Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

JAIR BOLSONARO MADE 116 ATTACKS ON THE PRESS IN 2019, ACCORDING TO REPORT ABOUT VIOLENCE AGAINST JOURNALISTS IN BRAZIL

Theme(s)
Information, Press
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Construction of enemies

Read more about it here [1]

Jan 02 2020
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

PRESIDENT BOLSONARO CALLS BRAZILIAN TEXTBOOKS ‘A BUNCH OF WRITTEN THINGS’ AND ANNOUNCES CHANGES IN THE MATERIAL DISTRIBUTED IN SCHOOLS FROM 2021: ‘THEY WILL BE SIMPLER AND HAVE A BRAZILIAN FLAG ON THE COVER’.

Theme(s)
Artistic freedom, Culture, Education
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Construction of enemies

Read more about it here [1]

Jan 03 2020
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION IS CRITICIZED BY SCIENTIFIC ENTITIES DUE TO LACK OF LEGAL REQUIREMENTS AFTER RESHAPING THE TEXT OF FEDERAL PROJECT THAT AIMS TO INCREASE THE FINANCIAL AUTONOMY OF UNIVERSITIES AND ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS

Theme(s)
Academic freedom, Education
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Construction of enemies

Read more about this project here – in Portuguese – [1]

Jan 03 2020
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

PRESIDENT SAYS THAT, IF HE COULD, HE WOULD HAVE CANCELLED THE INVESTIGATIONS AGAINST HIS SON, FLÁVIO BOLSONARO, SENATOR FROM RIO DE JANEIRO, INVESTIGATED FOR MONEY LAUNDERING AND LINKS WITH RIGHT-WING MILITIA GROUPS

Theme(s)
Power conflicts, Press
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Violation of institutional autonomy

Read more about this context here [1] [2]

Jan 04 2020
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

YOU [JOURNALISTS] ARE AN ENDANGERED SPECIES’, SAYS JAIR BOLSONARO TO A REPORTER DURING A MEETING WITH SUPPORTERS OUTSIDE THE OFFICIAL RESIDENCE

Theme(s)
Press
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Construction of enemies

Read more about it here [1] [2]

Jan 06 2020
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

EDUCATION MINISTER FALSELY SAYS THAT THE ‘GAY KIT’ – FAKE NEWS ABOUT THE DISTRIBUTION OF EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS PROMOTING HOMOSEXUALITY BY THE OPPOSITION GOVERNMENT – WAS REMOVED FROM THE GOVERNMENT PROGRAM

Theme(s)
Education
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Construction of enemies

Read more about it here [1]

Jan 07 2020
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

TECHNICAL COMMISSION PROMOTES THE INSERTION OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS IN THE INTERNAL MARKET: RISKS OF TRANSGENIC PRODUCTS ARE CONSIDERED AS ‘NEGLIGIBLE’

Theme(s)
Environment
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Decrease of control and/ or centralization of power

Read more about it here – in Portuguese [1]

Jan 07 2020
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION SUSPENDS ALMOST 20,000 HIRINGS FROM FEDERAL UNIVERSITIES AND VETOES THE PAYMENT OF BENEFITS AND WAGE INCREASES

Theme(s)
Academic freedom, Education
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Construction of enemies

Read more about this context here [1]

Jan 08 2020
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

TOURISM MINISTER EXONERATES DIRECTOR AND RESERACH CHIEFS FROM FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTION ‘FUNDAÇÃO CASA DE RUI BARBOSA’

Theme(s)
Academic freedom, Education
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Violation of institutional autonomy

Read more about it here – in Portuguese [1]

Jan 08 2020
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Judiciary
Power Level
State

COURT OF JUSTICE SUSPENDS THE EXIBITION OF CHRISTMAS MOVIE PRODUCED BY THE COMEDY YOUTUBE CHANNEL ‘PORTA DOS FUNDOS’, WHICH REPRESENTS JESUS AS HOMOSSEXUAL, BY REQUEST FROM CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY

Theme(s)
Artistic freedom, Religion
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Attacks on pluralism and minorities
State
Rio de Janeiro

Read more about it here [1] and its consequences here [2].

Jan 08 2020
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

COURSES OF ‘VALUES AND ATTITUDES’AND A MANUAL OF STRICT RULES OF CONDUCT WILL BE REQUIRED FOR STUDENTS WHO ATTEND CIVIC-MILITARY SCHOOLS, INSTITUTIONS DIRECTED BY EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS AND MILITARY AGENTS, WHICH WERE IMPLEMENTED UNDER BOLSONARO

Theme(s)
Armed Forces, Education
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Violation of institutional autonomy

Read more about it here [1] [2]

Jan 09 2020
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

EDUARDO BOLSONARO, FEDERAL LAWMAKER AND PRESIDENT’S SON, PROPOSES A HISTORICAL REVISION OF TEXTBOOKS ABOUT THE MILITARY DICTATORSHIP IN ORDER TO ‘COMBAT LEFT-WING INDOCTRINATION’.

Theme(s)
Dictatorship and memory, Education
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Legitimation of violence and vigilantism

Read more about the educational context here [1]

Jan 10 2020
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

NEW INTERNAL REGULATION ENABLES PRESIDENT BOLSONARO TO CHOOSE THREE MEMBERS TO COMPOSE THE SPECIAL COMMISSION ON POLITICAL DEATHS AND DISAPPEARANCES, WHICH WORKS TO RECOGNIZE THE DEAD AND MISSING PEOPLE, VICTIMS OF ILLICIT ACTS COMMITTED BY THE STATE DURING THE MILITARY DICTATORSHIP (1964-1985).

Theme(s)
Dictatorship and memory
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Decrease of control and/ or centralization of power

Read more about it here – in Portuguese [1] [2]

Jan 14 2020
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

DUE TO POLITICAL REASONS, SECRETARY OF CULTURE REVOKES THE NOMINATION OF A POLITICAL SCIENTIST FOR THE CHIEF POSITION OF FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTION ‘FUNDAÇÃO CASA DE RUI BARBOSA’

Theme(s)
Academic freedom, Culture, Education, Research
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Violation of institutional autonomy
State
Rio de Janeiro

Read interview with the political scientist, whose nomination was revoked – in Portuguese [1]

Jan 15 2020
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

PRESIDENT CONFRONTS JOURNALIST AFTER BEING QUESTIONED ABOUT CONFLICT OF INTERESTS WITH THE HEAD OF THE PRESS SECRETARIAT OF THE PRESIDENCY (‘SECOM’): ‘ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT YOUR MOTHER?’

Theme(s)
Advertising and propaganda, Press
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Violation of institutional autonomy

Read more about it here [1]

Jan 16 2020
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

IN A VIDEO ABOUT A NATIONAL ARTS AWARDS, CULTURE SECRETARY QUOTES GOEBBELS, HITLER’S PROPAGANDA CHIEF

Theme(s)
Artistic freedom, Culture
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Attacks on pluralism and minorities

Read more about it here [1] [2]

Jan 16 2020
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

DURING AN OFFICIAL CEREMONY, THE PRESIDENT SAID THAT ‘LEFT-WING PEOPLE DO NOT DESERVE TO BE TREATED LIKE NORMAL PEOPLE’

Theme(s)
Dictatorship and memory
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Construction of enemies

Read more about this “anti-left” context here [1]

Jan 16 2020
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

ECONOMY MINISTER SAYS THAT ‘THE BIGGEST ENEMY OF THE ENVIRONMENT IS POVERTY’ DURING THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

Theme(s)
Environment
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Construction of enemies

Read more about it here [1]

Jan 21 2020
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Public Prosecution Office
Power Level
Federal

IN OPPOSITION TO THE FEDERAL SUPREME COURT’S (‘STF’) DECISION, THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE DENOUNCES THE AMERICAN JOURNALIST GLENN GREENWALD FOR CYBERCRIMES WITHOUT PREVIOUS INVESTIGATION

Theme(s)
Power conflicts, Press
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Construction of enemies

Read more about it here [1] [2]

Jan 21 2020
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION ESTABLISHES NEW RULES IN WHICH THE DECISIONS TAKEN BY ITS TECHNICAL COMMISSION (‘CTAA’), RESPONSIBLE FOR EVALUATING THE QUALITY OF ACADEMIC PROGRAMS, BECAME ‘UNAPPEALABLE’

Theme(s)
Education
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Decrease of control and/ or centralization of power
Jan 22 2020
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

EDUCATION MINISTER CALLS JOURNALIST ‘SEWER MOUTH’ FOR SPREADING NEWS ABOUT MINISTRY IRREGULARITIES CLAIMED TO BE FAKE NEWS

Theme(s)
Press
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Construction of enemies

Read more about te attacks against media freedom in Brazil [1] and about this episode – in Portuguese [2]

Jan 23 2020
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

CREATIONIST IS NOMINATED TO LEAD FEDERAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCY RESPONSIBLE FOR REGULATING ALL GRADUATE-LEVEL PROGRAMS AT BRAZILIAN UNIVERSITIES (‘CAPES’)

Theme(s)
Academic freedom, Education, Research
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Violation of institutional autonomy

Read more about it here [1]

Jan 24 2020
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

INDIGENOUS ARE UNDOUBTEDLY CHANGING, THEY ARE INCREASINGLY BECOMING HUMAN BEINGS JUST LIKE US’, DECLARED THE PRESIDENT IN A RACIST COMMENTARY ON FACEBOOK

Theme(s)
Indigenous people
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Attacks on pluralism and minorities

Read more about it here [1] [2] and past remarks of the president about Indigenous people [3]

Jan 24 2020
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