Read more about it here [1]. A few days earlier eight former environment ministers wrote a letter criticizing the destruction of Brazil’s environment policies [2]. For an analysis of the deforestation in Amazon under President Bolsonaro’s government, read here [3] [4]. For 2020 data read here [5]. Hear podcast about this broader context [6], or listen to Minister’s interview to BBC [7].
Read more about the stance Bolsonaro government has been taking on deforestation here [1] [2] and about this episode – in Portuguese [find out here]
Read more about this episode [1], watch video on the National Commission of Truth and on the Brazilian dictatorship [2], check the complete report of the National Commission of Truth on torture and other practices during the Brazilian dictatorship – in Portuguese [3] and read more about the context of the Brazilian dictatorship [4]
Read more about it here [1]
Read more about it here [1]
Read more about this statement here – in Portuguese [find out here]. Read more about the 2019 Brazilian oil spill here [1] and about environmental laws during Bolsonaro administration here [2]
Read more about former military officers in Bolsonaro government [1], on the attempts of rewriting the Brazilian dictatorship past [2] [3] and about this episode – in Portuguese [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.