Tag: Cristovam Buarque

Favela kid in Brazil

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 ...

Brazilian kids at play

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 ...

Your typical DC Beltway traffic jam in the US

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 ...

Child carrying sibling looking through the trash in Brazil

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 ...

Bus set on fire by organized crime in São Paulo, Brazil

Enough Already of Pretending Brazil Doesn’t Need a Revolution

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

Brazilian congress in session

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 ...

Gabarito Highschool in Brazil

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 ...

Brazil wants to install condom machines in schools

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 ...

Brazilians on the streets demanding direct elections now (Diretas Já)

My Wish for Brazil: a Tempest of Purification and Marches on the Streets

The end of the year is the time to express our wishes. Mine for ...

Brazilian House of Representatives

By Almost Doubling Their Salaries Brazilian Congress Demoralized Democracy

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