Next week, Pope Francis, the first of his name, returns to the continent of his birth. The first Latin American Pope—elected earlier this year—will call on the world’s most populous Catholic country, Brazil. Francis, formerly …
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A Luta Continua: Brazil’s Protest Movement Sputters, but It’s Far From Dead
In Brazil, demonstrators closed highways, shut businesses and brought large parts of the country to a standstill once more this past week. But unlike in June, when the government was shaken by an almost unprecedented wave of …
Brazil’s World Cup Protests Intensify as Country’s Politicians and FIFA Squirm
Nearly 1 million Brazilians took to the streets on June 20 as anger over social inequity and corruption has sparked the biggest scenes of dissent in the country in more than two decades
What Brazil’s Protests Say About Latin America’s Fumbling Elites
It’s a delusion harbored by ruling classes the world over, but especially in Latin America. It’s the bogus belief that even if people get richer, they don’t get smarter. Ask Chile’s Carménère-sipping elites where that …
Brazil’s Protests: Social Inequality and World Cup Spending Fuel Mass Unrest
Last Thursday, police violently waded into ranks of protesters and fired rubber bullets into crowds amassed in Brazil’s financial capital, sparking days of unrest. On Monday night, some 200,000 to took to the streets of this
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