Today, 3/25/2021, a year ago I wrote the post “Really, Mr. Bolsonaro ...!?” reflecting on statements by our president regarding the confrontation with COVID-19, which was beginning to show its claws here...

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://opinandosobreavida.com/2021/03/30/covid-19-makes-a-year-in-brazil/

I think everyone likes football, right!? I think we can also say that everyone likes sand, sun and sea, right!? And of course, everyone likes rock music, samba and cool parties at the house of cool friends ...

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://opinandosobreavida.com/2020/08/07/the-worst-beer-in-brazil/

At that time, nothing escaped the Department of Censorship and Public Entertainment (DCPC): Chico Buarque’s songs, news, soap operas, sitcoms, magazines, nothing. In the theater and in the cinema, we could see and hear only what the censor deemed appropriate, the rest would be vetoed, adapted or deleted...

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://opinandosobreavida.com/2020/05/18/musical-memories-of-the-dictatorship/

We citizens, who "are cooked in this cauldron called Brazilian society", have obvious difficulties to understand the current moment: we are astonished, disbelieving, anguished, we are part of the problem and also of the solution ...

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://opinandosobreavida.com/2020/04/26/to-understand-brazil/

After hearing President Bolsonaro’s statement on March 24 about the coronavirus pandemic and confronting that with information, guidelines, statements and examples that come to me – I think I can say – from the world, I modestly want to offer some considerations which I believe follow with reasonable approximation what we usually mean by common sense...

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://opinandosobreavida.com/2021/04/02/really-mr-bolsonaro-2/

The middle class in Brazil has no ideology, does not “lose sleep” with the corruption that plagues the country and, unlike the “elite” and the poorest, uses the vote as a protest tool, but uses it badly...

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://opinandosobreavida.com/2020/03/21/the-bad-way-of-brazilian-middle-class/