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The title of this blog post summarizes the problem I am facing. A couple of Brazilian official tourism sites have been making unauthorized use of the content of my De viaje a Brasil travel blog (the Spanish counterpart of this Brazil Travel Blog). For quite some time. I am publishing this blog post in the [...]

Riotur is the official tourism agency for the city of Rio de Janeiro. At its information-packed website (we reviewed it here at the blog at the new official Rio Guide) you will find a very interesting text entitled Rio in 48 hours – The best of Rio in two days. The text contains a very [...]

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The World Cup 2010 is over and it seems the appropriate time for the launch of our new project, devoted fully to the soccer world cup that will take place in Brazil in 2014. Its name is the World Cup Brazil 2014 and its main goal is to provide tourists with reliable and trustworthy travel [...]

May’s here and Brazil gets closer to winter. During the month of April here at the blog we described the island of Fernando de Noronha as an ideal honeymoon destination for nature lovers. For those interested in attending a soccer game while in Brazil, we gave details of the Brazilian soccer championship 2010. And we [...]

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The Brazilian authorities have recently adapted a new standard for plugs and sockets throughout the country. The good news is that, in the future, Brazil will have just the one type of socket. The bad news is that the authorities chose a new standard incompatible with the existing Brazilian sockets and with the standards of [...]