Opinion: “Yo, el Supremo”: Does Brazil’s President Have a Persistent Delusional Disorder?
Opinion, by Michael Royster Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo –In 1974, Paraguayan author Augusto Roa Bastos published a novel entitled “Yo,...
May 6, 2020Section
Opinion
Op-eds, perspectives, and editorial commentary
Opinion: Sérgio Moro, A Man Coming Down the Stairs
"Don't mistake apples for oranges." This is the appropriate popular saying to analyze Mr. Sérgio Fernando Moro's role in the...
May 4, 2020
Opinion: The Verbal Paradox of Being “Confined” in a Democratic Society
Arguably the word most used by the press and people in general in the Spanish-speaking world over the past six...
May 4, 2020
Opinion: As Epidemics Struck, So Did the Growth of State Power
In the 6th century, the plague struck in Constantinople. Emperor Justinian, the ruler of the Eastern Roman Empire, well on...
May 1, 2020
Gringo View: Addicts in a Dystopian Dream
I don`t know about you but the first thing I normally do each morning is to pick my cell phone...
April 30, 2020
Central Banks Fund Government Spending: The Virus Infecting the Last Taboo
Historically, this sort of thing was actually reserved for times of war. If governments were no longer able to finance...
April 10, 2020
The Gringo View: Is This the End of ‘Abraços’?
Back in the sixties, on this gringo’s first flight to Brazil, I remember reading a useful guide prepared by the...
April 5, 2020
Column: Brazil’s Massive Corona-Chasm
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Column) In Rio de Janeiro, as in São Paulo and many other large cities, the...
March 20, 2020
GringoView: ‘Favela’ – Inside the Reality
The question that must have been asked over and over again in 1968 in Rio’s Catacumba favela; who was this...
February 28, 2020