Protesters, supporters of Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro, storm the National Congress building in Brasilia on Jan. 8, 2023.
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Populism has been unleashed. We’re beyond the stop-gap measures of small-step reform or pragmatic centrist liberalism. What’s next? We’re about to find out.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaks to reporters during a news conference on Jan. 23, 2023.
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President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will meet with President Biden at the White House on Feb. 10, 2023, to discuss several joint issues. But democracy is job one.
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Children who suffer trauma are more likely to have mental health problems such as anxiety.
Bolstering Brazil’s economy will be hard if there’s a global recession.
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He faces strong headwinds at home and abroad as his third term as president gets underway.
Protesters who support Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro storm the National Congress building in Brasilia, Brazil, on Jan. 8, 2023.
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The chaos in Brazil’s capital, along with the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection in the US, demonstrate that there is a key human factor in election integrity.
Incoming president Lula faces many challenges.
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Brazil’s president has some significant struggles ahead to bring the country together.
Hand in glove: former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro presiding over the inauguration of General Edson Leal Pujol as chief of the army in 2019.
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Brazil’s military portrays itself as guardian of the country’s democracy when it has often been anything but.
Military police clash with supporters of Brazilian former President Jair Bolsonaro after an invasion to Planalto Presidential Palace in Brasilia on January 8, 2023. Sergio Lima/AFP via Getty Images.
Language can provoke violence between groups especially when people paint others as threats.
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Ousted right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro had been mobilising supporters with talk of electoral fraud.
Brazil’s new President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (C) greets indigenous Brazilian leader and environmentalist Raoni Metuktire, known as Chief Raoni (3-R), and other community representatives after his inauguration ceremony on January 1, 2023.
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More than a week into administration, Lula’s multicultural politics could not stand in starker contrast to Bolsonaro’s colourblind stance. Could they bring the country together?
Chaos: one of hundreds of supporters of ousted president Jair Bolsonaro outside the presidential palace.
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Hundreds of Bolsonaro supporters have been arrested and state governors read the riot act for disloyalty to the elected government.
Supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro clash with security forces.
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The sacking of key democratic institutions in Brasilia has parallels with the Jan. 6 assault on the US Capitol but was different in one key way: the position of the military.
Many of the products we buy are linked to deforestation.
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The EU have introduced a new regulation on the import of products linked to deforestation – but will this reduce deforestation globally?
Pelé enters Rasunda stadium in Stockholm, Sweden in 2012.
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Pelé’s death in December saw the world mourn one of football’s all time greats, but his contributions to the business of football were by no means less great.
Pelé inspired millions with his exploits on the soccer pitch, but also had to confront power to extract himself from the sport’s social constraints.
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Pelé become a symbol of the Black diaspora, a pan-African reference point and cosmopolitan icon.
Held aloft as the embodiment of the beautiful game.
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The Brazilian soccer great died on Dec. 29, 2022, at the age of 82. His record as a goal-scorer – and the delight he gave millions – means he will go down as one of the greatest.
Farmers in India are among communities around the world hit hard by unscrupulous microlending.
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Market-led microcredit innovations dominated by profit maximisation can harm the very vulnerable.
Rising above Spain is one thing … but can Morocco repeat the feat again and again and again?
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Shock results happen, but that doesn’t make it any easier for lower-ranked nations to rise up the ranks, a soccer economist explains.
The Brazilian’s football team’s yellow shirt has become a symbol of Bolsonaro in recent years.
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Support for Brazil’s football team may be breaking down political division in the country, at least for now.
Busloads of voters were stopped by police on the way to place their ballots during the Brazilian election.
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Laws making it more difficult to vote are being introduced around the democratic world, an expert says.