Still Time for Overseas Voters in 2010
Letter to the Editor By Clair Whitmer, Overseas Vote Foundation You requested your ballot but didn’t receive it yet? Or maybe you just procrastinated? Fortunately, you still have time to vote in 2010 if you remember one little acronym: FWAB. What’s an FWAB? It’s the “Federal Write-in Absentee Ballot” and the official alternative ballot to [...]
Jammin’ in Rio
Letter to the Editor For the casual visitor, the Corcovado , the Sugar Loaf and the marvelous beaches are enough to inspire that feeling that you’re truly in one of the world’s most stunning cities. But there is much, much more to Rio than this. There are other must-do’s that only a true seeker after [...]
A Brazilian Youth Activist Making Waves Abroad
Letter to the Editor Gabriel Borda – 22 years old – an activist When you enter Rio de Janeiro, you might encounter a wall that has been built. A tourist might never know what this is for. In South Africa, one might observe a similar structure while driving from the airport in one of the [...]
The Cost of the Olympics
Letter to the Editor The Editor… RIO TIMES, I’m writing from the province of British Columbia on the west coast of Canada, where the 21st Winter Olympics were held in Vancouver and Whistler this past February. The Games were the main focus of the Government of British Columbia for several years leading up to 2010, [...]
When Citizenship Doesn’t Equal Voting Rights
Letter to the Editor The Invisible Line between Citizenship and Voting Rights Most Americans assume that U.S. citizenship automatically grants individuals the right to vote. However many expatriate American parents are shocked to learn that their children raised overseas, even if full U.S. citizens in all other respects, do not necessarily have the right to [...]
Shared History
Letter to the Editor “Little shared history, insignificant bilateral trade and little in the way of key diplomatic relations over the years” !!! Get real! Has your reporter never heard of Portugal being Britain’s oldest ally, of George Canning’s record as British Foreign Secretary and then Prime Minister, of the Royal Navy’s role in escorting [...]
Small Investors Looking to Brazil
By Nicholas Storey In the last five years, the value of several ‘leading’ world currencies has fallen against the Brazilian Real; importantly for some, the British pound has nearly halved in value. Add to this inflation in Brazil leading to a doubling of prices in the same period (occasioned by high interest rates and little [...]
Better Signage May Not Have Avoided Tunnel Death
Letter to the Editor While Rio could really use better road signage, the assertion that the death of Rafael Mascarenhas was due to poor signage is unjustified. The report in Veja leaves little doubt that the drivers of the cars in the tunnel were using the tunnel closure to try drag-style racing (racha), while the [...]
Favela Living: A Valid Viewpoint
Letter to the Editor I read the article “Favela Living: A Vidigal Viewpoint” with some apprehension. It made me feel a bit uncomfortable… If a foreigner comes here as a tourist or business executive (the typical “gringo”) and thinks that it is safe in the favelas. Say he goes to live and play in a [...]
Countdown to 2012 and 2016
Letter to the Editor Britain and Brazil and the Olympic ideal. We are excited. Why? Brazil and Britain have a special reason to mark 27 July. We are just two years away from the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games in London. It is a big deal. Not just for the UK – but [...]
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