Tag: Cristovam Buarque
Brazil, Listen to the Calles!
Ever since their military regimes ended, Latin American countries have seen the calles, the ...
Brazil Needs to Learn to Set Goals and Apologize
At the beginning of 2003, when I was Brazil’s Minister of Education, I suggested ...
Something Is Wrong in the State of Brazil
Something is wrong. Something is wrong with a country when you wake up and ...
Brazil’s Budget, an Instrument of Inequality
A demonic bomb has been dropped into the lap of the Brazilian people: It ...
How to Live and Thrive in Semi-Arid Brazil
When it signed the UN Millennium Development Goals agreement, Brazil assumed responsibilities like ending ...
Brazil’s Lula: Just Another President of the Old Republic
The first generation of the Workers Party (PT) was a heroic one. In the ...
In Brazil, the Worker President Became Emperor
In November 1889, the young army officer Felicíssimo do Espírito Santo Cardoso handed a ...
In Defense of Elitism in Brazil
Elitism is like cholesterol: there’s the good and the bad. Bad elitism stems from ...
Before Reforming University Brazil Needs a New Attitude
The University Reform proposal has the merit of stimulating debate about a reorientation of ...
Why Brazil’s Democracy Is in Danger
Bolivian President Carlos Mesa’s offer to resign his office and the crisis this generated ...