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 Brazilian Airline Varig, which was just bought by Gol, has launched two new Economy Class Air Passes - one covering the 15 destinations served by the airline within Brazil, and the second for flights within the Mercosur Region, which covers five South American countries.
The Varig Brazil Air Pass is priced from US$ 479 for a minimum of four domestic flight coupons, graduating to a maximum of nine coupons, for US$ 1079. Taxes and surcharges are additional and vary according to the destinations visited.
The Mercosur Air Pass, for travel within and between Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Chile - excluding Easter Island - offers travel to a minimum of two countries, with a maximum of three stopovers per country.
This Air Pass, in conjunction with interline airline partner Pluna, is priced from US$ 295 - US$ 1195, plus taxes and surcharges, which again vary according to the routes flown.
Both Air Passes are available only to residents of a country other than Brazil, and exclude Brazilian nationals resident in other countries.
"Brazil is the largest and most populous country in South America, occupying almost half of the continent," said Lars Olofsson, National Sales Manager for World Aviation Systems, Varig's General Sales Agent in Australia.
"The country offers a huge range of attractions, from the world-renowned city of Rio de Janeiro to the natural spectacles of the Amazon River and Iguaçu Falls," Mr Olofsson added.
The Brazilian locations served by Varig are Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Curitiba, Fernando de Noronha, Fortaleza, Florianópolis, Londrina, Manaus, Porto Alegre, Porto Seguro, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, São Paulo and Vitória.
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The only good thing to say about the visit to Brazil of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on Monday November 23, is that it was mercifully short and lasted less than 24 hours. Ahmadinejad had his picture taken being hugged by president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva who gave him a warm welcome and said Iran had every right to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. 
The small, coastal town of Condé is located just a twenty minute's drive from João Pessoa, the capital of Paraíba. The Northeast of Brazil has historically been a place of encounter and mixing between peoples. For millenia groups of indigenous people fished, farmed, migrated and sometimes fought along this large, fertile area. 
The Brazilian diplo-MÁ-cia (bad diplomacy) carries on its accelerated course towards the non-acknowledgment of human rights, although sometimes it takes pleasure in saying that it does precisely the opposite. The visit of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is another example of a diplomatic omission that verges on hypocrisy. 
On July 4, 2006, representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay met in Caracas to sign the protocol for the entrance of Venezuela into the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). After two and a half years, the protocol was approved by the legislative bodies of Argentina and Uruguay, and as of now it may be only days away from being ratified by the continent's economic megalith, Brazil. 
Some sectors of the fight against AIDS have suggested that Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa, committed genocide through his absence from the fight against the illness in his country throughout his two terms. 
One hundred and eleven years after Brazil abolished slavery, the number of workers deprived of their freedom is still huge. They raise cattle, produce charcoal, sugar cane or timber. Some of them, most undocumented Bolivians, work in basements of small apparel factories in São Paulo and other metropolis. 
On November 7, 2009 a few friends and I had an opportunity to take a look inside a Brazilian jail outside the city of Rio de Janeiro. We were able to take some amateur footage of our experience on video (see link below). It's no surprise, of course, that the typical Brazilian jail lacks some of the functionality of those in North America or Europe, but our experience that day was quite shocking. 
Depletion of the Amazon Rainforest is not a new concern facing environmentalists, biologists, ecologists, and a growing number of the Amazonian indigenous peoples. For decades they have feared for the fate of the world's most biologically diverse and species-rich hothouse. 
Geisy Arruda made history this week in Brazil, but for all the wrong reasons. What began as a poorly planned fashion statement has become a worldwide tale. Geisy decided to wear a pink mini-dress to her private college in São Paulo state, and after that, all hell broke loose. 
The push of vigilante groups in Rio de Janeiro's favelas (shantytowns) in the last three years is the most important and alarming information of the just-released study by the Rio de Janeiro University's Violence Research Center (Nupev-Uerj).
Simple New demonstation of how you are taken for a ride....as usual......by the people......YOU ELECTED !!!!!!!
Prices for Brazilians MUST BE HIGHER !
Prices for Foreigners MUST BE LOWER....otherwise they will travel elsewhere !
And neither Lula and his gang or the population will do something against such injustice !
For a leftist, Kirchner is 100 times better.
When meat prices went up, he stopped the export.
Same for grains, recently.
Same for gas, gasoline prices. Their prices are freezed at the 2002 levels, before oil tripled !!!!!.
And the Air pass in Argentina is more expensive for foreigners than for Argentineans.
With Kirchner you can see a leftist caring for his voters, mostly for the most needy. In Brazil you can see a leftist President caring more for the minority wealthy and totally disregarding his voters, mostly the poors ! Lula prefers exporting more foods rather than feeding the tens of millions under nourrished Brazilians.
End results : Argentina is growing economically at 3 times the rate of Brazil !!!!!
Anyone can figure out who is right and who is wrong, who is caring and who is not caring for the needy population !
Did I say one of the 2 countries is a Tropical Mud ? Of course, and there are confirmations on a weekly basis, especially when
comparisons are done with similar countries, from the same region or not !
Laugh....laugh....laugh......!!!!!!!