The Iguassu Falls Area Guru

This is only to wish you a happy 2007. I still owe you the 100-things-to-do-list promissed in the last posting. I saved the article in a computer in Foz do Iguaçu and right now I am not there. Where I am, it is hard to think about internet, e-mails and so on. I can only get to a computer propely plugged to the internet once a week and that after traveling 45 minutes by bus and then walking 10 blocks. I plan to go to the Foz do Iguaçu area in the first days of 2007 and then I will rescue my writings. I will let you know. All the best and peace!

I am working on a 100 things-to-do-list for the Iguassu Falls area which includes not only the three cities on the so called Triple Border Area,but also whatever is inside a 300 kilometer radius. I will tentatively post the list later on today or tomorrow. In the meantime I would suggest a very good site I have found and I have to share. To begin with I fell in love with the way the author calls the Falls: the Iguassu Misted Falls. Check it out . I rate it *****

Yes! December 11 is the Day of the Iguassu Falls. The Iguassu Falls Day (Dia das Cataratas) was created last month thanks to a city bill passed by Councilor Carlos Budel. It was too early for a big party this year. But Mr. Budel promisses that the city will surely do something for next year. Budel also said that he was alarmed after learning that 45% of the city population have never been to Iguassu Falls. A pity - he says. Authorities have organized a poetry or text contest among the city's first graders. The photograph shows the ceremony that honored the winners of the contest. Unfortunately I do not have the results for the test since I was not there. Budel is the man in a blue shirt standing first from right. The lady standing next to him is Foz do Iguaçu's Secretary of Education, Maria Bernardete Sidor and next to her is the Iguaçu National Park director Jorge Pegoraro. The "The Iguassu Falls' Day" will be officially included in the city's events calend...

This is the Mercosur Building in Montevideo,Uruguay. The building is the seat of the Mercosur Parliament, officially installed by lawmakers of the five official member countries in Brasilia, December 14th. As of today parliament members are chosen by national congress members and already is a kind of upgrade from the former internal Parliamentary Joint Commision. But from January, 1st, 2011 there will be general national elections where citizens of Mercosul Countries will have to elect their representative to Montevideo - the Brussels of South America. I have written elsewhere in Portuguese that 2006 is the year when Mercosul countires have witnessed the birth of a mercocracy complete with mercocrats, mercopoliticians, merco grassroot organizations and the like. The Mercosul / Mercosur is in the second stage of Community Forming, that of customs integration. The next step is to bring all the countries to harmonized macroeconomy, laws, internal policies and above all a single currency...

I am working on this page and I would love you to tell me what I need to do. My idea is to give information on the area - something different and useful. I am not a government slave neither do I work for the tourism establishment. I normally say in my Portuguese-language Notas do Turismo Blog that the main concern of the tourism establishment is how to assure that the controllers of the segment will keep on with their privilege of eating caviar. Through the years I have come to be a rather persecuted person. Thanks to my stand on points like ecology and for having stood out against crazy engineering (mostly) projects in Brazil. As a blogger, journalist and lover of Marshal MacLuhan, I thank the global village and the blogging world village for this resistance tool. Please choose very well your destinations and the people who are going to recive you. Travel responsibly. What are these receptive "workers" doing to local people, what your money is financing? Among the people rec...