Gringo View: Endgame
Despite the fact that Joe Biden has at last won both the popular and the crazy Electoral College vote by...
November 7, 2020Section
Guest Opinions
Opinion Articles from The Rio Times
Opinion: Calculate We Must – The US Presidential Elections
Ribeirão Preto, SP – (Opinion) On Monday, November 2nd, this contemplative pundit made two calculated forecasts for the US presidential...
November 4, 2020
Opinion: Thinking the Unthinkable – Trump’s Dark Vision
(Opinion) My fellow gringo Peter Rosenwald has put forward the case for returning the U.S. to something of a semblance...
November 2, 2020
Gringo View: Ending US Hypocrisy
(Opinion) A Trump victory in the US presidential elections Tuesday, November 10th, is too awful for this gringo to contemplate....
November 1, 2020
Opinion: Is Brazil Truly a World “Pariah”?
On Thursday, October 22nd, Jair Bolsonaro's Minister of Foreign Affairs Ernesto Araújo, told students at Rio Branco College, a prestigious...
October 24, 2020
Gringo View: Where Are The Clowns?
There is an old circus-generated theatrical tradition that when everything is going wrong on stage and the audience is getting...
October 18, 2020
Gringo View: Hic Sunt Dracones
Imagine the vision of a medieval ancient mariner, sailing west from Europe, unsure what lay ahead, lands unknown or even...
October 10, 2020
Gringo View: Our Existential Dilemma
(Opinion) At the beginning of the third act of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’, struggling in the knowledge of the rot and corruption...
September 18, 2020
Opinion: Bolsonaro, Trump and the Centrão – a Curmudgeonly Conspiracy Theory
(Opinion) In a recent column, we posited that the resurgent “Centrão” bloc in Brazil’s Congress has supplanted the “300 Picaretas”...
September 8, 2020