The Legacies of Brazil’s Bolsa Família
A new documentary follows the mothers and daughters of Guaribas, Brazil’s pilot city for the famed Bolsa Família cash-transfer program.
This article is adapted from AQ’s special report on Latin America’s demographic transformation If you had access to a time machine, would you travel to the past or the future In Eliza Capai’s new film, A fabulosa máquina do tempo (The Fabulous Time Machine), girls and women of varying ages ponder these two possibilities. Perhaps counterintuitively, most children in the film choose the past, whereas adults opt for the future. For the residents of Guaribas, a small city in the northeastern state of Piauí, this generational gulf makes sense. Not long ago, Guaribas was known as...
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