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POL 207 - Politics of Latin America

Lush greenery in the Amazon

Unit 12: Brazil

Reading:

BTI Transformation Index Brazil Country Report 2024

The period under review primarily focuses on the latter half of ultra-conservative President Jair Bolsonaro’s four-year term in office. Democracy faced a concrete stress test at this time, similar to the first two years of his administration. Nearly all indicators relevant to the country’s democratic status experienced deterioration. The resilience of democratic institutions and the judiciary’s interventions, which consistently checked the president’s authoritarian tendencies, prevented these impairments from being more severe.

Film:

Mosquito Hunter | FRONTLINE

The Destruction of the Amazon, Explained

The War for the Amazon's Most Valuable Trees

Brazil's Indigenous Land is Being Invaded

Can Brazil Survive Bolsonaro?

Attributions

BTI Transformation Index Brazil Country Report 2024
Source: Bertelsmann Stiftung, BTI 2024 Country Report — Brazil. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Stiftung, 2024, https://bti-project.org/en/reports/country-report/BRA
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Mosquito Hunter (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
Source:  PBS FRONTLINE, by Michele Mizner and Katie Worth, Aug 2, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/@frontline
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The Destruction of the Amazon, Explained
The War for the Amazon's Most Valuable Trees
Brazil's Indigenous Land is Being Invaded
Source: Vox YouTube, Nov 21, 2019 and Nov. 25, 2019, www.youtube.com/@Vox
Licensing: Permitted Non-Commercial Educational Classroom Use via Vox Permissions and Licensing

Can Brazil Survive Bolsonaro?
Source: The Economist YouTube, Jun 4, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/@TheEconomist
© The Economist