WorldcrunchMarina Amaral is Executive Director and editor of Agência Pública. She has been a journalist since 1984. From 1997, she began to work in independent journalism, participating in the foundation of Caros Amigos Magazine, of which she was a special reporter and executive editor until 2007. During this period she won a Herzog Award. Between 2008 and 2009, she coordinated a team of 13 journalists in an unprecedented survey on Human Rights in Brazil, at the request of the National Secretariat of Human Rights and acted as a reporter in the book “Jornal Movimento, uma reportagem”. Since 2011 she has been director and co-founder of Agência Pública.
A personal journey through memory, loss, and resilience — reflecting on Eunice Facciolla Paiva’s quiet strength, Marcelo Paiva’s storytelling, and the haunting echoes of dictatorship in today’s world. It’s a rare Oscars Best Picture nominee from Brazil.
Similarities have been drawn between the cases of New Orleans, after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and Porto Alegre, which last month the worst flooding in 80 years. But the U.S. reconstruction was an enormous failure, and Brazil should not look at it for solutions.