The International New York Times November 11, 2015 by Vanessa Barbara Contributing Op-Ed Writer SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Last year, The Economist published an article about TV Globo, Brazil’s largest broadcast network. It reported that “91 million people, just under half the population, tune in to it each day: The sort of audience that, in […]
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Escaping Reality With Brazil’s Globo TV
Posted: 10th novembro 2015 by Vanessa Barbara in New York Times, ReportagensTags: apathetic lion, soap operas, TV Globo
A woodpecker to fix my brain
Posted: 28th setembro 2015 by Vanessa Barbara in New York Times, ReportagensTags: depression, Gipsy Kings, psychiatry, psychotropic, TMS, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
The International New York Times September 28, 2015 by Vanessa Barbara Contributing Op-Ed Writer SÃO PAULO, Brazil — It felt as if a woodpecker had mistaken my head for a tree, and was tapping frantically at the area above the temple. Or maybe as if a tiny soldier were firing a tiny machine gun at […]
Brazil’s Vigilante Lynchings
Posted: 14th agosto 2015 by Vanessa Barbara in New York Times, ReportagensTags: José de Souza Martins, law-abiding citizens, lynchings, sociology
The International New York Times August 14, 2015 by Vanessa Barbara Contributing Op-Ed Writer SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Last month, a man was beaten to death by a mob after being accused of trying to rob a bar in São Luís do Maranhão, in northern Brazil. The man, Cleidenilson Pereira da Silva, was stripped naked […]
Another defeat for Brazil’s kids
Posted: 26th junho 2015 by Vanessa Barbara in New York Times, ReportagensTags: Geraldo Alckmin, strike, teachers
The International New York Times June 26, 2015 by Vanessa Barbara Contributing Op-Ed Writer SÃO PAULO, Brazil — This month, public school teachers from the state of São Paulo announced the end of their three-month-long strike — without any of their demands having been met. For the first time since it began, the strike reached […]
A Very Suspicious Traveler
Posted: 18th maio 2015 by Vanessa Barbara in New York Times, ReportagensTags: Passport control, travel
The New York Times May 17th, 2015 by Vanessa Barbara Contributing Op-Ed Writer SÃO PAULO, Brazil — I DON’T know if I’ll ever be comfortable with the silence that comes after I’ve handed my papers to the passport control officer. In that moment, I instantly recall all my faults and sins from my childhood, including […]
10 Days of Dengue Fever
Posted: 4th maio 2015 by Vanessa Barbara in New York Times, ReportagensTags: dengue fever, Dr. Google, electric mosquito swatters
The International New York Times May 1, 2015 by Vanessa Barbara Contributing Op-Ed Writer SÃO PAULO, Brazil — In March, I spent 10 days in bed, mostly moaning and eating large quantities of pears — the only food I found remotely appetizing. I was one of the roughly 500,000 Brazilians infected with dengue fever in […]
In denial over racism in Brazil
Posted: 24th março 2015 by Vanessa Barbara in New York Times, ReportagensTags: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Luiz Roberto Lima, racial democracy, racism
The International New York Times Mar. 23, 2015 by Vanessa Barbara Contributing Op-Ed Writer SÃO PAULO, Brazil — One Friday night last month, the electricity was off in the streets of Palmeirinha, a favela in Rio de Janeiro. Three black teenagers were joking around in front of their houses. One of them started to run […]
Brazil, the outlaw’s paradise
Posted: 10th fevereiro 2015 by Vanessa Barbara in New York Times, ReportagensTags: Brazil, Hollywood, outlaws, Rio de Janeiro
The International New York Times Feb. 5, 2015 by Vanessa Barbara Contributing Op-Ed Writer SÃO PAULO, Brazil — A long-established piece of wisdom in Hollywood says that if you have robbed a bank or sold war secrets to the enemy, or even if you’ve just embezzled some company funds, then you should pack your stuff […]
The Dazzle of the Southern Sky
Posted: 29th dezembro 2014 by Vanessa Barbara in New York Times, ReportagensTags: astronomy, Bart Bok, Neville H. Fletcher, Northern hemisphere, Southern hemisphere
Stargazing is better on the Southern Hemisphere The New York Times 28 December 2014 by Vanessa Barbara Contributing op-ed writer SÃO PAULO, Brazil — EARLIER this year, I visited Fernando de Noronha, an island off the northeastern coast of Brazil, only four degrees south of the Equator. When I was walking to a restaurant, […]
Brazil’s Red-Scare nostalgia
Posted: 3rd dezembro 2014 by Vanessa Barbara in New York Times, ReportagensTags: Dilma Rousseff, impeachment, military dictatorship, mortadella, right wing
The International New York Times Dec 4th, 2014 by Vanessa Barbara Contributing Op-Ed Writer SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Last month, more than 142,000 Brazilians signed a petition on the White House website. They asked President Obama to take a stand against the “Bolivarian Communist expansion in Brazil promoted by the administration of Dilma Rousseff.” She […]
