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Greenwald’s embarrassing public spat with Brazilian Union

In heated Twitter exchange, millionaire Fox News commentator Glenn Greenwald insinuates that a labor union representing petroleum platform workers who made an average of US$350/month in 2020 is “privileged”. By Brian Mier It all started on the Flow podcast. Sitting with his husband Glenn, David Miranda, one of 10 members of Brazilian congress from PSOL […]

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Who Killed Leuvis Manuel Olivero?

Leuvis Manuel Olivero was a US citizen, dad, and author critical of the Bolsonaro administration.  Why was he murdered? by Brian Mier In 2011, Leuvis Manuel Olivero, a Dominican immigrant to the US who had a degree in International Studies from Trinity College in Connecticut, took a trip to Rio de Janeiro. In his own […]

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Lesser Evil: Olympics bogeyman back as Rio mayor

Rio de Janeiro hasn’t elected a progressive mayor since the 1980s but this year progressives are celebrating anyway, as center right candidate and former Mayor Eduardo Paes beat a man widely considered the worst mayor in Rio de Janeiro’s 455 year history. By Luiz Matheus* The left’s failure to mount a coalition ticket, with vote […]

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Crivella’s Guardians: hired goons attack reporters in Rio

Rio de Janeiro’s Mayor under investigation for ordering staff to attack reporters covering the pandemic by Luiz Matheus* Imagine that the president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, was caught organizing a scheme with his government officials to embarrass journalists and disrupt reports on the doors of Belarusian hospitals in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic. Such […]

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Maré shows its force – a Rio community fights against coronavirus

An Interview with Dr. Eliana Sousa Silva, Director of Redes da Maré. By Brian Mier One of tourists’ first impressions of Rio de Janeiro is the sprawling cluster of favelas sandwiched between Avenida Brasil and the Red Line highway that stretches from the foot of the bridge from Cidade Universitãrio to the neighborhood of Manguinhos […]

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AUTHORITARIANISM CULTURE RIO DE JANEIRO

No bishops, no captains: Rio Carnaval vs the Far Right

This year’s Rio de Janeiro carnaval parade, which will take place on February 23rd and 24th, shows sings of being one of its most political ever, as voices of Rio’s black population rise up against the religious, social and economic persecution of the right wing extremist Jair Bolsonaro government By Gabriel Deslandes In 1929, a […]

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69% of Rio residents want to move out

Postcard views and beautiful beaches may be nice for tourists, but most Cariocas want to leave.  Governor Wilson Witzel’s violent security policies and fear of organized crime militias are cited as reasons for residents’ dissatisfaction with the city Results of a survey by the Brazilian polling agency DataFolha, released on Tuesday, December 17, show that […]

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Supreme Court may investigate involvement of Jair Bolsonaro in Marielle Franco’s murder

BREAKING: Globo’s Jornal Nacional has reported that one of those involved in the March 14 2018 assassination of Rio de Janeiro Councilwoman Marielle Franco was in President Jair Bolsonaro’s condominium on the day of the murder, and was registered as a visitor for Jair Bolsonaro. The accused reportedly visited military police officer Ronnie Lessa, named […]

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Police killing of 8 year old girl blamed on Rio Governor Witzel

Brazil is still in shock at the killing of an eight-year-old girl, Agatha Vitória Sales Félix, struck in the back by a bullet during a police operation in Complexo do Alemão favela, northern zone of Rio de Janeiro, on Friday 20th September 2019. The girl was shot while in a van with her grandfather. After […]

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AUTHORITARIANISM CRIME EQUALITY FEMINISM POLITICS RACIAL EQUALITY RIO DE JANEIRO

Marielle Franco would have turned 40 today

500 days after the socialist city councilwoman’s assassination, the people who ordered her killing are still at large On Saturday, July 27th, Congressman Marcelo Freixo (PSOL-Rio de Janeiro) published a video of city councilwoman Marielle Franco in Pedra do Sal, downtown Rio, in 2017, on her 38th birthday. The socialist lawmaker would have turned 40 […]