BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilians return to the polls in 57 towns on Sunday for the runoffs of municipal elections that have witnessed surging violence involving assassinations and physical assaults on candidates. In two months of campaigning major up to the to start with round of voting on Nov. 15, there […]
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‘The way I am is an outrage’: the Indigenous Brazilian musicians taking back a burning country | Music
As Brazil’s world-acclaimed biodiversity turns to ashes, President Jair Bolsonaro has praised the country as an environmental role model. “It is not only in environmental preservation that the country stands out,” the far-right leader affirmed in a UN speech on 22 September. “In the humanitarian and human rights fields, Brazil […]
‘Another piece of populist propaganda’: Critics slam the Brazilian government’s new COVID-19 drug | Science
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro at a 19 October ceremony to announce final results from a medical demo with nitazoxanide Andre Borges/NurPhoto by using AP By Herton EscobarOct. 28, 2020 , 1:00 PM Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Centre and the Heising-Simons Basis. On 19 Oct, the Brazilian […]
How the ‘Ukrainize’ Notion Modified Brazilian Ideal-Wing Politics
In March 2016, when the Twitter consumer @fabranquinho predicted that correct-wing militias in Brazil may possibly “Ukrainize”—that is, radicalize a nascent protest motion versus left-wing President Dilma Rousseff in order to provoke federal government repression, which would then spur even further protest—he appeared to introduce Twitter a neologism that would […]