Brazil’s new right is using spurious legalism as a weapon to destroy the left â– Voices of the Brazilian Left: Dispatches from a Coup in Progress, edited by Brian Mier, 2018, Sumaré Editions/Brasilwire.com
Right wages ‘lawfare’ in Brazil
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Jackboot justice
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Chile’s gulag under Pinochet serves as a brutal reminder of what is at stake in a military coup â– Prisoner of Pinochet: My Year in a Chilean Concentration Camp, Sergio Bitar, translated by Erin Goodman, 2017, University of Wisconsin Press
The heroic cold war
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A new translation brings Argentina’s own claim to the ‘Heroic Age’ of Antarctic exploration in from the cold â– Four Antarctic Years in the South Orkney Islands, José Manuel Moneta, 2017, Bernard Quaritch
Science’s dry fantasy
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A study of drought in Brazil reveals how politics has trumped technology
A burning issue
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Fire hazards in 19th-century Mexico City helped to forge a new form of citizenship
First steps to freedom
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The abolition of slavery in Brazil inaugurated a process that still continues
