The New York TimesMar 31, 2022 by Vanessa BarbaraContributing Opinion Writer Ler em português | Leer en español SÃO PAULO, Brazil — “I’m an army captain,” Jair Bolsonaro said in 2017. “My specialty is killing.” He has been true to his word. In just over three years in office, Mr. Bolsonaro has overseen an administration […]
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Bolsonaro Said His ‘Specialty Is Killing.’ He’s Been True to His Word.
Posted: 1st abril 2022 by Vanessa Barbara in Artigos, New York TimesTags: agribusiness lobby, Amazon, bills, climate change, Congress, Constitution, coronavirus, covid-19, deaths, environment, guns, homicides, indigenous people, indigenous rights, Jair Bolsonaro, logging, mercury poisoning, mining
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 […]
When in the Amazon, Please Do Not Punch the Dolphins
Posted: 21st abril 2017 by Vanessa Barbara in New York Times, ReportagensTags: Amazon, ecotourism, Índios, Mamirauá, pink dolphins
The New York Times April 21, 2017 by Vanessa Barbara Contributing opinion writer MANAUS, Brazil — The “encontro das águas” (meeting of waters) between the dark Negro River and the light-brown Solimões River is impressive. No wonder it’s one of the main tourist attractions near the city of Manaus, capital of the state of Amazonas. […]
