Explaining Brazil #285: Lula’s approval red flags
When Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva finished his first two terms as Brazil’s president in 2010, he left office with an insanely high approval rating. More than 80 percent of Brazilians said his government...
View ArticleExplaining Brazil #286: How Brazil’s far-right operates
The far-right poses a serious threat to Brazilian democracy, as was the case of the direct attack on federal buildings on January 8, 2023, the infamous Brasília riots. On that day, hordes of...
View Article60 years of Brazil’s 1964 coup d’état
In March 1964, the world was in the throes of the Cold War, polarized by the United States and the Soviet Union. On the American continent, Cuba had resisted U.S. invasion a few years earlier and...
View ArticleExplaining Brazil #287: Election hopes dashed in Venezuela
In a statement on Tuesday, March 26, Brazil’s Foreign Affairs Ministry expressed concern about the upcoming elections in Venezuela, scheduled for July 28, particularly after opposition candidates were...
View ArticleLove It or Leave It, Ep. 2: Brazilian patriots with an American flag
Defense of the nation, patriotism, the guarantee of national sovereignty. The military and civilians who overthrew João “Jango” Goulart from the federal government in 1964 held the Brazilian flag to...
View ArticleExplaining Brazil #288: Elon Musk has beef in Brazil
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, Starlink, and SpaceX and the owner of X, the social media platform we used to call Twitter, is no stranger to controversy or conspiracy theories. There is even a Wikipedia...
View ArticleLove It or Leave It, Ep. 3: Cross-border persecution in South America
After having received support from the U.S. in usurping the presidency and consolidating its dictatorship, Brazil’s military decided to try its hand at foreign interference, working against...
View ArticleExplaining Brazil #289: Lira’s latest Lula feud
On Tuesday morning, Brazil’s federal government fired Wilson César de Lira Santos from his position as regional superintendent of the national agrarian reform institute Incra in the state of Alagoas....
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