The following article was originally published in Portuguese by Juliano Spyer in the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper in January 2024. I knocked on many doors looking for evangelicals who publicly defend the medicinal use of Cannabis. And I received two responses. Some people shrugged their shoulders, thinking that Christianity and marijuana are topics that don’t...
The following article, written by Natalia Viri, was originally published in Portuguese in Exame magazine in January 2024. A member of one of the wealthiest families in Brazil, Patrícia Villela did not shy away from urgent – and thorny – causes. On the contrary, she embraced them. Married to Ricardo Villela Marino, whose family is...
The following article, written by Marília Marasciulo, was originally published in Portuguese in Galileu magazine in December 2023. Rio de Janeiro, October 18, 2023. While the world’s attention was focused on the bombing of the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in the Gaza Strip, the Complexo da Maré, in the north of the capital of Rio de...
The following article, written by journalist Vanessa Adachi, was originally published in Portuguese by Reset on November 24th. Lawyer and businesswoman Patrícia Villela Marino doesn’t shy away from difficult conversations. As well as being an activist for the rights of women in and out of prison, she has also become one of the most vocal...
The following article, written by the president of the Humanitas360 Institute, Patrícia Villela Marino, was published in CIVI-CO Mag, a publication of the CIVI-CO social impact hub, in October. A series of preconceptions hover over the North and Northeast of Brazil that prevent us from seeing the region’s potential, without neglecting its socioeconomic challenges. The...
The following article, written by the president of the Humanitas360 Institute, Patrícia Villela Marino, was published by the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo on October 10, 2023. At the beginning of October, the Supreme Federal Court (STF) unanimously decided that federal and state governments must develop a plan to combat problems in the prison...
On September 18th, TV Cultura’s Roda Viva – one of the main journalistic programs on Brazilian television – was the stage for an in-depth debate on the causes and effects of the war on drugs, such as mass incarceration, and its possible solutions. Guest of the program, the president of the Humanitas360 Institute and advisor...
The following article was originally published in Portuguese on Globo’s Um Só Planeta website on July 6, 2023. In a global economy that increasingly favors regenerative agriculture, eco-development, and social responsibility, we cannot allow our country to be guided only by retrograde policies in agribusiness. In the last 4 years, our country has experienced a...
The following article was published on the UOL website on May 9, 2023 by journalist Maurício Businari. Widowed at 16, she became a ‘drug lord’ in São Paulo: ‘A cursed legacy’ She met her husband at 15, “an overwhelming passion”. At 16, she gave birth to a boy. She found out the love of her...
The following article, written by Patrícia Villela Marino and Priscila Pasqualin, was published in the Prática ESG platform, of the newspapers O Globo and Valor Econômico, on March 22, 2023. The President of the Republic has said that it is necessary to put the poor into the budget and the rich into the Income Tax....