#Rio Paraguai

[revista-amazonia]

Aumento de 76% nos Focos de Incêndio no Brasil em 2024: Uma Crise Ambiental em Escala Global

O Brasil está enfrentando uma das maiores crises ambientais dos últimos anos, com focos de incêndios crescendo drasticamente. De acordo com o Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (Inpe), mais de 2,3 mil focos de incêndio foram detectados apenas nas últimas 48 horas. Desde o início de 2024, o país já registra 226,6 mil focos de queimadas, um aumento alarmante de 76% em comparação com o mesmo…

[zoetheflower006]

*Hola traigo un comic antes de terminar febrero =)🇧🇷

[theramenrater]

Beef!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mbfgomes]

https://www.faithcomesbyhearing.com/audio-bible-resources/recordings-database

http://live.bible.is/bible/AOZUBV/MRK/1

https://www.bible.com/bible/972/JHN.1.GUABD

evang2014.blogspot.com 

[edsonjnovaes]

Caminho do Peabiru que levava nativos do Atlântico para o Pacífico 1.2

O Caminho de Peabiru é uma rota indígena antiga. Para alguns, o significado em guarani é “Terra sem males”, mas são encontradas várias versões para o significado de seu nome. Os Guaranis o chamavam de Peabiru, Piabiru ou Piabiyu, que significa “caminho” em guarani (pia, bia, pe, bia; ybabia: caminho que leva ao céu). Ou Caminho do Peru, sendo a palavra um híbrido de tupi – pe (caminho) + biru…

[xtruss]

Jabuticaba: Health Benefits of Rarest and Exotic Fruits of the World

Laden with calcium, potassium and magnesium jaboticaba is highly valuable for strengthening bones and maintain dental health. These essential minerals promote bone mineral density, support connective tissue, and averts them from becoming brittle and lower the risk of fractures and osteoporosis.

— Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

Jabuticaba

The Jabuticaba is a fruit-bearing tree in the family Myrtaceae native to Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo states in southeastern Brazil. Related species in the genus Myrciaria, often referred to by the same common name, are native to Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia. The tree is grown for its purplish-black, white-pulped fruits; they can be eaten raw or be used to make jellies and drinks (plain juice or wine). Other common names include Brazilian Grape Tree, Jaboticaba, Jabotica, Jabuticabeira, Guaperu, Guapuru, Hivapuru, Sabara and Ybapuru (Guarani).

Common in Brazilian markets, jabuticabas are largely eaten fresh; their popularity has been likened to that of grapes in the United States. Fresh fruit may begin to ferment 3 to 4 days after harvest, so they are often used to make jams, tarts, strong wines, and liqueurs. Due to the extremely short shelf-life, fresh jabuticaba fruit is very rare in markets outside of areas of cultivation. Traditionally, an astringent decoction of the sun-dried skins has been used as a treatment for hemoptysis, asthma, diarrhoea, and gargled for chronic inflammation of the tonsils.

Several potent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory anti-cancer compounds have been isolated from the fruit. One that is unique to the fruit is jaboticabin.

The name jabuticaba, derived from the Tupi word Jabuti (tortoise) + Caba (place), meaning the place where you find tortoises. The Guarani name is "Yvapuru", where yva means fruit, and the onomatopoeic word puru for the crunching sound the fruit produces when bitten. A traditional song from the eastern region of Bolivia refers to a young woman as having "eyes like the guapuru" (because of their soft blackness) and a mouth "as sweet as the achachairu."

The jabuticaba tree, which appears as a charge on the coat of arms of Contagem, Minas Gerais, Brazil, has become a widely used species in the art of bonsai, particularly in Taiwan and parts of the Caribbean. In Brazil, it is common to refer to something allegedly unique to the country as a "jabuticaba" since the tree supposedly only grows in Brazil. It is usually a pejorative expression.

Health Benefits of Jabuticaba

Jabuticaba is used for the treatment for hemoptysis, asthma, diarrhea and dysentery also as a gargle for chronic inflammation of the tonsils are by the caustic decoction of the sun-dry skins is agreed in Brazil. Such use of fruit also may lead to excessive consumption of tannin. The fruit of Jaboticaba contain compounds similar to known to have positive biological effects in cranberries, grapes and other related species, including anti-ageing, anti-inflammatory and the antioxidant qualities.

1. Jabuticaba Fruit can be stimulating, opens up bronchial airways, which is good for asthma, and slightly astringent making it great for diarrhea, and also healing those suffering from tonsillitis.

2. Jabuticaba Fruit is anti-inflammatory, and full of great antioxidants.

3. Jabuticaba Fruit an anti-aging fruit with similar health benefits like cranberries.

4. Jabuticaba Fruit contains lots of protein, low in carbs, and high in calcium, iron, phosphorus, and very high in Vitamin C and has some B vitamins, and very low in calories.

5. New Studies are being done on the effectiveness of Jabuticaba for fighting cancer... because it contains many anticancer compounds.

6. Jabuticaba Fruit soothes the GI tract, helps with arthritis, and also prevents many skin diseases and even hair loss

7. Jabuticaba Fruit is also a great detoxing agent.

8. Jabuticaba Fruit is rich in phenolic compounds, among which we can highlight the anthocyanins. Anthocyanins are the most abundant type of flavonoid and they are responsible for the blue or purple colour. Anthocyanins are the only fatty acid that is believed to play an important role in the health benefits exerted by this fruit, apart from the polyphenolic content found on it and more specifically punicalagins, punicalins, gallagic acid, and ellagic acid that act as powerful antioxidants.

9. In Jabuticaba Fruit there is another active constituent present on this fruit, a depside known as jaboticabin, which may also play an even more important role on the health benefits of this fruit, because depsides exert antibiotic, anti-HIV,antioxidant, and anti-proliferative activity.

Jabuticaba Fruit makes a wonderful jelly and great cheesecakes.

[candela888]

Same-sex marriage in 2003 vs. 2013 vs. 2023

(20 years of change)

More info below:

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2003:

Marriage : Netherlands, Belgium, British Columbia (CA), Ontario (CA)

Civil unions : France (including overseas territories), Germany, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Greenland, Rio Negro (AR), Ciudad de Buenos Aires (AR), California (US), New York (US), Hawaii (US), Vermont (US), Canary Islands (ES), Aragon (ES), Catalonia (ES), Andalusia (ES), Extremadura (ES), Castilla-La Mancha (ES), Castilla-Leon (ES), Madrid (ES), Valencia (ES), Asturias (ES), Basque Country (ES), Navarre (ES), Balearics (ES), Quebec (CA), Alberta (CA), Manitoba (CA), Nova Scotia (CA), Geneva (CH), Zurich (CH), Portugal.

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2013:

Marriage : Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, South Africa, Spain, Portugal, France (including overseas territories), Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, New Zealand, Washington (US), California (US), New Mexico (US), Minnesota (US), Iowa (US), Maryland (US), DC (US), New Jersey (US), Delaware (US), New York (US), Connecticut (US), Rhode Island (US), Vermont (US), Massachusetts (US), New Hampshire (US), Maine (US), Hawaii (US), Mexico City (MX), Quintana Roo (MX).

Civil unions : Greenland, Colombia, Ecuador, Merida (VZ), United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Finland, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Australia

Recognizes marriages performed abroad : All 32 Mexican states and Israel

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2023:

Marriage : Netherlands (including overseas territories), Belgium, United States, Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Colombia, US Virgin Islands, Ecuador, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Malvinas/Falklands, France (including overseas territories), Spain, Portugal, Andorra, Germany, Slovenia, Switzerland, Austria, Malta, Guernsey, Jersey, United Kingdom, Isle of Man, Ireland, Gibraltar, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Greenland, Luxembourg, Faroe Islands, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, St. Helena, Pitcairn Islands, Gibraltar.

Civil unions : Bolivia, Italy, Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Aruba, Curaçao, Czech Republic, Hungary, Croatia, Montenegro, Greece, Cyprus, Estonia, Liechtenstein 

Recognizes marriages performed abroad : Namibia, Israel, Nepal, American Samoa

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Future :

Same-sex marriage is under consideration by the legislature or the courts in Aruba, Curaçao, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, India, Japan, Liechtenstein, Namibia, the Navajo Nation, Nepal, Thailand, and Venezuela, and all countries bound by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR), which includes Barbados, Bolivia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, and Suriname.

Civil unions are being considered in a number of countries, including Lithuania, Peru, the Philippines, South Korea, Ukraine, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Latvia, Panama, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Thailand, and Venezuela.

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[herpsandbirds]

Hiya! Any birds from argentina you like? love your blog!

Aves de Argentina!

Oh goodness, yes, there are so many good Argentine birds! Here are a few for you...

Yellow-fronted Woodpeckers (Melanerpes flavifrons), L - male & R - female, family Picidae, order Piciformes, found in Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina

photograph by Lindolfo Vieira Souto & Carlos Bianco

Blue-crowned Parakeet (Thectocercus acuticaudatus), family Psittacidae, order Psittaciformes, Santa Rosa, La Pampa Province, Argentina

photograph by luciano.s.massa

Plumbeous Ibis (Theristicus caerulescens), family Threskiornithidae, order Pelicaniformes, Argentina

photograph by Julio Lejtman

Black-fronted Piping Guan (Pipile jacutinga), family Cracidae, order Galliformes, Iguazu, Argentina

ENDANGERED.

photograph by Mvshreeram

Jabiru Storks (Jabiru mycteria), mating pair, family Ciconiidae, order Ciconiiformes, Argentina

photograph by Rodrigo Fernández PH

White Monjita (Xolmis irupero), family Tyrannidae, order Passeriformes, Islas del Ibicuy, Entre Rios, Argentina

photograph by Lip Kee Yap 

[dailytomlinson]

FAITH IN THE FUTURE WORLD TOUR: LATIN AMERICA LEG

May 2nd: Panama City, Panama

May 5th: San Juan, Puerto Rico

May 8th: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

May 11th: São Paulo, Brazil

May 12th: Curitiba, Brazil

May 15th: Montevideo, Uruguay

May 18th: Buenos Aires, Argentina

May 21st: Asunción, Paraguay

May 24th: Santiago, Chile

May 26th: Lima, Peru

May 28th: Bogotá, Colombia

May 30th: San Jose, Costa Rica

June 1st: Mexico City, Mexico

June 4th: Queretaro, Mexico

June 6th: Guadalajara, Mexico

36 days, 15 shows, 11 countries ✅

And that's a wrap. The Latin America Leg is over and we bid goodbye to the beloved Faith In The Future World Tour.

To revisit all the moments of this incredible leg, you can check out our recap tag, you can also check all the outfit looks on our fitfwt fashion tag and each concert's setlist as well.

Check out all the incredible posters here. Check out backstage pictures here.

[gunsandspaceships]

MCU Timeline: The Incredible Hulk

This timeline is based on dates from the movie, its deleted scenes, calculations and logic, and not on Fury's Big Week (see the reason here). I must admit that compared to the other movies I've covered, this one gave me a bit of a headache.

~1946 - Thaddeus E. Ross is born.

December 18, 1969 - Robert Bruce Banner is born.

~1970 - Emil Blonsky is born.

~1973 - Ross returns from Vietnam at the age of 27.

March 5, 2004, 2:30 pm - experiment by Dr. Banner and Dr. Betty Ross turns Bruce into the Hulk. He kills two scientists, a military officer, and injures General Ross and his daughter.

In the newspaper we can see part of the date "06". The most logical option would be "2006", but this contradicts other dates, plus Marvel often blurs or skips years in their newspapers. The next option is - day. We can't see the month, but there is another paper connected to it that says "March 07". So I assume the original incident happened on March 5 (the day before this newspaper was published).

~March 6 or 7, 2004 at 2:50 pm - Bruce visits Betty in the hospital. General Ross confronts him. Bruce runs away. Ross begins his hunting campaign.

April 18, 2004 - Banner is spotted by a surveillance camera.

This is a US surveillance camera (date format), meaning it happened while Bruce was hiding inside the country (thus shortly after the original incident).

2004-2006 - Banner spotted in Idaho. Hulk kills a state trooper.

Here I would guess that the suicide attempt in Alaska from the deleted alternate opening scene took place in the winter of 2004-2005 or 2005-2006. And it wasn't the suicide attempt Banner was talking about in The Avengers, because he didn't put a bullet in his mouth in the deleted scene. Instead, he aimed at the ice so it would break and drag him out to the sea, I guess. So officially he's attempted suicide at least twice, and the bullet-in-mouth was before that ice-cold-one (it doesn't make sense to put so much effort into attempting suicide if you haven't tried all the easier options. And I'm sure he tried them).

February 7, 2006 - Banner attempted contact with Betty Ross.

May 27-28, 2006 - Bruce/Hulk spotted in Canada. Hulk (possibly) kills two Canadian hunters.

September 4, 2006 - Hulk out with house demolition. Probably still in Canada.

Not sure why "Notification: MOSSAD": this doesn’t look like Israel at all. But perhaps after this incident Bruce flew from Canada to Israel, and then from there went to Europe.

October 21, 2006 - "last seen fleeing".

This "No Sightings For 5 Months" contradicts October 21, 2006, because there were events a month before and after that date. And that's okay, because it doesn't actually mean that that line has to have any connection to that specific date. It just means that Ross lost him for 5 months during his hunt, and it's just part of a larger report, most of which we don't see.

November-December 2006 (snow) - Hulk smashes trucks in Europe (European license plate).

January 22, 2007 - Hulk out in Samara, Russia.

2007-2008 - Bruce in a Tibetan monastery.

March 2009 - Bruce is hired to work at the Antonio Carlos soda bottling plant in Rio (Rocinha favela), Brazil.

So his path most likely looked like this: US (Virginia > Idaho) > crossed US/Canada border > Alaska > back to Canada > Israel > Central Europe > Russia > China (Tibet) > Japan > South America (Paraguay > Brazil).

5 years after initial incident (2004-2009):

~August 2, 2009, 158 days after the last incident:

Banner cuts his finger at the plant and a bottle of soda containing his blood is shipped to the US.

Here on the sticker we see "19 APR". At this quality I can't really see what that date means, but I'm guessing it's a bottling or shipping date. So in the movie it must be April 19th, right? But if we use that date, other dates won't work (especially the last scenes in Canada). Instead, I'll use secondary evidence like the weather and college students later in the movie (doesn't look like summer, does it?) to determine an approximate date, and ignore "19 APR".

Note: This weather forecast matches August 2009 in Rio, but not April.

He tries the mysterious flower on his blood cells, but it's just another failed attempt to cure himself of the Hulk. He sends a sample of his blood to Dr. Samuel Sterns.

~30 days later - Stan Lee in Wisconsin drinks the bottle with Banner's blood.

Shortly after, ~September 2, 8:10 pm - General Ross learns of this and sends his men to search for Banner.

~September 3 (190 days without incident):

Ross has assembled a special forces team to capture Bruce, led by Emil Blonsky. They are sent to Brazil immediately.

Same day in Brazil - Sterns informs Bruce that he has succeeded in reducing the gamma radiation levels in Banner's blood sample.

~September 4, early morning - Ross' team tries to catch Bruce. He hulks out and escapes.

~September 8:

Morning - Bruce returns to himself in Guatemala, thousands of miles from Rio.

Why ~4 days later and not 1: Hulk's running speed in the MCU is about 100 km/h. The distance between Rio and Guatemala that he had to run is ~7 thousand km. I doubt he ran at the same speed the whole distance, so that gives us at least 3-4 days.

(Probably) same day, evening - Bruce in Chiapas, Mexico.

~September 24:

10:40 am - Bruce arrives at Culver University but can't get inside.

Note: there are too many students for summer, and some are wearing sweaters and jackets. All this tells us that it is most likely September.

Night - he visits his old friend Stan.

~September 25 (Friday):

Bruce gains access to the university database, but finds that all of his data has disappeared.

Bruce and Betty meet. She hides him at her house (or rather at her boyfriend's house, according to deleted scenes) and gives him the data she saved.

Betty mentions that it's Friday, and in this movie the days of the week match our universe, unlike Iron Man 1 where they don't. I'll make another post explaining why there's such a difference between the movies, rather than just calling it a mistake.

Blonsky gets an injection of super soldier serum.

~September 26 - General Ross attacks Bruce at Culver University. Bruce hulks out, badly injures Blonsky, saves Betty and runs away with her. They spend the night in a cave.

Note that some trees in the scene are already changing colors to yellow and red, which usually starts in mid-September.

~September 27 - Hulk in. Betty takes Bruce to a motel. Blonsky is healed of all his injuries.

~September 28:

Bruce sends the data to Sterns. He and Betty drive to NYC. Blonsky gets a second injection.

Here we can see "06.12.08", but: 1) it contradicts other dates; 2) the time +0004 does not match the time Bruce sent the message (it was daytime, not 00:04); 3) there is another message with "06.00.08". I conclude that this is not even a date, or not a date we can trust.

Night - Sterns uses his antidote on Banner, which temporarily suppresses the Hulk.

General Ross tranquilizes Bruce and takes him into custody. Blonsky forces Sterns to inject him with Banner's blood, and Blonsky becomes the Abomination. He hits Sterns, and a drop of Banner's blood falls into Sterns' head wound.

The Abomination attacks Harlem. Bruce hulks out and fights him. He defeats Blonsky and runs away.

~October 29 (31 days later) - Bruce in Bella Coola, BC, Canada. He learns to control the Hulk and hulks out on purpose in his cabin.

This is not earlier than October. Closer to November. Not summer at all. The warm clothes people are wearing in the last scenes also confirm this.

Note: the "more than a year without an incident" from The Avengers doesn't really tell us anything about the year of this movie, because Bruce could have had an incident at any time after that. Or a whole bunch of incidents.

Note: comic book The Incredible Hulk: The Big Picture is not compatible with the movie, despite being released in the same box in 2008. Why we can say this: 1) the date of the first incident in the book is April 16, 2005. The movie contains evidence of Ross's hunt from April 2004. 2) The scenes of Bruce and Ross's first confrontation are different. In the movie, it takes place in the hospital; in the book, it takes place in the destroyed lab, where shirtless Banner stayed for three days. 3) In the book Blonsky had already encountered Hulk before the chase in Rio. He didn't see him, but he interrogated a boy who did. In the movie, Blonsky had never heard of the Hulk before.

Iron Man (2008) Timeline

Iron Man 2 (2010) Timeline

Thor (2011) Timeline

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) Timeline

The Avengers (2012) Timeline

[latinotiktok]

odeio ser aquela pessoa chata (tipo eu sei something something brargentina rivalidade yuri blablabla), mas Brasil e Argentina só começaram a se dar bem a relativamente pouco tempo (e quando eu falo pouco tempo, década de 80 pra terem uma noção 💀)... nossas relações nunca foram amistosas (principalmente com relação a disputa pela região da Banda Oriental/Uruguai). No século XIX o Paraguai estava tentando fazer os outros países reconhecerem a sua independência e a Argentina ficava no pé deles o tempo todo por território (se bobear quem deu mais trabalho pra eles não foi nem a Espanha, foi a Argentina 💀 pois eles queriam os territórios do antigo Vice-Reinado) tanto que o Brasil (pré-guerra) foi um dos primeiros a reconhecer a independência do Paraguai, em grande parte só pra ferrar a Argentina pois ambos viviam em pé de guerra pela hegemonia do continente, e nem na época da guerra da triplice aliança os dois se davam bem, nunca teve "amizade" só "trégua", se juntaram pelos interesses territotiais em comum e assim que a guerra acabou quebraram a aliança e assinaram acordos com o Paraguai individualmente cada um... Não parece pois hoje em dia a gente vive grudados um no outro... E foi na época da construção da Itaipu, em que a Argentina veio se meter (pra variar kkkk) e é uma história longa demais pra um só ask, mas pra usina sair, Brasil e Paraguai tiveram que sentar e fecharem acordos de uso do Rio Paraná com a Argentina (já que ambos compartilham o rio) o que levou a uma aproximação maior de argentinos e brasileiros, e consequentemente a uma integração maior de ambos governos na década de 80, levando a criação do Mercosul, e o resto é história. Hoje em dia a gente se dá tão bem nem parece que a gente tentava se matar toda a semana, mas muitos esquecem (ou nem tem noção) desse passado de conflitos. ( isso é um resumo bem resumido, recomendo vocês lerem mais sobre as relações desses países)

Jajajaja básicamente las divas del Sur que se odiaban pero se juntaban para hacerles la vida peor a la gente y eventualmente terminaban formando alianzas con otros países

[theramenrater]

Brazilian beef noodles!

[cantcompetewhereudontcompare]

Louis' boxscores are out and wow, was I spot on!

In my last post I claimed that he hadn't actually grown his audience from his last tour, as his fans claimed, and that he repeated the same numbers instead.

This is what I said about Argentina:

Louis in Argentina had sold 25,957 tickets in 2023 "while Harry was touring. (Harry sold 123,942 tickets in the same country)." If he even repeated his 25,000 crowd I'd be shocked. But he definitely didn't grow this audience. It was as small as before, at best.

This was his box score for Argentina:

Estadio Vélez Sarsfield, Buenos Aires: 20,318 (72.76%) - $1,490,300

Bahahahha. This is what I said about Brazil:

Harry had three shows in Allianz Parque which had a combined attendance of 137,009. Each show roughly 45/46K. That is a third of that stadium. And Louis did not sell out, there were tickets available in all sections right up until the moment the show started. Louis had one show. You can see the empty seats in multiple videos on Twitter. Meaning, Louis' attendance was at best 15K. That is, once again, the same exact audience he had for his previous tour.

This was his box score for Brazil:

Allianz Parque, São Paulo: 16,406 (77.81%) - $1,299,866

This is what I said about Mexico:

The 70,000 number came from a fan and people just ran with it, particularly multiple Spanish speaking blogs who aren't very reputable. The actual attendance was 32,000. I know there's a source for this but I didn't save it, it was an official Mexican news outlet who spoke with the organizers.

This was his box score for Mexico:

Autódromo Hermanos Rodriguez, Mexico City: 31,562 (97.06%) - $2,788,570

Genuinely shocked at my own ability to guesstimate audiences at a glance, but ANYWAY.

His fans are obviously claiming these numbers are fake, or they're just "platinum tickets" ????

Touring Data posts box scores they obtain from Pollstar, which audits concerts and gets information straight from the source. Either the artist's team or the venue. The numbers are 100% official. This is what he sold.

If they hadn't been hellbent on surpassing or matching Harry, and centering this man's life and career around his former (much more famous, much more talented) bandmate, then they'd realize that the fact that he has those audiences is a miracle that should be celebrated.

A person who cannot sing, play instruments, or compose music, refuses to dress up or make any sort of effort, doesn't learn his own lyrics, and has the charisma of a cardboard box, selling 32,000 tickets for a show is ridiculous enough.

Here's the complete list:

Mexico City (Mexico): 31,562 (97.06%) - $2,788,570

Buenos Aires (Argentina): 20,318 (72.76%) - $1,490,300

São Paulo (Brazil): 16,406 (77.81%) - $1,299,866

Guadalajara (Mexico): 12,975 (99.46%) - $1,143,498

Santiago (Chile): 12,979 (50.08%) - $829,243

Querétaro (Mexico): 4,938 (100%) - $480,594

Bogotá (Colombia): 5,576 (69.53%) - $463,305

Curitiba (Brazil): 5,379 (64.07%) - $452,919

Lima (Peru): 5,784 (90.54%) - $425,584

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil): 6,101 (80.30%) - $387,853

Montevideo (Uruguay): 2,882 (73.60%) - $343,658

San José (Costa Rica): 3,314 (48.67%) - $290,948

Panama City (Panama): 1,718 (68.80%) - $174,277

Asunción (Paraguay): 3,025 (65.12%) - $167,174

San Juan (Puerto Rico): 2,046 (38.19%) - $161,370

The percentages are off, of course, because that's the percentage of tickets sold THAT HE PUT OUT ON SALE. Not actual capacity. In actuality, those places are much, much bigger, he just reduced capacity by a bunch and put only parts of the venues on sale, and even then he could only fully sell out ONE show.

Let's look at actual venue capacity of his biggest shows, not going by Wikipedia numbers, because often those numbers are maximum-maximum and to actually achieve that you have to not have a stage or a catwalk or a sound box. I'm going to compare to other concerts in the same venue, where possible!

Mexico City, Mexico - Autódromo Hermanos Rodriguez

This one is actually quite hard to find info of. It's a venue used mainly for festivals, such as Arre, Electric Daisy, Vive Latino, etc. I cannot find single concerts here. And it makes sense because Louis' wasn't a single concert, but that vanity project of his that is his "Away From Home" festival. Where it's him as the main act and two or three more random white boy bands, who are often far better than him.

Anyway, attendance to this ground goes from 70,000 to 110,000, so the idea that his 31,562 sold out 97% of tickets is absurd. It's more along the lines of 30% of capacity.

Buenos Aires, Argentina - Estadio Vélez Sarsfield

This one is easy, as I've said before, One Direction performed there in 2014. I presume he chose it as some sort of ego trip?

One Direction sold out two shows at 80,622 making attendance for each 40,311.

To be fair, let's look up other shows! Karol G did two shows in 2024, her attendance for both was 82,818, meaning 41,409 for each.

Bad Bunny did two shows in 2022, his attendance for both was 85,345, meaning 42,672 for each.

So how on earth would 20,318, what Louis sold, represent almost 73%? If we take capacity of this stadium to be 41,000 then he sold less than 50% of the total amount of tickets....

São Paulo, Brazil - Allianz parque

Harry did three shows in this stadium, totalling 137,009 tickets sold, meaning 45,669 per show.

BTS had two shows in this stadium in 2019, totalling 84,728 tickets sold, meaning 42,364 per show.

Ed Sheeran had two shows in this stadium in 2019, totalling 81,156 tickets sold, meaning 40,578 per show.

Paul McCartney had two shows in this stadium in 2019, totalling 90,384 tickets sold, meaning 45,192.

Let's average it and we get about 43,500 for capacity. So how much of that did Louis' 16,406 represent? Was it almost 78%?

No, more along the lines of 37.7%.

I'm entirely too lazy to look up the others, and most of them are rather small and the arenas are quite obscure, so less acts have performed there (honestly, I think it'd be almost impossible to find concrete info for the venues in Costa Rica and Puerto Rico), but I really wanna know what possessed this man to book these venues??

He sold the same amount or more tickets for his first tour, in much smaller venues. It makes no sense at all. Booking those stadiums/big venues is more expensive, security for those venues is more expensive, staging is more expensive, you need more man power to put the stage together and apart, you actually have to either have multiple versions of your stage to fit the different types of venues, or have a too big stage at a small venue or a too small stage at a big venue, the ambiance of the show is worse, the sound of the show is worse.

So WHY? Is it the ego trip to claim he performed there? He can't possibly be that ridiculous. He's almost 33 years old. He's losing money. For a lot of these shows, I'm willing to bet he actually, not figuratively, had a loss in terms of the cost of putting the show together vs the gross of the show itself.

His first tour in Latin America vs his second tour:

Chile:

2023 | 24,063

2024 | 12,979

Paraguay:

2023 | 5,178

2024 | 3,025

Argentina:

2023 | 25,967

2024 | 20,318

Uruguay:

2023 | 6,627

2024 | 2,882 (oof, and this was in the same venue)

Brazil:

Rio 2023 | 12,206

Rio 2024 | 6,101

Sao Paulo 2023 | 15,426

Sao Paulo 2024 | 16,406

Peru:

2023 | 13,950

2024 | 5,784

Colombia:

2023 | 10,825

2024 | 5,576

Costa Rica:

2023 | 7,302

2024 | 3,314

Puerto Rico:

2023 | 3,595

2024 | 2,046

Mexico:

Monterrey 2023 | 6,674

Queretaro 2024 | 4,938

Guadalajara 2023 | 8,004

Guadalajara 2024 | 12,975

Mexico City 2023 | 23,894

Mexico City 2024 | 31,562

I put together Monterrey and Queretaro cause they're both in Mexico and he didn't repeat cities there. He had two extra cities, one in Brazil (Curitiba 5,379 attendance) and one in Panama (1,718 attendance) comparing from his last tour.

Total amount of tickets sold in Latin America in 2023: 163,714

Total amount of tickets sold in Latin America in 2024: 135,003

This is even though the venues were bigger and he visited more cities. But I thought he was doubling, tripling his audiences? LMAO.

His gross was sliiiightly more than in 2023:

2023: 9,240,254

2024: 10,473,240

But any positive difference he may have made was most likely offset by the cost of renting those venues and putting the shows together. Plus, not to mention it has been quite the year of inflation globally.

His own fans need to stop setting him up!

This is the source for the data

I'll be back soon, god willing, to make a comprehensive post about Louis being a high school homophobic bully and his large documented history of homophobia.

[louisupdates]

giantrooksmusic beyond grateful to be a part of the FITF tour in Latin America. tysm @louist91 for having us 🫶

vamos 🇧🇷🇺🇾🇦🇷🇵🇾🇨🇱🇵🇪🇨🇴🇨🇷🇲🇽

May 08 | Brasil - Rio de Janeiro

May 11 | Brasil - São Paulo

May 12 | Brasil - Curitiba

May 15 | Uruguay - Montevideo

May 18 | Argentina - Buenos Aires

May 21 | Paraguay - Asunción

May 24 | Chile - Santiago

May 26 | Peru - Lima

May 28 | Colombia - Bogotá

May 30 | Costa Rica - San Jose

June 01 | Mexico - Mexico City

The Giant Rooks via Instagram [26.4.2024]

[dailybutterfly]

Butterfly #91: Red Rim (Biblis hyperia)

Image credits: 1, 2, 3

This butterfly can be found in lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas, USA, along with Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America and South America (up till Paraguay)

[rhythmicgymnasticsnews]

2025 International Competitions Calendar

February

14.02-16.02 - 30. International Tournament-Grácia Fair Cup (Budapest, Hungary)

28.02-02.03 - Miss Valentine 2025 International FIG Tournament (Tartu, Estonia)

March

07.03-09.03 - 2nd Bosphorus Cup (Istanbul, Turkey)

15.03-16.03 - Gymnastik International 2025 (Fellbach-Schmiden, Germany)

21.03-23.03 - Faliro International Tournament "10th Aphrodite Cup" 2025 (Palaio Faliro, Greece)

21.03-23.03 - Grand Prix Marbella 2025 (Marbella, Spain)

27.03-30.03 - International Tournament Sofia Cup 2025 (Sofia, Bulgaria)

28.03-30.03 - AGF Trophy International Tournament 2025 (Baku, Azerbaijan)

29.03-30.03 - 36th Internationaux de Thiais (Thiais, France)

April

04.04-06.04 - FIG World Cup Sofia 2025 (Sofia, Bulgaria)

18.04-20.04 - FIG World Cup Baku 2025 (Baku, Azerbaijan)

25.04-27.04 - FIG World Cup Tashkent 2025 (Tashkent, Uzbekistan)

May

01.05-05.05 - International Tournament "Shining Star" 2025 (Tashkent, Uzbekistan)

02.05-04.05 - 19th Senior African Championships (Cairo, Egypt)

02.05-04.05 - 32nd International Tournament of Portimão (Portimao, Portugal)

09.05-11.05 - FIG World Challenge Cup Portimao 2025 (Portimao, Portugal)

22.05-25.05 - 2025 Junior Pan American championships (Asuncion, Paraguay)

June

30.05-01.06 - 2025 Senior Pan American championships (Asuncion, Paraguay)

04.06-08.06 - 41st Senior and Junior European Championships (Talinn, Estonia)

18.06-22.06 - 3rd FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics Junior World Championships (Sofia, Bulgaria)

July

16.07-27.0 - 32nd Summer FISU World University Games (Rhine-Ruhr, Germany)

18.07-20.07 - FIG World Cup Milan (Milan, Italy)

25.07-27.07 - FIG World Challenge Cup 2025 Cluj Napoca (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

August

20.08-24.08 - 41st FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)