Bossa Nova, Modernity and Empire
By Daniel Hunt. João Gilberto, who along with Antônio Carlos Jobim is considered the father of Bossa Nova, died on Saturday 6th July 2019, …
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João Gilberto, Bossa Nova pioneer, has died
João Gilberto, native of Bahia and pioneer of Bossa Nova, which put Brazilian popular music on record players in homes across the planet during …
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Getúlio’s Long Shadow
The plot against Getúlio Vargas is often considered to be a purely internal Brazilian affair. This was contradicted by his own suicide note, in …
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Dead man walking: Congress isolates Bolsonaro
The clear displacement of power from the executive may be an attempt to remove the royal power from the President, transforming him into another …
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Workers Day 2013: Brasil’s Cancelled Future
Six years ago today, President of the Republic Dilma Rousseff made her customary televised Workers Day address to the Brazilian people. With towering public …
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Meet Brazil’s new President: José de Abreu
Taking lead from right wing Venezuelan opposition leader Brazilian actor declares himself President – challenges Juan Guaidó to debate By Brian Mier On February …
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Ricardo Boechat, Journalist. 1952-2019.
On the morning of 11th January, a 44 year old Bell B06 JetRanger helicopter carrying TV Bandeirantes News Anchor, Ricardo Boechat crashed in São …
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Brazil and the US left’s imperial blindspot
In an interview on the WNUR Chicago radio show This is Hell, which aired on Saturday, December 22, 2018, Brasil Wire co-editor Brian Mier …
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AI-5 and the forbidden future of Brasil
On the 50th anniversary of Institutional Act 5, the 1968 “coup within the coup” which ushered in an even more brutal and repressive phase of …
Return to Monarchy? Pining for Brazil’s backwards Imperial past
by Gabriel Deslandes In the middle of the worst political and economic crisis in Brazil’s republican history, certain themes and ideological rallying cries that …
