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  • Brazil on Fire Episode 0: Democracy and Dictatorship

    Jair Bolsonaro's presidency has been a disaster for Brazil. Over 650,000 dead from Covid-19. Amazon deforestation. Rising fascism. Budget cuts. Fake news. Threats to democracy.

    In this introduction to Brazil on Fire, host journalist Michael Fox sets the scene for the podcast by looking back on the last four years and why understanding Bolsonaro's rise is important now, ahead of Brazil's presidential election on October 2.

    This is Brazil on Fire. A new podcast about Brazil’s descent toward fascism under Bolsonaro. Over the coming six episodes we’ll look at Bolsonaro’s far-right government that set the country ablaze, and how the United States helped him do it.

    Featuring host Latin America-based journalist Michael Fox.

    Produced in partnership by The Real News Network and the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA).

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    16 min
  • Coming soon: Brazil on Fire

    First episodes coming this September!

    Jair Bolsonaro's rise was unimaginable just a few years before his election as president of Brazil. With an impending showdown between the incumbent Bolsonaro and popular left-wing former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, many suspect Bolsonaro may resort to a January 6-style coup to retain power.

    In this special limited podcast series from Latin America-based journalist Michael Fox, we’ll dive into the story of Bolsonaro's rise, the return of Brazilian fascism, and the unseen hand of the United States in Brazil's turbulent recent history.

    Produced in partnership by The Real News and the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA).

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    5 min
  • ¿Quién controla los medios de comunicación en América Latina?

    Mas de 15 años después de la publicación de Periodistas y magnates, el libro de Guillermo Mastrini y Marín Becerra que ofreció un análisis de la concentración mediática en Sudamérica y México, en un campo mediático atravesado por la creciente digitalización, nos preguntamos: ¿Qué tanto ha cambiado la concentración mediática en América Latina? En este conversatorio, Gustavo Fuchs habla con cuatro investigadores de los medios de comunicación en la región: Guillermo Mastrini y Martín Becerra, ambos profesores en la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes y la Universidad de Buenos Aires, con Isabel Ramos de FLASCO en Ecuador y con Andrea Cristancho Cuesta, profesora en la Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (UCA) en El Salvador.

    Gustavo Fuchs, el presentador de este episodio, es estudiante de doctorado en la Universidad de Texas–Austin. Su trabajo se centra en la la propiedad de los medios de comunicación, comunicación política, los medios de comunicación religiosos y los derechos humanos.
     
    Una versión editada de este conversatorio     fue publicado en inglés en el número del NACLA Report titulado "Dispatches from the Field: Covering and Uncovering Latin America's Media Struggles."

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    More than 15 years after the publication of Periodistas y magnates, a landmark study mapping media ownership in South America and Mexico spearheaded by Guillermo Mastrini y Martín Becerra, and amid increasing digitization of the media landscape, is Latin America’s media landscape becoming even more concentrated? In this conversation, Gustavo Fuchs speaks with four experts on media in the region: Martín Becerra and Guillermo Mastrini, both professors at the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes and Universidad de Buenos Aires, Isabel Ramos of FLACSO Ecuador, and Andrea Cristancho Cuesta, professor at the Central American University José Simeón Cañas (UCA) in El Salvador.

    Gustavo Fuchs, the host of this issue, is a PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on media ownership, political communication, religious media, and human rights.

    An edited version of this interview was published in English in the Winter 2021 issue of the NACLA Report, "Dispatches from the Field: Covering and Uncovering Latin America's Media Struggles." 

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    1 hr 23 min
  • New Energy Empires
    Helen talks to guest editor and contributor Bret Gustafson about Caribbean energy structures, and how US administrations from Reagan to now have pushed fossil fuel dependency in the Caribbean as a “national security” concern.

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    30 min
  • Odebrecht’s Original Sins
    Helen takes a deep dive with Jonathan Devore, author of the latest NACLA Report’s feature essay on the early days of the Brazilian Odebrecht Company in rural Bahia. Rural residents’ memories and perspective on Odebrecht add new dimensions to the Petrobras scandal, which is now reverberating throughout the region— How does bringing in often overlooked voices change the way we tell histories of political scandals?

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    28 min
  • Somos fantasías
    Andrea Bolivar did most of her dissertation research in Chicago, spending time with and learning from the trans Latina women whose experiences in the sex industry have emerged from a confluence of transphobia, racism, and criminalization.

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    19 min
  • 49.3.2 From Standing Rock to Yanacocha: Policing and Environmental Activism
    NACLA Report contributor Moira Birss talks with Helen about how private companies and governments in Latin America have criminalized environmental human rights defenders, and how a confluence of violence, harassment, smear campaigns, and policing tactics threatens to silence environmental justice movements throughout the Americas.

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    29 min
  • 49.3.1: Marisol LeBrón on Policing and Recovery in Puerto Rico
    Helen speaks with NACLA Report contributor Marisol LeBrón, whose article for the latest issue of the Report traces the Puerto Rican state’s policing and surveillance programs from the 1950s to now. They discuss the internal complexities at play in Puerto Rican politics beyond the colonial dynamic between the U.S. government and Puerto Rico, and Marisol explains how policing tactics were used to undermine the Puerto Rican Nationalist party leading up to a crucial vote over ratifying Commonwealth status for the territory. Helen and Marisol also discuss how Puerto Rico fits into a larger institutional discourse about “best practices” for policing, surveillance, and responding to crises throughout Latin America and in the mainland U.S., where urban police forces have carried out similar tactics to those the FBI and the PRPD previously “tested” in Puerto Rico.

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    37 min

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