Country Archive
Spotlight on...Fortaleza, Brazil
Date: 03/01/2008
by Lee Harrison
Hundreds of miles of dazzling, white-sand beaches surround the city of Fortaleza in the northeast of Brazil. Its clear, tropical ocean waters maintain a year-round temperature of 80˚ Fahrenheit. Serving as the glimmering centerpiece for the state of Ceará, this capital city of almost 3 million people is now the No. 1 tourist destination in Brazil. Fortaleza boasts its own beautiful in-city beaches, sizzling nightlife, and great restaurants.
Yet you can still buy a downtown apartment with a sea view for $150,000 and lots (just off the beach) outside the city are for sale for as little as $15,000.
Fortaleza is popular with European travelers, expats, and investors, but completely off the radar screen of North Americans…for now.
Read OnAmid Global Credit Crunch, It’s Business as Usual in Brazil
Date: 02/26/2008Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008
Read more about Brazil in International Living Postcards—your daily escape
The U.S. credit crunch is far from over, as vulture-investors and Warren Buffett now circle the troubled monoline insurers. These distressed insurers, including Ambac and MBIA, are the latest victims of the “repricing of risk,” as the Oracle of Omaha calls it.
However, several thousand miles and worlds away from Wall Street, the credit crunch appears to be having little spillover impact on South America’s biggest economy.
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Beachfront Apartments for $77,000
Date: 02/21/2008
Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008
Fortaleza, Brazil
Read more about Brazil in International Living Postcards—your daily escape
Yesterday, Eimear told you a little about what we found east of Fortaleza, but I prefer the west.
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Brazil: Beachfront Lots for Less Than $18,000
Date: 02/20/2008
Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008
Fortaleza, Brazil
Read more about Brazil in International Living Postcards—your daily escape
Right now I’m on the road, exploring Brazil’s north coast, using Fortaleza as a base, and scouting out west and east from that city...to the towns of Cumbuco, Taiba, Barra Nova, and Uruau. The white-sand beaches stretch for hundreds of miles along this coast, and these beaches are still, for now, off the radar of North Americans.
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Feeling truly alive in Brazil
Date: 08/01/2007
At 21 I left London for Venezuela to continue my studies. My destination was the university town of Merida in the Andes, but first I stopped amid the chaos that is Caracas. While there, I had lunch with an English acquaintance who had been living in Caracas for a number of years. Inspired by the eye-wateringly strong Cuba libres, he let me in on a secret that has proved to be true everywhere I have lived and worked since; from Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula to Buenos Aires, via Quito and Caracas and now in Brazil's economic metropolis, Sao Paulo.
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A second home on Brazil's northern coast for $80,000? Just beware the sharks!
Date: 12/01/2006
Author:
Lee Harrison
Picture it: you hit the beach early, but many of your fellow city-dwellers are already there, jogging, walking, and enjoying the shimmering, clear morning. The aerobics instructor begins stretching for her first beachside class of the day on the firm, fine sand, just as the giant yellow ball of the sun separates itself from the Atlantic horizon. The early-bird vendors set up their stands and start preparing the fresh fruit and juices that the beachgoers are accustomed to.
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White-sand beachfront lots for less than $20,000…in Brazil's beautiful, tropical state of Ceara by Lee Harrison
Date: 11/01/2006
Editor's note: Brazil is a vast country, one that would take years to cover properly. Picking a starting point was difficult. We asked Roving Latin America Editor Lee Harrison to begin his coverage (which will continue over time) in the state of Ceará because of its diversity, beauty, beaches, and weather.
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