Overcrowded, unsafe, and wracked by sickening levels of violence, Brazil’s prisons were described by a report published last week as a “human rights disaster”. To make matters worse, many inmates have not yet been convicted but must endure months in appalling conditions while they wait for their case to be heard. By James Young Belo Horizonte If, as Dostoyevsky put(…)
Arquivo - Tag: inequality
The worst thing about Brazil
Brazil’s brutal inequality is so ubiquitous that those who live here simply stop noticing it. An unexpected message from abroad serves as a reminder of the topic that is so rarely discussed here, in society, the media, or the current election. I’ve been living in Brazil for over four years now, which has been incredible in almost(…)
Thor Batista – how foreigners see Brazil
What does the case of Wanderson Pereira dos Santos tell us about Brazil? What does it mean that he was killed on his bicycle, struck by the car of the son of Brazil’s richest man? It depends where you’re from. An article by Simon Romero at the New York Times offers an insight into the(…)
