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Brasil’s Shock Doctrine
“Only a crisis, real or perceived, produces real change.” – Milton Friedman. Brasil is having a horrible 2015; a far less favourable global economic …
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The Pajero Paradox
“Latin America” is not a country. It is a vast region of the Earth with parallel indigenous & colonial histories, independence struggles, mostly common language, …
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The Economist & Brasil: A Love Story
The Economist holds an unusual position in the Brazilian media landscape, it is frequently featured on front pages of major conservative dailies and has …
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Stats, Maps & Havaianas
You might have seen this odd map popping up in your timelines over the past few weeks, a map purporting to reveal the principal …
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Echoes in the Echo Chamber: Brasil, Elections, Media & the Ghosts of ’64.
“There’s an unwritten understanding amongst Foreign Correspondents that the U.S. wants PSDB in power.” – Foreign Correspondent, São Paulo, 22/6/2013 Originally published March 2015. …
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Is Brasil becoming an Algorithmocracy?
A world constructed from the familiar is a world in which there’s nothing to learn, since there is invisible autopropaganda, indoctrinating us with our …
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Brasil’s Citizen Kanes
Brasil has a healthy and noisy media landscape; from sophisticated daily papers and weekly magazines comparable to any in Europe, right through to trashy …
