Folks,  Greetings from Rio de Janeiro, where I’ve just gotten back from touring Pontifical Catholic University, a school where I studied journalism in Portuguese nearly 15 years ago. It was a very moving experience reflecting on all my memories.  Recently, the university dedicated the student villa where activist groups

SÃO BERNARDO DO CAMPO, BRASIL – Ever since Lula was first elected as Brasil’s president 20 years ago in 2002, 39-year-old Fernando Selestrino has come to the Dr. João Firmino Correia de Araujo Elementary School voting location to catch a glimpse of Lula voting the morning of the election.  “This

SÃO PAULO, BRASIL – On the front cover of São Paulo’s April 2021 tire workers union newsletter is a photo of President Joe Biden speaking out in support of workers seeking to unionize at Amazon in Alabama.  The speech was widely hailed as a historic move in the United States,

Folks,  Greetings from Rua de Primeiro de Maio in Santo André, Brasil, a street that celebrates May Day in an industrial city of about 700,000 and a hotbed of support for Lula.  Ahead of Sunday’s union election, I’ve had a busy day visiting with the tire workers