Columns / View From Brazil

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.

Leonardo Sakamoto on why black women are so active in fighting growing misogyny.

A war against indigenous people, writes Leonardo Sakamoto.

Leonardo Sakomoto tackles a topic close to his heart: modern-day slavery.

With Trump’s defeat, Bolsonaro loses his imaginary friend. Bolsonaro’s desperate pledges to Trumpism have not paid off, argues Leonardo Sakamoto. 

Suicidal drives and fake patriotism by Leonardo Sakamoto.

The judge who became vigilante – and then ‘God’. By Leonardo Sakamoto.

Where the heroes are, by Leonardo Sakamoto.

Will pensions unite the Left against Bolsonaro?