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April 3, 2025

Interviews

Never Again?

An interview with Frei Betto on Brazil's 1964 military coup and the authoritarian advance in everyday life

With the attempted coup of 2022, and the consolidation of the nation's right behind Bolsonarism, memories of Brazil's horrific military dictatorship are more prominent than they've been in decades. To explore the meaning of these experiences in light of current…

December 12, 2024

Interviews

Displacement and Development

An interview with Gilberto Cervinski of Brazil's Movement of People Affected by Dams

The same water produces electricity twenty times over the course of a basin. But these very low costs do not translate into benefits for the people.

April 3, 2024

Analysis

The Debt Poor

Financialization, debt and the underestimation of poverty in Brazil

The 2008 financial crisis was an unprecedented demonstration of financialization in capitalism today. In the US, the collapse of real estate values revealed how formal credit channels—imagined as mechanisms of wealth creation—had brought unsustainable levels of household indebtedness down into…