Wealth Is Not Everything: What Future State Rulers Can Learn from Chile (Opinion)
South America is unquestionably a state laboratory. So what can we learn about the future of the state? How it...
June 3, 2020Section
Opinion
Op-eds, perspectives, and editorial commentary
“The Man on Horseback”: a Post-Pandemic Prophecy? (Opinion)
On Sunday, May 31st, saw Brazil’s President Bolsonaro engage in his weekly attempt to sabotage science, first by overcoptering a...
June 2, 2020
Gringo View: Where is all this Leading? (Opinion)
The effect of the lengthy quarantines and the Minneapolis police killing seen by millions on live TV and the Bolsonaro...
May 31, 2020
Opinion: Is Brazil Experiencing a Mild Dictatorship?
With each passing day, Brazil wakes up with the feeling that, more than a democracy, it is experiencing a mild...
May 19, 2020
Opinion: The Cost of Survival of the Fittest
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Opinion) Any reader of Charles Darwin’s 1859 classic, ‘On the Origin of Species’ will be...
May 19, 2020
Opinion: What Fujimori’s 1992 Coup Teaches Brazil in 2020
Twenty-eight years ago, in April 1992, then-President Alberto Fujimori - elected two years earlier as an outsider who vowed to...
May 12, 2020
Opinion: Bread and Circus? Send in the Clowns! Let Them Eat BBQ!
Ribeirão Preto, SP – (Opinion) Not content with the poor popular ratings of his “bread and circus” routine of going...
May 11, 2020
Opinion: Brazil Loses “Liberal Democracy” Status Around the World
This week, UN Secretary General Antônio Guterres introduced a revealing fact: in the world, 40 percent of posts on a...
May 7, 2020
Opinion: The Pandemic Shattering America’s Self-Image
America is using historical milestones to put the victims of Covid-19 into perspective. The country, which has become the epicenter...
May 6, 2020