The difference was that, after all Divisions were finished, a mini tournament would gather representatives from all of them ( one team from Third Division, three from Second and twelve from First ), and the winner would be the Brazilian Champion of 2000.

Friends have become family for Valentino ; his business associate life partner, Giancarlo Giammetti, Brazilian brothers Sean and Anthony Souza, as well as their parents, Carlos Souza and socialite Charlene Shorto de Ganay, Souza's ex-wife, who are both Valentino's public relations representatives.

" In this form, the Constitution expressed in its text that both the Emperor and the General Assembly were representatives of the Brazilian nation.

It was popular acceptance that granted the legitimacy to Brazilian monarchs as representatives of the Nation.

However, due to the misunderstandings between the Brazilian Football Confederation ( CBD ) and CONMEBOL, Brazil turned out not participating of the Copa Libertadores in 1969 and 1970, but the CBD came back to indicate Fluminense and Palmeiras, the champions and runners-up of Robertão 1970, as the representatives and they participated normally in Copa Libertadores 1971.

Suplicy also presented Bills of Law requiring the knowledgement of the main debtors to the Federal Budget, to the Labour Ministry, to the Social Security and Federal Government Saving Bank ; creating the structure of the National Co-operative Society System ; granting amnesty to the labor union representatives due to political motivations ; instituting direct elections for substitutes of candidates to the Federal Senate and authorizing the Executive Power to create the Brazilian Citizenship Fund, among others.

Natura is the Brazilian leading manufacturer and marketer of beauty products, household, and personal care, skin care, solar filters, cosmetics, perfume and hair care products the company that sells products through representatives in many countries across the world.

Trade was mostly with the Portuguese colony of Brazil ; Brazilian ships were the most numerous in the ports of Luanda and Benguela.

The first ayahuasca ‘ Churches ’ affiliated to the Brazilian Santo Daime were established in the Netherlands.

An increasing percentage of the ranks are " long-service " volunteer professionals ; women were allowed to serve in the armed forces beginning in early 1980s when the Brazilian Army became the first army in South America to accept women into career ranks ; women serve in Navy and Air Force only in Women's Reserve Corps.

In 1964, for example, close to two-thirds of the Brazilian troops were in the Third Army, and somewhat fewer than one-third were in the First Army.

The first three C-295s, designated C-105A Amazonas in Brazilian service, were commissioned into service in a formal ceremony at Base Aérea de Manaus on March 31, 2007.

Between 2005 and 2009, Cuba, Haiti, and Honduras were the top three recipients of Brazilian assistance, receiving over $ 50 million annually.

A Brazilian child was never automatically identified with the racial type of one or both parents, nor were there only two categories to choose from.

Outside, on both sides of the eight-story building, more than 28, 000 tiles painted and fired by Brazilian artist Francisco Brennard, depicting abstract blue flowers, were placed on the walls according to the artist's exact specifications.

Most of them were Dutch, French, British ( English ), Arab and Jewish ( from Lebanon and Morocco ), Chinese ( especially from Macau ), American, and Brazilian ( including people of Portuguese and African descent ).

A vast majority had nowhere to live, no job and were despised by Brazilian society, which usually saw them as lazy workers.

In little time, in 1890, the recently proclaimed Brazilian Republic decreed the prohibition of capoeira in the whole country, as things were pretty chaotic in the Brazilian capital and many police reports would demonstrate that capoeira was an undeserved advantage in a fight.

In 2000, two new clippers were built: Stad Amsterdam and Cisne Branco ( Brazilian Navy ).

The Santo Daime also includes children in their Entheogenic rituals ; studies done by the Brazilian government concluded that there were no physical or mental damage caused by this practice, so it is allowed.

The colors and pattern were influenced by the Austrian dragoons of the period, as the Brazilian Empress Consort was also an Austrian Archduchess.

The slave trade was conducted mostly with the Portuguese colony of Brazil ; Brazilian ships were the most numerous in the port of Luanda.

Since just a few units were sold, the Brazilian branch of Philips released in 1983 Odyssey² without its number.

It is said that the first Brazilian pizzas were baked in the Brás district of São Paulo in the early part of the 20th century.

By the 1860s it was apparent that wood sourced from some condemned slave ships ( possibly a Brazilian ship ) from the 1840s were infested by termites (“ white ants ”).

In the middle of the 19th century, the word samba defined different types of music made by African slaves when conducted by different types of Batuque, but it assumed its own characteristics in each Brazilian state, not only by the diversity of tribes for slaves, but also the peculiarity of each region in which they were settlers.

During the 1960s, some samba groups appeared and were formed by previous experiences with the world of samba and songs recorded by great names of Brazilian music.

Social and economic development indicators were lowest for the departments along the Brazilian border to the northeast.

Least developed were the northern ranching departments along the Brazilian border — Artigas, Rivera, and Cerro Largo — and also Tacuarembó.

The first ever true carnival expression of this Brazilian festivity, officially recognized by Carnaval historians in Brazil, took place in Rio de Janeiro, with the " préstitos ", very similar to a musical processions, in 1641, when D. João IV was crowned in Portugal as a King and parties were celebrated in Rio public streets.

* In 1964, a successful coup against the democratically elected government of Brazilian president João Goulart, initiates a military dictatorship of over 20 years of oppression.

Collor was the first president directly elected by the people after the end of the Brazilian military government.

After entering politics, he was successively named mayor of Alagoas ' capital Maceió in 1979 ( National Renewal Alliance Party ), elected a federal deputy ( Democratic Social Party ) in 1982, and eventually elected governor of the small Northeastern state of Alagoas ( Brazilian Democratic Movement Party ) in 1986.

He became Senator of the state of São Paulo for the former Brazilian Democratic Movement ( MDB ), in 1982, substituting as a suplent the newly elected São Paulo governor Franco Montoro.

Cardoso with Russian President Vladimir Putin in January 2002. Cardoso, often nicknamed " FHC ", was elected with the support of a heterodox alliance of his own Social Democratic Party, the PSDB, and two right-wing parties, the Liberal Front Party ( PFL ) and the Brazilian Labour Party ( PTB ).

( wrote in Brazilian Portuguese ) English Title: The right of recall elected officials.

He was then elected to the Brazilian Senate and became ARENA's president.

Sarney was elected to a chair in the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 1980.

Cruzeiro has been one of Brazil's most successful clubs in the 1990s and early 2000s, winning 4 National Cups, 1 National League, 2 Copa Libertadores, and 2 Supercopa Libertadores, and is also the winner of Taça Brasil in 1966 and 34 State Championships. Cruzeiro also was elected the most successful Brazilian team in last century by IFFHS. In 2003, Cruzeiro won the triple crown, when the team won the National League, National Cups and State Championships.

A vice-president or another officer in the line of succession who succeeds to the Presidency or who serves, albeit briefly, as Acting President during a certain presidential term ( which all Brazilian Vice-Presidents do, given the current practice of the Vice-President becoming Acting President during the President's travels abroad ) can subsequently be elected to the Presidency once only and the consecutive term limit already applies.

In 1945 he was elected to the National Constituent Assembly, as a representative of the Brazilian Communist Party ( PCB ) ( he received more votes than any other candidate in the state of São Paulo ).

On April 6, 1961, he was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters.

Former Brazilian footballers are often elected to legislative positions.

In addition, he announced plans to set up his own Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church, in which priests would be permitted to marry ( and hold regular jobs in the lay world ), confessions and rosaries would be abolished, and bishops would be elected by popular vote.

He was elected the best Brazilian goalkeeper of the 20th Century and one of the best in the world by the IFFHS.

Until 1982, Brazilian mayors were usually elected by the local municipality population, except 1 ) state capitals, 2 ) international border towns, and 3 ) " national security zones " ( which included important mining places ).

The elections were held under a tense political atmosphere without the accustomed OAS observers and under a civil rights restriction decree, with the elected president Zelaya under military siege in the Brazilian embassy at Tegucigalpa.

He was not elected, but in 2002 he ran for Congressman, when he was elected with 1. 4 million votes ( the highest number of votes that a Brazilian Congressman ever received ).

Through extra-constitutional decrees dubbed " Institutional Acts " ( Portuguese: " Ato Institucional " or " AI "), Castello Branco gave the executive the unchecked ability to change the constitution and remove anyone from office (" AI-1 ") as well as to have the presidency elected indirectly through a bipartisan system of a government-backed National Renewal Alliance Party ( ARENA ) and an opposition Brazilian Democratic Movement ( MDB ) party (" AI-2 ").

On April 21, 1985, the Brazilian people witnessed the death of Tancredo Neves, the last president not elected directly by the people since the beginning of the dictatorial government.

After running for governor of São Paulo and losing to Mário Covas of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party ( PSDB ) in 1998, she was elected mayor of the state capital, São Paulo, in 2000.

In the 2010 Brazilian General Elections he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro representing the Democratic Labour Party.