Urariano Mota
LATEST ARTICLES BY Urariano Mota
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Culture
‘Open Your Window,’ from the newly published Brazilian novel ‘Never-Ending Youth’
July 12, 2022People’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, 2022May 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, 2021Because 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, 2021Celso 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, 2021Please 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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