Tag: Brazil
No Lesson Learned One Year after Brazil’s Catastrophic Dam Collapse with 270 Deaths
On Friday, January 25, 2019, most of Helena Taliberti’s family was swept away within ...
Offended to Be Called Enemy of the Free Press, Brazil President Vows to Give No More Interviews
A frequent and fiery critic of Brazil’s media, President Jair Bolsonaro declared he would ...
While World Demand for Slave-free Coffee Grows, Brazil Finds Ways to Cheat Consumers
As the coffee harvest drew to a close in the rolling hills of southeastern ...
Video Claims Responsibility for Firebombing Brazil Producer of Netflix’s Gay Jesus Special
A Christmas Eve fire-bomb attack on offices of a comedy troupe that produced a ...
US$ 30 Bi: The Cost to Replace the 8.4 Million Soccer Fields of Deforested Amazon Lost in Last Decade
This year, I was on the judging panel for the Royal Statistical Society’s International ...
Victims of Human Trafficking These Women Are Jailed in Brazil as Drug Mules
Helena had been struggling to provide for her six-year-old son in Africa’s island nation ...
AIDS and Fatherless Kids, the Legacy of Brazilians and Others in Haiti’s UN Mission
Marie* was 14 years old and enrolled in a Christian school when she met ...
Trump Accuses Brazil of Manipulating Its Currency. Once Again He Is Wrong
President Donald Trump slapped new tariffs on Brazil and Argentina after accusing them of ...
Even Being a Minority, Evangelicals Might Decide Who Is Brazil’s Next President
The influence of the Catholic Church has waned in Brazil, where people have been ...
Fans Call Him Myth, Others Call Him Clown. Bolsonaro Might Become Brazil’s Donald Trump
Jair Messias Bolsonaro, a far-right candidate and congressman, has launched an improbable campaign to ...
