President Michel Temer’s government, in a combination of illegitimate rise to power, a push for a social and economic program that is antinational and antipopular (which has not effectively brought the economy’s recovery, even as the government and the press try to make the population think otherwise) and overflowing evidence-based charges of corruption (including the […]
Introduction In this text I will conduct a brief historical review, which will take as its beginning the immediate post-war period and will end at the present time. That’s done so it’s possible to have an adequate understanding of Brazilian foreign policy in the recent period comprising the 1990’s, the beginning of the Post-Cold War, […]
In recent years, many events in Brazil are incomprehensible if one doesn’t have in mind the country’s international relations. Many analyses, most of them, even those that present themselves as critical, reflect on this period having in mind only the internal dynamics, especially that of class struggle. Although the workings of class struggle dynamics are […]
The cycle of political instability through which Brazil undergoes begins in June 2013. Starting off at protests by young people demanding free fares in São Paulo’s public transport, demonstrations erupted throughout the whole country in an unprecendent scale. The demonstrations are presented as non-filliated to any political party and comprehend both the left and the […]
Understanding the Brazilian political landscape in the last few years and the context in which the 2018 elections are to be held is inseparable from understanding the so-called Operation Car Wash, an investigation that brings together the Brazilian Federal Police (the equivalent to the FBI in the USA) and the Federal Prosecution Office, both which […]