Brazil

Governing Through Decrees: Between Guns and Authoritarian Symptoms

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…

Bolsonaro and ‘left-wing Nazism’: what is the goal of the revision of the past?

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…

Bolsonaro and the coup: memory and democratic decay

At the beginning of the week (March 25, 2019), the Presidency of the Republic announced the order for “due commemorations” to be held on March 31, which marks the 55th anniversary of the 1964 civil-military…