"Maria Paula Carvalho, in “Brazil: The Reconstruction,” illustrates how powerful deep, intensive reporting can make the complexity of the nation’s political upheaval clearer and more understandable to readers, and allow her to deliver insightful analysis that the country needs. Never has Brazil needed, more than now as it navigates such challenges, Maria Paula’s kind of authoritative journalism that is required if a democracy is to survive and flourish."

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ERNEST SOTOMAYOR

Dean, Student Affairs and Communications,  & Director, Latin American Initiatives

Columbia University