Brazil: lorry drivers strike brings chaos
São Paulo, 29 May 2018: A week-long strike by hundreds of thousands of lorry drivers, blockading highways and interrupting deliveries of petrol, food, medical...
Brazil: Lula’s last stand
São Paulo, 16 April. Lula disappeared into the federal police building in Curitiba on 7 April and nobody knows when he will be seen...
Brazil: the judges, the generals and all the president’s men
In a decision as closely watched as a World Cup final, Brazil’s Supreme Court decided by 6 to 5 to reject a habeas corpus...
The four bullets that killed Marielle
22 March 2018. Marielle Franco was executed with four bullets. One each for racism, misogyny, homophobia and impunity.
By killing Marielle, the assassins eliminated not...
Brazil’s carnivals denounce the monsters of corruption and discrimination
São Paulo, 15 February 2018. It’s Ash Wednesday and all that’s left of Carnival in the streets of São Paulo are rows of chemical...
Brazil’s Cinderella: to prison, or to the ball?
São Paulo, 26 January 2018. Not only was Lula’s appeal rejected and his sentence increased to twelve years by the court in Porto Alegre...
Brazil: the trial of the century
São Paulo 21 January. Some are calling it the trial of the century. The fate of the man who leads all the polls by...
Rio’s rulers behind bars as the 2018 race begins
1 December 2017. Just over a year ago, Rio was on a roll, basking in post-Olympic glory, applauded all over the world for a...
Brazil: Sojourn in Santarém
Jan Rocha takes a break from her usual razor-sharp analyses of Brazil's political landscape. Yet, even in Santarém, Pará, where the Tapajos river joins...
Temer takes Brazil back to the past
Taking the 'country of the future' back to the past
Sao Paulo, 20th October. It seems that Michel Temer will stop at nothing to buy...