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Tag Archives: bolsonaro
#142 Arguments against black lives matter
Last week I had a big argument with my Father-in-law about the incident at the Paris Saint-Germain’s Champions League group game with Istanbul Basaksehir which was abandoned following an alleged racist incident. His argument, which I believe is a commonly … Continue reading
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#128 the wider effect of George Floyd’s death
What has been happening around the world in terms of inequality and prejudice is tragic and unacceptable and has been going on for hundreds of years. It is also a shame that it requires tragedies like the death of George … Continue reading
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#126 The economic impacts of Covid-19 in Brazil
As you should be able to see from the graph above, about 55 days into the pandemic here, Brazil has not yet managed to bend the curve and is now registering the second-highest official daily total of deaths in the … Continue reading
#123 Celebrating Easter with Covid-19
When I say Easter, I obviously mean the holiday we are given in April which was the time, the venerable Bede observed, that the pagan Anglo Saxons held their feasts in honour of their goddess Ēostre. She is thought to … Continue reading
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#122 Living with lockdown
There has been so much going on that I probably shouldn’t have left it till the end of the second week confined to the flat before I started writing about the experience. The last two weeks I have spent working … Continue reading
#103 Sitting around while they cut down the Amazon
Photo by Pok Rie on Pexels.com This week, the BBC reported that heavily armed miners had invaded a remote indigenous reserve in the North of Brazil and stabbed one of its leaders to death. The tensions in the Amazon region … Continue reading
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#99 General strike in Brazil.
Yesterday, there was a general strike in Brazil which meant that the metro wasn’t running and I couldn’t get into school to teach the children how to be dramatic. The primary reason for the strike was the reform of the … Continue reading
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#82 Watching the Brazilian Presidential election
As I write, the far right candidate for the Brazilian presidency, Jair Bolsonaro, came knicker grippingly close to winning the presidency in the first round. The way the system works in Brazil, if a candidate does not achieve 50% plus … Continue reading
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#80 Celebrating Brazil’s Independence
On September 7th every year, the people of Brazil get a day off. Well, most of them. The buses and metro in Sao Paulo keep running and most of the restaurants and shops seem to be open but I get … Continue reading
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