Opinion: What Fujimori’s 1992 Coup Teaches Brazil in 2020
Twenty-eight years ago, in April 1992, then-President Alberto Fujimori - elected two years earlier as an outsider who vowed to...
May 12, 2020Section
Guest Opinions
Opinion Articles from The Rio Times
Opinion: Bread and Circus? Send in the Clowns! Let Them Eat BBQ!
Ribeirão Preto, SP – (Opinion) Not content with the poor popular ratings of his “bread and circus” routine of going...
May 11, 2020
Opinion: Brazil Loses “Liberal Democracy” Status Around the World
This week, UN Secretary General Antônio Guterres introduced a revealing fact: in the world, 40 percent of posts on a...
May 7, 2020
Opinion: The Pandemic Shattering America’s Self-Image
America is using historical milestones to put the victims of Covid-19 into perspective. The country, which has become the epicenter...
May 6, 2020
Opinion: “Yo, el Supremo”: Does Brazil’s President Have a Persistent Delusional Disorder?
Opinion, by Michael Royster Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo –In 1974, Paraguayan author Augusto Roa Bastos published a novel entitled “Yo,...
May 6, 2020
Opinion: Sérgio Moro, A Man Coming Down the Stairs
"Don't mistake apples for oranges." This is the appropriate popular saying to analyze Mr. Sérgio Fernando Moro's role in the...
May 4, 2020
Opinion: The Verbal Paradox of Being “Confined” in a Democratic Society
Arguably the word most used by the press and people in general in the Spanish-speaking world over the past six...
May 4, 2020
Opinion: As Epidemics Struck, So Did the Growth of State Power
In the 6th century, the plague struck in Constantinople. Emperor Justinian, the ruler of the Eastern Roman Empire, well on...
May 1, 2020
Gringo View: Addicts in a Dystopian Dream
I don`t know about you but the first thing I normally do each morning is to pick my cell phone...
April 30, 2020