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Category Archives: Brazil
Ten Convenient Beliefs For The Leaders Of Brazil
Stephen Turner’s convenient beliefs run at full multipolar speed right now in the Planalto Palace, the Itamaraty Foreign Ministry, the Petrobras boardrooms, and the back-channels with Beijing, Moscow, Tehran, and the BRICS partners. The U.S.-Israeli campaign has entered its second … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Brazil’s Master Institutions
Brazil’s high-status actors do not compete for power by openly claiming it. They compete by invoking moral languages that frame their authority as necessary for order, justice, growth, or democracy. This is the core insight of David Pinsof‘s Alliance Theory. … Continue reading
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Brazil’s January 6 Type Protests, Ron DeSantis and Big Friendship (1-10-23)
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Brazilian Law Declares Racism Illegal
Reader writes: According to the Brazilian Constitution, Article 5, paragraph 42: “the practice of racism is a non-bailable crime, with no limitation, subject to the penalty of confinement, under the terms of the law.” In other words, holding and publicly … Continue reading
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The Black-White Wage Gap In Brazil
The Economist: Brazil took more African slaves than any other country, and now has nearly three times as many people whose ancestors left Africa in the past few centuries as America does. Yet black faces seldom appear in Brazilian newspapers … Continue reading
Why Brazilians can’t help booing anything and everyone at the Olympics
Tom Holland tweets: “2 ways for host cities to enjoy the Olympics: applaud competitors from other countries (London) or boo them (Rio)” It’s like New Yorkers. They love to dump on LA. People from Northern California also love to hate … Continue reading
In Brazil, They Are Protesting Themselves
Brett Stevens writes: In Brazil right now the third world cycle is playing out: We The People, having demanded government reform, have gotten a more liberal government, but now some years later, they are protesting it. Liberals do not understand … Continue reading
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Which Place Is More Sexist: The Middle East Or Latin America?
Lourdes Garcia-Navarro writes for NPR: A semi-naked woman in a sequined Carnival costume. A veiled woman with only her eyes showing in a niqab. Two stereotypes of two vastly different regions — Latin America and the Middle East. On the … Continue reading
Brazilian Ethics
This type of behavior is why Brazil is such a basketcase. New York Times: Winning ugly is different from winning illegally. The first you can get away with, while the second should not be allowed at all. England’s Football Association … Continue reading
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NYT: As a Boom Fades, Brazilians Wonder How It All Went Wrong
New York Times: “Highlighting the strain, Standard & Poor’s downgraded Brazil’s credit rating to junk status on Wednesday, igniting a broad sell-off of Brazilian financial assets on Thursday. The blow is expected to increase Brazil’s borrowing costs while focusing even … Continue reading
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