Tag: Americas
Extremism, violence, racism: the other face of Brazil
Despite Pelé’s smile (1940-2022), the musicality of bossa nova and the sensuality of its tracks, Brazilian society has long been imbued with a deep “culture of violence” that contradicts the…
Insurrection in Brazil: statues, paintings… This significant damage suffered during the looting
Damaged canvases, tagged statues, smashed Louis XIV clock: the horde of Bolsonarists who invaded the places of power in Brasilia on Sunday January 8 ransacked everything in their path, including…
learning lessons from the riots in Brazil
A little less than 48 hours after the attacks by supporters of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro against the presidential palace, the Congress and the Supreme Court in Brasilia, Brazil is looking…
United States: these confidential documents that could embarrass Joe Biden
It is a “small number of documents classified as confidential”. They were found in a “locked closet” at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank that Joe Biden sometimes used…
the role and influence of the trumpists in the bolsonarist assault
Of the ” freedom fighters is how Steve Bannon describes the pro-Bolsonaro demonstrators who stormed the Brazilian Congress on Sunday 8 January. In the days following the election in Brazil,…
Twelve dead in anti-Boluarte mobilizations in southern Peru
In Peru, a month after the failed coup and the arrest of President Pedro Castillo, the political crisis is getting bogged down. For the past week, protests have resumed in…
Insurgency in Brazil: “The similarities with the assault on the Capitol are not a coincidence”
These are scenes that “hauntingly evoke the Jan. 6, 2021, uprising on Capitol Hill in Washington by supporters of former President Donald Trump,” he said. the washington post. In Brazil,…
Assault against power in Brazil: “There is a kind of connivance of the army with the demonstrators”
It is an unprecedented attack on democratic institutions reminiscent of that of Trump supporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. A yellow and green tide of violent radicals, supporters of former…
Pro-Bolsonaro insurrection in Brazil: what do the attackers risk?
Brazilian democracy under threat. Almost two years to the day after the storming of the Capitol, supporters of the far-right former president, Jair Bolsonaro, invaded the places of power of…
Brazil insurgency: Bolsonaro supporters challenge democracy
On Sunday January 8, 2023, hundreds of Bolsonarist demonstrators invaded the presidential palace, Congress and the Supreme Court for several hours in a chaos reminiscent of the invasion of the…