Category: Brazil
Interview on the need for a broad front coalition to defeat Bolsonarismo

Alarming news about the COVID-19 disease comes from Brazil and India, where the infection numbers are high, and the death count grows steadily
Business leaders are using social media and political influence to spread coronavirus disinformation – and endangering thousands of lives

Smuggled His Scandal-Plagued Ex-Education Minister Into the U.S.

Once again, after so many other times, Brazil’s wealthy would rather run the risk of descending into dictatorship (if that’s not what they wanted to begin with) rather than have the lower classes express their aspiration to be included in the nation
The operations raised questions about the Federal Police being leveraged for political purposes, deepening the crises enveloping the country’s democratic institutions
Our only access to the one existing treatment for Covid-19 will be entirely dependent on the compassion of a giant multinational pharmaceutical corporation that has shown no sign it has any

— and Hopes the Military Has His Back

Brazil currently faces at least three grave crises — one of public health, another economic, and other political and corruption-related — that has left the nation in greater danger than at any time since its 1985 redemocratization

Impeachment Talk Ramps Up