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What’s clear from these disagreements is a sharp difference between the worldviews of moderate left figures in Chile and Brazil, on the one hand, and more extreme figures in countries such as Mexico, Venezuela and Nicaragua, on the other. These discrepancies could present an insurmountable impediment to more wide-ranging cooperation.
The Bahamian backdrop to the last days of FTX has faded into the background. But the torrid affair between what was once touted as the leading edge of financial technology, or fintech, and the Bahamas—a nation of 400,000 people, spread over some 700 islands, 50 miles or so offshore of Florida—is not merely incidental.
On this episode of The Time of Monsters, Matthew Duss and Stephen Wertheim discuss the president’s partial break from a failed consensus.
Attackers invaded the centers of power in Brasília, asking for an intervention.
Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro stormed the nation's Congress, the Supreme Court and the presidential palace on Sunday, claiming the recent election was stolen from him.
NRP's Leila Fadel speaks with Oliver Stuenkel of the Vargas Foundation in Brazil about what the attacks in the Brazilian capital mean for democracy in the country.
His aspirations for Brasilia’s relationship with Beijing, if similar to those of his previous presidency, would not be well suited for the China of 2023.
The departing president's decision to go abroad divided followers and makes the construction of a cohesive opposition movement all the more difficult.
Fifth and finally, the international community played a surprisingly important role in the months prior to the election, including by making it clear that a rupture of democratic rule in Brazil would lead to the country’s international isolation.
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