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• Epidemics, pandemics (health, Brazil)

  Brazil: The new conjuncture: Bolsonaro strengthened?

  12 September, by Esquerda Online

  There is a new political situation in the country. The Bolsonaro government has gained in strength, thus interrupting the process of attrition that began after the pandemic arrived in Brazil in mid-March. Understanding the factors responsible for the government’s growing popularity and the (...)

• Epidemics, pandemics (health, Brazil)

  Covid-19 and Resistance in Brazil: Life-Making, Memory, and Challenges in Seeding an Alternative Future

  25 August, by RUAS Rhaysa

  When COVID-19 – a pandemic caused by a pathogen that sprouted from the very conditions through which our capitalist societies produce food and deal with nature – was announced as a reality in Rio de Janeiro on March 13^th, our concerns were focused on growing police killings, lack of water in (...)

• Epidemics, pandemics (health, Brazil)

  Covid-19 pandemic: Brazil Undone — “History will not absolve Bolsonaro”

  27 March, by HYLTON Forrest

  The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, is the only world leader widely believed not only to have Covid-19 and to have lied about it, but to have knowingly spread it to untold numbers of his followers. Time (or Veja, the country’s leading news magazine) will tell, but at the very least, the (...)