Tag: Cristovam Buarque
If the End of Apartation is Impossible Then Brazil Is Impossible
At this beginning of the century, no ideological map exists, only ruins of "isms." ...
Brazil’s School Stipend Has Become a Vote-Buying Scheme
For a long time now Brazil has paid for scholarships so that university graduates ...
Brazil: Self-Sufficient in Oil, Insufficient in Quality of Life
At the same time as they are announcing Brazil’s achievement of oil self-sufficiency, the ...
Inequality Is As Brazilian As the Weather and the Beaches
On Sunday, February 5, the Brazilian TV program Fantástico presented three shocking reports. One ...
Quotas Are the Brazilian Way to Keep Things as They’ve Always Been
Recently a young black man asked me if I saw a relationship between race ...
Lula’s Education Program for Brazil: a Grim Comedy of Errors
In January 2003, when I was Brazil’s Minister of Education, I suggested to President Lula ...
Brazilian Guinea Pigs: Torture in the Name of Science
Often we discover denunciations to be less serious when we check on them in ...
Brazil’s Ruling Party Has Long Lost Its Capacity for Indignation
The "mensalão" (big monthly allowance) was a catastrophe for the Lula government. For the ...
Brazil Grew, But Hasn’t Learned How to Flourish
The economists prefer the verb "grow" while the poets choose "flourish." The politicians sided ...
In 3 years, Brazil Has Denied 1.5 million Children the Right to Life
Together with the other UN member-nations, Brazil committed itself to fulfill eight Millennium Development ...
