Category: South America
Healing the lungs of our home
The left-wing candidate’s victory would have been impossible without newer constituencies
Fearless communes are rewriting their Constitution by feminizing politics and proliferating radically democratic spaces

President Jair Bolsonaro’s 2022 electoral hopes have dimmed, but the military isn’t ready to give up its new riches and influence.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Jair Bolsonaro, and Sergio Moro, three major candidates in Brazil’s 2022 election, have a turbulent and intertwined past
Interview with Alexandre Conceiçao from the Landless Workers Movement, one of the largest social movements in Latin America with an estimated 1.5 million members.
The person of Jair Messias Bolsonaro, who neatly fits the definition of a sociopath, tells us a lot about the sociopathic political system that has thrown him up, and which he embodies
Elected on the heels of a historic movement against neoliberalism, president-elect Gabriel Boric will face high expectations and social movement pressure to deliver on his campaign promises

The causes he believes in are those youth everywhere have been increasingly fighting for across the globe
Boric has vowed to fight for progressive social reforms and overhaul the neoliberal economic policies left by the U.S.-backed dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet