DOCSLIB.ORG

LATIN AMERICA Brazil on a New Course

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text

Load more

LATIN AMERICA Brazil on a New Course OE Watch Commentary: For over fifteen years, Brazil has been led by a leftist party, the Workers Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores). The accompanying excerpted reference from El Tiempo proffers the key highlights of President Bolsonaro’s inauguration speech, which the article’s author opines will mark the new azimuth. The author does not appear to be a Bolsonaro fan, however. According to the article, President Bolsonaro intends to move the Brazilian Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, pull out of the United Nations migration pact and perhaps out of the Paris climate change agreement. The article also indicates that Bolsonaro will be taking a confrontational posture against the Marxist Maduro regime in Caracas. The suggested positions of the new Brazilian president appear to be more overtly in line with United States policies than any time in recent decades. The second accompanying reference is from the Spanish language British Broadcasting Company news service, BBC News Mundo. It reports on the deployment of Brazilian Army troops to Fortaleza, a major city on Brazil’s northern coast. Violence there seems to be the first test of Bolsonaro’s presidency, but it is somewhat early to determine either the true nature of the violence or the effectiveness of the new president’s response. Interestingly, the English language version of the same BBC article (“Brazil deploys troops to stop violence in Fortaleza”) carries pieces of notably different language with a distinct editorial perspective, not about the events, but about the president. For instance, the English language version includes the sentence “He is seen as a deeply divisive figure whose racist, homophobic and misogynistic remarks have angered many.” That sentence is not included in the Spanish language version. No Portuguese language version was found. End OE Watch Commentary (Demarest) Source: “Claves del discurso de posesión de Bolsonaro como presidente de Brasil Source: Editors, “Brasil: Bolsonaro envía tropas (Key points in Bolsonaro’s inaugural speech as president of Brazil),” El Tiempo, a Fortaleza para frenar la ola de violencia (Brazil: 2 January 2019. https://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/latinoamerica/claves-del- Bolsonaro sends troops to stop the wave of violence),” discurso-de-posesion-de-bolsonaro-como-presidente-de-brasil-310600 BBC News Mundo, 6 January 2019. https://www.bbc. com/mundo/noticias-46775173 “In his inaugural speech this Tuesday, President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro launched a crusade of conservative values against criminality, corruption and “Some 300 military troops were sent to the northeast leftist ideologies…He affirmed that his arrival marked the day in which the of the Brazilian city of Fortaleza to combat a wave of people began to liberate themselves from socialism, to liberate themselves from violence, authorities of that Latin-American country the inversion of values, from state gigantism, and from political correctness… said this Saturday…The disturbances originated after Bolsonaro thanked God for having survived the knife wound to his abdomen a series of protests against new laws in local prisons, during the campaign…Bolsonaro promised to move the Brazilian embassy from [which are] mostly controlled by criminal gangs… Tel Aviv to Jerusalem…He also announced the withdrawal of Brazil from the [President] Bolsonaro praised the decision of [Justice United Nations’ World Migration Accord and threatened to do the same with the Minister] Moro to send the army…” Paris Accord against climate change…” “Bolsonaro launched a crusade of conservative values against criminality corruption and leftist ideologies.” Seashore of Fortaleza (2012). Source: Arthur Fonseca [CC BY 3.0 br (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/br/deed.en)], via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fortaleza,_Brazil_(3).jpg. OE Watch | February 2019 66.
Recommended publications
  • Political Realignment in Brazil: Jair Bolsonaro and the Right Turn

    Political Realignment in Brazil: Jair Bolsonaro and the Right Turn

    Revista de Estudios Sociales 69 | 01 julio 2019 Temas varios Political Realignment in Brazil: Jair Bolsonaro and the Right Turn Realineamiento político en Brasil: Jair Bolsonaro y el giro a la derecha Realinhamento político no Brasil: Jair Bolsonaro e o giro à direita Fabrício H. Chagas Bastos Electronic version URL: https://journals.openedition.org/revestudsoc/46149 ISSN: 1900-5180 Publisher Universidad de los Andes Printed version Date of publication: 1 July 2019 Number of pages: 92-100 ISSN: 0123-885X Electronic reference Fabrício H. Chagas Bastos, “Political Realignment in Brazil: Jair Bolsonaro and the Right Turn”, Revista de Estudios Sociales [Online], 69 | 01 julio 2019, Online since 09 July 2019, connection on 04 May 2021. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/revestudsoc/46149 Los contenidos de la Revista de Estudios Sociales están editados bajo la licencia Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. 92 Political Realignment in Brazil: Jair Bolsonaro and the Right Turn * Fabrício H. Chagas-Bastos ** Received date: April 10, 2019· Acceptance date: April 29, 2019 · Modification date: May 10, 2019 https://doi.org/10.7440/res69.2019.08 How to cite: Chagas-Bastos, Fabrício H. 2019. “Political Realignment in Brazil: Jair Bolsonaro and the Right Turn”. Revista de Estudios Sociales 69: 92-100. https://doi.org/10.7440/res69.2019.08 ABSTRACT | One hundred days have passed since Bolsonaro took office, and there are two salient aspects of his presidency: first, it is clear that he was not tailored for the position he holds; second, the lack of preparation of his entourage and the absence of parliamentary support has led the country to a permanent state of crisis.
  • BRAZILIAN Military Culture

    BRAZILIAN Military Culture

    BRAZILIAN Military Culture 2018 Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy | Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center By Luis Bitencourt The FIU-USSOUTHCOM Academic Partnership Military Culture Series Florida International University’s Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy (FIU-JGI) and FIU’s Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center (FIU-LACC), in collaboration with the United States Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM), formed the FIU-SOUTHCOM Academic Partnership. The partnership entails FIU providing research-based knowledge to further USSOUTHCOM’s understanding of the political, strategic, and cultural dimensions that shape military behavior in Latin America and the Caribbean. This goal is accomplished by employing a military culture approach. This initial phase of military culture consisted of a yearlong research program that focused on developing a standard analytical framework to identify and assess the military culture of three countries. FIU facilitated professional presentations of two countries (Cuba and Venezuela) and conducted field research for one country (Honduras). The overarching purpose of the project is two-fold: to generate a rich and dynamic base of knowledge pertaining to political, social, and strategic factors that influence military behavior; and to contribute to USSOUTHCOM’s Socio-Cultural Analysis (SCD) Program. Utilizing the notion of military culture, USSOUTHCOM has commissioned FIU-JGI to conduct country-studies in order to explain how Latin American militaries will behave in the context
  • A “Brazilian Way”? Brazil's Approach to Peacebuilding

    A “Brazilian Way”? Brazil's Approach to Peacebuilding

    ORDER from CHAOS Foreign Policy in a Troubled World GEOECONOMICS AND GLOBAL ISSUES PAPER 5 | FEBRUARY 2017 A “Brazilian way”? Brazil’s approach to peacebuilding CHARLES T. CALL ADRIANA ERTHAL ABDENUR ABOUT THE ORDER FROM CHAOS PROJECT In the two decades following the end of the Cold War, the world experienced an era charac- terized by declining war and rising prosperity. The absence of serious geopolitical competi- tion created opportunities for increased interdependence and global cooperation. In recent years, however, several and possibly fundamental challenges to that new order have arisen— the collapse of order and the descent into violence in the Middle East; the Russian challenge to the European security order; and increasing geopolitical tensions in Asia being among the foremost of these. At this pivotal juncture, U.S. leadership is critical, and the task ahead is urgent and complex. The next U.S. president will need to adapt and protect the liberal international order as a means of continuing to provide stability and prosperity; develop a strategy that encourages cooperation not competition among willing powers; and, if neces- sary, contain or constrain actors seeking to undermine those goals. In response to these changing global dynamics, the Foreign Policy Program at Brookings has established the Order from Chaos Project. With incisive analysis, new strategies, and in- novative policies, the Foreign Policy Program and its scholars have embarked on a two-year project with three core purposes: • To analyze the dynamics in the international system that are creating stresses, challeng- es, and a breakdown of order. • To define U.S.
  • The Role and Importance of the Military Diplomacy in Affirming

    The Role and Importance of the Military Diplomacy in Affirming

    ESCOLA DE COMANDO E ESTADO-MAIOR DO EXÉRCITO ESCOLA MARECHAL CASTELLO BRANCO Cel Art PAULO CÉSAR BESSA NEVES JÚNIOR The Role and Importance of the Military Diplomacy in affirming Brazil as a Regional Protagonist in South America (O Papel e a importância da Diplomacia Militar na afirmação do Brasil como um Protagonista Regional na América do Sul) Rio de Janeiro 2019 Col Art PAULO CÉSAR BESSA NEVES JÚNIOR The Role and Importance of the Military Diplomacy in affirming Brazil as a Regional Protagonist in South America (O Papel e a importância da Diplomacia Militar na afirmação do Brasil como um Protagonista Regional na América do Sul) Course Completion Paper presented to the Army Command and General Staff College as a partial requirement to obtain the title of Expert in Military Sciences, with emphasis on Strategic Studies. Advisor: Cel Inf WAGNER ALVES DE OLIVEIRA Rio de Janeiro 2019 N518r Neves Junior, Paulo César Bessa The role and importance of the military diplomacy in affirming Brazil as a regional protagonist in Souht America. / Paulo César Bessa Neves Júnior . 一2019. 23 fl. : il ; 30 cm. Orientação: Wagner Alves de Oliveira Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso (Especialização em Ciências Militares)一Escola de Comando e Estado-Maior do Exército, Rio de Janeiro, 2019. Bibliografia: fl 22-23. 1. DIPLOMACIA MILITAR. 2. AMÉRICA DO SUL. 3. BASE INDUSTRIAL DE DEFESA I. Título. CDD 372.2 Col Art PAULO CÉSAR BESSA NEVES JÚNIOR The Role and Importance of the Military Diplomacy in affirming Brazil as a Regional Protagonist in Souht America (O Papel e a importância da Diplomacia Militar na afirmação do Brasil como um Protagonista Regional na América do Sul) Course Completion Paper presented to the Army Command and General Staff College as a partial requirement to obtain the title of Expert in Military Sciences, with emphasis on Strategic Studies.
  • Maria Da Penha

    Maria Da Penha

    Global Feminisms Comparative Case Studies of Women’s Activism and Scholarship BRAZIL Maria da Penha Interviewer: Sueann Caulfield Fortaleza, Brazil February 2015 University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender 1136 Lane Hall Ann Arbor, MI 48109‐1290 Tel: (734) 764‐9537 E‐mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.umich.edu/~glblfem © Regents of the University of Michigan, 2015 Maria da Penha, born in 1945 in Fortaleza, Ceará, is a leader in the struggle against domestic violence in Brazil. Victimized by her husband in 1983, who twice tried to murder her and left her a paraplegic, she was the first to successfully bring a case of domestic violence to the Inter‐American Commission on Human Rights. It took years to bring the case to public attention. In 2001, the case resulted in the international condemnation of Brazil for neglect and for the systematic delays in the Brazilian justice system in cases of violence against women. Brazil was obliged to comply with certain recommendations, including a change to Brazilian law that would ensure the prevention and protection of women in situations of domestic violence and the punishment of the offender. The federal government, under President Lula da Silva, and in partnership with five NGOs and a number of important jurists, proposed a bill that was unanimously passed by both the House and the Senate. In 2006, Federal Law 11340 was ratified, known as the “Maria da Penha Law on Domestic and Family Violence.” Maria da Penha’s contribution to this important achievement for Brazilian women led her to receive significant honors, including "The Woman of Courage Award” from the United States in 2010.1 She also received the Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic from the Spanish Embassy, and in 2013, the Human Rights Award, which is considered the highest award of the Brazilian Government in the field of human rights.
  • Brazil's Returns from the Second World

    Brazil's Returns from the Second World

    Virginia Commonwealth University VCU Scholars Compass Auctus: The ourJ nal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship 2015 Shares of the Great War Effort: Brazil’s Returns from the Second World War Jon Tyktor Virginia Commonwealth University Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/auctus Part of the International and Area Studies Commons, and the International Relations Commons © The Author(s) Downloaded from http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/auctus/54 This Social Sciences is brought to you for free and open access by VCU Scholars Compass. It has been accepted for inclusion in Auctus: The ourJ nal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship by an authorized administrator of VCU Scholars Compass. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Shares of the Great War Effort: Brazil’s Returns from the Second World War By Jon Tyktor Introduction The first half of the twentieth century was a period so fraught with politi- cal, military, and economic tumult that it is easy to see why several of the world’s most powerful (and some not so powerful) nations turned to totalitarian forms of governance. Indeed, nations like the United Kingdom, the United States, and (temporarily) the Republic of France, where democratic rule of law had been maintained after the 1929 Stock Market Crash, were usually the exception and not the rule. Regimes such as Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and the Estado Novo in Brazil were often established in reaction to the perceived instabilities and often deemed necessary for progress and peace. In the period leading up to the Second World War, however, the dichotomy between the ideologies of governance cre- ated two bases of international power, which provided the original basis for the Axis and Allied powers.
  • Brazilian Permanent Orienteering Training Camps: the Partnership Between the Public University and the Brazilian Army in Education and Sport

    Brazilian Permanent Orienteering Training Camps: the Partnership Between the Public University and the Brazilian Army in Education and Sport

    BRAZILIAN PERMANENT ORIENTEERING TRAINING CAMPS: THE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THE PUBLIC UNIVERSITY AND THE BRAZILIAN ARMY IN EDUCATION AND SPORT Pistas permanentes de orientação no Brasil: a parceria entre a Universidade Pública e o Exército Brasileiro em Educação e Esporte RAUL MARQUES PEREIRA FRIEDMANN, M.Sc.1,2 LUIS AUGUSTO KÖENIG VEIGA, Dr.1 EDUARDO BORBA NEVES, Dr.3 LÁSZLÓ ZENTAI, Ph.D.4 1 Universidade Federal do Paraná Curso de Pós—Graduação em Ciências Geodésicas. 2Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná Departamento Acadêmico de Eletrônica. 3 Exército Brasileiro, 5º Grupo de Artilharia de Campanha Autopropulsado; Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná — Campus Curitiba Departamento Acadêmico de Eletrônica Programa de Mestrado em Engenharia Biomédica. 4 Eötvös Loránd University Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics International Cartographic Association, Secretary General International Orienteering Federation Council. [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] ABSTRACT According to the International Orienteering Federation, Orienteering is a sport in which the athlete performs a route with controlling points in the shortest possible time aided by the compass and the map. It is also a valuable tool for teaching orienteering in its widest sense, cartography and land navigation for all kinds of fieldwork. When compared to other sports, orienteering requires large periods of time to prepare any kind of course, even the training ones. The Permanent Bol. Ciênc. Geod., sec. Comunicações/Trab. Técnicos, Curitiba, v. 18, no 2, p.329-345, abr-jun, 2012. 330 Brazilian permanent orienteering training camps: The partnership... Orienteering Training Camps are an option to facilitate teaching and learning of this sport and navigational skills.
  • Brazil: Background and U.S. Relations

    Brazil: Background and U.S. Relations

    Brazil: Background and U.S. Relations Updated July 6, 2020 Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov R46236 SUMMARY R46236 Brazil: Background and U.S. Relations July 6, 2020 Occupying almost half of South America, Brazil is the fifth-largest and fifth-most-populous country in the world. Given its size and tremendous natural resources, Brazil has long had the Peter J. Meyer potential to become a world power and periodically has been the focal point of U.S. policy in Specialist in Latin Latin America. Brazil’s rise to prominence has been hindered, however, by uneven economic American Affairs performance and political instability. After a period of strong economic growth and increased international influence during the first decade of the 21st century, Brazil has struggled with a series of domestic crises in recent years. Since 2014, the country has experienced a deep recession, record-high homicide rate, and massive corruption scandal. Those combined crises contributed to the controversial impeachment and removal from office of President Dilma Rousseff (2011-2016). They also discredited much of Brazil’s political class, paving the way for right-wing populist Jair Bolsonaro to win the presidency in October 2018. Since taking office in January 2019, President Jair Bolsonaro has begun to implement economic and regulatory reforms favored by international investors and Brazilian businesses and has proposed hard-line security policies intended to reduce crime and violence. Rather than building a broad-based coalition to advance his agenda, however, Bolsonaro has sought to keep the electorate polarized and his political base mobilized by taking socially conservative stands on cultural issues and verbally attacking perceived enemies, such as the press, nongovernmental organizations, and other branches of government.
  • A South American Defence Structure: Problems and Prospects Medeiros Filho

    A South American Defence Structure: Problems and Prospects Medeiros Filho

    Contexto Internacional vol. 39(3) Sep/Dec 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0102-8529.2017390300011 A South American Defence Structure: Problems and Prospects Medeiros Filho Oscar Medeiros Filho* Abstract: This article discusses the process of building a South American defence architecture over the past two decades, culminating in the formation of the South American Defence Council (Conse- jo de Defensa Suramericano, or CDS). It discusses the main proposals for a regional security mecha- nism, primarily made by Brazil and Venezuela, analyses the debates around them, and characterises them as different models of regionalism, namely a pluralistic and amalgamated model. I argue that the differences between these models, and the different agendas underpinning them, constitute ob- stacles to the progress of regional co-operation and integration in the military field. Other obstacles include the overlap of regional defence initiatives, the different options for operationalising ‘extra- regional deterrence’, the relationship between regional countries and extra-regional actors, the in- clusion of security issues in the CDS agenda, and the idea of ​​demilitarising borders. Keywords: South America; Defence; Security; Co-operation; CDS. Introduction A series of initiatives aimed at achieving military co-operation in South America in recent decades culminated in 2008 in the establishment of the South American Defence Council (Consejo de Defensa Suramericano, or CDS). These initiatives reflect the trend towards regional defence and security arrangements observed in the post-Cold War era, based on the interdependence of states in close prox- imity to one another. This issue has produced a large volume of literature, with the Theory of Regional Security Complexes (Buzan and Waever 2003) the most prominent perspec- tive.
  • Casaroes the First Y

    Casaroes the First Y

    LATIN AMERICA AND THE NEW GLOBAL ORDER GLOBAL THE NEW AND AMERICA LATIN Antonella Mori Do, C. Quoditia dium hucient. Ur, P. Si pericon senatus et is aa. vivignatque prid di publici factem moltodions prem virmili LATIN AMERICA AND patus et publin tem es ius haleri effrem. Nos consultus hiliam tabem nes? Acit, eorsus, ut videferem hos morei pecur que Founded in 1934, ISPI is THE NEW GLOBAL ORDER an independent think tank alicae audampe ctatum mortanti, consint essenda chuidem Dangers and Opportunities committed to the study of se num ute es condamdit nicepes tistrei tem unum rem et international political and ductam et; nunihilin Itam medo, nondem rebus. But gra? in a Multipolar World economic dynamics. Iri consuli, ut C. me estravo cchilnem mac viri, quastrum It is the only Italian Institute re et in se in hinam dic ili poraverdin temulabem ducibun edited by Antonella Mori – and one of the very few in iquondam audactum pero, se issoltum, nequam mo et, introduction by Paolo Magri Europe – to combine research et vivigna, ad cultorum. Dum P. Sp. At fuides dermandam, activities with a significant mihilin gultum faci pro, us, unum urbit? Ublicon tem commitment to training, events, Romnit pari pest prorimis. Satquem nos ta nostratil vid and global risk analysis for pultis num, quonsuliciae nost intus verio vis cem consulicis, companies and institutions. nos intenatiam atum inventi liconsulvit, convoliis me ISPI favours an interdisciplinary and policy-oriented approach perfes confecturiae audemus, Pala quam cumus, obsent, made possible by a research quituam pesis. Am, quam nocae num et L. Ad inatisulic team of over 50 analysts and tam opubliciam achum is.
  • Redalyc.Participation in Democratic Brazil: from Popular Hegemony And

    Redalyc.Participation in Democratic Brazil: from Popular Hegemony And

    Opinião Pública E-ISSN: 1807-0191 [email protected] Universidade Estadual de Campinas Brasil Avritzer, Leonardo Participation in democratic Brazil: from popular hegemony and innovation to middle-class protest Opinião Pública, vol. 23, núm. 1, abril, 2017, pp. 43-59 Universidade Estadual de Campinas São Paulo, Brasil Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=32950439002 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative Participation in democratic Brazil: from popular hegemony and innovation to middle-class protest Leonardo Avritzer Introduction Democracy has had historically different patterns of collective action (Tilly, 1986, 2007; Tarrow, 1996). Repertoires of collective action are a routine of processes of negotiation and struggle between the state and social actors (Tilly, 1986, p. 4). Each political era has a repertoire of collective action or protest that is related to many variables, among them the form of organization of the state; the form of organization of production; and the technological means available to social actors. Early eighteenth- century France experienced roadblocks as a major form of collective action (Tilly, 1986). Late nineteenth-century France had already seen the development of other repertoires, such as the city mobilization that became famous in Paris and led to the re-organization of the city’s urban spaces (Tarrow, 1996, p. 138-139). At the same time that the French blocked roads and occupied cities, the Americans used associations and large demonstrations (Skocpol, 2001; Verba et al., 1994) to voice claims concerning the state.
  • Brazil's Highway BR-319 Demonstrates a Crucial Lack Of

    Brazil's Highway BR-319 Demonstrates a Crucial Lack Of

    This file has been cleaned of potential threats. If you confirm that the file is coming from a trusted source, you can send the following SHA-256 hash value to your admin for the original file. dbff54e91e3fc5f9f0f132d9f8a5ab40efb8e6c5e76a2c405fde14007f810941 To view the reconstructed contents, please SCROLL DOWN to next page. Environmental Conservation Brazil’s Highway BR-319 demonstrates a crucial lack of environmental governance in Amazonia Maryane BT Andrade1 , Lucas Ferrante1 and Philip M Fearnside2 1Programa de P´os-Graduação, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Av. André Araújo, 2936, CEP cambridge.org/enc 69067-375, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil and 2Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Av. André Araújo, 2936, CEP 69067-375, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil ’ Comment Brazil s Amazon rainforest is being rapidly degraded by logging and forest fires, as well as by droughts that are increasing under a changing climate that both favours forest fires and kills Cite this article: Andrade MBT, Ferrante L, trees even without fire (Aleixo et al. 2019). Although deforestation is well known, greenhouse Fearnside PM (2021) Brazil’s Highway BR-319 gas emissions from forest degradation are also very large, and in 2016 they accounted for 38% of demonstrates a crucial lack of environmental the total forest carbon loss in the Brazilian Amazon (Walker et al. 2020). The southern and governance in Amazonia. Environmental Conservation page 1 of 4. doi: 10.1017/ eastern edges of the Brazilian Amazon is already heavily deforested and degraded (Fearnside S0376892921000084 2017), but in the western portion of the region the forest is still almost entirely intact. However, forest degradation is shifting to the western portion of the Brazilian Amazon Received: 4 November 2020 (Matricardi et al.