Frei Betto: A Genocide Is Taking Place In Brazil
Frei Betto is a Brazilian writer, philosopher, liberation theologian, and Dominican friar. Involved in Brazil’s emancipatory struggles for decades, Betto was imprisoned for four years …
COVID-19 in Latin America: Growing Challenges in the World’s Most Unequal Region
By Rafael R. Ioris. This article originally appeared at COHA and is republished with permission. Confirming what scientists had been saying for the last …
Pandemic, Racism and Indigenous / Black Genocide in Brazil: Coronavirus and Extermination Policy
By Felipe Milanez and Samuel Vida Tragedies are always socially unequal and expose in a striking way historically constructed inequalities, for example in the …
Maré shows its force – a Rio community fights against coronavirus
An Interview with Dr. Eliana Sousa Silva, Director of Redes da Maré. By Brian Mier One of tourists’ first impressions of Rio de Janeiro …
Bolsonaro and Coronavirus: A Tragedy Foretold
“No room for sentiment” said Wall Street insiders in 2018, as their man Jair Bolsonaro ascended to the Brazilian Presidency. In the face of …
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 …