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Issue 506 of New Internationalist

Reader-owned global journalism

October 2017

Brazil’s soft coup

Rebranding dictatorship in Latin America.

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Brazil coup

Brazil’s soft coup hardens

Vanessa Baird reports on Brazil’s unfolding rightwing takeover. Can it be stopped?
Operation Car Wash

What is Brazil’s ‘Operation Car Wash’?

Is it the world’s biggest corruption scandal? By Vanessa Baird.
make a soft coup

Marcela’s recipe: how to make a soft coup

This dish may seem challenging at first, but is guaranteed to impress your guests!
Brazilian favelas

‘We have a lot to teach the city’

Favela dwellers speak to Vanessa Baird about police violence and creative resistance.
Indigenous people, set to be robbed of their land rights, took their protest to Brasilia – to be rebuffed by armed forces.

Agribusiness seizes Brazilian power

Vanessa Baird writes on how agribusiness has mounted a coup against rural Brazilians.
Women's rights Brazil: The state of sexism, rights of women and sexual minorities after the soft coup in Brazil

What’s sex got to do with it?

Womens’ and minority rights are disappearing since the soft coup in Brazil, reports Vanessa Baird.
patriarchy

The persistence of patriarchy

The roots of patriarchy, how it is sustained, and how to go about challenging it. By Cynthia Enloe.

‘Life is about how we can enhance society’

Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson, Arun Gandhi, speaks to Danielle Batist about technology, Trump, and anger as a gift.
Canada 150

No celebration of colonization

Why First Nations people boycotted Canada’s 150th anniversary of confederation. Sian Griffiths reports.

Down with America’s racist monuments

It should not be controversial to take down statues of defenders of slavery, writes Mark Engler.

Making Waves: Jamila Afghani

Afghan women’s rights campaigner Jamila Afghani talks to Beena Nadeem.
South Sudan power

From friends to foes: South Sudan’s power pair

Richard Swift profiles president Mayardit and former vice-president Machar.

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