The speakers at Porto Alegre, like those in New York, were preaching to the converted.
She became municipal secretary of finance for Porto Alegre in 1986, her first job as a civil servant.
Porto Alegre, the capital of Mr Lorenzoni's state, has some long-established quilombola groups who live in the city itself.
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Kofi Annan, the secretary-general of the United Nations, visited the New York gathering and sent a letter to Porto Alegre.
The Liberty Forum, an annual gathering in the southern city of Porto Alegre, attracts the most dedicated members of this tribe.
Overall, Google's revenue in China rose in last year, compared with 2010, Mr. Alegre said, though he declined to go into specifics.
In Porto Alegre, she helped re-founding the PDT, the Democratic Labor Party.
Based in the southern Brazilian city of Prto Alegre, Gerdau is Brazil's largest producer of long steel (which is used primarily in construction).
In a country where few successful politicians are poor, he lives in a modest flat in an austere public-housing complex in Porto Alegre.
It was pioneered in the 1990s in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre where the Forum was conceived but has spread across the world.
The historic area includes the main hills of Cerro Alegre and Cerro Concepcion, both of which have been rehabilitated over the past decade with buzzy bars and restaurants.
Or park up at the lakeside Rancho Alegre Restaurant for the night and swim in El Salvador's most spectacular crater lake, Lago de Coatepeque.
Joo Gerdau, a German who immigrated to southern Brazil in 1869, got the ball rolling when he bought a nail factory in Prto Alegre in 1901.
That economy is a mixture of big cattle ranches in the south, family farms in the north, and around Porto Alegre, the capital, locally-owned shoe, wine, chemicals and metal-bashing industries.
He succeeded only too well: both General Motors and Ford are building new factories near Porto Alegre, but on terms that have turned out to be political suicide for Mr Brito.
Still, the number of Google Web searches by mainland-Chinese Internet users has risen over the past two years, said Mr. Alegre, who is based in Tokyo and often visits Beijing and Shanghai.
Now, with Android's growth in China and with more Chinese companies looking to advertise online, Google's decision to reverse course and invest more in China is a "pragmatic" one, said Mr. Alegre.
And Porto Alegre, a city in southern Brazil run since 1988 by the opposition Workers' Party, has led the region in getting the public involved in monitoring and influencing how their taxes are spent.
Before the list was released, Lamir Buzzanelli said his 41-year-old son, Claudemir, an engineer, had called him from Porto Alegre to say he was in the plane and about to return from a business trip.
If Buenos Aires were not so close to Porto Alegre, none of this would have happened, but I did not see that I was being subtly summoned or that this story needed me in order to be written.
Today, the crumbling walls and staircases are covered in vivid murals and political graffiti, and recently renewal has swept through Valpo, as it is called, with neighbourhoods like the waterfront Cerro Alegre being rejuvenated and properties being restored to their former glory.
Hours later, she got some good news: Gustavo had burns on 20 percent of his body and had suffered two heart attacks as his lungs failed to draw oxygen, but he was alive and being flown to the state capital, Porto Alegre, for treatment.
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