, Columnist
For Its Expats, Brazil Is Now the Country of the Past
President Jair Bolsonaro’s backward policies have accelerated the brain drain from Latin America’s biggest economy.
Blame it on Bolsonaro.
Photographer: Sandy Huffaker/AFP via Getty Images
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As an immigrant from Brazil, I’m often asked whether I still have family back home. After we first moved to the U.S. in 1999, we’d go back every summer and toggle between Vovó Mercedes’ place and my four tias’ apartments in Rio de Janeiro.
These days, there are almost no family members left to visit.