Antônio Carlos
To the uninitiated, Porto Murtinho may seem like the middle of nowhere
Natives of the Santa Catarina backwoods are instinctively reserved and mistrustful, but Luiz Backes manages to be even more tight-lipped than most. Minutes of silence pass, enough to honor all the martyrs to Brazil’s land…
To get a bird’s eye view of the park, we have to compete with the vultures that alight amid plastic sacks in the makeshift neighborhood dump. Young men loiter across the way in front of…
When candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva visited the São Francisco River during the 1994 campaign, the second of his three unsuccessful presidential tries, Roberto Malvezzi sidled up to him during a break. Better known…