Tag: Jair Bolsonaro
Brazil and US: The Unmasked Leaders
It’s a masked world. One man wearing a mask is odd. He could be ...
While the World Deals with the Pandemic, Brazil Is Destroying the Amazon at a Fast Pace
The Amazon fires of 2019 drove the greatest single year loss of Brazilian forest ...
Remain at Home, Say Authorities. But Favela Residents in Brazil Aren’t Allowed Such a Luxury
The novel coronavirus pandemic has led authorities to close borders, it has impeded circulation ...
Brazil Was Ready for Bad Weather. With Coronavirus It Got the Perfect Storm
April would have been a busy month for Brazilian hospitals anyway. As the population ...
Getting Comfy with Covid-19 in Brazil
I’ve been having an unusual number of birthdays, several a day in fact. It ...
Brazil President Keeps Churches Open and Calls Governors Criminals for Imposing Lockdowns
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro blasted as criminals the governors and mayors of Brazil’s largest ...
Cuban Doctors in Brazil Waiting for a Chance to Treat Coronavirus
Raymond Garcia has experience with epidemics. First he treated cholera in Haiti. He battled ...
Brazil Teaches the World How to Be Humane to Refugees
The global north tends to view the global south as a source of refugees, ...
Indians To Sue Brazil President After He Says They’re Becoming More Human
The main organization representing Brazil’s 300 indigenous tribes announced it would sue Brazilian President ...
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 ...
