Brazil needed only 18 minutes to eliminate the ghost’s first defeat in its history to Venezuela. If Brazil in June lost by 2 to 0 in a friendly game in the United States, this Sunday Brazil scored three times early in the first half, and the game ended Brazil 4 and venezuela 0 and maintained a 100% recovery against the rival in the World Cup qualifies. The duo Kaká and Robinho led the team in field with no losses having Dunga as a coach.

Kaká, who didn’t played for Brazil in 11 months (Brazil 2 x 1 Uruguay on November 21, 2007), opened the score as early as 5 minutes. Robinho, with a beautiful goal from outside the area increase the score at 9 minutes in the first half. The third goal was scored by Adriano, at 18′. The Emperor didn’t scored for Brazil since the World Cup 2006, but will be off the team against Colombia: he received the second yellow card and will not play in Maracanã, Wednesday, at 21h50m (in Brasilia). Robinho scored the last goal.

With the victory, Brazil sumed 16 points and closes the first round of South American qualifies in the second position. The leader is Paraguay, with 20. The Argentine also has 16 is in the third. Chile, with 13, complete the group of four who earn place in World Cup.

Estrelas da seleção sem Ronaldinho Gaúcho, Robinho e Kaká nunca perderam juntos sob o comando de Dunga. Stars of the team without Ronaldinho Gaucho, Robinho and Kaká never lost together under the command of Dunga. A dupla fez 16 partidas, venceu 13 vitórias e empatou três. The double made 16 matches, won 13 victories and empathy three. O craque do Manchester City é o artilheiro do período com o técnico (12 gols). The ace of Manchester City qualifies is the period of the Tech (12 goals). Kaká tem dez e agora é o goleador do Brasil nas eliminatórias ao lado de Luis Fabiano (quatro). Kaká is December and now is the goleador Brazil at qualifies alongside Luis Fabiano (four).

In 19 games against Venezuela, Brazil only lost the friendly match in the United States. Brazil won 18 times. For the qualifies, total domination: 13 matches, 13 victories for Brazil.

The federal deputy Fernando Gabeira (PV), candidate for the mayoralty of Rio de Janeiro, proposed to the President of the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB), Carlos Arthur Nuzman, this Thursday, that all employees of hotels and taxi companies should study English and Spanish. This would be one of the measures proposed by him to improve the infrastructure of the city to the achievement of the Olympic Games in 2016.

Gabeira argued that the reform of Tom Jobim International Airport is held by private initiative, in addition to the change in signalling the streets of Rio de Janeiro.

Gabeira believes that the legacy of sporting events should remain for the population. “We must transform the practice of sports in the city. We have to be just the scenario of the Olympics. Rio has to develop water sports for example. There are many pools idle in the city,” he said.

Other candidates for the mayoralty of Rio will attend the same presentation. The goal of the COB is starting to partnership with a new mayor that will take possession in 2009, the year that will be decided which city will host the Olympics in 2016.

Alessandro Molon (PT), Eduardo Serra (PCBs) and Jandira Feghali (PC do B) have already made their presentations. Filipe Pereira (PSC), however, could not attend the event as planned. He would accompany the presentation at 11am (Brasilia), but failed. The Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) has not yet announced a new date and time for the next meeting with the candidate.

According to Central Bank (BC) in 2007 reached U.S. $ 2.8 billion the amount of money sent to families in Brazil by Brazilians who live in other countries. Of this total, more than $ 1.3 billion comes from the United States, virtually the same amount established by BC in 1997, the total values returned.

That money, which is usually called a referral, comes from Brazilian people  who have left the country to seek better financial conditions and also work to help families who stayed in Brazil.

In addition to the data from BC, the numbers established by the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) also show that United States is the main source of remittances: 42% of total, according to the IDB.

However, the IDB has established a total remitted higher in 2007: $ 7.1 billion. The second main source is Japan (34%), followed by the European Union (16%).

Data from MIF / IDB show that most of the people receiving these money in Brazil is concentrated in the SouthEast (58%) and South (39%). In general are women (65%), with low education (only 21% have higher education) and low-income classes.

Because of this profile, the specialist from IDB in Brasilia, Luciano Schweizer points out that these remittances are a very important social role in the country “Generally these people who emigrate usually makes 5 times more money than they would make in Brazil,” he says.

Among the major investments made with those resources in Brazil, is the purchase of property,  the improvement in the level of education and access to health services. “And in some cases, such as the dekasseguis, (Brazilians) that go to Japan and to Portugal, a large proportion of those who return to Brazil use the money to open and run a company,” says Schweizer.

Moreover, such values also create an impact on the financial market here. As Brazil has one of the highest levels of the bank remittance, between 60% and 70%, “obviously this money arrives and circulates within the formal financial system, and this is a work that the bank (IDB) has developed to increase the formality of such shipments because it lets people manage a history in the financial system and have access to other services offered in this system, “he says.