Aldo Cordeiro Sauda is a journalist, lawyer, and PSOL activist who covered the Arab Spring from Cairo and Beirut for O Estado de S. Paulo and Folha de S.Paulo. He is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of São Paulo and the founder of Contrabando Editorial.
Flávio Bolsonaro finished ahead of Lula in Brazil’s first round of the presidential election, aided by US intervention and an overly cautious Workers’ Party. To win the runoff, Lula needs to give working people a reason to hope.
Establishment outlets like the Economist insist the Brazilian military is a moderating influence on the far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro. But precisely the opposite is true.
How a housing-justice movement in Brazil is exposing the political contradictions of Lula's imprisonment.