The New York TimesMar 31, 2022 by Vanessa BarbaraContributing Opinion Writer Ler em português | Leer en español SÃO PAULO, Brazil — “I’m an army captain,” Jair Bolsonaro said in 2017. “My specialty is killing.” He has been true to his word. In just over three years in office, Mr. Bolsonaro has overseen an administration […]
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Bolsonaro Said His ‘Specialty Is Killing.’ He’s Been True to His Word.
Posted: 1st abril 2022 by Vanessa Barbara in Artigos, New York TimesTags: agribusiness lobby, Amazon, bills, climate change, Congress, Constitution, coronavirus, covid-19, deaths, environment, guns, homicides, indigenous people, indigenous rights, Jair Bolsonaro, logging, mercury poisoning, mining
The Ravaging of Amazonia
Posted: 29th agosto 2019 by Vanessa Barbara in Artigos, New York TimesTags: Amazon, Amazônia, awe, Claude Lévi-Strauss, environment, fires, global warming, INPE, Jair Bolsonaro, rainforest, Ricardo Galvão, Ricardo Salles
A global treasure lies at the mercy of the smallest, dullest, pettiest of men. The New York TimesAug. 24, 2019 By Vanessa BarbaraContributing Opinion Op-ed Writer SÃO PAULO, Brazil — When I first set foot in the Amazon rain forest, in the Anavilhanas Archipelago, northwest of the city of Manaus, I experienced something that can only […]
Brazil’s Toxic Sludge
Posted: 18th dezembro 2015 by Vanessa Barbara in New York Times, ReportagensTags: Bento Rodrigues, BHP Billiton, Doce river, environment, Mariana, Minas Gerais, mud, Samarco, tailings dam, Vale
The New York Times Dec. 17, 2015 by Vanessa Barbara Contributing Op-Ed Writer SÃO PAULO, Brazil — JUST after 4 p.m. on Nov. 5, the principal’s husband ran into the school in the village of Bento Rodrigues, in southeastern Brazil, yelling that the nearby dam had burst and everybody needed to get out of the […]
