The Brazilian President and the dictatorship
Brazil’s sitting President Jair Bolsonaro built his political trajectory based on two complementary strategies. On one hand, he cultivated (...) READ MORE
Claudio's articles
The balance of power in the peculiar Bolsonaro administration
The Jair Bolsonaro administration is not your ordinary government. Unlike its predecessors, this administration has brought a new breed (...) READ MORE
Why does the Brazilian media normalize the extreme right?
There has been no shortage of international media outlets calling Jair Bolsonaro, the frontrunner in Brazil’s presidential race, a (...) READ MORE
The changed face of Brazil’s elected officials
Brazil’s elections on October 7 produced a rather predictable result, reflecting at all levels what the presidential polls were (...) READ MORE
Jair Bolsonaro’s rise a portrait of strange times in Brazil
Forecasts made by political scientists seem to be even less accurate than those by weather reporters. And, as global (...) READ MORE
Why Brazil’s right calls Nazism a left-wing movement
At times, Brazil does seem to be a country straight out of Bizarro World. Earlier this week, a social (...) READ MORE
Unprecedented level of political radicalism in Brazil
Even before far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro was stabbed in the stomach, Brazil’s presidential race had reached levels of radicalism (...) READ MORE
Lula and Jair Bolsonaro: the popular and the populist
Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been called a populist on many occasions. The use of this (...) READ MORE
Brazil’s polls for president: a look beyond the numbers
The Brazilian presidential campaign is now officially underway, with candidates holding rallies, attending debates, and preparing their television and (...) READ MORE
Brazil’s recurring phenomenon of joke candidates
It has been 36 years since Brazil returned to a widely competitive electoral system, after roughly two decades of (...) READ MORE
