Vincent Bevins

Bigger than Bolsonaro

After four years in power, a movement created by elite campaigns has built a mass base.

Brazil Turns, Lula Returns

Bolsonaro’s years of misrule have left a yearning for stability. Even conservative elites are adjusting to the idea of the Workers’ Party leader as president again.

‘Jakarta,’ Code for US-Backed Mass Killing

I fear that the truth of what happened contradicts so forcefully our idea of what the cold war was, of what it means to be an American, or how globalization has taken place, that it has simply been easier to ignore it.

In Brazil, Bolsonaro Gambles on a Coronavirus Culture War

Defying his own health minister, he greeted supporters at close quarters and posed for selfies. No mask this time. For some Brazilians, this was the last straw.

Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s Would-be Dictator

Brazil has been a democracy with direct presidential elections since 1989, but for the preceding quarter-century it was ruled by a brutal military dictatorship. Jair Bolsonaro is not merely nostalgic for that era; he would reintroduce the dictatorship’s political ethos, preserved and intact, into modern Brazil.