‘Go back to the plantation’ – Curitiba moves to impeach 1st City Councilor
The first impeachment process against a city councilor in the 329-year history of Curitiba - the Brazilian city that most cherishes its "European heritage" - is underway, and it has nothing...
Brazil mourns the loss of Elza Soares
With a career that spanned nearly 70 years and 34 albums, Brazil's beloved singer and activist passed away peacefully at the age of 91
by Brian Mier
In 1953, a young woman appeared...
Curitiba: beyond the myth of the perfect city
Curitiba is known around the world for innovative urban planning and European heritage. During a speech at the World Social Forum, however, Carol Dartora accused the city government of hiding its...
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...
Sadism and Misogyny in Bolsonaro’s Aryan Nation
In São Paulo, funk singer MC Reaça, who composed misogynistic jingles for Bolsonaro's presidential campaign, attempts to beat pregnant girlfriend to death then kills himself. Cynara Menezes writes that, to Bolsonaro...
Not one more drop of blood spilled
Indigenous people and their supporters protest in 51 cities around the World against the neo-fascist Bolsonaro administration's dismantling of reservations, cultural and land rights and his supporters' genocidal threats.
by Brian Mier
January...
São Paulo: Thousands Protest for Abortion Rights
The protest, which temporarily shut down Paulista Avenue, comes on the heels of a recent victory in Argentina and on the eve of a Federal Supreme Court hearing about decriminalization.
São Paulo, July...
Guardian Criminalizes the Urban Poor in Rockefeller-Sponsored Series on São Paulo
The Guardian kicked off a week of coverage about São Paulo today, as part of its Rockefeller Foundation sponsored “Cities” Series. Although part of this content appears to be generated with...
Capital’s class war in Brazil: An interview with Brian Mier
An interview with Brasil Wire editor Brian Mier.
In the following interview, which first appeared on the Chicago radio program This is Hell on Radio WNUR, Brasil Wire editor Brian Mier talks...
A Carnival of Chaos
The coup has transformed Brazil into a carnival of chaos and a parade of instability where samba drums have the rhythm of a planned insanity. There have been cuts to the education...
Alcântara Spaceport: Race, Land Rights and National Sovereignty
One day in 1993 I met a group of Brazilian military officers in São Luis airport. We flew off the island by small plane to the Alcântara...
Escalating repression and managing disorder
FASE - one of Brazil's oldest and most respective Non-Governmental Organisations, have published this bulletin on the current situation in the country.
Although Michel Temer’s government has brandished the old, worn out...
Mirror Mirror on the Wall
I touted this idea four years ago when we watched Obama’s second inauguration and noticed that Latin America was completely absent from any major initiative. Now, more than ever, the idea...