An army with almost 30,000 men entered Brazil, brought by the Bolivarian communist dictatorship

Something very bad is being prepared behind the scenes of Brazilian Bolivarian Republic. How to explain the fact that more than 29,000 illegal aliens (out those not counted), as Cubans, Venezuelans, Haitians, Ghanaian, Russian, Chineses, Colombians of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and others can freely entering the country through the state of Acre boundary and being transported and financially supported by government since 2010? Yes, that is what happens.

An important detail can be observed: they are all adult men! No woman! No chid! Nor families! And these waves of immigrants or 'militants' are illegal.

Note that traditional media - major newspapers and television networks - never reported the fact on a national scale. Only few notes were published on Internet, with even greater impact only through blogs and Free Media information networks.

And a third detail is also feasible that, recently, the Worker's Party government of Acre state secretly sent several buses to some Brazilian states, especially those which occurred 'actions', or rather invasions and riots promoted by Landless Workers Movement (MST). Immigrants traveled accommodated in comfortable buses, banked by the taxes paid by taxpayers money.
These states also have taken advantage of alienated youth, unemployed and banked by their parents or some assistance programs such as Bolsa Familia (Family Assistance Fund), and the mob of ignorant that commonly come together to defend evil actions of Workers Party dictatorship.

Interestingly and 'coincidentally', the illegal waves of immigrants have been 'dumped' in cities where are going 'actions' of MST, Homeless Workers Movement (MTST) and red trade unions as in the states of Rio Grande do Sul and Mato Grosso recently.

NOW WHAT?

Since 2010 or earlier, Brazil suffers a real 'illegal' invasion through Acre boundary (out many military and infiltrated Cuban activists of 'More Doctors Program). The fact is only one: Brazilian people is unarmed, defenseless, at the mercy of communist militants masked as 'immigrants and refugees', and then when the bomb burst, who will defend the nation? 
Everything is mastered, rigged, bought by corruption (see Mensalão and Petrobras cases and now envolving the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES), chambers, municipalities, state governments, all is linked to Brasilia.
Everything seems to go to a civil war, since almost 52 million Brazilians do not condone and do not approve of these illegalities. And all the thievery is happening in plain sight and most often ends in light penalties or unpunished. That is detonating the foundations of fragile Brazilian democracy.

Intellectual leftists threaten leave the Workers Party

Attacks against democracy are growing in Brazil. Lot of them can be found in videos posted on Youtube.


Brazilian left intellectuals are not stupid. They found that the Brazilian government Party of the Workers (PT) has lost its way, abandoning the great social and economic reform, which had been doing, placing Brazil among emerging countries, as claiming a seat on the UN Security Council . But the PT government made this policy would end up losing after he began to sink in the muddy sea corruption. The call Mensalão, Petrobras scandal, overpriced works of the World Cup, and other work carried out by Brazilian companies in communist countries of Latin America have shown all this to the Brazilian people, intellectuals or not so much. They are now dissatisfied with this situation.

Previously closed in its own communist policy, China now opens to capitalism and the latest technology attracted by its huge consumer market. But following a reverse path, Brazil and other Latin American countries, led by Cuba of the Castro brothers, is turning into a closed dictatorship, seizing the civil rights and individual freedoms enshrined legally, and open the country to frightening terrorist groups extermination (ISIS), the paramilitary armies of militants, cocaine traffickers (FARC) and cruel communist teachers, able to let our priests and pastors, our army and our police really embarrassed. I fear for our future, for our children and grandchildren if the resistance we have is not capable enough to reverse the march and put the train of constitutional democracy back on track God save Brazil!

FORO DE SÃO PAULO: The black box of Brazilian presidential election and Cuban domination in Latin America

If the Workers' Party (PT, in Portuguese) even rigged the presidential election in Brazil, to ensure the re-election of Dilma Rousseff as a great suspicion arose shortly after the publication of the results, which motivated the protests across the country, with the Brazilian population asking for impeachment or military intervention, it is more than proven that the electoral process in Brazil is not safe, even the vote  being processed through electronic voting machines - as it is now - or manifested on paper ballots - as it was in the past. .

Thus, the minister of Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), Dias Toffoli, commanding the count secretly, without the participation of other ministers, without the presence of any representative of the political parties and other important eyewitnesses during the process,it is very easy to imagine the possibility of fraud in disclosure of the final results obtained at second round on October 26, 2014.

Moreover, due to Brazilian time zone, while in most states the election was over promptly at 17h, the count secretly started in sequence, but only began to have their results released after 20h, when the voting ended in the distant state of Acre, westhern part of Brazil, where the time difference is three hours behind Brasilia. Ie, the tellers have all this time for possible manipulation of results.

Election frauds are common in totalitarian countries, where government controls everything and democracy is just a game where only the ruling party always wins. This is called a dictatorship disguised as democracy, ie a farce or slapstick. Communist regime countries, as almost all of Latin America, are from the infamous Sao Paulo Forum exchanging information among themselves. This information was gathered in a sort of "primer" which is being implemented in these countries.

They are directives that must be followed by rulers for total domination of the country through the rigging of all government agencies, corruption of legislative and judicial powers, curtailment of press, internet monitoring, indoctrination and training of militants through courses and training in communist counties, introducing pedagogy and communist propaganda in schools, universities and in the media, training of guerrillas, paramilitaries and national guards, directly subordinate to central government.  

That also included in the process weakening the armed forces - Army, Navy and Air Force - public security forces, as the civil and military police state and federal police (that similar to American FBI).

Another process that has crystallized for several years, is the strengthening of organized groups of people to destabilize large multinational capitalist conglomerates, through the financing of social movements like the MST (Movement of Landless Rural Workers), MTST (Homeless Workers Movement) , unions, and other Indian tribes, stimulating invasions of productive private property confiscations, expropriations, with squandering the private wealth, the destruction of farms, many of them planted with soybeans, corn and other grains, in large tracts of land.

As if that were not enough, Brazilian government gets involved into corruption schemes, encouraging construction of overpriced works, as stadiums of the 2014 World Cup, which final cost may exceed five times the market value thereof.

Other overpriced constructions - ports, subways, airports, highways and Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) - were made in other countries such as Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Angola and Mozambique, by Brazilian companies financed by BNDES - National Bank for Social and Economic Development, ie with tax money paid by the Brazilians, who should receive such benefits.

Another great example of what is happening in Brazil is squandering the assets of Petrobras, Brazilian oil giant, globally respected company, with many international investors, and listed on Stock Exchange of New York. Today Petrobras is worth 85% less than it was 10 years ago. Investors began to disband.

And like a chain reaction, fraud in presidential election will be extended to all levels and sectors of Brazilian politics, reaching also the popular choice of congressmen, senators, governors, mayors and councilmen. There is also the possibility of creating popular councils under Bolivarian orientation, which would have the power to legislate, decreasing and abridging privileges of Brazilian Congress.

UNASUR - The creation of UNASUR - Union of South American Nations, forming a single block uniting all Latin America, such as the European Union. It is another initiative planned within the Foro de São Paulo. However, the Bolivarian communist dictatorship disguised as democracy, is the political system adopted by members of UNASUR countries, following Foro de São Paolo's directives, and based on the Cuban government system, where civil rights of the population, like free access to information, education, travel between cities and countries, freedom of speech and religion, property rights, etc. are constantly violated.

These rights are guaranteed by the Brazilian Constitution and the Magna Carta of many countries, but they are not respected in Communist domination schemes.

Perplexed by this situation of terror, Brazilian people - completely dominated, like branded cattle on the way to the slaughterhouse - is seeking a way out. The hope lies in the unlikely existence of incorruptible authorities that might obstruct the dominant communist advance. The Brazilian Armed Forces could play this role.

Or who knows, international organizations like the UN, through Security Council, may appeal to International Court of Justice, the Hague Tribunal in Nederlands, and thus save the people of Brazil and throughout Latin America from the clutches of that red monster, guided from Cuba. Otherwise, only God! 

Presidential race in Brazil: A man against three communist women

By Julio Kzar (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Aecio Neves

A curious fact will happen in the presidential elections in Brazil on October 5: A man – Aecio Neves – runs for president against three communist women – Dilma Rousseff, Marina Silva and Luciana Genro – all with strong links to the political regime in Cuba. All of them were already visiting the Caribbean island of Fidel Castro and use to weave praises to Cuban dictator and his entourage of followers, as Hugo Chaves, Nicolas Maduro, respectively former and current President of Venezuela, Evo Morales – President of Bolivia, and Cristina Kirshner, of Argentina. 
It is a difficult battle to Aecio Neves, former governor of the state of Minas Gerais and current Senator of the Republic. Social Democrat, Aecio seeks to overthrow the dynasty of the Workers Party (PT), which has lasted almost 12 years – eight with former President Lula da Silva, and four now with Dilma Rousseff, who tries to re-election. 
The return of Aecio, according to some Brazilian political analysts, will mean the return of the heirs of former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso (FHC) to command the nation. FHC is the "father of the Real Plan", a program that brought down inflation in Brazil in 1994, when he was finance minister. This achievement qualified him and elevated him to the point of being elected president in 1995, where he remained for eight years, until the arrival of Lula da Silva.

Luciana Genro, Marina Silva and Dilma Rousseff

From poor and humble origins, Lula surprised the world, putting Brazil in the leadership of the emerging countries, the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). After experiencing a boom in consumption, mainly for cars, appliances and new high-tech equipment, Lula was reelected after creating the Bolsa Familia, a social program that distributes income to poor people. In the wake of that program, he also managed to elect his successor: Dilma Rousseff, the first woman president of Brazil. 

But Lula and Dilma saw their party involved in several corruption scandals, with some party members and members of Congress being convicted and imprisoned. The latest scandal involving the oil company Petrobras, Brazil's largest company and one of the most profitable in the world. Diversion of public funds that led to the state-owned purchasing and repurchasing the Pasadena Refining, in the United States, at a cost of billions of dollars, money which did not yield any financial return to Brazil. 
Despite all these stories of corruption, Lula and Dilma maintains control with an iron fist of Congress, Senate, Supreme Court, Media and institutes of public opinion research. 

For this reason, Dilma Rousseff started at first place in the election campaign, according to election poll. Aecio was second and former governor of the state of Pernambuco, Eduardo Campos, appeared in third. However, with the untimely and suspicious death of Eduardo Campos, in a plane crash, his vice presidential candidate Marina Silva, took over the presidential candidacy by the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB). Surprisingly, Marina overcame Aecio in the polls on voting intentions and even comes to being in front of Rousseff on some occasions. But everyone knows that Marina is originally from PT, besides having communist ideas.


Dilma saw her prestige down when her government funded, with money from the Brazilian people, the construction of the port of Mariel, Cuba, and forgave the debts of African countries ruled by bloodthirsty dictators. The third woman candidate, Luciana Genro, that begins to emerge in the polls, after she participated in many debates and interviews on TV, also shows leftist tendencies. Genro can be seen in photos taken in Havana, next to posters of Che Guevara, with challenging poses. She is in favor of the invasion of private property in Brazil. Ie, a communist with badge and card-carrying membership in the party.
Aecio Neves must fight against these three communist women candidates. The latest polls say Luciana Genro not enough to be a threat, but can be a big surprise. Rousseff and Marina show oscillation and falls, while Aecio regained ascendent line. Perhaps the influence of social networks on the internet where Aecio is unbeaten in front of the other candidates, denying and contradicting the official surveys. Everything points to a runoff in the Brazilian elections, but with whom?

DEATH OF EDUARDO CAMPOS ENDS DILMA ROUSSEFF'S DREAM TO WIN IN THE FIRST ROUND BRAZILIAN ELECTION

The sudden death of former governor of Pernambuco and the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) candidate for president Eduardo Campos, at third place in the polls, threw to the ground the hopes of President Dilma Rousseff, Workers Party (PT), to be re elected in the first round, according to some polls published by the press. Based on the public and political profile of PSB candidate, some people believed that Eduardo will steal more votes from Aecio Neves, the Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB) candidate, the second placed, and less from Dilma, dividing and weakening the opposition and paving the way for a peaceful victory of PT candidate, current leader  on the route to win the presidential election.
Now, without the adversary Eduardo Campos, the winds are blowing to Aecio, who should garner the votes that would otherwise go to the deceased candidate, forcing the completion of a second round in the presidential election. Hardly, people will vote for a substitute candidate, whoever he is.
And much less they will vote for Dilma. The Campos's votes are considered votes of the opposition, although both Campos and Marina having been part of Lula's government, a fact that has divided political analysts, with some of them thinking that Campos and Marina were a kind of "option B" of the PT if things started to go wrong for the party of the Red Star.
Others, however, understood that Marina and Campos became independent candidates and would be an alternative to escape the alternation PT-PSDB in power.
Without this alternative, the presidential run will be really polarized between Dilma and Aecio. The political campaign, the TV debates and new polls will point the trend of the electorate. The moment of truth is coming! Brazilian people will watch closely the two candidates and their proposals, the cards will be played at the table, and there will be a lot of accusations and attacks from both sides ... Better win the one that will be the best for the people and the nation!

Who will hold the vacancy of Eduardo Campos?

The PSB now has ten days to choose a new candidate to fill the vacancy of Campos and has three options: Launch the vice presidential candidate Marina Silva to the presidency; Choose another candidate; Not launch any candidate, and support Dilma or Aecio campaign.
I think more likely that the PSB will not launch a new candidate. Marina Silva became weakened since she did not got the register for her political party Solidarity Network, becoming an option being vice-president in Campos plate. And having another woman  running against Rousseff and against a male candidate seems to be foolhardy.
The trend in social networks and on the streets of the cities of the South, Southeast and Midwest brazilian regions shows that the population would not be wanting another woman president (Lula da Silva made a mistake in launching Dilma for reelection, after she have a troubled government). In this case, Aecio will win the dispute, possibly in the first round.
And launch another candidate other than Marina, at this stage of the game, ie, find a name carat Eduardo Campos, will not be an easy task for the PSB. Probably, the party will declare support for Dilma. However, many members of various parties of the basis of the current government, realizing the unpopularity of Dilma in the streets and on the Internet, began to lean towards the candidacy of Aecio. How's happening with many members of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), in Rio de Janeiro. If this is the same trend, we predict that things will be very difficult for the candidate of the current government. 

Lodeiro, Seedorf secure Botafogo victory

Rio de Janeiro, April 15 (IANS) Uruguay international midfielder Nicolas Lodeiro scored twice as Botafogo won their eighth consecutive match with a 4-1 victory over Nova Iguacu in Brazil's Campeonato Carioca.
Former AC Milan star Clarence Seedorf opened the scoring for Botafogo with a 19th minute header before Lodeiro gave his team a 3-0 lead by netting twice in 12 minutes early in the second half Sunday, reports Xinhua.
Dieguinho reduced the deficit for Nova Iguacu four minutes from time before 19-year-old striker Vitinho made it 4-1 with an 89th-minute finish.
Lodeiro now has seven goals in 2013 and Seedorf six.
"It was a great team effort," Seedorf said after the match. "It's a long year with a lot of matches so it's important we maintain this level."
Botafogo are now assured a berth in the semifinals of the Rio Cup, the second phase of the Campeonato Carioca.
Meanwhile Flamengo defeated rivals Fluminense in Sunday's only other match.

TIM MAIA - One of the best brazilian singers of all time

Tim Maia (September 28, 1942 – March 15, 1998), born Sebastião Rodrigues Maia in Rio de Janeiro, was a worldwide famous Brazilian musician known for his iconoclastic, ironic, outspoken, and polemical (but always humorous) musical style. He was ranked by Rolling Stone as the greatest Brazilian singer of all time, and by the same magazine, the 9th largest Brazilian music artist of all time. He was also known for his habit of lightheartedly missing appointments and even important gigs.

Maia performed in a variety of musical genres, ranging from happy and energetic dance music to sentimental songs such as his hit "Me Dê Motivo". He performed soul, funk, bossa nova, disco, romantic songs, American pop, rock, jazz, baião and MPB. He frequently recorded albums and made tours alongside Banda Vitória Régia.

Early career

Maia was born in the Tijuca neighbourhood, in the southern suburbs of Rio de Janeiro. He began writing melodies while still a child, the second youngest of nineteen children.

Maia, then known as "Tião Maia", wrote his earliest songs at age eight. At 14, as a drummer, he formed the group Os Tijucanos do Ritmo, which lasted one year. He then took guitar classes and was soon teaching children in the neighborhood of Tijuca, in Rio de Janeiro, including the Matoso Gang (Maia, Jorge Ben, Erasmo Esteves, later Erasmo Carlos, and several others), named after the street where they used to hang out. Maia and his gang liked to hear the earliest styles of rock and roll, with both Maia and Ben being nicknamed "Babulina", after their pronunciation of Ronnie Self's song "Bop-A-Lena". In that period, Maia was the guitar teacher of Esteves and when Roberto Carlos joined the gang in 1958, he also took classes with him.

In 1957, Maia, Carlos, Arlênio Silva, Edson Trindade e Wellington started the vocal group The Sputniks. After a televised appearance on Carlos Imperial's Clube do Rock on TV Tupi, Imperial arranged with Carlos for a solo appearance the following week. Maia got annoyed at this, leading him to insult Carlos in the following rehearsals until his bandmate left the group. After watching Carlos' concert the following week, Maia left The Sputniks, and went after Imperial for a solo appearance. Imperial eventually suggested another artistic name, Tim, which Maia accepted with reservations.

In 1959, Maia went to study in the United States, where he lived for four years. There he first soul music and started as a vocalist, having joined vocal group The Ideals. In 1963, he was arrested for possession of marijuana, and after six months in jail deported back to Brazil.

After returning, Maia had a few unsuccessful jobs and arrests in Rio. Eventually he decided to move to São Paulo to try and get help to kickstart his musical career from Carlos, who was beginning to enjoy the massive success of Jovem Guarda with Esteves. Carlos was inaccessible, but Maia started to perform in São Paulo's nightlife and in Wilson Simonal's radio program, and also had a televised appearance at TV Bandeirantes with Os Mutantes. Eventually at the end of 1967 Maia managed to send a homemade recording to Carlos, who got Maia a deal for a single at CBS and an appearance at the Jovem Guarda TV program. His first single in 1968 with his compositions "Meu País" and "Sentimento", went unnoticed, like was another single in English for RGE Discos, "These Are the Songs"/"What Do You Want to Bet?". Maia also wrote one of Carlos' hits, "Não Vou Ficar". He became more visible after 1969 when he launched his "These Are the Songs," which was re-recorded by Elis Regina in the next year in a duo with Maia. Maia managed a deal with Polydor/Philips and recorded the successful single "Primavera".

1970s

In the 1970s, Maia started to record albums and perform shows promoting his synthesis of American soul and Brazilian music with elements of samba and baião. The movement gradually took the working-class suburbs of the north side of Rio de Janeiro, exploding in 1976 with the black movement.

In 1970 Maia recorded his first full-length LP, Tim Maia, which included the classics "Azul da Cor do Mar", "Coroné Antônio Bento", and "Primavera", and topped the charts for 24 weeks in Rio de Janeiro. His first four albums were all self-titled. Next year's Tim Maia had other hits including "Não Quero Dinheiro (Só Quero Amar)" and "Preciso Aprender a Ser Só". His fourth album, released in 1973, included "Réu Confesso" and "Gostava Tanto de Você". Angry at how the music publisher distributed the royalties, Maia opened his own, Seroma (named after the first syllable of his name and surnames), to make sure he had a bigger cut of the profits.[5]

After his fourth album, Maia left Polydor for RCA Victor, who offered him a chance to record a double album. The instrumental parts were all ready when Maia went to his composing friend Tibério Gaspar for help with the lyrics. In his house Maia found the book Universo em Desencanto (Universe in Disenchantment), revolving around the knowledge of Third Millennium Rational Culture. Maia converted to the movement, abandoned the drugs and red meat, and decided to write the lyrics for the songs about the knowledge contained in the book. RCA rejected the albums Tim Maia Racional, Vols. 1 & 2 for the newly found spiritual content, but Maia bought the master tapes from them and released the albums independently through label Seroma Discos, which would split its profits with the Rational Knowledges. While lead single "Que Beleza (Imunização Racional)" had some airplay, at the time these records were not well received, due to inadequate distribution, and the spiritual content alienating both the radios and Maia's fans. Eventually the artist could only perform at events promoted by the Rational Culture. Eventually in 1975 Maia got fed up with the movement, destroyed the unsold records and went back to his carefree life. The Racional albums are now regarded as classics and saw re-release in 2005.

For his return in 1976, Maia signed with Polygram and recorded an album also titled Tim Maia, which included the hit "Rodésia" (inspired by the Rhodesian Bush War), and also did a self-published album in English. In 1977 Maia signed with Som Livre, where he recorded the album Verão Carioca. In 1978 Maia signed with Warner Bros Records and incorporated the disco sound of the period in the album Tim Maia Disco Club, which spawned the hits "Sossego" and "Acenda o Farol". In 1979 Maia recorded Reencontro for EMI-Odeon, but revolted at the label's estimated promotion costs which were the same as the money spent recording, Maia fought with the marketing executive, and in response EMI president fired Maia, releasing the album with no publicity to low sales.

1980s and 1990s

In 1980, Maia recorded another self-titled album for Polygram. The following year, with turbulent passages through all the major labels in Brazil, Maia released again through Seroma the album Nuvens, which flopped due to inefficient distribution. To earn cash for his future albums, Maia was a guest in songs by Fevers, Edu Lobo and Chico Buarque, Ivan Lins and Sandra de Sá. His collaboration with Sá, "Vale Tudo", later became a solo hit for Maia. In 1983 he had hits with "O Descobridor dos Sete Mares" and "Me Dê Motivo", included on O Descobridor dos Sete Mares (Polygram). Another milestone of his career in the 1980s was Tim Maia (1986), which had the hit "Do Leme ao Pontal (Tomo Guaraná, Suco de Caju, Goiabada Para Sobremesa)".

In 1990, Maia saw Caetano Veloso's songbook and asked editor Almir Chediak to do one for his own work. Chediak was working on such an album with bossa nova classics, and Maia requested a copy, which eventually inspired him to do a self-released album of bossa nova covers, Tim Maia Interpreta Clássicos da Bossa Nova. After a period of poor presence in the media, he was again on top after being mentioned by Jorge Ben Jor's "W/Brasil" in 1991. In the same period, Maia had another hit with his re-recording of Lulu Santos' "Como uma Onda" for a television advertisement - Santos in return recorded Maia's "Descobridor dos Sete Mares.

At the same time, he withdrew from majors, recording his next albums through Vitória Régia, including What a Wonderful World (1997), where he recorded American pop/soul classics, and Amigos do Rei/Tim Maia e Os Cariocas, with the famous vocal group. Obese and in bad health, in March 1998 he was performing at the Municipal Theater of Niterói when he became ill. He was hospitalized and died few a days later.
 
Personal life

Tim Maia had two sons: Carmelo Maia (also known as Telmo, b. 1975) with Geisa Gomes da Silva, and José Carlos da Silva Nogueira (1966-2002). He was also the surrogate father of Geisa's other son, Marcio Leonardo "Léo" Maia (b. 1974).[17] Léo was registered by Tim as his son, although he knew that Léo was not his child, since he met his wife Geisa when she was already pregnant. She had been separated from her boyfriend, who refused to recognize Léo as his child. Tim and Geisa started living together but they broke up after a few arguments. When they made up, she was pregnant with Carmelo. Tim registered Carmelo and married her. When Léo Maia was 12, Tim Maia and Geisa divorced.

Maia lived in the United States of America from 1959 to 1963. He first resided Tarrytown, New York, with the family of an acquaintance of Maia's father's costumer. There he learned English and did not speak much Portuguese because so few Brazilians were living in the USA at the time. In 1961 Maia moved to New York City, and in 1963 with a group of three friends decided to travel to Southern United States. With a stolen car and performing small thefts to finance the journey, which rended him five prisons, Maia and friends travelled through nine states before arriving in Florida. In Daytona Beach, Maia had his final imprisonment for marijuana possession, which earned him the deportation back to Brazil.

Tim Maia became a member of the Brazilian Socialist Party (Partido Socialista Brasileiro - PSB) in October 1997. He was rumoured to have joined the party in order to run for a seat in the Federal Senate for Rio de Janeiro State. in the 1998 general elections, but died before that. When asked by a reporter why he chose to join the then small PSB, he replied: "Brazil is the only country where – in addition to whores cumming, pimps being jealous and drug dealers being addicted – poor people vote for the right-wing". His phrase would become a famous aphorism on the way Brazilians face politics.

Maia had a tradition of arriving late at concerts, or at times missing them altogether. He also frequently complained about the sound quality in them. Many of his missed concerts were due to what he called "triathlon", consuming whiskey, cocaine and marijuana before the gig. In the end of his life, Maia suffered from many health problems which includes diabetes, acute hypertension, obesity and pulmonary embolism. In 1996, he had a Fournier gangrene solved through an emergency operation.

Legacy and homages

In 1999 he was paid tribute in a show by several Música Popular Brasileira artists. The show was launched on CD and DVD. In 2000 he had another tribute, also released in CD. In 2004, Som Livre released an album of posthumous duets entitled Soul Tim: Duetos.

In January 2001, Guns N' Roses guitarist Robin Finck sang "Sossego" during the Rock In Rio III festival.

In 2007, TV Globo recorded a special program about Maia, Por Toda a Minha Vida, and Maia's personal friend Nelson Motta, a noted journalist and musical producer, released a biography, Vale Tudo - O Som e a Fúria de Tim Maia. Motta later worked with João Fonseca on a stage musical based on his book. A film adaptation of the book is expected for 2014.

In 2009, Globo had an episode of its show Som Brasil with Maia's songs, performed by among other artists his son Léo and Seu Jorge.

Maia's entire discography, including the never before seen third volume of Tim Maia Racional, was reissued by Editora Abril in 2011.

(Based on Wikipedia text).