Brazil’s new right is using spurious legalism as a weapon to destroy the left ■ 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 ■ 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 ■ 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
