Tag: Jair Bolsonaro
Brazil Was Ready for Bad Weather. With Coronavirus It Got the Perfect Storm
April would have been a busy month for Brazilian hospitals anyway. As the population ...
Getting Comfy with Covid-19 in Brazil
I’ve been having an unusual number of birthdays, several a day in fact. It ...
Brazil President Keeps Churches Open and Calls Governors Criminals for Imposing Lockdowns
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro blasted as criminals the governors and mayors of Brazil’s largest ...
Cuban Doctors in Brazil Waiting for a Chance to Treat Coronavirus
Raymond Garcia has experience with epidemics. First he treated cholera in Haiti. He battled ...
Brazil Teaches the World How to Be Humane to Refugees
The global north tends to view the global south as a source of refugees, ...
Indians To Sue Brazil President After He Says They’re Becoming More Human
The main organization representing Brazil’s 300 indigenous tribes announced it would sue Brazilian President ...
No Lesson Learned One Year after Brazil’s Catastrophic Dam Collapse with 270 Deaths
On Friday, January 25, 2019, most of Helena Taliberti’s family was swept away within ...
Offended to Be Called Enemy of the Free Press, Brazil President Vows to Give No More Interviews
A frequent and fiery critic of Brazil’s media, President Jair Bolsonaro declared he would ...
Lula Livre: Brazil’s Supreme Court Decision That Freed Lula Was a Mistake
Lula is free. On Friday, November 8, former President Lula walked out of prison ...
Brazil’s Supreme Court Decision Frees Lula and Thousands Others from Jail
Brazil’s former president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva walked free from jail on Friday ...
