By Diego Junqueira and Reinaldo Chaves |
17/06/20
What makes a millionaire businessman from São Paulo from the pharmaceutical industry to spend 1.5 million BRL (US$ 404,000) in the last electoral campaign and guarantee an alternate seat in the Senate for Tocantins? No longer needing “intermediaries”,...
By Diego Junqueira |
17/06/20
“I would certainly pay for my cure, but I don’t have 364,000 BRL (US$ 87,500),” says biologist Fabiana Sobral, 41, who has been waiting at SUS (Public Health System) for medications against hepatitis C for three months. Like the biologist, about...
By Diego Junqueira |
17/06/20
“Who owns the patent for this vaccine?”, asks the journalist on TV. “The people, I would say. There is no patent,” replies the American doctor and scientist Jonas Salk in the famous interview he gave in 1955, after launching the first vaccine against...
By Diego Junqueira |
17/06/20
The Brazilian Institute of Industrial Property (Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industria – Inpi) may cease to be an autonomous federal agency and be transferred to the group of organizations known as “Sistema S” (Photo: Fernando Frazão/Agência...
By Diego Junqueira, from the Xingu Indigenous Park | Photos by Avener Prado |
17/06/20
There were no doctors on the morning of April 2 to see Milena Kaiabi, who was born in the Paranaíta village, in the Xingu Indigenous Park, north of Mato Grosso. The 4 days old newborn was crying, feverish and unwilling to breastfeed, but the nurse that visited the...
By Diego Junqueira |
16/06/20
Of the 54 senators elected in 2018, 9 resorted to an old political habit: appointing wealthy businessmen as alternate members. One of them is Ogari de Castro Pacheco (DEM-TO), founding partner of the pharmaceutical company Cristália and 2nd substitute of Senator...
