He once called it a ‘little flu’ – now Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, has tested positive for COVID-19.
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The absence of trust in a nation’s leader and government jeopardizes an effective response to a health crisis. It also creates a political crisis, a loss of faith in democracy.
The purveyors of these myths, including politicians who have been soft peddling the impact of the coronavirus, aren’t doing the country any favors.
Indigenous communities were already suffering badly under Bolsonaro. Now, COVID-19 threatens their very survival.
Jair Bolsonaro’s government has put forward laws that could put Indigenous land into the hands of mining, agricultural and timber businesses.
Germany, New Zealand and Taiwan share a common trait beyond having women in the top job.
Inequality, confused responses and a disbelieving leader have all contributed to a crisis that’s showing no signs of slowing down.
It is no accident that those leaders who have responded worst to this crisis have also been the main sources of countless conspiracy theories and misinformation.
A repeat of 2019’s disastrous fire season is possible in 2020, and it would have dire consequences.
In a Latin American country hard hit by COVID-19, an agricultural collective is stepping in to help where government won’t, mounting an astonishing national pandemic response.
Jair Bolsonaro has ignored and openly challenged the advice of health authorities, sacked his health minister and tried to use the pandemic for political gain.
There are telling parallels between the current pandemic and those that decimated indigenous populations in the post-Columbian era in the Amazon.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been called the South American version of Donald Trump. His behaviour during the coronavirus pandemic shows why.
Native Brazilians are among the Amazon’s most effective defenders against logging and mining, because they’re fighting not just for the environment but for their people’s very survival.
If Brazil can find an efficient, pragmatic way to welcome, protect and integrate hundreds of thousands of forced migrants arriving at its border, so can more affluent states.
The only centre for LGBTQ+ refugees in Latin America is overwhelmed by demand and is struggling to take in refugees from Venezuela.
About 24,000 square miles of Amazon rainforest have been deforested over the last decade.
Today’s autocrats rarely use brute force to wrest control. A human rights and international law scholar details the modern authoritarian’s latest methods to grab and hold power.
From Boris Johnson to Donald Trump, a new breed of bullshitting politicians is flourishing.
A host of political and social factors have created Brazil’s polarised political climate.
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Director of the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University
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Professor of Latin American Studies and Geography, University of Florida
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PhD Candidate, King's College London
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PhD Candidate, Human Geography, UCL
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PhD student of law, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)
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Professor of Geography, University of Florida
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Equity Studies and member of the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, York University, Canada
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Co-Director, Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, and Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Professor emeritus, Department of Politics, York University, Canada
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Professor of Political Science and Founding Director, International Studies Program, Burman University
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Professor, Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA)
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Associate Professor of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability, University of Richmond
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Lecturer in Work, Employment and Organisation, University of Strathclyde
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Professor of Political Economy and International Development, King's College London
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Ph.D., Associate research scientist, University of Florida
