Posts By: Cleuci de Oliveira
Cleuci de Oliveira is a New York City-based journalist from Brasília, Brazil.
April 28, 2015 > Cleuci de Oliveira
In New York, Protesters Against Police Brutality Embrace Families of Mexico’s Missing Students
NEW YORK — Seven months to the day after watching two of his classmates get shot in the head and many more get taken away — never to be heard […] Read More >
April 12, 2015 > Cleuci de Oliveira
Great Reads Round-Up: April 6-12
As Colombian Oil Money Flowed to Clintons, State Department Took No Action to Prevent Labor Violations Matthew Cunningham-Cook, David Sirota and Andrew Perez. International Business Times. April 8, 2015. (2,695 […] Read More >
April 5, 2015 > Cleuci de Oliveira
Great Reads Round-Up: March 30-April 5
The Rookie and the Zetas: How the Feds Took Down a Drug Cartel’s Horse-Racing Empire Joe Tone. Dallas Observer. April 1 2015. (6,804 words) The Treviño brothers led diametrically opposed […] Read More >
March 22, 2015 > Cleuci de Oliveira
Great Reads Round-Up: March 16-22
Colombia: Is the End in Sight to the World’s Longest War? Ed Vulliamy. The Guardian. March 15, 2015. (4,001 words) Since 2012, the Colombian government and the leftwing guerrilla group […] Read More >
March 16, 2015 > Cleuci de Oliveira
Mass Protests in Brazil Call for Impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff
Protesters in over 150 cities across Brazil demanded the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff and an end to corruption on Sunday. Rousseff’s administration is struggling to reverse an economic downturn […] Read More >
March 15, 2015 > Cleuci de Oliveira
Great Reads Round-Up: March 9-15
U.S.-Born Students in Mexico Risk Becoming ‘Lost Generation’ Nina Lakhani. The Los Angeles Times. March 9, 2015. (1,052 words) In recent years, record-high deportation rates and a financial crisis saw […] Read More >
March 1, 2015 > Cleuci de Oliveira
Great Reads Round-Up: Feb. 23-March 1
José Mujica: The “World’s Poorest President” Set to Safeguard His Legacy of Change Declan McGarvey. Latin America News Dispatch. March 1, 2015. As Uruguayan President José Mujica steps down today […] Read More >
February 17, 2015 > Cleuci de Oliveira
At Least 16 Dead, 60 Injured in Haiti Carnival Accident (Update)
UPDATE: The Haitian government has cancelled the last day of Carnival celebrations, and declared three days of mourning following Tuesday’s accident. UPDATE 2: The number of reported dead following the […] Read More >
February 15, 2015 > Cleuci de Oliveira
Great Reads Round-Up: Feb. 9-15
Homeward Brooke Jarvis. The California Sunday Magazine. February 12, 2015. When a Amazonian tribe found itself struggling against the oil interests encroaching on its land, the tribe’s leaders came up […] Read More >
January 29, 2015 > Cleuci de Oliveira
Two Confirmed Dead as Latest News on Mexican Maternity Ward Explosion Emerges
An explosion caused by a gas leak at a Mexico City maternity and children’s hospital killed two people and injured dozens more, according to the Borough Chief of Cuajimalpa, where […] Read More >