Category: H360 in the Media

Climate justice and economic development: H360 president speaks to Estadão about industrial Hemp
01/07/202506/07/2025
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Climate justice and economic development: H360 president speaks to Estadão about industrial Hemp

In an interview on Brazilian vodcast “No Ritmo da Vida”, produced by the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo with radio Eldorado, the president of Humanitas360 Institute and advisor to Instituto Ficus, Patrícia Villela Marino, advocated for establishing a Hemp production chain in Brazil. Capable of combining economic development and combating the climate emergency, the...

Patrícia Villela Marino champions Hemp potential, details H360’s Venice installation in Times Brasil interview
24/06/202506/07/2025
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Patrícia Villela Marino champions Hemp potential, details H360’s Venice installation in Times Brasil interview

On June 18th, the president of Humanitas360 Institute and advisor to Ficus Institute, Patrícia Villela Marino, was interviewed on the business channel Times Brasil/CNBC about the potential that industrial Hemp represents for the Brazilian economy and climate justice. The conversation with journalist Christiane Pelajo started from the hempcrete installation – concrete made from Hemp –...

Article in Folha: “Criminal justice flat-earthism is not public policy: Brazil does imprison too much (and then some)”
19/05/202529/05/2025
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Article in Folha: “Criminal justice flat-earthism is not public policy: Brazil does imprison too much (and then some)”

The following article, written by Patrícia Villela Marino, was originally published in the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo on May 18. I am outraged by the assertion made by columnist Joel Pinheiro da Fonseca, published in this Folha, that “it is not true that Brazil imprisons too much. We imprison very little” (“Violence Atlas 2025 Brought...

Article in O Globo: “Anti-drug rhetoric is penal populism”
09/04/202523/04/2025
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Article in O Globo: “Anti-drug rhetoric is penal populism”

The following article, authored by Patrícia Villela Marino, was originally published in the newspaper O Globo on April 9. While a good portion of the Brazilian Parliament and public figures contort themselves in inflammatory rhetoric against the decriminalization of drugs, the numbers reveal an uncomfortable truth that penal populists prefer to ignore: organized crime in...

Article in O Globo: “Brazil is not a homeland for the majority”
15/10/202430/10/2024
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Article in O Globo: “Brazil is not a homeland for the majority”

The following article was originally published in Portuguese in the newspaper O Globo on October 12, 2024. For whom has Brazil been a homeland? It may seem like a simple question, but any attempt to answer it honestly exposes some of the country’s deepest flaws. The etymology of “pátria” (Portuguese for “homeland”) suggests a connection...

Suspending temporary releases of imprisoned people is penal populism, argues president of H360 in an interview
04/03/202404/03/2024
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Suspending temporary releases of imprisoned people is penal populism, argues president of H360 in an interview

The following interview, conducted by journalist Valéria França, was originally published in Portuguese in Veja magazine on March 1, 2024. With the largest prison population in its history, more than 830 thousand prisoners, the Brazilian prison system has major problems, such as overcrowding, lack of operational infrastructure and organized crime. Despite the complex problems, Brazilian...