Ladislara
A blog as diverse as my life has been
Tag: Brazil Politics
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Why did Trump got away and Bolsonaro didn’t?
We analyze 3 factors in the US and Brazil’s political system that led to Trump being candidate and Bolsonaro being banned
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Floods in Brazil: a Tragedy on Repeat
Disasters like this one in Rio Grande do Sul have been common in Brazil since the 60s. Here’s what’s behind it
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Bolsonaro – The Bitter Fruit of the Brazilian Spring
How a popular uprising from left-wing student organizations set the chain of events that would elect an anti-woke populist
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Alexandre de Moraes: Who’s the Brazilian Judge at Odds with Elon Musk
How a Brazilian judge formerly nicknamed “Pitbull” by the left became the far-right #1 enemy
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Inside the 2013 Brazilian Spring – The June that Brazil Wouldn’t Forget
How a 20 cents raise in bus fares combined with police violence and real-time sharing on social media made the popular indignation explode in Brazil.
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Letters from the information war
How I got branded as pro-Israel by using the word “conflict” to describe that thing that is going on in that place in the Middle East.
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