Love it or leave it: Brazil’s reactionary parallel reality
This article originally appeared in Melodie & Rhythmus, and is reproduced in English with permission. By Daniel Hunt In October 1969 General Emílio Garrastazu …
Film Review: Bacurau
By Daniel Hunt Director Kleber Mendonça Filho has an uncanny ability to divine dark currents flowing under the Brazilian psyche. His timing is extraordinary, …
The Amazon’s Neocolonial Problem
There is a left argument for Brazilian sovereignty that should never need to be made. The 2019 G7 summit in Biarritz unnecessarily handed Brazil’s …
Bossa Nova, Modernity and Empire
By Daniel Hunt. João Gilberto, who along with Antônio Carlos Jobim is considered the father of Bossa Nova, died on Saturday 6th July 2019, …
A Coup at close range: Petra Costa’s ‘The Edge of Democracy’
Three years in the making, Petra Costa’s masterful new documentary ‘The Edge of Democracy’ is an essential telling of Brazil’s recent history, and a …
Fernando Haddad & Manuela D’Ávila’s stand will be judged by history
With a politics of hope over hate, of education over arms, of development over privatisation, at the head of a broad pro-democracy front which includes …
Seja feita a vossa vontade: a guerra santa do Brasil
Uma batalha de cinquenta anos que veio dos EUA, para combater a Teologia da Libertação Católica no Brasil, promete ricas recompensas a grandes custos …
Thy Will Be Done: Brasil’s Holy War
A fifty year foreign battle to combat Catholic Liberation Theology in Brazil promises rich rewards for the vested interests which initiated it, at great …
Mamba Negra & Teto Preto: A soundtrack for Brasil’s dystopian moment
In August 2016, the eyes of the world were on Brasil for all the wrong reasons; a shadowy coup d’état in progress, police repression …
Mirante 9: A Window To São Paulo’s Rebirth
My own introduction to São Paulo was in September 2004 – a brisk early-morning taxi ride into a city that I didn’t yet know would become my home. …
