Columns / View From Brazil

Brazil’s struggle to tax the super-rich. By Leonardo Sakamoto.

Agribusiness backers in Congress scupper climate gains. By Leonardo Sakamoto.

Investigation into attack on democracy by Leonardo Sakamoto.

Brazilian Blood Gold by Leonardo Sakamoto.

Champions by Leonardo Sakamoto.

The threats and promises game by Leonardo Sakamoto.

Do we support democracy? Asks Leonardo Sakamoto.

Pre-election spending spree by Leonardo Sakamoto.

Shooting the messenger by Leonardo Sakamoto.

Racism’s deadly cycle. By Leonardo Sakamoto.

The gathering storm by Leonardo Sakamoto.

Hunger in the world’s breadbasket by Leonardo Sakamoto.

Dry taps and blackouts by Leonardo Sakamoto.

From slavery to mass deforestation, Leonardo Sakamoto highlights the devastating impact of cattle ranching in Brazil.

Leonardo Sakamoto on hideous wealth – and poverty. 

Lula is back in the game. After a court annulled all the sentences against him, Brazil’s ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is back in the running for the top job, writes Leonardo Sakamoto.

While women in Argentina have won the right to abortion, in Brazil even child survivors of rape may be forced to give birth, writes Leonardo Sakamoto.

QAnon has a lot to learn from Brazil.

You shall live; and you shall die. Leonardo Sakamoto examines his country’s necropolitics in the light of Black Lives Matter.

Leonardo Sakamoto on how the rich are responding to the pandemic.