The capital city of Brazil is the city of Brasilia.

The country of Brazil is divided into administrative divisions, of which 26 are states (estados, singular-estado) and there is also 1 federal district (distrito federal); Acre, Alagoas, Amapa, Amazonas, Bahia, Ceara, Distrito Federal (federal district), Espirito Santo, Goias, Maranhao, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Para, Paraiba, Parana, Pernambuco, Piaui, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, Rondonia, Roraima, Santa Catarina, Sao Paulo, Sergipe, Tocantins

Brazil achieved its independence from Portugal on September 7, 1822. The country's Independence Day is therefore celebrated on September 7. Brazil ratified and instituted is constituion October 5, 1988.

The Brazilian legal system is based on Roman codes but the country has not accepted compulsory International Court of Justice jurisdiction under the United Nations mandate.

The voting rights of Brazilian citizens are voluntary between 16 and 18 years of age and over 70; and compulsory over 18 and under 70 years of age

President Fernando Henrique Cardoso has be

There are many different political parties in Brazil. The major political parties each party's leader is as follows: Brazilian Democratic Movement Party or PMDB - Paes De Andrade, president; Liberal Front Party or PFL - Jose Jorge, president; Workers' Party or PT - Jose Dirceu, president; Brazilian Workers' Party or PTB - Rodrigues Palma, president; Democratic Labor Party or PDT - Leonel Brizola, president; Brazilian Progressive Party or PPB - Espiridiao Amin, president; Brazilian Social Democracy Party or PSDB - Artur Da Tavola, president; Popular Socialist Party or PPS - Roberto Freire, president; Communist Party of Brazil or PCdoB - Joao Amazonas, chairman; Liberal Party or PL - Alvaro Valle, president.

The elections for the Federal Senate were last held on October 4, 1998 for one-third of Senate. And the next will be held in October 2002 for two-thirds of the Senate.

Issues related to illicit drugs and there propogation in Brazil have defined the country as a limited illicit producer of cannabis and minor coca cultivation in the Amazon region, mostly used for domestic consumption. The Brazilian government has adopted a large-scale eradication program to control cannabis. But Brazil remains an important transshipment country for drugs originating in Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru. With cocaine headed for the US and Europe, Brazil has increasingly been used by traffickers as a way station for

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