Read more about deforestation in the Amazon [1], Bolsonaro’s perspective on the matter [2], on the importance of the Amazon rainforest [3] and about this episode – in Portuguese [find out here]
Read more about the spread of fake news laws here [1] and in Brazil at the federal [2] and states level – in Portuguese [3] [find out here]
Read more about it here – in Portuguese [find out here] and about this context [1] [2] [3]
Read more about it here – in Portuguese [find out here] and find more information about environmental policies dismantlement under Bolsonaro administration [1] [2] [3] 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.