Babes of Beirut cheer Brazil
Source: AP, Reuters, AFP, via Yahoo! News

What’s up with the Babes of Beirut? They’re busy cheering Brazil, which beat Ghana today, moving on to the semifinals in the World Cup! One day it’s a democracy struggle, and as democracy wins, next up, it’s soccer. It’s the same babes, and either way, you know what that means – they’re on the cutting edge of revolution. Today, they’re out in full force cheering Brazil, and according to this excellent post by Ya Libnan, they’re the team of choice.

As Nouri has noted in this excellent post here, the ties between Arab and Latin states are much stronger than anyone might realize – millions of descendents of Lebanese immigrants are now Brazilians. And millions of Lebanese have ties to Brazil. That looks like good news for the Cariocas.