Tag: Cristovam Buarque
The Shame Katrina Blew Open and Brazil’s Eternal Katrina
The September 11 edition of Brazil’s daily O Globo carried a surprising piece of ...
The Elite Failed Brazil: Intellectuals Don’t Think, Politicians Don’t Lead.
In 2002, the Brazilian people demonstrated their daring and clear-sightedness by electing Lula president. ...
Dreamers of Brazil, Wake Up!
There is no better indication that the ruling Workers Party (PT) in Brazil has ...
We Brazilians Are Deaf, Incapable of Feeling Indignation
Thanks to a project of Workers Party Senator Ideli Salvatti of Santa Catarina State, ...
Lula’s Brazil Is Indebted to the World for So Many Broken Hopes
Recently a young Turkish student at the University of California in Berkeley told me ...
Without Arraes, Brazil’s Left Is Completely Orphaned
Without Leonel Brizola, without Luis Carlos Prestes, without Darcy Ribeiro, without Celso Furtado, without ...
In Poor Brazil, Much Money Spent Legally, Is Still an Act of Corruption
We, the 21st-century Brazilians, inherited a great quantity of knots that hobble us in ...
Lula Was Never the Leader He Should Have Been. And Brazil Is Much Poorer for That.
Thanks to his life story and the history of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da ...
Brazil’s PT, a Party Without Honor and Without a Cause
During the first 30 months of the Workers Party (PT) government in Brazil, few ...
Brazil’s Workers Party Has Two Options: To Change or to Disappear
For the first time an incoming president of the Workers Party (PT) has recognized ...