Tag: Brazil
Brazil Was Ready for Bad Weather. With Coronavirus It Got the Perfect Storm
April would have been a busy month for Brazilian hospitals anyway. As the population ...
Getting Comfy with Covid-19 in Brazil
I’ve been having an unusual number of birthdays, several a day in fact. It ...
Amazon Indians’ Doctor with Coronavirus Brings Fear of an Extermination
A doctor working with the largest tribe in the Amazon has tested positive for ...
Brazil President Keeps Churches Open and Calls Governors Criminals for Imposing Lockdowns
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro blasted as criminals the governors and mayors of Brazil’s largest ...
Cuban Doctors in Brazil Waiting for a Chance to Treat Coronavirus
Raymond Garcia has experience with epidemics. First he treated cholera in Haiti. He battled ...
Brazil: Paradise for Foreign Investors Except for Red Tape, Bad Infrastructure and Labor Laws
Despite the recent stagnation in its economy, largely as a result of the decline ...
Brazil Teaches the World How to Be Humane to Refugees
The global north tends to view the global south as a source of refugees, ...
The Price of Fighting Land-grabbing in the Amazon Can Be Your Life
Maria Marcia Elpidia de Melo hasn’t seen her son Elmiro for more than six ...
In Brazil, History and Story Are the Same and Fake News Isn’t Fake
Fake news is the big news these days. We are being warned how pernicious ...
Trying to Please Trump, Brazil Approves Mass Deportation of Brazilians in the US
The U.S. government has again deported a planeload of Brazilians, the second such chartered ...
