Archive | Brazil

“The first thing I felt was that I was at home."

“The gravity of the crime of racism in Brazil is so great that people can be arrested on the spot."

"We were the ones who built this nation."

The rush of foreign arrivals has caused "great turmoil" at Brazilian airports.

"Often, the police don’t even stop criminals. Imagine [stopping] someone flying a kite."

Bank executive: "All of Brazilian society should apologize to Black people."

The Public Prosecutor's Office now wants the bank to offer reparations.

“The census is increasingly seen as progress for Brazil’s non-white population."

The wonderful people we allow in.

Reparations shakedown.

"This law aims to combat racism and create an egalitarian society."

"How can we not discuss the racism that exists in the power structure that still dominates the Catholic Church in Brazil?"

The left-wing government wants to censor online "hate speech."

The white princess formally ended slavery in the country.

President: "Without race and gender equality there will be no democracy."

It's the first sports league in the world to adopt such a measure.

Bolsonaro's administration "was dominated by white men and military generals."

A look at Brazil.

The perp was wanted for attempted murder of his neighbor on Saturday.

University race quotas encourage mixed-race Brazilians to identify as black.

Over 76 percent of murder victims were black.

"Racism is structural. . . but we believe the sporting world can no longer tolerate it."

Fifty-six percent of Brazilians identify as black or mixed-race.

Black Brazilians want their own "spaces."

"Structural racism" is to blame.

Dispatch from Brazil.

Racial hysteria in Brazil.

For all our worldly readers.

Black Lives Matter reaches South America.

An international look at crime, totalitarianism, and conflict.

“The traffickers are doing this because the government is absent."

60,000 asylum seekers are waiting in Mexico for their court dates.

The slums in the global South give us a good guess.

Do inferior and superior “cultures” account for differences in wealth?

His approval ratings are diving.

Bolsonaro: “The vast majority of potential immigrants do not intend to do good to the U.S. people.”

More “optics” over substance.

He promises to free Brazil from “ideological submission.”

A look at The Next Christendom by Philip Jenkins.

Women are killed with particular viciousness.

"We don't want that for Brazil."

Dan Roodt and the struggle for South Africa.

"Tropical Trump" wins. "Brazilian democracy is now in complete crisis," says American lefty.

Bolsonaro appears set for a landslide victory.

Bolsonaro won the first round of the Brazilian elections Sunday.

Most residents in the area are of European descent.

Bolsonaro continues to lead the polls.

With 8 percent of the world’s population, Latin America accounts for one-third of the world’s murders.

Injuries are much worse than originally reported.

Attacker stabbed him below his bulletproof vest.

He’s gaining support from left, center, and right because of his push against crime.

Venezuelans are fleeing their own country, and nobody wants them.

Police sergeant: "There is an impunity about homicide crimes in Brazil."

Front-runner in Brazil's presidential race says Africans turned over the slaves.

Natural hair has become a symbol of “resistance” for non-white Brazilians.

62,500 murders in 2016.

Foreign workers can stay five years and must demostrate proficiency in speaking Japanese.

Liberals consider him "possibly the most repulsive politician on earth."

“Brazil’s white elite’s ever-present racial and class-based fears are palpable.”

The explanation, of course, is poverty and flaws in the education system.

Blacks are 54 percent of the population, but only 5 percent of those with management jobs.

Rapes and robberies are also up.

Top black lawyer calls it "subliminal racism."

Welfare payments that boosted millions from poverty are now being cut.

Even moral exhibitionism can be educational.

The Japanese still have a strong sense of national identity.

Many were decapitated.

In one state, the boards even "measure lip size, hair texture and nose width."

The Olympian's fib may not be as egregious as authorities suggest.

Fake police officers robbed four Olympians out to celebrate their victories.

Nobody is talking about having the games in Africa or India anymore.

European ancestry has high correlation with intelligence and wealth.

Saint Louis is 15th, Baltimore is 19th.

The complex dynamic of race in Brazil today.

How Brazil became such a complex racial mixture.