I woke up not knowing where I was. In fact, I realized that I had not been conscious of myself for some time. Some fleeting, disconnected memories, nothing to help me understand what had happened. I was in a room with two empty beds. I slept on a mattress on the floor beside the two beds. There was a bathroom, a closet. Surely I was not in a prison or a hospital. Little did I know that it was a cross between. I saw that the te...

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‘It may not be that woman you are missing It may not be this heat that does you harm It may not be that tie which is suffocating you Or that lack of money which is fatal See how a mild flame molds a strong iron See how the asphalt is your garden if you believe That there is a sunrise reddening the dark sky Calling men to their time to live’   Excerpt from song by TAIGUARA: May the children sing freely. In response to ...

The focus of this article is not on the murderer, the rapist, or the torturer. The daily news already speaks plenty of these characters and they are adequately covered by the Brazillian penal code. There are men who practice a more subtle, more intelligent kind of violence which does not leave scars upon the body but in the person’s interior being, invisible, impalpable, yet often very painful. It is not unusual for the youn...

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A maioria de nós, mais cedo ou mais tarde, tem de lidar com a questão do excesso de peso. Alguns tem este problema desde a infância, outros a partir da adolescência, outros ainda depois dos trinta ou quarenta anos. À medida que os anos passam a tendência é comer além do necessário. No período de crescimento, até 15 ou 20 anos o corpo consome parte do alimento para construir a si próprio, crescer. Alem disto a crian...