Raphael Tsavkko Garcia

  • Brazil’s new reality

    “I have nothing to do with your son’s eye. Take a plane and go. You won’t go through here.” This is what a supporter of Brazil’s outgoing...

  • Cycle of violence

    On May 6, residents of Rio de Janeiro’s Jacarezinho favela were awakened by gut-wrenching screams and sounds of gunshots. Once the mayhem subsided...

  • 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...

  • A racial democracy?

    These days, the myth of Brazil being a ‘racial democracy’, where everyone is colour blind and no one is discriminated against because of the...

  • ‘Go home’

    On July 28, a Syrian refugee was assaulted in Rio de Janerio’s picturesque Copacabana neighbourhood as he was trying to make a living by...