Brazil: on the eve of elections, Haddad up, Bolsonaro down
São Paulo, October 23. On the eve of the second round of the presidential elections, armed police and officials from electoral tribunals invaded at...
Brazil post-elections: the quid pro quo
Only four days after Jair Bolsonaro's election, federal judge Sergio Moro, Lula’s nemesis, hurried to Rio to accept the president elect’s invitation to become...
The Mad Hatter’s tea-party: Bolsonaro chooses his cabinet
São Paulo, 3 December: During the election campaign, president-elect Jair Bolsonaro boasted he would pare the number of cabinet ministers down from its present...
The first family, the generals, the oranges and the Cheshire cat
25 February. It’s less than two months since Jair Bolsonaro was sworn in as president, but so much has happened that it seems like...
Bolsonaro: from bananas to pineapples
São Paulo, April 5: ‘If he sees a banana skin on the pavement across the road, he will cross over to slip on it’,...
Bolsonaro: beginning or end?
Is this the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning for Bolsonaro?
São Paulo, 27 May. Crowds dressed in green and...
Four generals, two monarchs, a judge, guns and gays: a week...
The last few days have seen President Jair Bolsonaro begin to show his true colours as an authoritarian populist. The ex-army captain sacked four...
Bolsonaro: is there method in his madness?
11 August 2019, São Paulo.
Each day the list of outrageous, insulting, untruthful comments by the president grows longer as President Jair Bolsonaro takes aim...
Brazil: the PT lion roars again
São Paulo, November 10 2019. Following a controversial Supreme Court ruling, Lula has been temporarily freed after 580 days in prison on a corruption...
Bolsonaro clowns while poverty soars
In what has become a daily ritual in Brasilia, the sleek black car stops by the band of fervent Bolsonaristas waiting outside the Alvorada...