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Recently, the Defensoria Pública da União (DPU) filed a lawsuit to prevent the Federal University of Rio do Grande do Norte (UFRN) from being removed from the National Committee for the Prevention and Combating of…
This is not March 31 like any other. After reaching the sad mark of more than 300,000 Brazilian victims of the Coronavirus and being immersed in the greatest health collapse in our history and in…
On February 16, 2021, Daniel Silveira was arrested after he published on YouTube a video of almost 20 minutes in which the deputy makes threats and offends the honor of the ministers of the STF…
Congressman Arthur Lira, from the Progressive Party, was elected with 302 votes on February 1 as the president of the Chamber of Deputies for the 2021-2022 biennium. Because it exceeded the absolute majority (257 out…
On October 14, the Belo Horizonte City Council approved, in the first round, the Draft Bill PL n° 274/2017, known as “Escola sem Partido” (“School without Partisanship”, freely translated). With 25 votes in favor and…
Editors’ Note: Today’s post is part of our guest post series. In these opportunities, Democratizing opens space for further discussion to our focus – transitional justice and the decline of democracy – to hear experts…
In recent weeks, several affirmations by President Bolsonaro about the repression in the military regime have provoked adverse reactions. By denying and trying to disqualify facts proven by Brazilian state agencies, including the Armed Forces…
On June 9, 2019, the Sunday’s late-afternoon doldrums were interrupted by the disclosure on The Intercept Brasil’s website of chats between members of the Lava Jato task force and the now Minister of Justice and…
The issue of the Decree 9.785/2019, which regulated broadly the gun possession in different situations, follows and prove a practice that seems to be on the interest of president Bolsonaro: governing through decrees. Right after…
On leaving the guided tour of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, President Bolsonaro uttered: ‘He who forgets his past is condemned to have no future.’ On the same day, the president ratified…
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