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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 82–91.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Omar G. Encarnación Professor of political studies Omar Encarnación details the sexism and misogyny leveled at Dilma Rousseff throughout her career in Brazilian politics. He argues that her impeachment was part of a growing backlash against women and people of color. Copyright © 2017 World Policy...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 19 (4): 73–77.
Published: 01 December 2003
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There is a strong sense of déjà vu in nence in Brazilian politics in the late 1970s
these gloomy forecasts. As it has done so as a leader of a trade union movement
often in the past, Washington is grossly formed in opposition to the military regime
misreading political developments...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 96–100.
Published: 01 December 2016
... politics AGÊNCIA BRASIL FOTOGRAFIAS AGÊNCIA BRASIL FOTOGRAFIAS PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil—When Jair Bolsonaro, a Brazilian congressmen and former army parachutist, voted to impeach President Dilma Rousseff on April 17, he exalted a torturer. He spoke into the microphone and told the legislature...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 77–82.
Published: 01 June 2018
.... It is unclear how much of the goodwill toward his Workers’ Party (PT) will be transferred to a new candidate, and how much of it will flow elsewhere. Lula is an unique figure in Brazilian politics: He’s a charismatic leader associated with left-wing and progressive causes (though far from a radical...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 38–45.
Published: 01 March 2016
... political representation, the criminalization of racism, the teaching of black history in public schools, and the acknowledgment of holidays recognizing Afro-Colombian and Afro-Brazilian contributions to the nation. As Afro-Colombian activist turned mayor, Zulia Mena, underscored when talking about...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 64–68.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of the ability to designate ancestral land for indigenous peoples. Brazilian journalist Fernanda Canofre reports on the politics behind the nation’s land battles, which killed more than 60 people last year. Copyright © 2017 World Policy Institute 2017 indigenous Brazil land rights Michel Temer Dilma...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (4): 102–110.
Published: 01 December 2013
... of poor and distant zones,” since the program did not demand from its foreign professionals proficiency in Portuguese or a Brazilian medical certificate. To the Federal Council of Medicine, the program itself represents an “irresponsible” political maneuver focusing only on next year’s election...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (4): 108–119.
Published: 01 December 2014
... questions. The first concerns confusion between natural migration and request for refuge. Failing to clarify these two distinct notions “converts humanitarian help into migratory policy, with severe consequences to the migrants, but also to the Brazilian State, which reduces citizenship to mere assistance...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 114–115.
Published: 01 March 2016
... interracial marriage, making mestizaje , or the cultural and biological mixture of different peoples, a part of the Brazilian national identity. In these pages, political scientist Tianna S. Paschel quotes a Brazilian diplomat who told the U.N. in 1979, “Even though there is a multiplicity of races that live...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (3): 75–81.
Published: 01 September 2003
... to social and economic development.
South America than elsewhere in the world. The new atmosphere of “a war of good
Immediately following the September against evil” constitutes a political challenge
11 attacks, the Brazilian government not for Brazil, beginning with the very concept
only...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (1): 25–34.
Published: 01 March 2011
... at real international financial power. If they succeed, São Paulo just might convert its Brazilian dominance into a place among the world's most powerful financial centers. This traditional timidity may be ending. São Paulo-based JBS, the world's largest beef producer, now slaughters much of the meat...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 20 (4): 30–40.
Published: 01 December 2004
... to observe that nisms, such as privatizing state enterprises.10
country’s 2002 presidential election declared Many have also experienced political crises
the Brazilian electoral system “outstanding” that in the past might have put democratic
and a model of technological prowess, trans governance...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (1): 9–18.
Published: 01 March 2000
... These develop
organized and mobilized populations of the ments allowed civil society to become the
kind generated by vibrant civil societies.17 “political celebrity” of the Brazilian demo
They were also very much in the minds of cratic transition.21 Moreover, this resurgence
many scholars in the 1970s...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (4): 10–13.
Published: 01 December 2015
... after my grandparents’ stint in Chile, hearing stories about their time in Santiago. Photographs of one of my grandfather’s meetings with Cuba’s Fidel Castro hung on the wall. We laughed as he quoted memorable putdowns employed by Brazilian diplomats. His favorite was, “ Você tem razão, mas pouca, e...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 47–56.
Published: 01 March 2016
... of political consciousness amongst Afro-Brazilians and a long history of struggle. The majority of people I know in North America don’t really get that Brazil has the largest population of black people outside of Africa. I wanted to know more about how you see the struggle of Afro-Brazil in relation...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (2): 47–52.
Published: 01 June 2004
.... When the peddler insisted country, even though locally grown toma
his price was fair, my wife laughed, then toes are plentiful. The least expensive choco
asked, “Have you ever bought a Brazilian late bar comes all the way from Indonesia,
chicken?” even though cocoa—the product’s...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 96–103.
Published: 01 March 2016
... 36 million Brazilians out of poverty. His successor, Dilma Rousseff, herself once tortured, has continued Lula’s social policies, albeit with less panache. To the south, the repression in Argentina was severe. Political prisoners were dropped from planes into the sea; torture was endemic...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 8–14.
Published: 01 September 2017
... jumped from 120 to 10,000 in a decade. In the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, a DNA-testing campaign in the early 2000s resulted in a testing boom: Paternity tests, once rare, were administered to 7 percent of all newborns. These policies herald an unmistakable transformation in how paternity...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (1): 32–40.
Published: 01 March 2004
.... The Argentine govern
confrontation with Castro, Lula dodged the ment also announced that Foreign Minister
issue of political rights and did not meet Bielsa would include the subject of Cuban
with dissidents on the island. However, the dissidents on his next trip to Havana. The
Brazilian leader kept...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (4): 13–21.
Published: 01 December 2013
... Trade Organization, the Chinese market has increasingly opened up to foreign imports—Brazilian soy, Argentine beef, European luxury goods, and American gadgets. But Indian brands are notable for their absence. India’s renowned service giants—pharmaceuticals, information technology, and financial...
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