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International Affairs
Trump’s Power Politics in Latin America Beyond Venezuela
Andre Diniz Pagliarini 16 October 2025

Donald Trump insists he wants no “new wars.” In Latin America, however, that line is wearing thin. His administration has revived the language and logic of forceful intervention even as he maintains that the era of U.S. adventurism abroad is over. The result is a foreign policy that races to prop up allies like Argentina’s Javier Milei and Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro while threatening adversaries like Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro and Colombia’s Gustavo Petro.
International Affairs
Brazil Shows Accountability Works: A Lesson for the US
Andre Diniz Pagliarini 30 September 2025

Earlier this month, Brazil did something the United States couldn’t: it punished a president who tried to overturn an election. Jair Bolsonaro lost in 2022, claimed fraud, encouraged his supporters to storm Brasília, and is now serving a 27-year sentence for subverting democracy. Donald Trump lost in 2020, made nearly identical false claims, watched as his most fervent supporters sacked the U.S. Capitol—and he’s back in the White House. That contrast is telling. It goes to the heart of whether democracies can enforce the rules that make them democracies in the first place. Brazil’s message is clear: accountability is possible, even in a deeply polarized society. The United States’ is equally stark: polarization can become an alibi for impunity.
Human Rights
Brazil: Public Security Policies and Human Rights
Abuses in Rio de Janeiro
Luigi Spera 29 August 2017

The term used by more than 70 jurists in their denounce manifesto signed in the last days in Rio de Janeiro is “social apartheid”.
Political Theory
Brazil, economic slowdown worries the oil industry. Crackdowns against demonstrators likely to backfire for World Cup plans
Luigi Spera 6 December 2013

Rio de Janeiro. While international attention has turned elsewhere, protests that began last summer in Brazil sparked by public outrage over excessive spending for the Confederations Cup continue unabated. In fact, the partial success of the June demonstrations and the increased confidence in democratic process that it consequently brought on led the Brazilians to continue the struggle. On dozens of occasions in the following months, people took to the streets to shout their grievances — old and new complaints that the ruling class does not seem able to respond to.