Brazzil Magazine

The Pinga Triumvirate

I ask the reader to bear in mind that I am dealing with the ...

Carioca by Accident

Brazil’s most respected weekly magazine says that I’m a Carioca. Let me be honest: ...

The Foolishness of Being Pro-American

Any anti-American lie, in Brazil, even an absurd one, is immediately taken as pure ...

Shooting Is All I Know –

Social exclusion and injustice are fundamental questions that led me to make City of ...

Promises Not Kept

It didn’t take long. The PT is in crisis having failed in its role ...

The Last of the "Colonels"

Senator Antonio Carlos Magalhães and Senate president José Sarney represent a dying species. President ...

Five-Star Jail

Under Brazil’s quaint penal code, criminals and suspected criminals with a higher education qualification ...

The Media Barons of Brazil

Senators Antonio Carlos Magalhães and José Sarney are the longest-living Brazilian oligarchs. What differentiates ...

Tough Choice

The Landless Movement in Brazil is a success. One quarter of a million people ...

Spare Me the Quotas and Other American Oddities

It has been revealed that two very white female candidates increased eightfold their chances ...