Tag: street kids

16 Years After Candelária Massacre Impunity and Death Squads Still Roam Brazil Streets

In the light of day, the historical Candelária Church in Rio de Janeiro serves ...

It’s Time Brazil Leave Its Pothole-Filling Policy and Strive for Greatness

Recently I visited the Cariri region, in the interior of Ceará State, to take ...

No Food or Love. Brazil’s Street Kids Survive on Glue.

“How old is your son?” I ask the weathered young Brazilian woman. “Ten months,” ...

We Brazilians Are Deaf, Incapable of Feeling Indignation

Thanks to a project of Workers Party Senator Ideli Salvatti of Santa Catarina State, ...

Brazil Needs to Learn to Set Goals and Apologize

At the beginning of 2003, when I was Brazil’s Minister of Education, I suggested ...