Once at the centre of the region's left turn, Brazil聽has for the past two years been governed by a far-right president.听Michael Fox聽spoke to 91自拍论坛聽about聽the significance of recent events there.
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The sudden surge in numbers of COVID-19 cases in the Brazilian state of Amazonas has caused a collapse in the public health system with a lack of ICU beds and oxygen, writes People's Dispatch.听
Like Donald Trump, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has normalised white supremacists, peddled fake news, downplayed the coronavirus pandemic聽and used conspiracy theories to attack science, writes Michael Fox.
91自拍论坛聽sits聽down with long-time multimedia journalist and radio reporter Michael Fox to discuss聽politics in Brazil.听
Brazilian ecosocialist Sabrina Fernandes spoke at Green Left's recent Ecosocialism Conference.
This month marked two and a half years since the assassination of Brazilian socialist councillor Marielle Franco. 91自拍论坛聽spoke to Andre Mozor聽about the campaign demanding justice for Marielle and Brazil鈥檚 worsening political and health crisis.
The Brazilian government is moving to restrict access to legal abortion and intimidating health professionals, writes Marina Duarte de Souza.
The Amazon will play a critical role in聽determining the future of life on Earth, given the climate regulating role the rainforest plays, writes聽Thiago 脕vila.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro persists in his attitude of denial, characterising the coronavirus as a 鈥渓ittle flu鈥: a definition that deserves to be included in the annals, not of medicine, but of political madness, writes Michael Lowy. But this madness has its logic, which is the logic of neofascism.
Already immersed in an overlapping health and economic crisis, Brazil is now also being engulfed by a political crisis. Sao Paulo University professor Andr茅 Singer聽outlines some of the key dynamics underpinning the current situation in Brazil.
Overwhelmed by the coronavirus health emergency, Brazil's far-right, anti-Cuban administration has fallen back on the small nation for medical support鈥 requesting help from the very same Cuban doctors it expelled months ago, writes Ben Norton.
On November 7, the Brazilian Supreme Court declared it illegal to jail defendants before their appeals鈥 processes have been exhausted. Within 24 hours, former President Luiz In谩cio Lula da Silva was released to an adoring crowd of hundreds. Despite this, the corporate media is continuing its smear campaign against him.
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