DIGITAL JOURNALIST LIVING IN THE NETHERLANDS
A space for thoughts and opinion
Brazil has never been so divided as it is now. There has never been so much anger on the streets and virtually on social media before (at least since I am here in this world). This time the anger is not against a cause, our continued corrupt politics or a new law. The hate is […]
My first day running before work: I woke up at 6am, but as I had a home office day, decided to stay in bed until almost 7am. I couldn’t hear any rain, so the plan was still on: start running before going to work three times a week. There was no excuse. Perhaps, this would […]
More than 6,200 people were killed in the state of Rio de Janeiro in 2016. It means over 17 murders per day, almost one per hour. In 2017, the number of homicides was even higher: 6,731 in the year, 18,4 people killed every day. Although the rates are incredibly high, Rio de Janeiro is not […]
It is Tuesday late afternoon, the sun goes low at dusk, people are preparing to end one more day, going to pick the kids up from school, organising tasks for the week, or wondering when the things are going to get better. But that Tuesday was odd. At 16h53 on the 12th of January, eight […]
“I can’t do anything”. That’s the answer I’ve been hearing insistently when I question workers about the ridiculous exploitation on the farming business in Australia. They’re forced to follow abusive rosters, deprived of rest, treated with no standards and rewarded with a wage way below the national minimum salary. They need the job to stay […]
It has been a while I watched to the documentary The Ivory Game, about the ivory illegal market, the cruel murder of elephants in Africa and all the money some dirty people make from it. The images show attacks, traps and animals in an outrageous situation: a carcass thrown in the wild. The production investigates […]
It would be even unfair to Carl Barks this direct connection between them. Who has lived in the 90’s will certainly remember of the satirical character, a billionaire duck with no limits and questionable moral, empowered by his fortune and known for polemic quotes. However, it would be a lie to say Scrooge McDuck didn’t […]
It was my second week in Australia when a comment about refugees came up letting me completely shocked. I was spending few days at an Australian family’s house last year, time the news about Syria’s conflicts and refugees’ requests for asylum were boiling in the news. “Why do we have to receive them? We have […]