The New York TimesOct 26, 2026 By Vanessa Barbara President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil has won his fourth presidential term, triumphing after a bruising runoff against his right-wing challenger, Flávio Bolsonaro. By any metric, the 80-year-old leader’s comeback is extraordinary, having secured 51.8 percent of the vote against Mr. Bolsonaro’s 48.2 percent […]
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This Is Bigger Than Brazil
Posted: 27th outubro 2026 by Vanessa Barbara in Artigos, New York TimesTags: Flávio Bolsonaro, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Lula
Brazil Must Choose a President – Lula or Bolsonaro. Think It’s a No-Brainer? Think Again
Posted: 22nd outubro 2026 by Vanessa Barbara in ArtigosTags: 2026 elections, Flávio Bolsonaro, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Lula
On Sunday, Brazil will elect a new president. Astonishingly, Flávio Bolsonaro, a right-winger who supports military rule and has a laundry list of scandals to his name, is currently ahead of Lula. Zeteo UKOct. 21, 2026 by Vanessa Barbara Last year, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro said in an interview that Brazil’s next president would have to […]
Brazil Is in Grave Danger. These 1,105 Pages Prove It.
Posted: 9th janeiro 2025 by Vanessa Barbara in Artigos, New York TimesTags: Armed Forces, assassination, coup, Federal Police, Jair Bolsonaro, January 8, military
The New York TimesJan 8, 2025 by Vanessa BarbaraContributing Opinion Writer Ler em português Two years ago, there was a coup attempt in Brazil. Don’t take my word for it: See the 221-page and 884-page federal police reports released in November. The fruit of two years of investigation, these much-anticipated accounts describe in astonishing detail a plan to overthrow […]
5 livros sobre depressão e outros transtornos mentais
Posted: 17th maio 2024 by Vanessa Barbara in ArtigosA convite da seção “Favoritos”, a escritora Vanessa Barbara indica cinco livros que tratam da depressão e outros transtornos mentais. Nexo Jornal3 de maio de 2024 por Vanessa Barbara Dizem que há escritores que passam a vida reescrevendo o mesmo livro, ou seja, falando sobre os mesmos temas de formas ligeiramente distintas. Se isso é […]
How Telling Stories to My Daughter Got Me Through the Darkest Times
Posted: 3rd janeiro 2024 by Vanessa Barbara in Artigos, New York TimesTags: breastfeeding, Damon and Pythias, depression, isolation, motherhood, pandemic, Potato ex machina, stories
The New York TimesJan 1, 2024 by Vanessa BarbaraContributing Opinion Writer Ler em português I was nursing a 4-month-old baby when Jair Bolsonaro won Brazil’s presidential election in 2018. It was a disaster, and I knew it right away. My daughter — let’s call her Potato — kept on sucking while I shed tears over […]
My Country Is Reaching Out to People the West Can’t Stand
Posted: 3rd maio 2023 by Vanessa Barbara in Artigos, New York TimesTags: Brazil, China, diplomacy, dollar, foreign minister, Lula, pragmatism, Russia
The New York TimesMay 2, 2023 by Vanessa BarbaraContributing Opinion Writer Ler em português SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Under Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil was an international pariah. Not my words, but those of the former foreign minister: Apparently it was “good to be an outcast.” I do not miss these people. When Luiz Inácio Lula da […]
There’s a Menace Hanging Over Brazil
Posted: 18th março 2023 by Vanessa Barbara in Artigos, New York TimesTags: Adam Przeworski, Argentina, bauxite wars, covid-19, Defense Ministry, Heráclito Sobral Pinto, Jair Bolsonaro, military, military dictatorship, torture
The New York TimesMar. 6, 2023 by Vanessa BarbaraContributing Opinion Writer Ler em português | Leer en español SÃO PAULO, Brazil — It reads like science fiction. In 93 pages, the text sketches out a strange future. In 2027, there’s a new pandemic, caused by the “Xvirus.” A year later, war breaks out between the […]
Brazil at the Crossroads
Posted: 18th março 2023 by Vanessa Barbara in Artigos, New York Review of BooksTags: Amazon rainforest, Brazil, Consuelo Dieguez, democracy, elections, Fábio Victor, fake news, Jair Bolsonaro, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, military, military dictatorship, Oliver Stuenkel, redemocratization, right-wing, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, The Chaos Machine
Lula’s election comes as a relief to many Brazilians, but in this historically violent and unequal country, a void in the democratic field endures. New York Review of BooksFebruary 23, 2023 issue by Vanessa Barbara A truism for our times: a story doesn’t need to be factual to go viral. In June 2020, not long […]
The ‘Trump of the Tropics’ Goes Bust
Posted: 16th janeiro 2023 by Vanessa Barbara in Artigos, New York TimesTags: Congress, coup, Donald Trump, fried chicken, Jair Bolsonaro, Lula, Morse Code, Supreme Court
The New York TimesJan. 9, 2023 by Vanessa BarbaraContributing Opinion Writer Leer en español | Ler em português SÃO PAULO, Brazil — As a shocked nation watched live on television and social media, thousands of radical supporters of a defeated president marched on the seat of the federal government, convinced that an election had been […]
We Might Finally Be Free From the Madness of Bolsonaro
Posted: 1st novembro 2022 by Vanessa Barbara in Artigos, New York TimesTags: coup, Jair Bolsonaro, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, madness, presidential elections
The New York TimesOct. 31, 2022 by Vanessa BarbaraContributing Opinion Writer Ler em português | Leer en español SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Four years of madness are nearly over. In a tense second-round runoff, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva prevailed over President Jair Bolsonaro, taking 50.9 percent of the vote. Barring a dramatic turnaround — the dreaded coup that […]
