Posts Tagged ‘human rights’

Just how deep do the connections between Brazil’s paramilitary “death squads” and the government run?

The New York Times March 28, 2018 by Vanessa Barbara Contributing Op-Ed Writer SÃO PAULO, Brazil — It has been more than a month since Brazil’s Army took control of public security in the state of Rio de Janeiro, following a presidential decree to tackle crime. One of the most eloquent voices against that intervention had been […]

The New York Times July 12, 2017 by Vanessa Barbara Contributing Op-Ed Writer Leer en español SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Until recently, I thought that being a writer was the most pitiful profession ever, especially in Brazil. Nobody reads our books, and we can easily spend an entire life just railing against the same things again and again. In […]