Tag: Cristovam Buarque

Brazil’s Lula Can Still Redeem His Name by Foregoing a Second Mandate

Perhaps never before in the history of Brazil have persons with such respectable biographies ...

Brazil’s PT Is Dying of Arrogance and Disregard for the Future

It appears that the Workers Party (PT) has suddenly died. That sentence, however, contains ...

Why Is Brazil Celebrating?

How the crisis our country is currently experiencing will end, no one can yet ...

Illiteracy in Brazil

Lula’s Missed Chance of Cutting Illiteracy in Half in Brazil

In the same month it was confronting its worse political and ethical crisis, the ...

A Simple and Practical Proposal to End Brazil’s Child Labor

Virgílio was 12 years old. His childhood was divided between attending school sporadically and ...

An Inquiry on Brazil, That’s What We Need

{mosimage}The Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) into the operation of the Brazilian Post Office ...

A Brazilian School of Revolution and Ideas

{mosimage}Much more than a school, it was a way of life: of militancy, of ...

Brazil’s Lula Confesses Venial Sins and Hides Mortal Ones

At his first press conference since becoming president, Brazilian President Lula admitted that his ...

Can’t Lula’s PT and Cardoso’s PSDB Just Get Along?

In 1994, Brazilian voters expressed their desire for change in the country when they ...

Brazil, a Land of Plenty for the Few

When he arrived in Brazil with Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500, Pero Vaz de ...