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1 week ago | 
dissentmagazine.org | Patrick Iber |Meaghan Winter |Benjamin Fogel |Andre Pagliarini
Our Authoritarian Atrocity Trump’s goal is blood-and-soil nationalism. The only choice is opposition. ▪ Spring 2025 March 26, 2025: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem stands in front of the prison bars of an overcrowded cell at El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center. The scene is staged: Noem wears a $50,000 Rolex and a tight-fitting white shirt, while the men behind her have been ordered to stand, their own shirts and masks removed to display their body and face tattoos.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
newrepublic.com | Andre Pagliarini
An editorial in the June 1, 1852 edition of the New York Daily Times, citing the recent admission of California to the union and “the discovery of gold amid its glistening sands,” urged Americans to set their sights on a new frontier below the Equator.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Andre Pagliarini
Former president Jair Bolsonaro, who governed Brazil calamitously from 2019 to 2023, remains barred from seeking elected office until 2030 for his role in undermining the democratic institutions of Latin America’s largest nation. This legal remedy, while non-prescribable in the United States, is one that Brazilian jurists can apply in response to rogue figures like Bolsonaro.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Andre Pagliarini
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaks during a joint press conference with U.S. President George W. Bush at Camp David in Maryland on March 31, 2007.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
brazilian.report | Brazilian politics |In English |Andre Pagliarini
Opinion Amid the expansion of the BRICS bloc, Brazil's foreign policy under Lula is navigating new challenges while seeking to maintain its strategic influence 4 min read The unprecedented third term of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been characterized by progress in key areas.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
brazilian.report | Brazilian politics |In English |Andre Pagliarini
Opinion The municipal elections scheduled for October will serve as a test of political strength for the final two years of Lula’s non-consecutive third term 4 min read The Lula administration is losing the fight against environmental degradation.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
brazilian.report | Brazilian politics |In English |Andre Pagliarini
Opinion Lula has taken flak for not taking a stronger stance against the Maduro regime in Venezuela. But Brazil's interests lie in maintaining relations with Caracas 5 min read On July 28, Venezuelans went to the polls in one of the most closely-watched elections of the year. The outcome, though, was predictable, despite many hoping for a different result.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
almendron.com | Andre Pagliarini
It was a scene that, in hindsight, appears downright reckless: On Sept. 6, 2018, a leading Brazilian presidential candidate was carried aloft by a throng of supporters in the streets of Juiz de Fora, a city in the country’s second-largest state of Minas Gerais. Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right former army captain who served in Brazil’s congress for almost 30 years before deciding to seek the presidency, was close enough to the crowd for one man to slide a knife into his stomach.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Andre Pagliarini
Politics Elections United States It was a scene that, in hindsight, appears downright reckless: On Sept. 6, 2018, a leading Brazilian presidential candidate was carried aloft by a throng of supporters in the streets of Juiz de Fora, a city in the country’s second-largest state of Minas Gerais.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
newrepublic.com | Andre Pagliarini
ErnestoGuevara de la Serna’s account of the arduous trip he took with his friendAlberto Granado in 1952 is one of the great literary testaments to thetransformational power of travel. This is true whatever one thinks of where thejourney ended up.
