José Antonio Kast campaigning in Chile in October -- Equipo Kast, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Vijay Prashad The far right in Latin America is angry. Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and Argentina’s Javier Milei always look furious, and they always speak loudly and aggressively. Testosterone leaks from their pores, a toxic sweat that has spread across the region. It would be easy to say that this is the impact of Donald Trump’s own brand of neo-fascism, but this is not true. Th

Image via X Various Sources Trump ally former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was arrested and placed in preventative detention on Saturday months after his conviction for attempting a coup, ahead of serving a 27-year prison sentence. Bolsonaro was sentenced in September to 27 years and three months in prison for orchestrating an attempted coup after losing the 2022 presidential election to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The Supreme Court convicted him of trying to undermine B

Bolsonaro testifying during his trial -- image via news video screenshot Various Sources UPDATE: After the fourth of five judges of the...

Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Marcelo Depieri Starting in the 1990s, a new form of...

Trump and Bolsonaro at Mar-a-Lago, 2020 -- Alan Santos/PR, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Political Statement by the Brazilian...

Lula during a 2023 ceremony announcing the holding of COP 30 in the city of Belém -- Palácio do Planalto from Brasilia, Brasil, CC BY...

By Gabriel Rocha Gaspar “Brazilian diplomatic tradition relies on solving problems. The ‘incident’ with Israel takes the opposite...

Brazil is set to unleash several varieties of genetically engineered eucalyptus, which will worsen a bad situation. Harvesting eucalyptus...

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The eighth edition of our weekly review of international left and labour news with stories from Brazil, Paraguay, Canada, Cuba and...

All of the convictions against Lula da Silva, the former Workers' Party president of Brazil, have been annulled. This leaves him free,...

The Free Lula Movement plans to deliver a manifesto to the 11 members of Brazil's Supreme Federal Court between October 20 and 26. They...