Tag: Brazil
Brazil and US: The Unmasked Leaders
It’s a masked world. One man wearing a mask is odd. He could be ...
While the World Deals with the Pandemic, Brazil Is Destroying the Amazon at a Fast Pace
The Amazon fires of 2019 drove the greatest single year loss of Brazilian forest ...
Trying Social Distancing in a Brazil That Doesn’t Believe in Personal Space Boundaries
Here in Brazil, like the rest of the world, we are under lockdown. Every ...
A Personal Account of a Rio Favela Resident on His Dealing with Coronavirus
This report from Vila Autódromo is the first in a series by favela residents ...
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 ...
