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 …
Anti-corruption, Authoritarianism and the Arrest of a Governor
Rio Governor Luiz Fernando Pezão was not very popular, but his evidence-free preventative imprisonment by the Federal Police may be an ominous foreshadowing of …
Return to Monarchy? Pining for Brazil’s backwards Imperial past
by Gabriel Deslandes In the middle of the worst political and economic crisis in Brazil’s republican history, certain themes and ideological rallying cries that …
How conservative corruption opened a fascist door in Rio
Massive corruption in Rio de Janeiro’s disastrous Public/Private transportation partnerships brought an end to decades of MDB party hegemony, but the power vacuum that …
New Rio governor wants snipers
Rio police killed over 1000 people last year. Now Jair Bolsonaro’s neofascist gubernatorial ally says he wants police snipers to assassinate low level drug …
Globo: Evangelical ascension, a threat to its hegemony – Part 3
By Gabriel Deslandes. The successive institutional crises of Brazil, along with the social chaos provoked by the economic crisis, installed a climate of an …
Globo: The fall of the Worker’s Party, live in color – Part 2
By Gabriel Deslandes. When the Worker’s Party PT saw itself being pressured like never before by the media coverage of the “mensalão” scandal, its’ …
Globo: from coup-plotting to far-right contestations – Part 1
By Gabriel Deslandes. There’s something unforeseen stirring up in the empire of the biggest telecommunications network in Latin America. For the first time in …
Neoliberal Vampires: Rio Carnaval Politicizes
By Gabriel Deslandes. Rio de Janeiro Carnaval parade groups, called Samba Schools, are preparing social and political criticism for the 2018 carnaval, with parades …
