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Jan 10, 2025 | 
lab.org.uk | Joseph Bouchard
Brazil’s highly militarized policing disproportionately impacts poor and racialized communities. By providing funding and training, the United States has helped exacerbate the crisis. This article is reproduced here by kind permission of NACLA where it was first published on 7 January 2025. You can read the original here. Main image: Brazilian Military Police stand equipped in riot gear at the São Paulo World Cup protests on June 12, 2014.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
nacla.org | Joseph Bouchard
On November 5, São Paulo’s Military Police shot and killed a four-year-old boy, Ryan da Silva, in the coastal city of Santos in southeastern Brazil. The boy was killed during an operation in his neighborhood, a community that has long suffered from heavy-handed police interventions under the guise of combating crime. Nine months prior, his father was killed in the same place, by the same police unit.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
reason.com | Joseph Bouchard
Brazil With U.S.-supplied weapons and training, Brazil’s militarized police fuel a cycle of violence that claims thousands of lives each year while destabilizing the region.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
commondreams.org | Joseph Bouchard
Last week, a far-right politician, Francisco Wanderley, from now-banned former President Jair Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party, detonated bombs at Brazil’s Supreme Court.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
commondreams.org | Joseph Bouchard
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
intpolicydigest.org | Joseph Bouchard
On September 10, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Health Subcommittee convened a hearing with the FDA’s Deputy Commissioner and the Director of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP). The session spotlighted the Biden administration’s tobacco programs, underscoring an alarming disconnect between federal policies and the public’s needs.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
intpolicydigest.org | Joseph Bouchard
As the U.S. and its allies in the Middle East work to diffuse tensions in the region after the death of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, Brazilian President Lula da Silva has issued solidarity with Iran and sided with the Hamas government, derailing valuable security and diplomatic efforts in America’s backyard. Brazil is the most significant geopolitical power in Latin America and has the influence and leverage to help quell the crisis of antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment in the region.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
ledevoir.com | Joseph Bouchard
La Comuna 13 et d’autres quartiers historiquement violents de Medellín ont connu des améliorations importantes ces dernières années, un processus vanté par plusieurs, y compris la Banque mondiale, comme le « miracle de Medellín ». Ce progrès a entraîné une augmentation du tourisme, des investissements, de la stabilité et, surtout, de la paix.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
ledevoir.com | Joseph Bouchard
Le président argentin et fervent anarcho-capitaliste, Javier Milei, a une fois de plus créé une fracture diplomatique en Amérique latine par sa réponse à une crise politique dans la région.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
ledevoir.com | Joseph Bouchard
Près d’un an avant les prochaines élections présidentielles en Bolivie, l’avenir de la démocratie dans ce pays des Andes est mis en doute par une tentative de coup d’État. Plus tôt dans l’après-midi du 26 juin, des forces de la police nationale et de l’armée boliviennes ont rompu les rangs pour participer à une entrée forcée dans le palais présidentiel, le Palacio Quemado, à La Paz.
