His father worked for the Indian Protection Service and their family traveled extensively within rural Brazil.
In rural Brazil, laborers can be hired for $2 a day.
In part, rural Brazil's passion for the American West goes with the national fascination with the United States.
Folk music from rural Brazil is another important influence in his work.
Despite, or perhaps because of, that she gained a following in rural Brazil even though she was an urbanite herself.
He grew up in rural Brazil and is affiliated with Nova Geracao.
"Sometimes, I have gotten information from rural Brazil, before the newspapers in Rio or Sao Paulo."
Two weeks a year would be reserved for something special: working at a small hospital in rural Brazil set up by the grandfather of a good friend from medical school.
The ride was bumpy (truck suspension is more bone-rattling than bus suspension) and slow, but certainly revealing in terms of rural Brazil.
The ranchers have great political power in rural Brazil and in Congress.