Tag: Cristovam Buarque

Brazil’s Bolsa Família Is Good for the Poor But Bad for Poverty

Recently we witnessed President Lula’s great victory, thanks to a program directed to the ...

10 Steps to End Brazil’s Inequality and Backwardness

Brazil needs a revolution. It is not enough that we maintain the old tradition ...

Brazilian jail

We Need Jails. Education Alone Won’t Put Brazil Together Again.

Some problems are not solved in isolation. One example of this is the violence, ...

Brazilian dinner

Brazil’s Worst Poverty Is the Lack of Smarts and Feelings

The federal government has distributed posters announcing that in the past few years the ...

Bus burned in São Paulo, Brazil

Today the Police. Tomorrow Brazil’s Terror Will Kill Judges and Politicians.

Brazil was gripped by violence in the past few days. Everyone is talking about ...

Febem, São Paulo, Brazil's institution for delinquent minors

Quotas Are Just a Palliative. Brazil Needs Equal Opportunity for All.

One hundred twenty years after the abolition of slavery, two photographs, side by side, ...

Brazilian President dirties hand in oil to celebrate Brazil's self-sufficiency in the product

Without Goals Brazil Won’t Reach Self-Sufficiency in Science and Technology

After almost eighty years of effort, we have attained self-sufficiency in petroleum. That process ...

Brazil's National Congress in capital Brasília

Brazil Agrees It Needs More Education But Nobody Wants to Foot the Bill

In these past few days Brazil appears to have reached unanimity on three points: ...

A prostitute in Vila Mimosa, Rio de Janeiro

While Jordan Brings Medical Tourists Brazil Does Sex Tourism

Twenty-five years ago, Princess Sarvath El Hassan of Jordan, wife of the then-Crown Prince ...

Poor family in Brazil's Northeast

Decade After Decade, Brazil Stumbles from One Missed Opportunity to Another

When it abolished slavery in 1888 with the Lei Áurea, or Golden Law, Brazil ...