This past weekend, following a series of revelatory Senate hearings investigating the government of President Jair Bolsonaro’s catastrophic response to ...
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Anti-Bolsonaro protests shake Brazil
Science and technology cooperation: A key strategy for U.S. engagement in Latin America
Diogenes Placencia, Paul A. Sundaram, and Stephanie dos Santos | 
A recent publication by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD (R&E)) highlighted the need for the United States ...
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Police raid in Rio de Janeiro leaves 28 dead
On Thursday, May 6, an early-morning police raid in a Rio de Janeiro favela left 28 dead, including one officer, sparking allegations of extrajudicial and ...
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What will be the alternative to Bolsonaro?
Letícia Chagas | 
Vaccine developments at the beginning of 2021 represented a crucial step toward overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic, and inaugurating a new era for all of ...
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Biden and Bolsonaro face off over deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Tensions have risen between the United States and Brazil ahead of President Joe Biden’s virtual Leader’s Summit on climate, scheduled to conclude today.
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Brazil’s rising oil production
Suzanne Driscoll | 
Brazil produced an average of 2.94 million barrels of oil per day in 2020. The South American country is now the seventh-largest crude oil producer in the ...
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Hemisphere Weekly: A New Political Earthquake Shakes Brazil
As Brazil spirals deeper into the epidemiological crisis caused by COVID-19, a new political dilemma has also arisen in the South American nation. ...
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Countdown to 2022
Juliano Medeiros | 
The beginning of 2021 has brought with it a deepening of the health, economic, and social crises in Brazil. With the 2022 elections on the horizon, ...
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Hemisphere Weekly: Lula’s possible political return in Brazil
A supreme court judge in Brazil restored former President Luiz Inácio 'Lula' da Silva's political rights, annulling a series of corruption convictions ...
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