS VERAS
5.2.09
The Brazilian Issue

A Brazilian In... Montreal & Stockholm
It’s a very nice city. Not many buildings. Everything is far apart. There’s a lot of nature, but not much to do at night.
Milene Larsson
Sarah Steinberg, MILÈNE LARSSON
5.2.09
The Brazilian Issue

A Brazilian In... Tokyo & New York
I was born to an Italian-Brazilian-Portuguese mother and a Japanese father in Piracicaba, a small city in the southeast countryside of Brazil.
Tomokazu Kosuga, ROCCO CASTORO
5.2.09
The Brazilian Issue

Oscar Niemeyer
Oscar Niemeyer is on the infinitesimally short list of people who have designed and built an entire city. A world capital.
Santiago Stelley, ANDRÉ VIEIRA
5.2.09
The Brazilian Issue

Famous for Having an Ass
The only person who loves Andressa Soares's butt more than Brazil's sun-soaked masses and us is Andressa Soares. She's really into it. And for good reason: Her ass has catapulted the charming Rio-born girl from bit parts in music videos into the pop...
Christianno Abrahao
5.2.09
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