Carnivals are one of the most popular and
seriously taken events in Brazil. So actually in the streets of Rio the Janiero,
there is people celebrating for the name of Joaquim Barbosa, the country’s
first black Supreme Court Justice. In his honor, there has been plenty of Mask of
Joaquim distributed to people. He is mostly known for its rigor via rules, good
independence, and regular decision with the justice. The 58 years old man doesn’t
smile easily, but when he is talking, the nation listens and appreciates each
of his words.
That Barbosa is even hearing the case is the
stuff of fables. The son of a bricklayer, he grew up in an adobe home in
Paracatu, a backwater in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais. His
schoolmates remember him as an obstinate, self-absorbed boy who read everything
he could get his hands on and liked to sing bits of songs in foreign languages.
His break came when Barbosa’s family moved to Brasília, then the new national
capital, where a dedicated student could rise to public service. Barbosa went
to law school and joined the state’s attorney office. He went on to earn his
doctorate at the Sorbonne and then lecture at Columbia University and UCLA.
Besides his native Portuguese, Barbosa speaks fluent English, French, German,
and Italian. Nominated to the bench in 2003, he will soon take over as the
country’s chief justice. (Margolis, 2012)
Barbosa has a beautiful historic over
corruption trial and over deciding the fate of Brazil’s most powerful
poiliticians. One of his main accomplishments is when he led the way to get an
old but very corrupted situation including 11 members of the high court plus
the one that has given the chance to Joaquim to join the high court. So, even
though former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s administration has given
the opportunity to be there, the first black Supreme Court Justice has done
everything he could to demystify a fraud of that organisation on tax pay and
unreported loans to pay off campaign debt.
Margolis,
M. (2012, 10 22). World News. Retrieved 11 14, 2012, from The Daily
Beast:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/10/21/joaquim-barbosa-brazil-s-most-popular-supreme-court-justice.html
Alexis Poulin
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