Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

BOLSONARO ADMINISTRATION PUBLISHES PUBLIC SECURITY NATIONAL PROGRAM WITHOUT DATA ON POLICE BRUTALITY

Theme(s)
Administration, Public security
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Decrease of control and/ or centralization of power

Read more about this episode here – in Portuguese [find out here] and more about the police brutality in Brazil [1] [2]

Oct 01 2021
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

BOLSONARO SUGGESTS TO WHOEVER IS AGAINST GUNS TO ‘SHOOT BEANS’ AGAINST OFFENDERS, RELATING TO WHEN HE DEFENDED CITIZENS TO BUY GUNS WHILE HUNGER IN BRAZIL REACHED UNPRECEDENTED LEVELS

Theme(s)
Gun control, Political positioning
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Construction of enemies

Read more about this episode here [1]. The president has a vocal pro-gun stance [2], which includes signing more than 30 normative acts to ease firearm ownership [find out here] [find out here] [find out here] in the past years

Oct 01 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

BOLSONARO ADMINISTRATION ACCUSED OF OPPORTUNISM FOR PROPOSAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL AGENDA SHORTLY BEFORE THE COP 26 SUMMIT

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

Read more about this episode here [1] and the context [2]

Oct 01 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive, Judiciary, Legislative, Public Prosecution Office
Power Level
Federal

BRAZIL IS LOW-RANKED IN DEMOCRACY QUALITY, VIOLENCE AND CORRUPTION FIGHT

Theme(s)
Administration, Economy, Elections, Public security
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Decrease of control and/ or centralization of power

Read more about this issue – in Portuguese – [find out here] [1]

Oct 02 2021
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

FEDERAL GOVERNMENET IGNORES FIRE HAZARD AND LANDSLIDE AT TECHNICAL CENTER OF AUDIOVISUAL’S HEADQUARTERS

Theme(s)
Administration, Culture
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Construction of enemies

Read more about this episode here – in Portuguese [find out here] and the previous incident of a fire outbreak in the Brazilian Cinematheque also due to negligence by the Bolsonaro adminitration [find out here]

Oct 03 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL INDIAN FOUNDATION (‘FUNAI’) DENOUNCED AT THE FEDERAL JUSTICE FOR LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE VIOLATIONS

Theme(s)
Indigenous people
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Construction of enemies

Read more about this episode here – in Portuguese [find out here] and the Bolsonaro administration’s inertia to protect indigenous peoples and land [find out here]

Oct 05 2021
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

BOLSONARO SAYS LAWS ARE MADE FOR MINORITIES TO ‘STAY IN LINE’

Theme(s)
Political positioning, Religion
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Attacks on pluralism and minorities

Read more about Bolsonaro’s attacks on human rights [1] and about this episode – in Portuguese [find out here]

Oct 05 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

BOLSONARO VETOES FREE DISTRIBUTION OF MENSTRUAL PADS

Theme(s)
Gender and sexual orientation, Health
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Attacks on pluralism and minorities

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

Oct 07 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

BOLSONARO SIGNS DECREE THAT EASES ACCESS TO CHEMICAL PESTICIDES AND HERBICIDES

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

Read more about this episode here [1] and more about the dangerous consequences of pesticides and herbicides use in Brazil [2] [3]

Oct 07 2021
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

HEALTH MINISTER CRITICIZES MANDATORY MASK ONCE AGAIN

Theme(s)
Health, Social distancing
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Decrease of control and/ or centralization of power

Read more about this episode here [1] and the Bolsonaro administration’s discourse against masks and vaccines [find out here] [2]

Oct 08 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE FEDERAL POLICE CHANGES SUPERINTENDENT IN THE FEDERAL DISTRICT, WHICH GOES ALONG WITH BOLSONARO’S PROJECT OF AN ALLIED POLICE

Theme(s)
Administration, Transparency
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Decrease of control and/ or centralization of power

Read more about it here [1]

Oct 09 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

BOLSONARO DENOUNCED AT THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT (‘ICC’) FOR AMAZON DESTRUCTION

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

Read more about the petition against Bolsonaro here [1] [2]

Oct 12 2021
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

BOLSONARO STATES THAT ‘BEFORE HIM, ONLY CRIMINALS COULD CARRY GUNS’

Theme(s)
Gun control, Public security
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Legitimation of violence and vigilantism

Read more about this episode here – in Portuguese [find out here] and the context of increase in gun ownership [1]

Oct 13 2021
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

BOLSONARO SAYS HE WILL NOT GET VACCINATED AGAINST COVID-19

Theme(s)
Health, Negationism
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Construction of enemies

Read more about Bolsonaro’s refusal to take the covid-19 vaccine here [1]

Oct 13 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
State

BOLSONARO ADMINISTRATION TALLOWS ILLEGAL PREDATORY MINING AND DEATH OF TWO CHILDREN FROM THE YANOMAMI INDIGENOUS PEOPLE FOLLOWS

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

Read more about this episode here [1] [2]. The Bolsonaro administration is known to allow the development of illegal predatory mining [3] – which severe]ly impacts indigenous peoples lives and lands [ref id=5125-IN

Oct 14 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Legislative
Power Level
Federal

LOWER HOUSE SPEAKER BLOCKS 86 LEGISLATIVE DECREE DRAFTS PRESENTED AGAINST BOLSONARO, DESPITE ITS INSTITUTIONAL PURPOSE TO BALANCE AND CONTAIN THE EXECUTIVE POWER

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

Read more about this episode here – in Portuguese [find out here], about the Lower House Speaker leniency towards Bolsonaro’s actions [find out here] and how the Brazilian Legislative Power functions [1]

Oct 14 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

BOLSONARO VETOES HOMAGE TO FORMER PRESIDENT DEPOSED BY THE BRAZILIAN MILITARY DICTATORSHIP

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

Read more about this episode here – in Portuguese [find out here] and about the track record of Bolsonaro’s historical negationism [1]

Oct 15 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Legislative
Power Level
Federal

LOWER HOUSE SPEAKER SAYS TO SUPREME COURT THAT THERE IS NO DEADLINE TO ANALYZE IMPEACHMENT REQUEST AGAINST BOLSONARO, WHICH CAN BE CONTESTED

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

Read more about this episode here – in Portuguese [find out here] and the Lower House speaker, a Bolsonaro ally, who has the prerrogative to control the impeachment requests proceedings [find out here]

Oct 15 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

OFFICE OF THE ATORNEY GENERAL REQUESTS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT NOT TO BE OBLIGED TO FIGHT HUNGER IN BRAZIL

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

Read more about this episode here – in Portuguese [find out here] and the scenario of food insecurity Brazil is facing [1]

Oct 15 2021
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

BOLSONARO CALLS PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRY COMMITTEE (‘CPI’) RAPPORTEUR ‘CROOK’

Theme(s)
Health, Negationism
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Construction of enemies

Read more about this episode – in Portuguese – [find out here] and check more information about the CPI final report [1] [2]

Oct 15 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

COVID PARLIAMENTARY INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE’S REPORT POINTS OUT TO CRIMINAL INTENT FROM THE BOLSONARO ADMINISTRATION FOR ITS LACK OF PANDEMIC RESPONSE MEASURES

Theme(s)
Administration, Health
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Decrease of control and/ or centralization of power

Read more about the covid Parliamentary Investigation Committee’s report here [1]

Oct 17 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Public Prosecution Office
Power Level
Federal

FEDERAL POLICE SUMMONS PROFESSOR AND LAUT RESEARCHER CONRADO HÜBNER IN INVESTIGATION FOR HIS CRITICISM AGAINST SUPREME COURT’S JUSTICE

Theme(s)
Academic freedom, Political positioning, Press
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Construction of enemies

Read more about this episode here [1] [find out here], the prosecution against Conrado Hübner Mendes, LAUT researcher and founder, here [find out here] [2] and see a report on academic freedom in Brazil [3]

Oct 18 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (‘AGU’) REQUESTS MAGAZINE TO CHANGE ITS COVER, WHICH CRITICIZED THE PRESIDENT

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

Read more about this episode and see the magazine cover here [1] and remember a previous episode on censorship of Bolsonaro’s critics [find out here]

Oct 18 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SPENDS ONLY 22% OF THE BUDGET DESTINED TO FIGHT DEFORESTATION IN 2021, DESPITE ITS GROWING RATES

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

Read more about the rising deforestation in Brazil here [1] and about this episode – in Portuguese [find out here]

Oct 20 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH (‘Inpe’) HAS ITS LOWEST BUDGET IN HISTORY IN 2021

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

Read more about it here [1]

Oct 20 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

BOLSONARO SAYS HIS ADMINISTRATION ‘HAS TAKEN THE RIGHT MEASURES’ SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE PANDEMIC IN RESPONSE TO THE FINAL PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRY COMMITTEE (‘CPI’) REPORT

Theme(s)
Health, Negationism
Emergency Measures
Flexibilization of control

Read more about this episode, in Portuguese, [find out here] and check more information about Bolsonaro’s accusations of crimes against the humanity due to the covid pandemic [1] [2]

Oct 20 2021
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

IN LIVE BROADCAST, BOLSONARO DEFENDS ONCE MORE CHLOROQUINE, REJECTS VACCINES AND ASSOCIATES AIDS TO COVID

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

Read more about this episode – in Portuguese – [find out here] [1] and remember when Bolsonaro’s videos were excluded due to misinformation [2]

Oct 21 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

GOVERNMENT IS SUED FOR INSUFFICIENT CLIMATE PLAN

Theme(s)
Environment
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Construction of enemies

Read more about the current status of Brazil in the climate issue [1[] and about this episode – in Portuguese [find out here]

Oct 22 2021
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

ENVIRONMENT MINISTER LIES IN SAYING THAT BRAZIL’S PROPOSAL ON CLIMATE CHANGE RESULTS FROM DIALOGUE WITH SOCIETY

Theme(s)
Environment, Transparency
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Construction of enemies

Read more about this episode – in Portuguese – [find out here] and see the repercussion of Brazil’s participation in the COP-26 [1] [2] [3]

Oct 22 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

NATIONAL INDIAN FOUNDATION (FUNAI) PRESIDENT OPENS INVESTIGATION AGAINST SERVANT THAT DEFENDED INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN OFFICIAL OPINION

Theme(s)
Indigenous people, Political positioning
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Construction of enemies

Read more about this episode – in Portuguese – [find out here] and check more information about FUNAI dismantlement [1]

Oct 23 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

ARMY INSPECTED ONLY 2.3% OF PRIVATE ARSENALS IN BRAZIL IN 2020, IN SPITE OF INCREASING PRIVATE OWNERSHIP OF GUN RATES

Theme(s)
Gun control, Public security
Emergency Measures
Decrease of control and/ or centralization of power

Read more about the increase of firearms sold in the first semester of 2021 here [find out here] [1] and the overall increase during Bolsonaro’s administration [find out here] [find out here]. The president has a vocal pro-gun stance [2], which includes signing more than 30 normative acts to ease firearm ownership [find out here] [find out here] [find out here] in the past years. Read more about this episode here – in Portuguese [find out here]

Oct 25 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

40% OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TV CONCESSIONS ARE GRANTED TO CATHOLIC OR EVANGELICAL TELEVISION NETWORKS

Theme(s)
Advertising and propaganda, Press
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Decrease of control and/ or centralization of power

Read more about this episode, in Portuguese, [find out here] and check more information with regard media outlets ownership by religious groups in Brazil [1]

Oct 25 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

BOLSONARO ADMINISTRATION HAS ALREADY SPENT AT LEAST 550 MILLION REAIS IN INEFFECTIVE MILITARY OPERATIONS TO FIGHT DEFORESTATION AND FIRES IN THE AMAZON REGION SINCE 2019

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

Read more about this episode, in Portuguese, [find out here], and check more information about military operations in the Amazon region [1] and see a timeline with regard to the Bolsonaro Administration actions in the Amazon [2]

Oct 26 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

BRASIL IS ACCUSED OF VIOLANCE AGAINST ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS BEFORE THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS (IACHR)

Theme(s)
Civil society participation, Environment
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Construction of enemies

Read more about this episode, in Portuguese, [find out here] and check the IACHR on the situation of human rights in Brazil [1]

Oct 26 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

COVID-19 PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRY COMMITTE (‘CPI’) REPORT CHARGES BOLSONARO WITH NINE CRIMES AND SOME OF HIS MINISTERS WERE CHARGED AS WELL

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

Read more about this episode, in Portuguese, [find out here] and check more information about this report and its accusations [1] [2]

Oct 26 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

BOLSONARO ENDS INTERVIEW AFTER BEING QUESTIONED ABOUT CORRUPTION SCANDAL

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

Read more about this corruption scandal here – the so called ‘rachadinha’, which involves his son [1] and about this episode – in Portuguese [find out here]

Oct 27 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PAYS LAST INSTALLMENT OF CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFER PROGRAM AND OFFERS UNCERTAINTY ON NEXT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

Theme(s)
Administration, Budget
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Decrease of control and/ or centralization of power

Read more about Bolsonaro’s new social welfare program ‘Auxílio Brasil’ here [1] and about the previous program ‘Bolsa Família’ [2]

Oct 29 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

ENVIRONMENT MINISTRY APPOINTS NEW CHICO MENDES INSTITUTE FOR BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION (ICMBio) CHIEF THAT CANCELLED LAWFUL ENVIRONMENTAL FINES

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

Read more about this episode, in Portuguese, [find out here] and find more information about the environmental policies dismantlement during Bolsonaro’s government [1] [2] [3] here

Oct 29 2021
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

BOLSONARO ATTACKS PETROBRÁS, A BRAZILIAN OIL COMPANY, AND SPREADS FALSE INFORMATION ABOUT BRAZIL’S POLITICS WHILE TALKING TO THE PRESIDENT OF TURKEY DURING G-20

Theme(s)
Economy, Elections, Political positioning
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Construction of enemies

Check more information about this episode – in Portuguese – [find out here] [1]

Oct 30 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

BOLSONARO PROHIBITS FOREIGN INVESTMENTS IN THE MEDIA SECTOR AFTER REQUEST FROM RECORD, A BRAZILIAN TV STATION

Theme(s)
Advertising and propaganda, Information, Press
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Decrease of control and/ or centralization of power

Read more information about this episode, in Portuguese, [find out here] [1]

Oct 30 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

MINISTRIES REDUCED ACCESS TO PUBLIC INFORMATION SINCE 2019

Theme(s)
Information, Transparency
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Decrease of control and/ or centralization of power

Read more about this episode, in Portuguese, [find out here] and check more information with regard to previous changes to the Law of Information Access [1] [2]

Oct 31 2021
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
State

POLICE RAID CAUSES 26 DEATHS IN THE STATE OF MINAS GERAIS

Theme(s)
Militarization, Public security
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Legitimation of violence and vigilantism
State
Minas Gerais

Read more about this episode – in Portuguese – [find out here] [1] and check more information about military police brutality in Brazil [2]

Oct 31 2021
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