Urariano Mota

LATEST ARTICLES BY Urariano Mota

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  El golpe de 1964 continúa en las escuelas militares de Brasil

  April 2, 2024 By Urariano Mota
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• World

  

  The 1964 coup continues in Brazil’s military schools

  April 2, 2024 By Urariano Mota

  Perhaps a better headline would be “The teaching of false history in Brazil's military schools.”

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• News

  

  Miguel Otávio, 5, victim of the legacy of slavery in Brazil

  October 5, 2023 By Urariano Mota
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• Culture

  

  ‘Open Your Window,’ from the newly published Brazilian novel ‘Never-Ending Youth’

  July 12, 2022 By Urariano Mota

  People’s World readers are invited to enjoy a chapter from the recently published novel "Never-Ending Youth," about the young generation's resistance against the Brazilian military régime in the early 1970s.

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• Culture

  

  ICYMI: May 5 was the World Day of the Portuguese Language and Marx

  May 18, 2022 By Urariano Mota

  May 5 was the World Day of the Portuguese Language and the anniversary of Karl Marx’s birth. So I am left with this difficult impasse: between the two fundamentals, what to do?

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• Culture

  

  Paulo Freire, world educator, on his centennial—with a bonus Freire poem

  September 22, 2021 By Urariano Mota

  Because he is so admired outside of Brazil, Paulo Freire is sometimes revered for the wrong reasons.

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• World

  

  First of April: A 13-year-old witnesses the 1964 Brazilian military coup

  April 5, 2021 By Urariano Mota

  Celso Marconi, the longest-lived cinema critic in the world, recently commented on his Facebook page: “After 1964, the 1st of April ceased to be a playful day [in Brazil]. Sad.”

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• Culture

  

  Leading Brazilian Communist José Carlos Ruy has died

  February 8, 2021 By Urariano Mota

  Please understand, I have no title for this text. I’ll let André Cintra, the competent cultural editor of Vermelho, choose one. 

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