Amid the furore of Brazil’s 2018 elections: listening for the quiet...
One afternoon in October 2013, I arrived for an appointment at a public building in a small town in Brazil. Sitting opposite in the...
Amazon Diary 2: In the shadows of the dictatorship
This is the second of three Letters from the Amazon, written in recent weeks by LAB collaborator Dan Baron Cohen. Further letters will be...
Amazon Diary 1: Everything that no-one wants
This is the first of three Letters from the Amazon, written in recent weeks by LAB collaborator Dan Baron Cohen. Further letters will be...
Amazon Diary 3: Create a horizon of good living
This is the Dan Baron Cohen's third letter from the Amazon. Further letters will be published in the next few months. You can see...
Brazil: will fake news win the election?
As Brazil enters the final week before the second round of the presidential election, to be held on Sunday 29 October, the industrial scale...
Bolsonaro’s dirty tricks
An avalanche of millions of anti-PT messages, most of them slanderous lies or fake news, has inundated the screens of Brazilian WhatsApp users in...
Are Brazilians sleepwalking into disaster?
São Paulo,12 October. Are we heading for a repeat of the fiasco which followed previous elections of so-called salvadores da pátria - messianic figures...
Brazil: as the dust settles, the picture is grim
On Sunday night we watched in horror as Bolsonaro’s percentage of the vote crept up to 47%, 48%...it seemed clear that he would win...
Bolsonaro’s Black Box
P oll after poll this week has shown support for the ex-army captain, Jair Bolsonaro, is growing, while the number backing Fernando Haddad, from...
Brazil’s elections: right or left?
With just a few days to go elections on 7 October, polls indicate a run off in the second round between the small PSL’s...