Brazil’s leftist presidential candidate Lula da Silva won with 48.4% and over 6 million more votes than far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. The Workers’ Party is organizing with social movements in the lead-up to the October […]
BY JEAN WYLLYS – JULIE WARK Photo by Nathalia Segato Less than a month before the general election on 2 October, it seems that things aren’t going well for incumbent president Jair Messías Bolsonaro. To begin with, […]
BY VIJAY PRASHAD Photograph Source: Ricardo Stuckert/PR – Agência Brasil – CC BY 3.0 BR Former Brazilian President Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva (known as Lula) runs about on stage at the Latin America Memorial in São […]
BY JEAN WYLLYS – JULIE WARK Photograph Source: Fábio Rodrigues Pozzebom/ABr – http://www.agenciabrasil.gov.br/media/imagens/2009/01/26/1006FP6469.jpg/view – CC BY 3.0 br Census, or “race-colour” categories in Brazil supposedly cover skin tones ranging from very fair to very dark (broadly speaking, […]
BY JEAN WYLLYS – JULIE WARK Photograph Source: HVL – CC BY 4.0 Sociopath: a person with a personality disorder manifesting itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behaviour. – The Oxford English Dictionary Sometimes the micro can […]
Nicholas Stender Download PDF flyer Photo: Anti-Bolsonaro protest in May of this year. Credit — Parzeus (Wikimedia Commons) On Oct. 20, Brazil’s “Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry” (CPI) presented the final report of its investigation of […]
by Get our newsletter delivered directly to your inboxI have already subscribed | Do not show this message again Last week, the Brazilian President hinted that those vaccinated against COVID-19 are at risk of contracting […]
Abortion activism networks support and guide women through at-home procedures in Brazil’s legally restrictive and socially conservative landscape. A banner calling for legal abortion in Brazil reads “No woman should be imprisoned, mistreated, humiliated, or […]
BY SARAH SHENKER Rita Piripkura, the only contacted member of the Piripkura tribe. © S Shenker/ Survival International. “Follow me. I want to show you something,” Rita Piripkura beckoned as we sat by a stream on […]
BYC.J. Polychroniou, Truthout Since 2019, Brazil finds itself in the midst of one of its most difficult periods since the end of the military dictatorship in 1985, thanks to the inhumane policies of the Jair Bolsonaro […]