There are 2 regions of Brazil which my family clan macrae.nets has a special interest in:
Porto Alegre where my grandfather Russell Duncan Macrae served as a British consul in 1920s ... Porto Alegre is one of the best for the world cities today as it is the home of the World Social Forum as well as many grassroots citizen movements which emerged when peoples took back the running of their city a while back

Links to World Social Forum - all news
Links to Forum

Bahia region where he was a consul in the mid 1940s : I dont' speak Portugese but I am very interested in communicating with any alumni of the Brazilian educator Freire and Bahia comes up quite often is searching educational networks partly inspired by him - examples include: this