In January 2017 Brazil’s Prosecutor General Rodrigo Janot made an unprecedented trip to Davos for the World Economic Forum, during which he addressed assembled billionaires about the strides his country was making in combatting corruption. The nature and purpose of his trip raised eyebrows. Federal deputy Paulo Pimenta (PT-RS) remarked: “I did not find any legal provisions […]
Christina Rickardsson, 33, is a successful Swedish businesswoman who spent the first years of her life as Christiana Mara Coelho , one of tens of thousands of homeless children who did what they could to survive on the rough streets of Brazilian cities during the crisis years of the 1980s and 1990s. After winding up […]
Source: A árvore genealógica dos partidos políticos do Brasil by Felipe Duarte. Who hasn’t been curious to draw a family tree? Especially if you’re from a family of immigrants (German, Italian, etc.) You know that hint of curiosity, which leads you to think, ‘where do I come from and where am I going?’ Well these […]
By Tiago Rodrigues Santos Since 1984, the MST (Movimento Sem Terra or Landless Rural Workers’ Movement) has voluntarily built 1500 public schools in its agrarian reform settlement villages in the Brasilian countryside. One highlight of this long process was the construction of its Florestan Fernandes National school, which contains a working organic farm and, through […]
Military Police repression of Anti-Coup protest in São Paulo, 31/8/2016 [qpp]
Greetings to ex-president Luís Inácio Lula da Silva, senators, federal deputies, party leaders, leaders of social movements, and to the women and men of my country. Today the federal Senate made a decision that will enter history alongside its great injustices. The senators who voted for impeachment chose to tear up the federal Constitution. They decided […]
On a recent episode of Al Jazeera’s program, The Listening Post, Paolo Ganino shows how Brasil’s largest media corporation, Rede Globo, did not merely cover the anti-government protests of 2015 that built a pretext to the flawed impeachment process against President Dilma Rousseff (which reputable publications such as Der Speigel, LeMonde and El Pais are […]
Shortly after suspension of Dilma Rousseff (Workers Party/PT) as President following consecutive Congressional and Senate votes for her impeachment, her Vice President Michel Temer (PMDB), effectively took power permanently, rather than in the form of a caretaker administration, as could have been expected. With a startling shift to the right, he removed all traces of […]
Beyond Citizen Kane (1993) is a British documentary film directed by Simon Hartog, produced by John Ellis, and first broadcast on Channel 4. It details the dominant position of the Rede Globo media group, the largest in Brazil, and discusses the group’s influence, power, and political connections.[2] Globo’s president and founder Roberto Marinho was criticised […]
This week, embattled Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff invited correspondents from large global media organisations, some of which her administration had previously snubbed, to a special press conference to address International Media about the plot to anti-democratically oust her. This coincided with such a shift in international narrative towards tacit, personal support for Rousseff, and a perception […]