Expat Files - Crime in Brazil - 04/25/14

-Americans are always surprised at how businesses use scantily clad Latin ladies so blatantly to sell and market just about every product imaginable in Latin America. Sexy is the norm for TV newscast teams too, who generally have a drop-dead sexy lady in a skimpy skin-tight outfit doing the regular news, the sports, the weather, or all of the above. They could never get away with that stuff on stateside network TV.

 

-Check out this recent quote. It’s from a 9 year old kid who said it to his expat Grandpa after visiting him down here (recently retired in Central America), “Hey Grandpa, you know what? They have the best Walmart in the whole world here.”

What does that mean dear listeners? I dare you to guess why the kid said that. The true answer is one for the books and is actually quite perceptive!

 

-Crime in Brazil is out of control, everywhere. No one is safe… not even man-on-the-street news reporters casually covering the buildup to the upcoming World Cup Finals. The stories are scary and hard to believe, but no one can possibly make them up! Used to be that just one week a year, Carnival week, was a thieves’ delight… now the World Cup has given Brazilian thieves and bad guys a few long bonus months of fantastically easy tourist pickings.                 

 

-Expat Eddie is having problems with his Latina fiancé. It’s his fault, he’s made one of the most common and stupid of Gringo errors… little by little he overindulged a nice middle-class girl and now she’ turned into a first-world style shopaholic. I’ve seen it before… quite few Gringo’s have been in that situation. Once it happens, it’s almost impossible to reverse the tide.     

 

-My upcoming JULY, 2014 “Expat Wisdom” seminar is set to go so. The dates will be Saturday, July 12 thru Thursday, July 17. The agenda and complete signup details are on the www.ExpatWisdom.com website main page. Just click theLatin American Seminar link on the top of the main page and check it out.

 

-Do follow the link on the main page at www.ExpatWisdom.com to schedule a private consultation with me. If you want to discuss the details of living, working, playing, doing business and/or retiring in Latin America, now you and I can talk about your situation one on one.