An interview with Lula. Part Two
I really want to polarize. I want to hold deep ideological debates. I want the people to know that there is no teaching anywhere …
An interview with Lula. Part One
In January, 2020, Brasil Wire editors Daniel Hunt and Brian Mier, in partnership with Michael Brooks, host of the Michael Brooks Show, interviewed former …
Latin America’s neoliberal governments are turning into police states
The adaptation of repressive measures reveals South America’s neoliberal governments’ intentions to transform into police states as an offensive management tactic against violence and …
After Chile “Brazil will soon be next” – Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Portuguese Sociologist sees Brazil as the next Latin American country to confront Neoliberalism. In Brazil to participate in the opening of the annual meeting …
Police killing of 8 year old girl blamed on Rio Governor Witzel
Brazil is still in shock at the killing of an eight-year-old girl, Agatha Vitória Sales Félix, struck in the back by a bullet during …
Banana Republic: Bolsonaro defends child labour
A 2018 report commissioned by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and Brazil’s Labour Prosecution Office showed that at least 8,000 Brazilian children and teenagers …
About last night: Brasil takes to the streets in defence of its future
On March 15 2019, a nationwide education strike became the platform for the biggest anti-government protests since Bolsonaro took power. With over 1 million …
Interview: PSOL’s Andreia de Jesus
Born in Venda Nova district of Belo Horizonte, Andreia de Jesus, is a lawyer, educator, public employee and a State Representative for PSOL. Patrick …
Bolsonaro and the death of social housing
The Bolsonaro government freezes funding for self-managed social housing construction, destroys the Ministry of Cities and tries to declare the housing movements as terrorists …
The fight begins against Brazil’s draconian pension reforms
The Unions and Social movements successfully blocked Michel Temer’s neoliberal pension reforms but new proposals by the Bolsonaro administration are even worse by Brian …