Geography Archives: Brazil

The truth is, I had promised myself I would avoid the temptation to analyze the statements and behavior of Argentina’s president. The reason: to keep myself as far away as possible from a figure as despicable as the occupant of the Casa Rosada.

In July 2025, Trump imposed a 50% tariff on Brazilian goods in a failed attempt to stop the prosecution of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who was later sentenced to 27 years in prison for plotting a coup.

Brazil’s government announced Thursday it will immediately initiate procedures under its reciprocity law in response to the 25% tariffs imposed by the United States on certain Brazilian products, while attributing the dispute to the family of former President Jair Bolsonaro.

The proposed amendments included softening language criticising Israel for its bombardment of Gaza and Lebanon, and dropping a reference to “East Jerusalem” to be established as the capital of the Palestinian state as a part of the two-state solution.

He taught with a kind of irreverent brilliance that made you laugh, think, and question everything you thought you knew about both the economy and economics.

Hundreds of social movement activists from around the world marched through Porto Alegre on Thursday to inaugurate the First International Antifascist Conference, a four-day gathering aimed at building collective resistance against the far‑right surge.

Brazil’s left, headed by the ruling Workers’ Party (PT), has long been a leading voice in Latin America against U.S. interventionism. When the United States launched its military action to kidnap Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro on January 3, 2025, the Brazilian government and the PT joined a global chorus of shock and denunciation of this […]

Brazil Cuba solidarity intensifies as unions and social movements pressure Petrobras for urgent fuel shipments to Cuba amid Trump’s fuel blockade threats, joining MST medicine drives for humanitarian relief.

Movement leader compares initiative to the International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s.

1. The Revival of the Big Stick and the Monroe Doctrine Since Donald Trump’s reelection as president of the United States, the world has watched in shock as US foreign policy has grown increasingly unilateral and aggressive, raising deep concerns about the future of international politics. These concerns stem not only from the record of […]

While China brings electricity, roads, and rail to the Global South, the imperial left brings its measuring tape—only to weep over wage gaps. But whose gap are they really mourning? And in whose name?

The U.S. president treats Latin America as his backyard, endangering peace across the continent, the AAJ stated.

War is like Janus: it has more than one face.

Brazil’s collaboration with China has been flourishing. President Lula traveled to Beijing in May for his third bilateral meeting with China’s president, Xi Jinping, since returning to the presidency in 2023, declaring that “our relationship with China will be indestructible.”

The diplomatic row devolved into a potential trade crisis when Trump threatened Brazil with higher tariffs on Brazilian products if it did not cease the alleged persecution of the ultra-right former president Jair Bolsonaro.

How internal divisions and geopolitical realities are shaping the bloc’s role in a rapidly transforming global order.

In the early decades of the twenty-first century, education has become a frontline in the ideological struggle over the future of global capitalism. The coordinated assault on teachers, curriculum, and institutions of public learning is not an isolated culture war but a structural feature of neoliberal governance. In this context, the pedagogical philosophy of Paulo […]

The success of ‘I’m Still Here’ at the Oscars is a tribute to the Brazilian people’s resistance to military dictatorship – and offers a warning over US encouragement of Brazil’s far-right today.

‘Say goodbye to selling into the wonderful U.S. Economy’ if dollar replaced; President-elect Donald Trump warns BRICS.

This year, Brazil and China celebrate fifty years of official diplomatic relations. The importance of the Sino-Brazilian relationship cannot be underestimated in the context of the rise of the Global South, the decline of U.S. hegemony, and the emergence of a New Cold War. With a look back into the history of bilateral relations, how can we understand the importance of these two countries in the current conjuncture in pushing forward changes unseen in a century?