The importance of trade exhibitions
Exhibitions and trade shows are the hallmark of any country’s industrial growth and business development. They are part of a business strategy to promote businesses, and have become a global…
Bolsonaro fans applaud his maverick virus response
As the number of dead from coronavirus shot up in Brazil, the popularity of far right President Jair Bolsonaro has remained unchanged. For his supporters, the president has done nothing…
Education crisis
WE are already into the fourth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Delta variant has been declared by leading medical experts as the fastest, the fittest and the most formidable…
Systemic deficiencies
We heard repeatedly that children – who tend to escape the more severe symptoms of COVID-19 – have had to sacrifice the education to which they are entitled. The school…
Health crisis in Brazil
On January 17, weeks after other countries in Latin America and around the world began their mass inoculation campaigns, Brazil finally administered its first Covid-19 jab in the state of…
In the time of Covid-19
These days, I get a knot in my stomach every time I reach out to one of my friends. I dread calling or texting them because I know that if…
Legendary rainforest
As of September 29, Brazil’s Bolsonaro government has fired the civilian-run National Institute for Space Research (INPE), which has monitored the Amazon rainforest for the past three decades. INPE is…
Corona, crises and reform
The emergence of the sugar and wheat profiteering scandal at exactly the moment in time when the most central debate of our lives is about the economic survival of the…
Tipping point
The Amazon rainforest is a crucial life-support ecosystem. Without its wondrous strength and power to generate hydrologic systems across the sky (as far north as Iowa), absorb and store carbon…
Water tensions
Even by climate change's destructive standards, water is in an increasingly grim bind. Droughts and monster floods are having devastating effects on the human civilisation, as the situations in much…
