Gabriela Sá Pessoa

Washington Post • 19th March 2022

'A good opportunity for us’: Brazil’s Bolsonaro uses Ukraine war to justify exploiting Indigenous land

Brazil is the world’s largest exporter of soy and coffee. It needs a steady supply of fertilizers to power its mighty agricultural industry. But its largest international supplier of fertilizers is Russia, which last year sold Brazil roughly $3.5 billion worth. Economic sanctions imposed by Western countries have caused Russia to announce it will suspend that flow, fueling worries here that Brazil may soon face a shortage.

That argument has outraged environmentalists and Indigenous communities

Folha de S.Paulo • 23rd February 2019

Mulheres têm que viajar a São Paulo por aborto legal

Depois de oito horas de viagem, Júlia (nome fictício), 32, desembarcou sozinha em São Paulo numa manhã de novembro, vinda do interior do Paraná, com pressa para resolver um problema que, diz, a angustiava havia dois meses.

Pegou o metrô até uma estação próxima ao Hospital Pérola Byington, no centro da capital. Sem avisar a ninguém, Júlia inventou uma desculpa no trabalho e viajou sem nem saber direito onde dormiria.

Tudo para conseguir atendimento médico obrigatório em todos os hospitais do SU

15th March 2021

Anatomia da rachadinha : Quebra de sigilos do Caso Flávio revela indícios do esquema ilegal nos gabinetes de Jair e Carlos Bolsonaro

A quebra de sigilos bancário e fiscal de pessoas e empresas ligadas ao senador Flávio Bolsonaro (Republicanos-RJ) revela indícios de que o esquema da rachadinha também ocorria nos gabinetes do pai, o presidente Jair Bolsonaro (sem partido), quando este era deputado federal, e do irmão, o vereador Carlos Bolsonaro (Republicanos-RJ). Os dados apontam ainda a existência de transações financeiras suspeitas realizadas pela segunda mulher do presidente, Ana Cristina Siqueira Valle.

O UOL teve acesso

24th August 2014

A história do 'click' que fisgou Julio Cortázar

RESUMO A fotógrafa argentina Sara Facio, autora do retrato mais conhecido de Julio Cortázar, conta como conheceu o escritor numa primavera, em Paris, em 1967. Comemorando os 100 anos de nascimento do autor de "O jogo da Amarelinha", museu em Buenos Aires abre duas mostras com acervo de objetos e fotos do ficcionista.

"A foto do cigarro." Com essas palavras, a fot�grafa Sara Facio se refere � imagem em preto e branco em que Julio Cort�zar, vestindo terno e gravata, leva um cigarro no c

Washington Post • 6th February 2022

Floundering in the polls, Brazil’s Bolsonaro woos a surprising new demographic: The poor

For Bolsonaro, who has dominated and divided Brazil as few politicians have, time appears to be running out. For much of the past year, as the virus he belittled killed hundreds of thousands of Brazilians and drove millions more into poverty, the polls have been grim. His approval rating has bottomed out at 22 percent. Projections show him badly trailing leftist former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whom he’ll almost certainly face in October’s election.

He tripled the number of trips he

Washington Post • 1st February 2022

A young Congolese refugee demanded his back pay, his family says. He was beaten to death.

But his family’s hopes that their life here would be free of violence cratered last week, when they say Kabagambe was savagely beaten to death beside the stall where he worked. He had gone to demand two days of back pay, which they say sparked an argument that turned violent.

“From the day we arrived, Brazilians have always been good people,” his mother, Lotsove Lolo Lavy Ivone, wrote in Epoca. “But, today, I don’t know anymore. Moïse worked at this stall before the pandemic, during the pandemi

Washington Post • 18th December 2021

How did Bolsonaro win Time magazine’s Person of the Year reader poll? Thank Telegram.

In the end, Time named billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk its Person of the Year this past week. But the Tesla and SpaceX executive didn’t get the most reader votes — not by a long shot. That honor belonged to Bolsonaro, who won in a landslide, garnering one-fourth of the 9 million votes — twice as many as his closest competitor, friend Donald Trump.

In the past several years, as Bolsonaro has repeatedly encouraged people to join him on the app, it has been downloaded to more than half of the p

Washington Post • 13th December 2021

São Paulo says it has fully vaccinated 100 percent of its adults. Will it be enough to stop omicron?

In this city of 12.3 million, the story has gone differently. For months, day after day, long and orderly lines formed outside the city’s vaccination stations. Young and old, rich and poor, highly and barely educated: People showed up when their names were called. Then returned weeks later for the second dose. “The world’s vaccine capital,” the city has dubbed itself.

There are caveats. Population estimates in São Paulo — a sprawling urban center dotted with the low-income, irregular communitie

Washington Post • 28th November 2021

Small children are climbing 60-foot trees to harvest your açaí

To pick the sought-after fruit, Brazilians ascend trees equipped with nothing more than knives and swatches of burlap to protect their bare feet. Because the trunk is tall and thin, and because the weight of an adult can snap it, often those who make the climb are children.

Washington Post • 19th November 2021

Brazil’s Amazon hit by worst deforestation since 2006

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