This is an interview July 23 with Prof. James N. Green, the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of Latin American History at Brown University. He's an expert on Brazil where, under the rightwing government of Jair Bolsonaro, over a half million people have died from the pandemic, democracy has been set back, and the Amazon rainforest and its indigenous people have suffered immensely. Jim Green has written and co-edited 11 books on Brazil and Latin America in English and six in Portuguese. He is the National Co-coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil, a decentralized, democratic, and non-partisan network of Brazilian and U.S. friends of Brazil living in the United States that mobilizes public opinion against the policies of the Bolsonaro government.