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Thursday April 25, 2024
Raphael Tsavkko Garcia

  • December 12, 2022

    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...

  • May 31, 2021

    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...

  • February 04, 2021

    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...

  • October 24, 2020

    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...

  • August 18, 2017

    ‘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...