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, 2020Section
Op-Ed
Editorial, Opinion and Letters to the Editor
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
Gringo View: Revisiting ‘1984’ – Are We Going Mad?
It has become seriously disquieting and almost impossible to know what to believe in the dystopian world into which we...
September 4, 2020
Opinion: Message From a Portuguese Mother With a Broken Heart
I was two years old when the Carnation Revolution took place on April 25th, 1974, which overthrew the authoritarian 'Estado...
September 3, 2020
Gringo View: Is Now a Good Time to Write Your Own Obituary?
How many of us, stranded and isolated for the past months by the pandemic and unable to have normal contact...
August 27, 2020
Opinion: The Triumphal Return of the “300 Picaretas”
RIBEIRÃO PRETO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) Back in 1993, running for President after serving in Congress for four years, Luis Inácio...
August 20, 2020
Gringo View: Order, Progress and Unity?
(Opinion) Watching the Brazilian flag with its stirring positivistic motto ‘Ordem e Progresso’ flapping in the wind and reflecting on...
August 14, 2020