Opinion: Bolsonaro’s Post-Modern Politics
Brazil’s President Bolsonaro has, one reads, a cultural guru, whose influence extends to the ability to control certain key ministries.
April 8, 2019Section
Op-Ed
Editorial, Opinion and Letters to the Editor
Opinion: Brazil’s Cultural Marxism and Bolsonaro’s Base
Brazil’s President Bolsonaro has, one reads, a cultural guru, whose influence extends to the ability to control certain key ministries.
March 28, 2019 Opinion: Brazil’s Brumadinho is Vale’s Worst Nightmare
Brumadinho is a municipality south of Belo Horizonte, the capital of Minas Gerais, where some 12 million cubic meters of...
February 25, 2019 Opinion: Brazil’s Supreme Court Enters the Political Thicket
Today, February 21st, Brazil’s Supreme Court (STF) will continue discussing and (possibly) voting on an extremely political question: Should “homophobia”...
February 21, 2019 Opinion: Thirty Fatalities in Rio de Janeiro! (Yawn)
Seven dead in favela mudslides: cause, torrential rain. Ten dead in dormitory fire: cause, flamingo vultures. Thirteen dead in Santa...
February 13, 2019 Opinion: Brazil’s Bolsonaro and The (Not Very) Magic Mountain
A century ago, Davos was the setting for Thomas Mann’s novel “The Magic Mountain”: it featured a cloister peopled with...
January 25, 2019 Opinion: Brazil’s BBB and Voting Blocs – Bolsonaro’s Challenge
Fear not, gentle reader - the BBB in the headline is NOT about Brazilian broadcasting’s bowdlerized debauchery. Rather, it stands...
January 22, 2019 Opinion: Brazil and Brexit and Bolsonaro
Today is crunch time for Brexit, as Prime Minister Theresa May tries to drum up support for her plan. She...
January 15, 2019 Opinion: Brazil’s Worldview – Past is Prologue?
After reading Ernesto Araújo’s public address upon his installation as Brazil’s Foreign Minister the Curmudgeon is worried that the Bolsonaro...
January 7, 2019