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| Informal, backyard-party samba. The kind of music that can be made by a small four-string cavaquinho guitar along with a few beer cans and tables to bang on. Read more... | ||||||
| Para Ingl?s ver | ||||||
| To do something for appearance sake (for the English to see). Originated with the anti-slavery law of 1831 that was a dead letter, just to show the English that action was being undertaken. | ||||||
| PCC (Primeiro Comando do Capital) | ||||||
| The Sao Paolo equivalent of Rio's crime factions Comando Vermelho and Terceiro Comando. It started out as a prison football team and is responsible for the biggest prison uprising to date, in February 2001, taking over 29 prisons. It is linked with the Comando Vermelho. | ||||||
| PDS (Partido Democr?tico Social) | ||||||
In 1965 the military government abolished the multi-party system and replaced it by a two party system. ARENA which was the government party and the MDB for the entire opposition. The majority of the politicians who joined ARENA had belonged to the UDN and an almost equal number came from the PSD . Read more... | ||||||
| Pelego | ||||||
Nickname for a union boss. A pelego is a sheepskin or cloth placed on a saddle to cushion the jolts on the rider?s body. The word methaphorically came to mean a union boss who, as the union's director, acted more in his own interests and in the state?s interest than on behalf of the workers. Read more... | ||||||
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| Nickname for members of the ruling workers party (PT). | ||||||
| PFL (Partido da Frente Liberal) | ||||||
In 1965 the military government abolished the multi-party system and replaced it by a two party system. ARENA which was the government party and the MDB for the entire opposition. The majority of the politicians who joined ARENA had belonged to the UDN and an almost equal number came from the PSD . Read more... | ||||||
| Plano Real | ||||||
Brazilian economists call the 1980s the Lost Decade. Wild boom-and-bust cycles decimated the country?s economy. Inflation ran over 100% for most of the decade, and at times exceeded 10,000%. Until 1994, the only certainty in the economy was uncertainty. Then came the Plano Real devised by the then finance minister Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Read more... | ||||||
| PMDB (Partido do Movimento Democr?tico Brasileiro) | ||||||
In 1965 the military government abolished the multi-party system and replaced it by a two party system. ARENA which was the government party and the MDB for the entire opposition. The MDB was formed by people from the PTB and, to a lesser extent , from the PSD . Read more... | ||||||
| Polaca | ||||||
| Nickname for the constitution that formed the basis for the Estado Novo. Almost all power was concentrated in the head of state i.e. Get?lio Vargas. It was based on the fascist Polish Bill of 1935. At the same time the nickname expressed contempt because polaca also means European prostitute in Brazilian slang. | ||||||
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