...Fernanda Canofre Brazil is in the midst of perhaps the most sweeping criminalization of indigenous rights in recent history. The “ruralists,” politicians in Congress with ties to the country’s influential agribusiness lobby, are pushing through legislation to rob independent government agencies...

...Fernanda Canofre When a society fails to confront the dark episodes of its history, it leaves its past vulnerable to distortion and exploitation, argues journalist Fernanda Canofre. Brazil has never properly investigated the crimes of its military dictatorship period (1964-1985), and far-right...

...Joel Pinheiro Da Fonseca Copyright © 2018 World Policy Institute 2018 AGÊNCIA BRASIL FOTOGRAFIAS AGÊNCIA BRASIL FOTOGRAFIAS April 7, 2018, was a day of historical importance for Brazil. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (known as Lula) was arrested for corruption and money laundering...

...Fernanda Canofre The region where Caxias do Sul and Nova Araçá are situated is commonly called Sierra Gaucha. Its raw winters and rugged geography have made the Sierra famous as a sort of little Europe in Brazil, attracting thousands of tourists from different parts of the country experiencing...

... remember, there were no doctors in his family. So, his decision to become a doctor came as a natural calling. “I’ve seen it as a way of helping people,” he asserts. That was also the reason that led him to leave his wife and daughter at home in Guantanamo last August to go and live in Brazil. Juan...

... In countries around the world, minorities are disproportionately represented in incarcerated populations. World Policy Journal charts the demographics of the general population against the imprisoned population in the U.S., South Africa, England and Wales, Canada, Brazil, and Australia and reveals...

.... Jonathan Power compares the pope’s silence to the courage of Brazil’s church hierarchy, which stood up to dictatorship. Power urges the pope to explain exactly what went on and how the Argentine church erred. The pope’s admission, Powers argues, would inspire his followers to think more profoundly about...

.... Lula’s Big Win Omar G. Encamación Latin American elections rarely attract at­ on global markets of Brazil’s turn to the tention in the United States, but the Brazil­ left. Last August, in an appearance on NBC’s ian presidential campaign that concluded Meet the Press, O’Neill...

.... But in their conversation with each other, it become sclear that they face many of the same challenges in overcoming their countries’ naïvenarratives on race. Copyright © 2016 World Policy Institute 2016 black lives matter racism Brazil Canada organizing RICHARD HAHN RICHARD HAHN Janaya Khan...

... interested in inequality have tended to ask how black people are living, black rights movement sacross the Americasare demanding that society confront a more difficult question: How are black people dying? Copyright © 2016 World Policy Institute 2016 Brazil Colombia black lives matter racism...

... Institute 2017 Brazil Dilma Rousseff sexism misogyny politics João Berchmans Correia Serra, Sen. Aloysio Nunes Ferreira, Sen. Raimundo Lira, and Miguel Reale Júnior converse during Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment hearings. GERALDO MAGELA/AGÊNCIA SENADO João Berchmans Correia Serra, Sen...

.... The cost has the Soviet Union and now support the U.S. been borne by America’s main trading part­ role. In Afghanistan, they played a support­ ners, including Brazil. Whether one looks ive, though not decisive, role. With respect at bilateral or regional policies, or even uni­ to the action...

... civil soci­ freezing its consolidation. Brazil, both a ety and a poorly institutionalized political paradigm of civil society resurgence and a system with an overburdened government highly problematic case of democratization, coping not only with consolidating democ­ is a case in point. racy...

...Andrew Galbraith; Miriam Eldar; Jeb Blount Jeb Blount, a correspondent for Platts, has been reporting from Brazil for almost 20 years . Despite Lula's bragging, it's these private companies, and not Petrobras—which is based in Rio de Janeiro anyway—that will give São Paulo its shot...

.... Large, recently thriving countries like Brazil are struggling, hampered by domestic scandals. The economies of oil-dependent countries like Venezuela and Ecuador are stagnant, while other nations, such as Chile and Mexico, seem poised for growth. Amid this turbulence, countries are striving...

...Omar G. Encarnación Copyright © 2004 World Policy Institute 2004 Omar G . Encamación is associate professor o f political studies a t B ard College and the author, most recently, of The Myth of Civil Society: Social Capital and Democratic Consolidation in Spain and Brazil (Paigrave...

... and the Free Trade Area of the Americas when he attended presidential inaugurals in ( f t a a ) and denied participation in the Orga­ Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, and Paraguay. nization of American States (OAS), Cuba ap­ He has developed a close personal and po­ peared to have been permanently relegated...