I would bet you guys know, but there is a free option for a Brazilian visas if you we attending the World Cup. We flew to San Francisco (free for us) and went to the consulate on the World Cup walk in day (Wednesday) and it took under an hour and we got them back in less than a week.
Yeah I knew this because of the world cup in South Africa. I wasn't there, but my boyfriend was telling me about a lot of people who got the free visas and then stayed in SA illegally after the world cup.