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, 2020Section
Opinion
Op-eds, perspectives, and editorial commentary
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
Federal Police Arrest ‘Coyote’ Forging Illegal Immigration Documents
On Saturday, September 5th, the Federal Police launched Operation Chacal against a criminal organization responsible for the forgery of documents...
September 6, 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, 2020Amazon Devastation Hampers Rainfall, Helps Pantanal Record Burning
The Amazon is not the only Brazilian biome under threat. While the world's largest rainforest registered a record number of...
August 7, 2020