Letter: Nightmare in Brazil
Letter to the Editor, by Patricia Shawcross SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL - On January 8th this year Brian Shawcross set off...
April 8, 2014Section
Op-Ed
Editorial, Opinion and Letters to the Editor
Opinion: The Curmudgeon on the Coup d’état
The strangeness of having no date on which to celebrate the end of the dictatorship.
April 1, 2014Opinion: The Curmudgeon on Petrobras
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - “O Petróleo é Nosso!” (“It’s Our Oil!”) was the joyful cry...
March 25, 2014 Opinion: The Curmudgeon Among the Believers
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Wednesday, March 12th, 2014, the Curmudgeon was invited to attend the...
March 18, 2014Opinion: The Curmudgeon on GIGO
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The title acronym, short for “Garbage In, Garbage Out”, was once...
March 11, 2014
Opinion: The Curmudgeon on the Failure of Democracy
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - “Venezuela is not Ukraine,” quoth Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff recently, and...
March 4, 2014 Opinion: “No News is Good News”
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Brazilian press, or at least the largest circulation press (print,...
February 25, 2014 Opinion: Can You Live on the Minimum Wage?
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - On February 12th, former President Lula told the New York Times...
February 18, 2014
Opinion: The Curmudgeon on Foreign Doctors (Re-revisited)
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - A while back the Curmudgeon began a diatribe with “The Cubans...
February 11, 2014