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The Abducted Political System
Brasil Wire proudly announces its new partnership with Le Monde Diplomatique Brasil. Starting today, we will periodically translate and share their articles to advance …
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A Brief Look at Brazilian Social Movements
Brazil currently has its most conservative Congress in decades. As violence against social movements increases and the criminalization of Brazilian social movements in the …
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Sixty Years Later: What Have We Learned?
Successive demonstrations in its most important cities, brawls between militants of opposing ideological sides who see the other as an enemy rather than a …
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Paraná: The Story Behind a “Massacre”
On April 29 2015, the Military Police of Paraná attacked thousands of striking teachers in Curitiba with tear gas, pepper spray, dogs, and rubber …
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Bigger Than Ever? Not So Fast
Sunday, April 12, was supposed to be bigger than ever before. The same groups that organized Brazil’s March 15 demonstrations against Dilma Rousseff’s government …
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Brasil’s Prescribed Revolt: A story of two protests in São Paulo
Brasil’s right-wing march under a banner of anti-corruption but the protests of the past weekend illustrated what is actually a fresh manifestation of Brasil’s …
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Echoes in the Echo Chamber: Brasil, Elections, Media & the Ghosts of ’64.
“There’s an unwritten understanding amongst Foreign Correspondents that the U.S. wants PSDB in power.” – Foreign Correspondent, São Paulo, 22/6/2013 Originally published March 2015. …
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Mapped: The Panelaço balcony protest
For those outside Brazil, it went probably unnoticed the flood of messages on Twitter last Sunday night with the hashtag #vaiadilma (Boo Dilma in …
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Is Brasil becoming an Algorithmocracy?
A world constructed from the familiar is a world in which there’s nothing to learn, since there is invisible autopropaganda, indoctrinating us with our …
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How the massive Petrobras corruption scandal is upending Brazilian politics
Operation Car Wash, the investigation into the misuse of funds within Brazil’s partially state-owned oil company Petrobras, is little over a year old – …
