Brazil

September 6, 2022
Michael Fox

Jair Bolsonaro’s rise was marked by a wave of political violence with the hallmarks of a culture war manufactured in the United States.

September 2, 2022
Mariana Carbajal / openDemocracy

From efforts to limit medical care for trans people to bans on inclusive language, LGBTQI+ rights are under threat across the region.

September 1, 2022
Maristela Crispim / Agência Pública and Agência Eco Nordeste

In Brazil’s semi-arid northeast, family farmers are using technology and collective resource management to fight climate change and environmental degradation.

August 26, 2022
Caio Fernandes Barbosa

Anadelia A. Romo’s book analyzes the visual and symbolic reinvention of Salvador, exposing how tourism, the arts, and the elite emphasized Blackness as a unique element of Bahian identity for profit.

August 16, 2022
Michael Fox

In this introduction to the new podcast Brazil on Fire, journalist Michael Fox sets the scene for Brazil’s critical October 2022 presidential elections.

July 7, 2022
Alice Maciel and Bruno Fonseca / Agência Pública

At a national convention for gun rights activists, a public official from the Brazilian Secretariat of Culture pledged state resources to arms lobbyists.  

June 27, 2022

Exclusive content and additional resources accompanying our Summer 2022 issue of the NACLA Report.

June 27, 2022
Emanuelle F. Goes

A pandemia Covid-19 expôs ainda mais como a violência estrutural baseada em raça, gênero, classe e geografia no Brasil ameaça a vida das mulheres negras.

June 27, 2022
Angela Figueiredo and Naiara Leite

As electoral candidates and movement leaders, Black women in Brazil are reshaping political power and forging new, affirming representations in the process.

June 27, 2022
Jurema Machado de Andrade Souza with Elionice Conceição Sacramento

For a quilombola leader and fisherwoman, Black and Indigenous struggles for land and life are essential to collective survival in the face of the climate crisis.

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