All posts by Felipe Tirado
Brazil’s iconic football shirt was a symbol of Bolsonaro – here’s how the World Cup is changing that
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Like many extremist and authoritarian leaders before him, outgoing Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro seized on national symbols during his rise to power and tried to make them his own. The national football shirt is a case in point….
Brazil election: what I saw on the streets made me cautiously optimistic
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. I was in Belo Horizonte, the capital of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, as the votes were being counted for the nation’s presidential election. The atmosphere was tense among supporters of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da…
Brazilian election: Jair Bolsonaro set to lose but his legacy will be harder to remove
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Brazilians will face one of the most important elections of their lives on October 2 2022, after four years of growing polarisation and political violence under President Jair Bolsonaro. Although the upcoming elections are centred on the presidential…