... with other challenges facing Lula, left the country at an uncertain juncture. Brazil democracy elections Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Jair Bolsonaro ratencio@tulane.edu nandanalon@yahoo.com.br © 2023 by The Regents of the University of California 2023 Last October, soccer icon...

...João Nunes This article uses the lens of neglect to analyze Brazil’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It argues that the neglect of COVID-19 was the result of a mixture of omissions, obstructions and actions on the part of the federal government and President Jair Bolsonaro. It also suggests...

...Nora Lustig; Mart Trasberg Mexico and Brazil, both among the region’s hardest hit by COVID-19, took strikingly different steps to mitigate the economic impact of the pandemic. Although President Jair Bolsonaro dismissed the need for social distancing measures, the government provided substantial...

...Xuefei Ren Comparing China, India, and Brazil reveals that current housing policies in all three countries have produced new forms of exclusion for inhabitants of informal settlements. © 2020 Current History. All rights reserved. 2020 The Regents of the University of California China...

... criminal justice police race Latin America Argentina Brazil United States 291 A few years back, when I interviewed a former Argentine official who had been brought in during the mid-1990s to clean house in the notoriously corrupt and violent police department of Buenos Aires province, he spoke...

... migration refugees South Korea Peru Brazil NGOS 215 [T]he government opted for piecemeal solutions that would temporarily meet domestic needs for labor while maintaining official closed-door policies. Japan s Model of Immigration Without Immigrants ERIN AERAN CHUNG On November 27, 2018, the Diet...

... officially registered in Ecua- dor, 130,000 in Argentina, 100,000 in Chile, and 85,000 in Brazil. The scale of Venezuelan displacement is com- parable to the Syrian refugee crisis of 2015, ac- cording to Matthew Reynolds, UNHCR s regional representative for the United States and the Carib- bean...

... Brazil election military dictatorship Jair Bolsonaro Lula da Silva Dilma Rousseff impeachment corruption Worker's Party Rio de Janeiro crime race relations misogyny collective memory history transitional justice 68 A central feature of Bolsonaro s pro-dictatorship campaign...

... of California Frank-Borge Wietzke social mobility middle class poverty inequality economic policy politics identity developing countries China India Brazil 16 Political conflicts can flare up when new, increasingly vocal lower-middle- income groups enter the political arena and when...

... change global warming emissions United States Donald Trump China Australia Brazil PERSPECTIVE As the Stakes Rise, Climate Action Loses Momentum JOSHUA BUSBY 36 Three years ago, I wrote an optimistic es-say in these pages on how the 2015 Paris Agreement broke new ground and paved the way...

... Hopewell trade protectionism liberal economic order hegemony United States Donald Trump China Brazil Global South International Monetary Fund World Bank Uruguay Round Doha Round North American Free Trade Agreement 303 [W]hat Trump has done so far represents an intensification...

... Matthew Carnes Latin America workforce informal economy labor trade middle class labor laws conditional cash transfers inequality Brazil Mexico Visit any of the great Latin American cities whether Bogotá or Buenos Aires, Lima or Mexico City, Santiago or São Paulo and you...

...Matthew M. Taylor Whichever way the impeachment train rolls, the … crisis has opened new fissures in a democratic system that has been in place only since 1985. © 2020 Current History. All rights reserved. 2020 The Regents of the University of California Matthew Taylor Brazil Dilma...

... Mexico Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI Dilma Rousseff Brazil Michelle Bachelet Chile Hugo Chávez Venezuela Evo Morales Bolivia Néstor Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Argentina Rafael Correa Ecuador Fidel Castro Cuba Committees Defense Revolution Colombia A dynamic...

... Norway Ethiopia Brazil Amazon Britain U.S Agency International Development Millennium Development Goals 316 The most promising new paradigm calls for providing aid based on results, with- out . . . demanding adherence to particular plans. A Better Model for Foreign Aid WILLIAM D. SAVEDOFF...

... of the University of California Kathryn Hochstetler Marilia Oliveira Brazil Brazilian politics coalitions elections alliances dilma rousseff Workers' Party PT social democrat PSDB Neves October 2014 socialist PSB Campos third-way option Cardoso Lula da silva state role center...

...Miriam Gomes Saraiva “[E]ver since the Baron of Rio Branco asserted his theory of symbolic power resources, Brazil's foreign policy has operated under the assumption that the country will attain international standing through the mechanisms of soft power.” Fifth in a series on soft power around...

... Matthew Taylor street protesters Brazil Sao Paulo Brasilia corruption economics Dilma confederation cup world de Mello Rousseff worker PT protest bloc Reynaldo Ross mensalao justice Barbosa Dirceu Genoino Gerais PSDB PSD Kassab police violence Donadon Batista oil...

...Amrita Narlikar New heavyweights have their own preferences when it comes to global burden sharing. © 2014 Current History. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University of California Amrita Narlikar rising powers Brazil Russia India China South Africa trade negotiation...

...Nora Lustig The results of in-depth analyses for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico reveal two main factors that explain this phenomenon: a fall in the premium that favors skilled over unskilled labor, and more progressive government transfers targeting the poor. Nora Lustig inequality Argentina...