Brazil’s Environmentalist Façade Unmasked at COP22
Brazil’s new Minister of Agriculture, Blairo Maggi, struggled to respond to civil society challenges at COP22, as the country’s commitment ...
Mass Evictions at Pinheirinho: Favela Residents Confront Brazil’s Development Boom
Mass evictions and police violence at Pinheirinho, a favela on the outskirts of São Paolo, illustrate the collateral damage of ...
Brazil The Continental Strategy
The “social purpose” of the economy, as it is called, is a pillar of the socialist model of socio-political organization ...
Brazil Without Poverty? Dilma’s Double Discourse
Last week Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff launched an ambitious program to eradicate extreme poverty by 2014. Under the “Brazil Without ...
AIDS Solidarity as Policy: Constructing the Brazilian Model
Perhaps more than any other modern epidemic, HIV spread around the world in ways that made it the first, and ...
Middle Powers: IBSA and the New South-South Cooperation
In the 1970s, the world’s underdeveloped nations launched the idea of South-South cooperation. Following in the spirit of Bandung, they ...
Black Brazilian Women and the Lula Administration
This piece was published in the March/April 2007 issue of the NACLA Report. The social sciences produced by black intellectuals ...
Paramilitary Games
When I first spoke with Dirce, she heaved a big sigh. I had called to ask if I could interview ...
