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 […]
Posts Tagged ‘Jair Bolsonaro’
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
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 […]
Where Do You Turn When the Anti-Corruption Crusaders Are Dirty?
Posted: 11th julho 2019 by Vanessa Barbara in Artigos, New York TimesTags: Criminal Procedure Code, Deltan Dallagnol, Jair Bolsonaro, Lava Jato, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Lula, OAB, Operation Car Wash, Sergio Moro, The Intercept Brasil
Brazil’s Operation Car Wash was supposed to overthrow the country’s culture of graft. Instead, it’s brought corruption into the heart of the state. The New York TimesJul. 5, 2019 by Vanessa BarbaraContributing Opinion Op-ed Writer SÃO PAULO, Brazil — On the surface, “Operation Car Wash” has been a virtuous crusade against political corruption in this […]
Who Needs the Humanities When You Have Jair Bolsonaro?
Posted: 13th junho 2019 by Vanessa Barbara in Artigos, New York TimesTags: education, Jair Bolsonaro
Brazil’s education system is being strangled by a president who doesn’t believe in learning The New York TimesJun. 12, 2019 by Vanessa BarbaraContributing Opinion Op-ed Writer SÃO PAULO, Brazil — According to President Jair Bolsonaro, Brazilian education leaves a lot to be desired. “Everything is going increasingly downhill,” he said last month, to journalists during […]
