I'm beginning to wonder if its not the overall concept,
Truth be told, I'm having a little trouble getting into the whole latin mindset... the only thing I can think of when thinking about Brazil at the moment is the images of the carnaval there the last days... lots of skin, breasts and asses, all shaking and bouncing, very little shadowrunning.
The concept of playing a street ganger with limited gear actually sounds pretty cool, though I'm wondering if we'll be playing street gangers that are trying to be shadowrunners, or really playing street gangers doing street gang stuff, you know... a whole different ball game.
I think that's also the reason most people (including me) came up with combat characters; the only thing I see a street-gang-level face doing would involve prostitution or use of maxed-out intimidation instead of any of the other social skills.
Dealing with paranormal... sounds terrifying!
Count me in

Edit:
Then again, character interaction has been ignored or shoved aside so far, so I can see how it's hard for you to introduce plot elements.
Wait, there's already an IC of this game, where? Totally missed that... and I don't like missing gangers being killed!