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Portugal, a country so small that it wouldn't even be the biggest city in Brazil, announced in June that it would be deporting 34.000 people, including 5.000 Brazilians; Brazil deported 36 people in 2024

The Quinto Real was what the Crown took (and was not the only Iberian tax on gold), the rest of it was sent (legally or illegally) to private noblemen and merchants...in Europe

Foreign tourists use socks+sandals Most countries have strong regional identities, you still don't usually see non-Americans introducing themselves by their region (unless maybe they're from a world-famous city)

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Basco are used to it at this point, they've been relegated five times, and Santos always seems to pull a great escape out of nowhere when they're threatened. Botafogo though...Choking not just a historically enormous lead but also every single game individually, especially considering they...

:run: summarizes it pretty well already

Under 100k is a low bar but Mindelo looks like a decent choice South Africa and Namibia have penguins:

neither intifada saw a genocide of israelis, nor did 1967 or 1973 one is a colonial project who's national security minister openly defends a mass shooting, the other isn't Israel doesn't exactly have a leg to stand on when complaining about low population or agricultural production - and...

(Assuming by them you mean Hamas, since they're the biggest non-Fatah organization involved here): Hamas was founded during the First Intifada as a split from the local branch of the Muslim Brotherhood because the wider Muslim Brotherhood organization refused to militantly oppose Israel - It...

it was at a train station on the same line but halfway across the city

there are some annotated editions with commentary that explains some of the more complex or dated parts

Norway has never been part of the EU, its imperialism comes from resource extraction in other countries

The high interest rate in Brazil is contentious, the current government wants to significantly lower it but doesn't have the power to remove the head of the Central Bank

As elections go, I'm mostly a straight-ticket PSOL voter (where they run candidates) and have voted PT in the second round of every Presidential election. This statement applies to both parties. My parents vote mostly the same way, and have voted for the PT since redemocratization.