Immigrants from Bahia, in the northeast of Brazil, played a major role in shaping the city's soundtrack.
Salvador, Cachoeira (state of Bahia), Sao Paulo and Belo Horizonte will host the meetings.
Half of that was in agribusiness, in the soy farming town of Barreiras in Bahia state.
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With Telecom Italia, Vicunha has won a mobile-phone licence for Bahia in Brazil's north-east.
The authorities in Vitoria da Conquista, Bahia state, call the microchipped T-shirts "intelligent uniforms".
Brazil's third city Salvador, in Bahia state, northeast Brazil, has some of the strongest links to Africa.
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The Bahia government says about one third of the 30, 000 state police officers are involved in the industrial action.
Talks to end a week-long police strike over pay in the Brazilian state of Bahia have ended without agreement.
That investment has paid off for Antonio Carlos Magalhaes, the president of Brazil's Senate and Bahia's powerful political boss.
This grandstanding was begun by Antonio Carlos Magalhaes, a tough conservative political boss from Bahia, in the backward north-east.
This image was taken in Cairu, a town in Bahia state that is a bit off the tourist beaten path.
Paulo Gaudenzi, Bahia's tourism secretary, claims visitors spend an extra day there, on average, and Pelourinho has generated 15, 500 jobs.
Later this week Margaret will take us to the village of Cairu and to Salvador, in the Brazilian state of Bahia.
PFL's leading figure, Antonio Carlos Magalhaes, should be strengthened by his party's strong showing, especially in his home state of Bahia.
Joyce Lima Moreno, from Bahia, was the national winner and received one of the five honorable mentions given by the international jury.
Jacques Wagner, governor of the Bahia province and part of the Workers Party (PT), has already invited Gabrielli to form part of his government.
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Today is the third day of our focus on Brazil, and it brings us to the city of Salvador, the capital of Bahia state.
Secondary regions like Bahia are now rivaling Rio for visitors reveling in Carnival culture, while Pernambuco's capital Recife is attracting innovative industries to relocate.
"Adu is already training in Bahia, and we need to regularize his visa situation before he signs his final contract, " Brandao in a telephone interview.
To see just how hard that can be, consider the case of Salvador de Bahia, for two centuries until 1763 the capital of Portuguese Brazil.
Bahia and Ceara, governed for more than a decade by allies of Mr Cardoso, are often held up as models of the new, modern north-east.
At the Federal University of Bahia in Salvador, for example, half the students are white, even though only a fifth of the city's population are.
But remarkably, Bahia state alone got 54% of this disaster fund.
Regis Bahia Beach Resort (Puerto Rico) welcomes tax-stressed travelers to island time with a complimentary Rum Punch along with first-class style mail service courtesy of the St.
Mr Magalhaes had pushed through Congress a measure to offer 700m reais a year in tax credits to Ford to build a new factory in Bahia, his home state.
Also this month, the government is expected to finish off plans to build three new ports: one in Amazonas state, one in Espirito Santo and the other in Bahia.
"We visit historic bridges and remote sandy islands, " he says, "stop at Bahia Honda State Park for lunch...then a three-mile paddle to the take-out at the historic Old Wooden Bridge fishing camp".
The Amsterdam ArenA group has a partnership with Braskem's parent company Odebrecht and the multinational Petrobras to develop the renovated Fonte Nova stadium in Bahia state for the World Cup.
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In December a team from the Brazilian Environmental Institute (IBAMA) tried in vain to find the bird in the Curaca region, some 600 km (370 miles) north of Salvador de Bahia.
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