Every Thursday at 5:30 a.m., I leave my house in a residential section of São Paulo to shop for fruits and vegetables at a nearby outdoor organic farmer’s market. Since the second week in March, it is the only time I venture forth from my home. Since the second week in March…
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A meeting with a group of indigenous leaders, during my recent trip to the Amazon, still resonates with me to this day. I met with them in Atalaia do Norte—the riverside entrance to the Javari reserve, a region in the Javari river basin. They wanted to share concerns about…
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I remember very vividly that in third grade, I lived at a walking distance from my school, and I used to walk with my classmates. We took the time to catch up on the homework and show off our new soccer players cards. It was a nice 10-minute walk. However, twice a week, we had to face a quite interesting obstacle: There was a train station near the school. Every other day, a cargo train parked there…
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The grave health crisis posed by Covid-19 has revealed the ineffectiveness of the current Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its counterproductive role in helping the nation gain access to medical products and equipment…
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Surging deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon grabbed international headlines in 2019. In early August, The Economist decried environmental destruction in the world’s most extensive rainforest as “vandalism.” Three weeks later, French President Emmanuel Macron…
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