by Vera Ceccarello and Tatiana Massaro “You do not know me and you’ve never seen me. You live in a distant land.” (Davi Kopenawa, Yanomamishaman) During the final months of 2017, the Amazon has once again taken center stage of debates in the media and in civil society. The trigger was a decree from the interim… Read More Renca: Attacks From the Brazilian Government Put Reserve At Risk
by Isabela Messias, Co Editor and Writer at Brazil Talk It is 9:30am, and the “Institution-Building, Governance and Compliance in Brazil”[1]conference organized and co-hosted by Columbia University just finished setting things up to receive Sergio Moro, the federal judge who is heading the Car Wash operation, also known as Lava Jato — the largest corruption… Read More ‘In Moro we trust’ or ‘Coup promoter’: The danger of football politics
September 18th, 2014. It is 5 pm in São Paulo. Carlos Braga, a street vendor, is shot in the head while trying to protect his friend from the pepper spray used during a police blitz. He was unarmed. The police officer is taken into custody, but released four days later. According to the judge responsible for the case there were not enough elements to justify the imprisonment. The other police officers who witnessed the incident declared it was accidental. Other witnesses declared it was deliberate murder. … Read More A democratic Brazil doesn’t need a military police force
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