The speakers at Porto Alegre, like those in New York, were preaching to the converted.
But the party could lose its stronghold of Porto Alegre, which would be a serious blow.
She became municipal secretary of finance for Porto Alegre in 1986, her first job as a civil servant.
In the end, I gave up and returned to Porto Alegre, embittered by the failure of my penitential trip.
Porto Alegre, the capital of Mr Lorenzoni's state, has some long-established quilombola groups who live in the city itself.
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Kofi Annan, the secretary-general of the United Nations, visited the New York gathering and sent a letter to Porto Alegre.
The Liberty Forum, an annual gathering in the southern city of Porto Alegre, attracts the most dedicated members of this tribe.
In Porto Alegre, she helped re-founding the PDT, the Democratic Labor Party.
In a country where few successful politicians are poor, he lives in a modest flat in an austere public-housing complex in Porto Alegre.
It was pioneered in the 1990s in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre where the Forum was conceived but has spread across the world.
That economy is a mixture of big cattle ranches in the south, family farms in the north, and around Porto Alegre, the capital, locally-owned shoe, wine, chemicals and metal-bashing industries.
He succeeded only too well: both General Motors and Ford are building new factories near Porto Alegre, but on terms that have turned out to be political suicide for Mr Brito.
And Porto Alegre, a city in southern Brazil run since 1988 by the opposition Workers' Party, has led the region in getting the public involved in monitoring and influencing how their taxes are spent.
Before the list was released, Lamir Buzzanelli said his 41-year-old son, Claudemir, an engineer, had called him from Porto Alegre to say he was in the plane and about to return from a business trip.
If Buenos Aires were not so close to Porto Alegre, none of this would have happened, but I did not see that I was being subtly summoned or that this story needed me in order to be written.
The TAM airlines Airbus A320 flight that originated in Porto Alegre in southern Brazil on Tuesday cleared the airport fence at the end of the runway and the busy highway but slammed into a gas station and a TAM building, causing an inferno.
Hours later, she got some good news: Gustavo had burns on 20 percent of his body and had suffered two heart attacks as his lungs failed to draw oxygen, but he was alive and being flown to the state capital, Porto Alegre, for treatment.
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