Tag: Brazil
EU-Mercosur Deal is a Symptom of Neoliberal Exhaustion
The culmination of twenty years of intermittent trade negotiations, the EU-Mercosur trade deal stands to open up fissures in Irish life. Aiming to liberalise trade barriers between the EU and the four membered South American bloc over a ten year...
Brazil’s Bolsonaro is Not a Threat to Democracy, He is a Threat to the Left’s Fake Democracy
“Power is like a violin, you take it with the left and you play it with the right.” This phrase defines the decades old mix of socialist populism and crony capitalism behind Brazil's brand of democracy that is about to...