After the victory of the far-right Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s left is shattered and divided
The new president’s opponents are distraught but they must dream a better country into reality.
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Jair Bolsonaro: The Brazilian Trump leading the far-right’s march to power
The authoritarian’s path to the presidency is a threat to democracy.
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Project Cybersyn: the afterlife of Chile’s socialist internet
Through an electronic “nervous system”, Salvador Allende’s left-wing government anticipated the era of big data.
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Abilio’s story: the nine-year-old separated from his father at the US border
More than 2,500 children were separated from their parents between April and June by the Trump administration.
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What the British left can learn from Mexico’s political revolution
“Brexit is a wall which will block Britons in and pitch worker against worker.”
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Enough to educate 17 million children: the true cost of Brazil’s Car Wash scandal
As a new Netflix series dramatises one of the world’s largest corruption cases, Global Witness puts a figure on the cost…
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Marielle Franco’s death is an emblem of the violence against Brazil’s poor and black
Thousands are protesting the activist’s murder, but there is little hope for change.
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The dystopian Caribbean islands created just for tourists
The perfect beaches of Labadee are surrounded by a high fence.
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