Jair Bolsonaro

October 12, 2022
Laura Scofield / Agência Pública

Steve Bannon and other allies of the former U.S. president have falsely claimed that the Brazilian elections were fraudulent.

October 4, 2022
Pablo Stefanoni / Nueva Sociedad

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the first round, but Jair Bolsonaro performed better than expected. They face off in a runoff October 30.

September 27, 2022
Michael Fox

Brazil’s war against Indigenous peoples is as old as Brazil itself. But Bolsonaro’s administration has sought to accelerate the destruction of the Amazon and its peoples.

September 20, 2022
Michael Fox

Brazil has long failed to reckon with its history of military dictatorship. President Jair Bolsonaro looks to that era with nostalgia, taking steps to push the country back in that direction.

September 13, 2022
Michael Fox

Nazis have a long historical presence in Brazil reaching back to the early days of European fascism. President Jair Bolsonaro has emboldened them.

September 6, 2022
Michael Fox

Brazil’s growing Evangelical Christian movement set the stage for President Jair Bolsonaro’s rise to power.

September 6, 2022
Michael Fox

Six months before the 2018 Brazilian election, a judge jailed frontrunner Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on what many considered sham charges. The result was a clear path for Bolsonaro.

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.

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.

May 27, 2020
Philip Luke Johnson

A review of The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins, which traces the history of the Cold War from the perspective of two often overlooked countries: Indonesia and Brazil.

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