Opinion: Brazil’s “Covid CPI” – a “tempest in a teapot”, “terminating in pizza”
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – (Opinion) Under Article 58 §3 of Brazil’s 1988 Constitution, either house of Congress can create...
April 13, 2021Section
Op-Ed
Editorial, Opinion and Letters to the Editor
Opinion: How do bitcoins respond to governments’ trillion-dollar stimulus in economies?
I have lived and worked on five different continents over the past few years and it has led me to...
April 13, 2021
Opinion: Brazilian states and cities can, and should, ban religious services during the pandemic
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – (Opinion) Today, March 7, Brazil’s Supreme Court (STF) will hear cases involving the controversial question...
April 7, 2021
Gringo View: The murder of George Floyd & rescue of a purple unicorn
The way US law enforcement treats different criminal suspects has been on endless display these past few weeks. What is...
April 6, 2021
Opinion: AMANuensis, or how to “commemorate” March 31st
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – (Opinion) Fifty-seven years ago today, on the evening of March 31, 1964, the Brazilian military...
March 31, 2021
Gringo View: Missing Arts & Culture
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) It’s a hopeful sign that the longer we stay cooped up in our pandemic...
March 28, 2021
Opinion: Are the state institutions and powers now beginning to abandon Bolsonaro?
By Juan Arias* RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) According to data and media analysis agency MAP, President Jair Bolsonaro's...
March 28, 2021
Gringo view: The problem is not the electoral system – the problem is the voters
About the only thing this gringo can reliably say about the US electoral system is it’s a horrific mess.
March 11, 2021
Opinion: Fachin’s Gambit – How a judge turned the Lava-Jato legal scene upside down
The most talked-about television show of the late pandemic is “The Queen’s Gambit”. Decades ago, William Faulkner published “Knight’s Gambit”....
March 9, 2021