After watching the president for so many days, I finally understood that happiness is a matter of choice. The New York TimesSep. 10, 2020 by Vanessa BarbaraContributing Opinion Op-ed Writer SÃO PAULO, Brazil — On Aug. 29, my country crossed the threshold of 120,000 people killed by Covid-19. With around 900 new deaths a day, […]
Posts Tagged ‘Jair Bolsonaro’
I Watched Months of Bolsonaro’s Broadcasts. It Was Wild.
Posted: 14th setembro 2020 by Vanessa Barbara in Artigos, New York TimesTags: coronavirus, covid-19, hydroxychloroquine, Jair Bolsonaro
Vi meses de transmisiones de Bolsonaro. Fue una locura. (traducción)
Posted: 13th setembro 2020 by Vanessa Barbara in TraduçõesTags: coronavírus, covid-19, hidroxicloroquina, Jair Bolsonaro
Después de ver al presidente durante tantos días, por fin entendí que la felicidad es opcional. The New York Times15 de septiembre de 2020 by Vanessa Barbaracolaboradora de Opinión de The New York Times Read in English SÃO PAULO, Brasil — El 29 de agosto, mi país cruzó el umbral de las 120.000 muertes por […]
Our President Got the Virus. I Barely Noticed.
Posted: 13th agosto 2020 by Vanessa Barbara in Artigos, New York TimesTags: coronavirus, covid-19, hydroxychloroquine, isolation, Jair Bolsonaro, motherhood, parenting
I was too busy cooking and cleaning and caring for my daughter The New York TimesAug. 11, 2020 by Vanessa BarbaraContributing Opinion Op-ed Writer SÃO PAULO, Brazil — I have a subscription to a monthly magazine called Piauí. In July, I spent so many days without opening the front door that I could only wonder […]
Brazilians die, Bolsonaro shrugs
Posted: 17th junho 2020 by Vanessa Barbara in Artigos, New York Review of BooksTags: chloroquine, coronavirus, covid-19, Jair Bolsonaro, magic bean seeds, rain
New York Review of Books (Daily)Jun. 10, 2020 by Vanessa Barbara SÃO PAULO—“So what? I’m sorry. What do you want me to do?” So said Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, on April 28 when a reporter pointed out that the country’s toll from Covid-19 had just surpassed China’s—reaching the grim milestone of 5,000 deaths. By the […]
‘We Will All Die One Day,’ My President Said
Posted: 16th abril 2020 by Vanessa Barbara in Artigos, New York TimesTags: coronavirus, covid-19, Jair Bolsonaro, PCR
We live in a time of more questions than answers. Beware anyone who thinks otherwise, especially presidents. The New York TimesApr. 14, 2020 by Vanessa BarbaraContributing Opinion Op-ed Writer SÃO PAULO, Brazil — My first symptoms started on a Monday morning, March 23. I was just getting over a random disease that my daughter had […]
Vegetarianism, Resistance, and the Amazon—How One Brazilian Journalist Is Fighting Climate Change
Posted: 3rd fevereiro 2020 by Vanessa Barbara in ArtigosTags: Amazon, climate change, Jair Bolsonaro, vegetarianism
Vogue | Up FrontJan. 2020 by Vanessa Barbara IT WAS A MONDAY AFTERNOON when day turned into night in the city of São Paulo. I was visiting an expensive nursery school for my 13-month-old daughter, trying to look remotely worthy of such a sophisticated institution. Although it was not supposed to rain that day, the […]
Why Are Brazilian Streets So Calm?
Posted: 29th dezembro 2019 by Vanessa Barbara in Artigos, New York TimesTags: Amazon, Chile, Colombia, corruption, Ecuador, indigenous people, Jair Bolsonaro, Latin America, Leonardo DiCaprio, pension reform, pesticides, protests
The rest of Latin America is on fire. Why is its largest country still so quiet? The New York TimesDec. 26, 2019 by Vanessa BarbaraContributing Opinion Op-ed Writer SÃO PAULO, Brazil — This year has been marked by widespread social convulsion in Latin America. Since mid-October, Chileans have been in the streets; what started as […]
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 […]
La suciedad y las irregularidades del “Lava Jato” (traducción)
Posted: 30th julho 2019 by Vanessa Barbara in TraduçõesTags: corrupción, Deltan Dallagnol, Jair Bolsonaro, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, operación Lava Jato, Sergio Moro, The Intercept Brasil
El operativo anticorrupción de Brasil está lejos de ser un modelo ejemplar. The New York Times / Clarín12.07.2019 Por VANESSA BARBARA SAN PABLO, Brasil – En apariencia, la “operación Lava Jato” fue una cruzada virtuosa contra la corrupción política en Brasil. Durante los últimos cinco años, esta investigación federal expuso inmensos esquemas de sobornos que involucran a […]
