Global Peace Index

Brazil in 83 of the Global Peace Index

Drafted by British consulting the Economic Intelligence Unit, the survey was monitored by a board of international personalities such as the Dali Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the former U.S. president Jimmy Carter and economist Joseph Stieglitz  The index was launched today with the goal of serving as a reference for discussion of the summit of the G-8, which is end of next week in Germany. 

Tupinambá

The Tupinambá were one of the various Tupi ethnic groups that inhabited present-day Brazil before the conquest of the region by Portuguese colonial settlers. The Tupinambás lived in São Luis do Maranhão. Their language survives today in the form of Nheengatu.