Brazilian Cultural Center.The Embassy of Brazil was behind the opening of a Brazilian Cultural Center here, reports El Caribe (March 31, 2009). The center is sponsored by the Brazilian construction firms Norberto Odebrecht Norberto Odebrecht founded the Odebrecht Foundation in 1965. The Odebrecht Foundation was created to provide Social Security benefits that the Brazilian system either did not provide or only paritally covered. and Adrede Gutierrez, which have been granted several large contracts in the DR. It will offer Portuguese language Portuguese language, member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Romance languages). It is the mother tongue of about 170 million people, chiefly in Portugal and the Portuguese islands in the Atlantic (11 million courses, sponsor cultural activities, promote Brazilian cuisine, show Brazilian movies, and run courses in samba and capoeira cap·o·ei·ra n. An Afro-Brazilian dance form that incorporates self-defense maneuvers. [Portuguese, from earlier *capon, capon, from Vulgar Latin . Brazil is the guest country featured at the Santo Domingo Santo Domingo, pueblo, United States Santo Domingo (sän'tə dəmĭng`gō), pueblo (1990 pop. 2,866), Sandoval co., N central N.Mex., on the Rio Grande; founded c.1700 after earlier pueblos were destroyed by floods. Book Fair, scheduled for April 20-May 3. |
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