Afonso Machado

Emerging Countries, Stagnant Countries – Part 4 – China Leads in Electric Energy

Every year the World Energy Statistics Magazine, specifically the British Petroleum’s “Statistical Review of World Energy,” undoubtedly the best world energy atlas, publishes in the month of June the statistical…

Emerging Countries, Stagnant Countries – Part 3

“The time for our leadership is now!” Mr. Obama, president of United States, proclaimed in a speech given before the British Parliament on 5/25/2011, asserting the relevance of the British-American…

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Mao Tsé-tung – Quotes

The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue. We shall support whatever our enemies oppose and oppose whatever…

Países Emergentes e Países Estagnados – parte 1

Bernardo Riedel, the Brazilian Gyro Gearloose

Professor Bernardo Riedel comes from a Jewish family. His father, Mauricio Riedel was originally from Lodz, Poland and his mother, Paula Fuhrmann, from Kecskemét, Hungria. They came to Brazil in…