GringoView: about time to discover Brazil’s rich folk art heritage
It's about time the artificial quality barrier that appears to exist between things foreign and Brazilian should be broken down.
September 14, 2022Section
Opinion
Op-eds, perspectives, and editorial commentary
Opinion: is this the end of the big dream for Brazil’s Natura &Co?
By Graziella Valenti (Opinion) The reality is slowly becoming clear. Gradually the market is realizing, with hard work and unnecessary...
September 14, 2022
Opinion: In a multipolar world, Brazil needs to be pragmatic and relate to all powers
Characterized by the existence of three or more powers, the multipolar world is an unstable and insecure one since it...
September 12, 2022
Peru hunts down Mennonites, a pacifist sect, for deforestation
Were it not for the lush Amazon rainforest that surrounds it, Wanderland could almost look like a piece of 19th-century...
September 11, 2022
GringoView: The last changing of the Old Guard
Queen Elizabeth died Thursday as she lived, quietly, and with royal dignity, a dignity that has characterized her more than...
September 8, 2022
Street vendors in Angola ask for urgent help and warn of risk of revolt
They are ubiquitous in Luanda, selling a little bit of everything, from fruit to bags of peanuts, water bottles, lunch...
September 7, 2022
Opinion: Does Portugal need Brazil to be Portuguese?
By Rodrigo Tavares* (Opinion) There is no other comparable case in history. After bringing about the independence of a former...
September 6, 2022
GringoView: Bread and circuses
The late first-century Roman poet Juvenal is believed to have coined the exhortation ‘bread and circuses’ which provided a palliative
September 4, 2022
Nueva Germania, the racist dream of Nietzsche’s brother-in-law in Paraguay
On June 3, 1889, Bernhard Förster died by suicide in Paraguay as his Aryan colony collapsed. Discover the dark history...
September 1, 2022