Friday, March 29, 2024

Jan Rocha's Blog

Jan Rocha is a former correspondent for the BBC and the Guardian and lives in São Paulo, Brazil. She is the author of a number of LAB books, and contributes this regular column for LAB, known for its incisive analysis of current Brazilian politics.

Brazil: heroes and rats

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As rain-soaked soldiers carried coffin after coffin into the football stadium in the small city of Chapecó, in a procession which seemed as though...

Rio: from kudos to chaos

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In less than three months Rio has passed from the splendour and success of the Olympic and Paralympic Games to a state of public...

Brazil: the Cardinal who stood up to the military

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A moving tribute to Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns on his 95th birthday

Brazil: Cunha, the man who knows too much

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The arrest of the former speaker of Congress has sent shock-waves through Brasilia.

Brazil — election post-mortem

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The PT (Workers' Party) fared very badly in the recent municipal elections and is unlikely to recover before 2018. The political system is entering a new era, but no one knows where it will lead.

Brazil: the new ‘government’ already in crisis

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Anti-Temer protests are spreading like wildfire as the new government is forced to make U turn after U turn

Brazil — Forward into the Past

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Interim President Michel Temer has chosen a white, male cabinet which ignores all the social advances of the last 14 years

Brazil: Dilma will be replaced by the corrupt, the inexperienced and...

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The senate votes to proceed with Impeachment and suspend Dilma. Some of Temer's cabinet choices have provoked indignation, even horror.

Brazil prepares to roll back green laws

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Dilma's government has done all too little to protect the environment and indigenous areas. Temer's could be much worse.

Checkmate for Cunha?

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Eduardo Cunha, who just a few days ago seemed untouchable, despite being strongly linked wth corruption, has been removed from office by Brazil's Supreme Court. Many Brazilian celebrated the decision.

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