Beef, Bible and bullets: Brazil in the age of Bolsonaro

For Latin America, this has been an era of democratic consolidation in many countries (including Mexico) that had long been run by a single party. It has also been a time in which a number of civil conflicts have been brought to an end, most notably in Colombia. But democracy and populism remain in tension in both Brazil and Argentina. Elsewhere, a

O primeiro foi a experimentação inicial e a formação do maquinário da campanha, em 2014 e 2015. O segundo foi a comercialização de uma nova indústria de operações clandestinas on-line. E o terceiro foi a consolidação do poder no topo e o aumento da polarização política no país.

There is as well the question of whether Brazil will act responsibly in protecting the Amazon rainforest, the preservation of which is critical to global efforts to combat climate change.

Brazil is dealing with endemic corruption (although its courts thus far appear, for the most part, to be stepping up to the challenge) and a large public sector and benefits for citizens that the economy cannot sustain. Argentina has struggled to find leaders who could simultaneously be democratic, effective, and popular. Mexico faces an epidemic o