Opinion: A Curmudgeonly Response to “Gender Ideology”: “E pur si muove!”
RIBEIRÃO PRETO, BRAZIL - President Bolsonaro’s radical-right administration has publicly stated that there is no difference between sex and gender;...
September 11, 2019Section
Opinion
Op-eds, perspectives, and editorial commentary
Opinion: Whose Amazon is it Anyway? A Demurrer
RIBEIRÃO PRETO, SP, BRAZIL - In a thoughtful article published in The Rio Times Monday, August 19th, Peter Rosenwald gave...
August 23, 2019Opinion: Is President Bolsonaro Running for Re-Election?
Ribeirão Preto, SP – One plank of Jair Bolsonaro’s campaign platform in 2018 stated that he would not be a...
August 20, 2019
Opinion: Defending the Indefensible, Explaining the Inexplicable
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL - For this gringo, a long-time and happy resident in Brazil, a "quasi-Brasileiro" as my friends say,...
August 10, 2019
Brazil Drug Trafficker Attempts Prison Escape Dressed as Woman
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - One of the visitors leaving Rio's Gabriel Ferreira Castilho Prison Complex was not quite like...
August 5, 2019
Opinion: Brazilians’ Diffident Attitude towards Climate Change
RIBEIRÃO PRETO, BRAZIL - A recent DataFolha poll indicates that some 85 percent of Brazilians believe in global warming, and...
July 30, 2019
Opinion: In Defense of Glenn Greenwald, or Vaza Jato vs. Lava Jato
RIBEIRÃO PRETO, BRAZIL – (aka The Curmudgeon): Glenn Greenwald, the American journalist who became famous worldwide for having collaborated with...
July 25, 2019
Opinion: “Environmental Psychosis” and Brazil’s Amazon
RIBEIRÃO PRETO, Brazil – On his return from Japan, where he participated in the G20 meeting and met several of...
July 22, 2019
Brazilian Drug Kingpins Flaunt Power Through Jewelry
Throughout Brazil, authorities are seizing significant quantities of gold and diamonds in the forms of ostentatious jewelry worn by high...
July 15, 2019