I’m Still Here: a powerful story of the human spirit under dictatorship
This Oscar-nominated film tells the true story of Brazil’s missing dissident former congressman.
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Why China and its trading allies are well placed to topple the dollar
After decades meting out sanctions and financial coercion, the US may soon feel its grip on world trade beginning to…
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Brazil’s stance on Russia is worrying the West
President Lula’s positioning of Brazil as a broker in the war is emblematic of how some of the world’s largest…
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The future of democracy for Israel and Brazil
Ex-president Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters stormed government buildings in Brasilia, while Benjamin Netanyahu’s sixth coalition is the most far-right and religious…
The Brazil riots were openly planned on social media. So why was nothing done?
Platforms are failing to prevent online radicalisation and organised assaults on democracy. More violence is inevitable.
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The attack on Brazil’s Congress had the aesthetics of a coup, without the danger
Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters are not the only threat to Brazilian democracy.
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Lula’s election as Brazilian president brings hope for the Amazon
The country’s new leader has vowed to completely end deforestation in the rainforest.
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Lula’s victory in Brazil shows how authoritarianism can be defeated
Jair Bolsonaro’s election loss demonstrates what a united opposition can achieve.
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Yara Rodrigues Fowler: “I wanted to disorient the Anglophone reader”
The author of the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel “there are more things” on revolutionary politics, Margery Kempe and cannibalising colonisers.
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From the archive: Lula, a people’s last hope
6 January, 2003: Brazil’s president says he’ll attempt the impossible in this, one of the world’s most unequal societies.
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The future of the Amazon rainforest rests on Brazil’s presidential run-off
Victory for Jair Bolsonaro, who is closing the gap on Lula, would almost certainly accelerate the rate of deforestation.
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Robin Wall Kimmerer: “How strange to be a species that engineers its own demise”
The influential essayist and moss scientist on what nature can teach us about survival.
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Letter from Brazil: the rainforest fights back
Jair Bolsonaro’s rule has been disastrous for the Amazon. But the remote communities who live there are gaining ground.
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The fate of the Amazon rainforest rests on Brazil’s presidential election
Rampant deforestation under the country’s current president Jair Bolsonaro has turned Brazil into the world’s sixth-largest emitter of carbon dioxide.
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Brazil’s election proves it – the pandemic did not kill nationalist populism
Jair Bolsonaro has run Lula surprisingly close in the first round of the presidential vote, piling on the pressure ahead…
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Lula vs Bolsonaro: Brazil’s 2022 presidential election explained
The race to be the next president of Latin America’s biggest country could hardly be more polarised.
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Brazil’s dangers for environmental defenders cost my friend Dom Phillips his life
The journalist was researching a book called How to Save the Amazon when he and a colleague were murdered.
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The Brazilian landscapes of Frans Post capture the dismal dawn of the colonial age
The 17th-century Dutch artist was the first professional painter to record the New World – and the view was far…
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Gabriel Boric and Latin America’s new pink tide
Left-wing governments are being elected across Latin America, but they face the threat of a rejuvenated and authoritarian right.
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Latin America’s new pink tide faces a difficult balancing act
A wave of left-wing victories in the region doesn’t guarantee sweeping social progress
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