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Published in: Changemakers: FeatureHow Brazil’s mothers helped Lula win the election
A digital community once focused on the challenges of parenting became a unique space for political empowerment
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Published in: 50.50: InvestigationHow the US far-Right is acting to get Bolsonaro re-elected in Brazil
Bolsonaro is unlikely to give up power without a fight. Key Trump supporters are preparing to do battle for him
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionWhy disinformation could prove decisive in Brazil’s election
As the run-off vote looms at the end of the month, the far-Right’s misinformation machine is going into overdrive
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionEven a Lula victory won’t necessarily mean a win for Brazil
OPINION: Latin America’s Left needs a new development model to stop the continent’s ‘open veins’ from haemorrhaging
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionHas Bolsonaro released a flood of guns to overwhelm Brazil’s democracy?
OPINION: Brazil’s president may well lose Sunday’s election, but he has ensured he has plenty of armed supporters
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: FeatureDani Silva: Displaced from her home – but fighting to save all of ours
The Belo Monte dam’s construction forced 14,000 from their homes in Brazil's Amazon and disrupted a vital ecosystem
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionWhy Bolsonaro may want to think twice about Putin’s support
As Brazil’s elections loom, President Bolsonaro finds himself behind in the polls and isolated internationally. Can...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisIs Latin America shifting to the Left again?
After the Left’s success in Chile, Honduras and Peru last year, will Brazil and Colombia follow suit in 2022?
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionHow much has Bolsonaro changed Brazil’s role in the world?
The far-Right leader’s status as an international pariah masks some important points of continuity
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionIs there a ‘third way’ for Brazil?
As Bolsonaro and Lula square up for next year’s election, some Brazilians demand an alternative. But does it risk...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: OpinionJohnson’s UK, Bolsonaro’s Brazil and Orbán’s Hungary: peas in a state-captured pod
State capture happens when narrow interest groups take control of public policy, buying influence to rewrite the...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionBolsonaro’s empty climate promises for Brazil
As Bolsonaro claims to protect forests, his leadership has allowed devastation of the Amazonian jungle to reach epic heights
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaFate of the Piripkura tribe in the hands of agency taken over by Bolsonaro
Last remaining family members rely on Brazil’s Indigenous land protection orders for survival. With the protections...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionIf we lose the Amazon, our world will lose its future
Brazil is voting to legalize the destruction of the Amazon forest and the extermination of Indigenous peoples, the...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisThe war on Indigenous rights in Brazil is intensifying
The Bolsonaro government is using legislation and the courts to try to deprive indigenous people of their rights
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisJair Bolsonaro is betting on chaos in Brazil
More than 100 impeachment requests, a corrupt government, and a fatally mismanaged health crisis. Yet the president...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: Interview‘Bolsonaro’s politics of hate wants to destroy all that Marielle represents’
Monica Benicio, the former partner of human rights activist Marielle Franco, murdered in 2018, explains how she is...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisBolsonaro falters as his COVID disaster becomes impossible to ignore
Losing allies at home and abroad, could this be the beginning of the end for Brazil’s authoritarian president?
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionBrazil’s catastrophic management of COVID-19 threatens the entire world
Bolsonaro’s inability to curb the pandemic goes beyond creating a national tragedy – he has produced a global threat
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisThe ‘biggest judicial lie’ in Brazil’s history – former leader Lula is back
With his corruption convictions quashed, the former premier is no longer yesterday’s man. He could even be set for...