If you drink don’t drive
The Federal Traffic Police announced this Monday that 296 drivers were arrested and 369 were fined in the first ten days of validity of the new law, which provides that those who have ingested alcohol, even in small quantities, and is catch driving will lose the driver’s license and pay a [...]

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National drink of Brazil
Caipirinha (pronounced [KIE-PUR-REEN-YAH]) is made with cachaça, sugar and lime. Cachaça is Brazil’s most common distilled alcoholic beverage. Cachaça is made from sugarcane alcohol, obtained from the fermentation of sugarcane juice which is afterwards distilled.
The word
The word “caipirinha” is the diminutive version of the word “caipira”, which refers to someone from [...]

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Entrecard contest
In the beginning of June I released a contest to giveaway 10,000 Entrecard credits to the blog which drives more traffic to my blog. Until now less then 20 people post an article about it and their chances are pretty huge to win the big prize. If you didn’t write about it yet hurry [...]

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Who is helping the world?
Oxfam, a nongovernmental organization dedicated to combating poverty in the world, believes the Brazilian ethanol is the most favorable biofuel in the world in terms of emissions of polluting gases and cost.
The report says that the replacement of traditional fuels by biofuels has led more than 30 million people to poverty [...]

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40 million people with internet access
Brazil last month registered record number of 41,565 million people with Internet access, overcoming the barrier of 40 million Internet users for the first time, according to research done by IBOPE / NetRatings.
The company, which measures the Brazilian Internet since September 2000, also informed that the number of Internet users [...]

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