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Samantha Pearson
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Samantha Pearson
@samanthapearson
Correspondent in Brazil for The Wall Street Journal. Brit in São Paulo since 2010. [email protected]
- Tom Brady may go down as the National Football League’s most accomplished quarterback, but here in Brazil he is simply “Giselo”
- A week to go until Brazil’s deeply polarized presidential election - an epic battle between a white male populist tarnished by corruption and a white male populist tarnished by corruption 😬🇧🇷
- My son’s school here in Brazil is sending pupils home two hours before each Brazil game in the World Cup so the staff can watch the matches 🤦🏼♀️ I will now be rooting for a quick elimination for the national team 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
- Brazilian President Bolsonaro calls news network “a load of shit,” tells his own staff “to shut their mouth,” and defiantly takes off his mask during presser. For further explanation, Google “fear aggression in dogs”...Irritado com jornalistas, @jairbolsonaro reclama da CNN por ter elogiado manifestações do fim de semana, ataca repórter de afiliada da tv Globo e manda o próprio staff “calar a boca”. Presidente também tirou a máscara após ser perguntado sobre uso da proteção. 🎥: @SamPancher
00:00 - Here in the #Brazil bureau, trying to work out how “social distancing caused inflation” (according to Bolsonaro in his UN speech today)
GIF - So I received more threats and abuse after this message👇 than when I criticized Lula during the elections…proof that a) yes, Brazil is still soccer-mad and b) no, Twitter still does not have a sense of humorMy son’s school here in Brazil is sending pupils home two hours before each Brazil game in the World Cup so the staff can watch the matches 🤦🏼♀️ I will now be rooting for a quick elimination for the national team 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
- Replying to @samanthapearsonE torcendo para o Brasil, sim. Para os haters doidinhos, segue em anexo uma prova recém-chegada do Mercado Livre para a sua consideração 😂🇧🇷🙏
- This photo of Brazil's Congress with the caption "A little to the left, Lord" is doing the rounds on Facebook here today......if you still had any doubt over how Brazilians feel about their politicians
- So...for the next week, the two most popular presidential candidates in Brazil's election will be campaigning from a police cell and a hospital bed. This election is so fucked up, even for BrazilBrazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro stabbed while campaigning wsj.com/articles/brazi… via @WSJ
- Our latest WSJ exclusive on Vale's dam tragedy: Vale's top execs received an anonymous email warning them about the dams only 2 weeks before the Jan collapse.The CEO responded by pursuing the writer’s identity, calling them a ‘cancer.’ wsj.com/articles/vale-… With @luciwsj
- Meanwhile, in the parallel universe of rich Brazilians...what better place to wait out your 14 days of quarantine before going to the U.S. for a vaccine than on a tropical island! 💉🌴
- Bolsonaro backslapping Prince Charles today in true Brazilian style 😂No. 1 rule when meeting the British royal family? Don’t touch them! (This rule possibly applies to meeting any British person...)
- Cleaning houses, studying chess. How a maid worked her way to a world tournament. “I use it to my advantage. They let their guard down.”
