Archive of Brazil

During his lifetime, the Brazilian footballer Pele came to stand as an international symbol of Brazil: a nation of sport and glamour. Yet at his death at the end of December, coming just days before the inauguration of the third presidency of Lula, and a little over a week before thousands of Bolsonaro supporters stormed the parliament building in Brasília, Brazil stands as a nation deeply divided, Oliver Basciano writes.

Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonaro, has continuously underplayed the coronavirus crisis, calling it nothing but 'sniffles' but as the death rises, Matheus Lock explains how and why the pandemic reveals the flaws within his leadership that may prove fatal.

Michael Löwy, the French-Brazilian sociologist and philosopher, has been one of Europe's most influential Marxists for the past 30 years. In this interview, translated from Portuguese, he discusses Jair Bolsonaro and the global return of the right.

Rodrigo Nunes discusses Jair Bolsonaro's election victory in Brazil, Bolsonaro's background, the composition of his electoral coalition, the mistakes of the Brazilian Worker's Party, and the nature of the contemporary far right, with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast

Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right politician, has won the Brazilian Presidential election, beating the PT's Fernando Haddad. During the campaign, Bolsonaro repeatedly threatened not just the PT and the Brazilian left, but the foundations of Brazil's democracy. In this report from Brazil, Conor Foley asks what Bolsonaro's victory could mean for the future of the country.

The far right Jair Bolsonaro looks set to win tomorrow's election in Brazil. Alfredo Saad-Filho argues that his improbable rise represents the growth of an authoritarian neoliberalism in Brazil and across the world. If he's elected president, Brazilian democracy could collapse.