In 14 years, the public authorities have been incapable of shedding light on the hundreds of executions carried out by death squads in the urban outskirts of São Paulo
In the past Brazil has tried to overcome overcrowding by using shipping containers. This is now being put forward as a solution to the impact of Covid-19 on prisons.
Specialist in advocacy, Glaucia Barros analyses how the public health emergency caused by Covid-19 could threaten public participation in the approval of laws
If there was any hope that, upon assuming the office of the presidency, the radical far-right congressman would adopt a democratic stance and seek a national consensus, this hope has long since been dashed