6th July 2015
Brasilia, Brazil
When Almeida Júnior painted O Caipira Picando Fumo in 1893, a work that so well portrayed the ordinary man in the interior of São Paulo, he did not imagine that 122 years later the caipira would be enjoying high-quality operas, producing urban culture in its various forms, travelling abroad and enjoying international cuisine, driving Land […]
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13th June 2015
Brasilia, Brazil
It is almost eight months since the British Embassy Brazil launched our outreach strategy, we decided we would strengthen our engagements in the great states of Bahia, Minas Gerais, Parana, Rio Grande do Sul, Amazonas, Ceara, Santa Catarina and Espirito Santo. It is also roughly two years since we started appointing Honorary Prosperity Consuls to […]
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22nd May 2015
Brasilia, Brazil
22 May marks the International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB), a day to increase understanding and awareness of biodiversity issues. The theme for 2015 will be ‘Biodiversity for Sustainable Development’ to reflect the importance of a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) being developed as part of the UN post-2015 development agenda and the relevance […]
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20th February 2015
Brasilia, Brazil
On 23 Jan I started a (long) journey to the South Atlantic. More specifically, the Falkland Islands. There I spent a week with Brazilian academics from Rio, Brasilia, Porto Alegre and Foz do Iguaçu learning about the Islands’ political system, economy, education, development plans, science and research opportunities, but also got to know the friendly […]
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24th January 2014
Brasilia, Brazil
Exactly three years ago, I was visiting Aswan, in the south of Egypt, with two friends. We wanted a break from the 6-week volunteer programme we were doing. We went out for dinner and on our way back to the hotel some images on a TV shop caught our attention: an ocean of people gathering […]
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4th December 2013
Brasilia, Brazil
Last Friday (29), I had the opportunity to return to Rio de Janeiro, where I lived for almost 8 years, to participate in the X International Security Conference of the Fort of Copacabana, an initiative of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation-KAS and the Brazilian Center for International Relations-CEBRI, supported by the Delegation of the European […]
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