The recent increase in murders of Brazilian trans and death threats to trans elected officials, encouraged by the Brazilian far right, is cause for great concern among international activists. In response the LGBTI+ Working Group of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil (USNDB) has issued a report on the current state of affairs under […]
Rock in Rio is a huge cultural event in Rio de Janeiro; for many people, it’s their one and only chance to see an artist or a band they love. The Rock in Rio stage has welcomed household names like Queen, Sting, Britney Spears, Guns ‘n’ Roses, Beyoncé and many, many more. For those who […]
Update 7/10/17: The Campaign has issued a response to the person responsible for Bolsonaro’s invitation Dr. Mark Langevin, a specialist on US-Brazil energy relations and security, who had defended the move. Read the response here. On October 13, 2017, Jair Bolsonaro, who Glenn Greenwald called the World’s most hateful, misogynistic, elected official, is scheduled to […]
In October São Paulo voters went to the polls and threw out one of the World’s most progressive big city governments in favor of João Doria, from the conservative PSDB party. Doria, the former star of the Brazilian franchise of Donald Trump’s reality show, The Apprentice, campaigned on the vague promises of “cleaning up the […]