· September, 2009

Stories about Portuguese from September, 2009

East Timor: The land was freed, but who owns it?

  2 September 2009

A decade since Indonesia left East Timor with one of the most devastating scorched earth campaigns of modern times, there is strong debate about the draft Land Law, and among other things, its implications for community lands.

Brazil: Can black people drive luxury cars?

  1 September 2009

A black man was assaulted in a supermarket car park in São Paulo when security guards accused him of planning to steal his own car, fuelling a debate by bloggers about the myth of Brazil as a racial democracy.

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