Editorial RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Now that I’ve lived in Rio for over three years full time (and had spent a lot of time here writing from 2004-2007), sometimes I feel like I know the place. Especially when I meet folks that have just arrived and you start to realize how much local knowledge [...]
Editorial RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – In the Southern Hemisphere winter is here, taking us by surprise as every change of season in every corner of the globe seems to. In Rio that means nights can cool well into the 60′s (Fahrenheit, high-teens in Celsius), and the days in the 70′s, and maybe the most [...]
Opinion, By Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Like all Cariocas, the Curmudgeon has always maintained that Rio de Janeiro, the “Cidade Maravilhosa,” is the most beautiful city in the world. And like most Cariocas, the Curmudgeon has maintained that São Paulo is, well, if not downright ugly, at least it’s not in the [...]
Opinion, by Pia Granjon Lecerf RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Olà! Did you go and look at the fabulous outdoor exhibition of Yann Arthus-Bertrand, French photographer, reporter and true ecologist? The photos are pieces of art and as he says himself, “Earth is the most beautiful artist.” How strongly do I agree with that! Some [...]
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – “Brown vs. Board of Education” is without doubt the single best known judicial decision in the history of the world. On May 17, 1954, a unanimous United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) held that segregated schools were inherently unequal, and hence unconstitutional. On April 26th, 2012, the [...]
Opinion, by DJ Spooky RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – “One supreme fact I have discovered: it is not willpower, but fantasy-imagination that creates… imagination creates reality.” – Richard Wagner Geography is crucial for my work. My most recent book is about Antarctica. I took a studio there and went to several of the main ice [...]
Opinion, by Aklilu Shiketa RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Foreign Minister of Brazil, Mr. Antonio Patriota, recently disclosed that Brazil today has more embassies in Africa than the United Kingdom. Only between 2003 and 2010, Brazil opened seventeen new embassies in Africa. President Dilma Rousseff visited three African countries already. She has established Africa Working [...]
Editorial RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Life and history seem to be made up of lots of little steps and decisions that build into important events recognizable only after the fact, and then every so often there are the choices that clearly will alter the course of the future. The small changes tick away under [...]
Opinion, by Pia Granjon Lecerf RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Here is a sentence an English friend who lives in South Africa posted on Facebook: “Met a Japanese couple on the cliff next to our house this evening. I asked if they had seen any whales. They said ‘Not one. We think they realized we [...]
Editorial RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The news this week seems full of productive compromises as parties move to work things out; U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Brazil making sure the wheels of Western Hemisphere collaboration continue churning, Brazilian prosecutors are repositioning around the Chevron and Transocean law suit, and Niterói and [...]
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