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Death by Omission

Power and Politics in the Amazon

September 25, 2019 • by Chris Crews

Celebrity Distractions Shellenberger begins by attacking public celebrities who shared photos that were either not from the Amazon or actually dated back to years earlier: “Celebrities, environmentalists, and political leaders blame Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, for destroying the world’s largest rainforest, the Amazon, which they say is the “lungs of the world.” Singers and ...

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Brazil’s Universities Are Under Attack — And So Is Its Democracy

Brazilians are fighting to maintain their public universities

June 12, 2019 • by Daniel Peres

Cuts in the public budget are something usual -- not desirable, but normal nonetheless. What is not normal is when the cuts are justified in ideological terms. For Brazil’s new elect government, the Brazil University system is an enemy to be destroyed. Our universities, so they say, are all dominated ...

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The Inherent Violence of the Mining Industry

What two recent disasters in Brazil tell us about the neoextractivist economy

April 11, 2019 • by Mariana Prandini Assis

When three years ago the Fundão dam burst in Mariana, a city located in the state of Minas Gerais, it was deemed the worst mining disaster in Brazilian history. As affected communities and nature still struggle to recover, and victims continue their fight for just reparation, last January another social-environmental episode occurred ...

The Inherent Violence of the Mining Industry

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How An Anti-LGBT Agenda Helped Secure Bolsonaro’s Election Victory

What does the election of a right-wing president mean for Brazilian democracy?

November 29, 2018 • by Gustavo Gomes da Costa Santos

This October, Brazilians went to the polls to choose a new president in the most polarized election since the end of military rule in 1985. In a highly fragmented election between 13 candidates, Jair Bolsonaro of the Social Liberal Party (PSL), a right-wing retired captain known for his homophobic, racist ...

How An Anti-LGBT Agenda Helped Secure Bolsonaro’s Election Victory

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Gender Ideology and the Brazilian Elections

Bolsonaro represents a hegemonic, masculine, and violent form of inhabiting the world

November 13, 2018 • by Mariana Prandini Assis and Ana Carolina Ogando

Jair Bolsonaro, the recently elected Brazilian president, is now well known, both nationally and internationally, for his misogynistic and homophobic declarations. During a parliamentary debate in 2014, Bolsonaro told one of the few women members of Parliament, Deputy Maria do Rosário, that he would not rape her because she was too ugly ...

Gender Ideology and the Brazilian Elections

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Neoliberalism with An Inhuman Face

How Bolsonaro won and how the Left failed in Brazil

November 8, 2018 • by Vladimir Pinheiro Safatle

The consolidation of the Brazilian extreme right is a recent fact and deserves to be debated in a more analytical fashion. Even though Brazil had significant parts of its society immersed in the tacit defense of the military dictatorship and in actions marked by the absence of any social solidarity ...

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This Fight Would Take Place Someday

An impassioned appeal for resoluteness in the face of right wing reaction

October 26, 2018 • by Vladimir Pinheiro Safatle

This text is for those who weep for what is about to come. It was written for those who perceive the darkest of nights arriving with its violence, its scorn and its appetite for vengeance. Because in these moments only two alternatives seem possible: escape and melancholy. We know the ...

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2018 Brazilian Elections

The end of a crisis or the beginning of another?

October 3, 2018 • by Theo Almeida

The Brazilian presidential election of this year has the potential to scale back the political crisis that the country has been facing for the last 4 years. Alas, it seems that it will also increase the political division of the society even more. Lula’s representative, Fernando Haddad, affiliated with the ...

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The Fall of the Brazilian Ancien Régime

A view towards the future

July 5, 2018 • by Sebastião Ventura Pereira da Paixão

All the groups that participated in the Brazilian redemocratization process have come to power. Yet, despite the promises, many hopes have turned to dust. Once elected, the policymakers disappointed with their unpreparedness, arrogance, or dishonesty. But there has been some progress, such as the stabilization of the economy and the ...

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People Falling All Around Us

Why the killing of Marielle Franco?

March 29, 2018 • by Marianna Poyares

On the night of the 14th of March, elected councilwoman for the city of Rio de Janeiro, Marielle Franco, was shot dead in her car while returning from an event dedicated to black women’s empowerment. Nine gunshots were fired against the car, four of which hit Marielle directly in the ...

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What Brazilian Democracy Needs

The country cannot advance until it has accountable political leadership

February 27, 2017 • by Sebastião Ventura Pereira da Paixão

If we look at Brazilian politics, we see that the few destroy the lives of the many, condemning our country to backwardness, poverty and thievery. Indeed, they are very few. The problem is that these few are organized and empowered in their usurpation of republican institutions. From time to time, ...

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Regarding the “Institution-building, Governance and Compliance in Brazil: Politics, Policy and Business” Event

An Open Letter from members of the New School Community

February 6, 2017 • by Joana Avritzer, Mayra Cotta, Douglas de Toledo Piza, Victoria Echeverria De Carvalho, Flávia Leite, Tiago Lima, Luiza Nassif Pires, Tomás Pimenta, Marianna Poyares and Jussara Raxlen

The event remarkably embodies a one-sided set of views that is unrepresentative of and insensitive to the complexity of recent Brazilian politics. By presenting the Operação Lava Jato (Car Wash Operation) as paradigmatic of “institutional-building, governance and compliance” in Brazil the event implicitly embraces a narrative that contributed to the ...