With an election looming, can Brazil finally confront its injustices?
In 'normal' circumstances, Brazil's multiple crises – in health, the economy, politics and the environment – would spell doom for President Bolsonaro. And yet he may emerge unscathed
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Published in:democraciaAbiertaWe're hiring: fellowship focused on the Brazilian Amazon
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Published in:democraciaAbiertaEcuador’s pro-mining politics dealt a blow by Indigenous, green movement
In a historic referendum, more than 80% of the electorate in Cuenca, Ecuador’s third-largest city, voted to ban...
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Published in:democraciaAbierta: OpinionButantan, Bum Bum Tam Tam and how baile funk might save Brazil
Reviled by elites, this home-grown musical genre is proving an effective weapon in the fight against COVID-19 misinformation
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Published in:democraciaAbiertaVenezuela sends oxygen and doctors to the Brazilian Amazon
At the same time, Mexico cedes vaccines to poor countries while the U.S. and Russia refuse to join COVAX.
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Published in:democraciaAbierta: Interview‘Barbarism or solidarity’ at stake at Ecuador elections, says indigenous presidential candidate
Yaku Pérez, the leader of indigenous party Pachakutik, is running on a green platform – but can he reach outside of...
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Published in:democraciaAbierta: InvestigationA chant from the South
Chronicle and analysis of a Latin American social explosion. Find the e-book here.
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaHow President Bolsonaro used COVID-19 to erode Brazil's democracy
Amid unprecedented chaos, Bolsonaro has shown an increasingly authoritarian attitude
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: InterviewPrison has not discouraged Cuba’s leading dissident
The human rights activist José Daniel Ferrer says recent protests have left the regime on the back foot.
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Published in: HomeThe largest personal data leakage in Brazilian history
Why the rest of the world should be worried, and think hard about how to create a data protection culture.
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionViolence, patronage, and criminal governance in Venezuela
The context of a recent blod bath in two Caracas' slums tells a complex story of how violence gets out of control.
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionCan Twitter and Facebook censor Trump in the name of democracy?
Although we find the censorship of the still-president of the US sympathetic and fair, we must not forget that...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaDo you remember Cuba’s dedication to Angola?
Cuban blood left its stamp on the conscience of the world after the Angolan Wars of 1975-1988. Corporate politicians...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta“Who dies the most? The people from the Colombian Pacific”
Don Gu is a cultural manager from Tumaco, Colombia. He has been working with children and young people for over 25...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionEurope in 2021
Portugal assumes the EU presidency at a crucial moment. Amid a fluid scenario and systemic risks, the way Europe...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaVenezuela on the brink of a major humanitarian collapse
The 2020 Parliamentary elections represented the end of what was left of Venezuelan democracy putting the country on...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionThe good, the bad, and the ugly of the US Capitol insurrection
The scenes of the insurrection in the United States Capitol last Wednesday, January 6, will go down in history as...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionDonald Trump, the scorpion, and the assault on the shining city on the hill
The assault on the Capitol shook American democracy for a few hours. The lesson democracies should learn is: Beware...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe tamed and the untameable: How the establishment is serving Bolsonaro's authoritarianism
Who is more threatening to Brazil’s democracy? Bolsonaro – an openly and unapologetically authoritarian...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaFour years later, Colombia's Peace Agreement advances at a snail's pace
More than four years after the signing of the Peace Agreement in Colombia, democraciaAbierta looked at the progress...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: Opinion2020 saw the physical and moral disintegration of Brazilian society
The failure shown in the face of the pandemic is repeated monotonously in all plans and areas of action of a...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaHonduras: Caravan of the damned
Recent hurricanes come on top of a desperate economic situation and push more Hondurans northwards, Yet the US aid...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThere’s no new normality without new taxation in Latin America
Exposing the gross inequality that is embedded in the region's tax systems is the first step in beginning to change it.
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaChile: 17 of 155 Constitutional Assembly seats will be reserved for Indigenous groups
On 15 December, the House of Representatives and the Senate in Chile approved a bill ensuring Indigenous...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionLegal abortion: a right, not a privilege
Last December 11, the Chamber of Deputies of Argentina approved the project of voluntary interruption of pregnancy....
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaOne more attack on NGOs in Venezuela
In execution of his systematic plan of suffocation and harassment, Maduro orders to monitor the bank accounts of...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionColombia's Attorney General's Office is being devoured by corruption
The massive deterioration of the Attorney General Office reflects the deep degradation of the country's traditional...