Tag: Cristovam Buarque

Slavery Will Only End in Brazil When Condo and Favela Kids Go to Same Schools

On March 25, 1884, the state of Ceará began its Abolition of Slavery, which ...

Only a Revolution Will Take Brazil Out of the 19th Century

The Brazilian people are oscillating between disappointment and gratitude: disappointment over how long it ...

A View from Brazil: We’re All Pyromaniac Neros and Bush Is a Bigger One

Some 2000 years ago, a Roman emperor with artistic inclinations was accused of burning ...

Brazil’s Poor Are Too Peaceful While Their Kids Starve do Death Amid Plenty

Recent studies show that a Brazilian prisoner is twice as likely to have come ...

Enough Already of Pretending Brazil Doesn’t Need a Revolution

Enough already of all the cruelty. Of bus passengers burned alive, of young people ...

While Brazil Seems in a Civil War Congress Only Cares for Pay Hike

No one feels any nostalgia for the last congressional session. Mensalões (monthly payments for ...

Brazil Has a Pact of Mediocrity in Economy, Society and Culture

Brazil has a pact of excellence in soccer and in sports in general. But ...

Condom Machines Won’t Solve Brazil’s Sex and Pregnancy Woes

Once again Brazil is offering a simplistic solution for a serious problem plaguing young ...

By Almost Doubling Their Salaries Brazilian Congress Demoralized Democracy

Eduardo Bueno is a well-known Brazilian historian with the rare quality of also being ...