How did armed agents of the state become not just a tool of reactionary political actors, but a corps constituency for reaction in and of themselves? And how then, does that armed constituency relate to this broader resodence of law and order, poli of penal populism. So here we need to understand like a three elements, right? Like penapopulism, which is just mentioneda malitious and the military racelike a, the military is absolutely involved within the bosnat government. It's been running the show, like inte, inthe health cary ministry, and like many other areas of the government.
Bolsonaro is presiding over mass COVID deaths and the destruction of the Amazon. Lula is free and polling way ahead for next year's presidential election. But the conditions that brought the far-right to power remain in place. Sociologist Sabrina Fernandes and historian Andre Pagliarini on Brazil.
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