Opinion: We Know it Rains in Rio. Why Was the City so Unprepared?
News of this week’s torrential rains and flooding in Rio de Janeiro reached many international audiences under surreal-seeming headlines about...
April 12, 2019Section
Opinion
Op-eds, perspectives, and editorial commentary
Opinion | Brazil’s Bolsonaro: How’s He Doing After 100 Days? Part II – Education
Opinion by Michael Royster São Paulo, SP – It is almost ritualistic for pollsters and pundits to analyze presidential performance...
April 12, 2019
Bolsonaro After 100 Days: Foreign Affairs Report | Rio Times
On April 10, Jair Messias Bolsonaro will commemorate (or perhaps just remember) his first 100 days in office as Brazil's...
April 10, 2019 Opinion: Bolsonaro’s Post-Modern Politics
Brazil’s President Bolsonaro has, one reads, a cultural guru, whose influence extends to the ability to control certain key ministries.
April 8, 2019 Opinion: Brazil’s Cultural Marxism and Bolsonaro’s Base
Brazil’s President Bolsonaro has, one reads, a cultural guru, whose influence extends to the ability to control certain key ministries.
March 28, 2019 Opinion: Brazil’s Brumadinho is Vale’s Worst Nightmare
Brumadinho is a municipality south of Belo Horizonte, the capital of Minas Gerais, where some 12 million cubic meters of...
February 25, 2019 Opinion: Brazil’s Supreme Court Enters the Political Thicket
Today, February 21st, Brazil’s Supreme Court (STF) will continue discussing and (possibly) voting on an extremely political question: Should “homophobia”...
February 21, 2019 Opinion: Thirty Fatalities in Rio de Janeiro! (Yawn)
Seven dead in favela mudslides: cause, torrential rain. Ten dead in dormitory fire: cause, flamingo vultures. Thirteen dead in Santa...
February 13, 2019 Opinion: Brazil’s Bolsonaro and The (Not Very) Magic Mountain
A century ago, Davos was the setting for Thomas Mann’s novel “The Magic Mountain”: it featured a cloister peopled with...
January 25, 2019