Read more about the former Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello ties with Bolsonaro [1], specially amid the covid-19 Parliamentary Investigation Committee (‘CPI’) here [2], and about this episode – in Portuguese [find out here]
Read more about it here – in Portuguese [find out here] and about attacks on the press under Bolsonaro Administration here [1] [2]
Read more about it here – in Portuguese [find out here] and about the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee here [1] [2]
Read more about this episode here – in Portuguese [find out here]. Also read about the guerrilla fighter, Carlos Marighella, and previous censorship of a movie about him here [1]
Read more about it here – in Portuguese [find out here] and about attacks on the press here [1]
Read more about Bolsonaro’s disregard for face masks [1] [2] [3], remind past weeks when he discredited health recommendations [find out here] [find out here] and see all the present acts against the recommendations here – in Portuguese [find out here]. Bolsonaro has started changing his rhetoric regarding vaccines in March, 2021, bust still claims social isolation and restrictive measures disregard personal freedom and still promotes ‘early treatment’ [4]
Read more about it here – in Portuguese [find out here] and about police brutality in São Paulo amid pandemic here [1] [2]
Read more about the current investigation of the former Health Minister here [1] [2] [3] and about this episode – in Portuguese [find out here]
Read more about this episode here – in Portuguese [find out here]
For an overview of the 2021 Brazilian budget read more here [1] and read more about this episode here – in Portuguese [find out here]
For an overview of the 2021 Brazilian budget [1] and the Bolsonaro Administration public spending read more here [2]. Also read more about Secom budget allocations here – in Portuguese [find out here]
Read more about it here – in Portuguese [find out here]
Read more about Bolsonaro’s disregard for face masks [1] [2] [3], his weekly discredit of health recommendations [find out here] [find out here] [find out here] and see all the present acts against the recommendaions here – in Portuguese [find out here]
Read more about it here – in Portuguese [find out here] and about the status of environmental laws during Bolsonaro administration here [1]
Read more about the prosecution against Conrado Hübner Mendes, LAUT researcher and founder, here [find out here], check an interview on this subject [2] and see a report on academic freedom in Brazil [3]
Read more about this episode here – in Portuguese [find out here]
Read more about this – in Portuguese [find out here] and check more information about the politicized military officers in Brazil under Bolsonaro Administration [2] [3] [4]
Read more about it here – in Portuguese [find out here] and about the relationship between Bolsonaro, the military forces and the possibility of a military coup here [1] [2] [3] [4]
Read more about Bolsonaro’s disregard for face masks [1] [2], remind recent occasions when he disrespected health recommendations [find out here] [find out here] and see all the acts against the recommendations here – in Portuguese [find out here]
Read more about this episode – in Portuguese [find out here] [1], check more information about alleged illegal timber sales that involve former Environment Minister, Ricardo Salles [2] [3], see details of his resignation [4] and understand how environmental policies keep being dismatled in Brazil despite Salles’s investigation [5]
Read more about it here – in Portuguese [find out here], about former Environment Minister Ricardo Salles here [1] and about the new Environment Minister Joaquim Pereira Leite here [2]
Read more about this, in Portuguese, [find out here] [1] and check the latest actions of the Bolsonaro administration against indigenous people [2]
Read more about it here – in Portuguese [find out here] and read about social indicators for women in Brazil [1]
Read more about this episode here – in Portuguese [find out here]
Read more about it here – in Portuguese [find out here] and about attacks on the press under Bolsonaro Administration here [1] and about the Covaxin scandal, a vaccine contract celebrated by the federal government under scrutiny due to several irregularities [2] [3] [4]
Read more about the militarization of the federal government here [1] and about this episode – in Portuguese [find out here]
Read more about it here – in Portuguese [find out here] and about the Lázaro Barbosa manhunt here [1]
Read more about the context of hydroelectric energy crisis here [1] and about this episode – in Portuguese [find out here]
Read more about Bolsonaro’s disregard for face masks [1] [2], remind recent violations of health recommendations here [find out here] [find out here] and see all the acts against the recommendations here – in Portuguese [find out here]
Read more about this episode here – in Portuguese [find out here]. The Bolsonaro administration has a vocal pro-gun stance [1], which includes signing more than 30 normative acts to ease firearm ownership [find out here] [find out here] [find out here] and Brazil has seen a sharp increase in firearm ownership [find out here][find out here]
Acts that employ tools of constant authoritarian reinvention. Authoritarian manifestations that coexist with the democratic regime and affect democracy as a system of choice of legitimate representatives or as institutional dynamics that protect rights and guarantee pluralism.
Acts justified by tackling the covid-19 pandemic or another emergency. Under the democratic constitutional regime, emergency acts must respect the Constitution and protect the rights to life and health. Even so, because they create exceptional restrictions related to the health crisis, they require constant control over their necessity, proportionality and temporal limitation. In the long run, they demand attention so as not to become an anti-democratic 'new normal' beyond the moment of emergency.