Author: Aldo Cordeiro Sauda

Aldo Sauda is a São Paulo activist and member of the Party of Socialism and Freedom (“PSOL”) and researcher with the Center of Marxist Studies at the Institute of Philosophy and Humanities (IFCH) of the University of Campinas (UNICAMP).

Left Advances in Brazil Bring Repression and Dirty Tricks

By: Aaron Amaral, Aldo Cordeiro SaudaNovember 28, 2020

The movement to defeat Brazil’s right-wing authoritarian President Jair Bolsonaro made significant advances in the first round of local elections on Sunday, November 15, 2020.

COVID-19 in the Age of Bolsonaro

By: Camila Valle, Aldo Cordeiro SaudaApril 16, 2020

As of April 14, 2020, Brazil has had 23,955 cases of COVID-19, including 1,361 deaths and rising daily mortality rates.1 And that is with only around 11 percent of total cases diagnosed, estimates the Center for Mathematical Modeling of Infectious

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