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Strategies for strengthening women's political participation in Latin America | LSE Latin America and Caribbean Women's political participation in Latin America is challenged by implementation, party decisions, and prejudice. Defending democracy is crucial to...

We are pleased to announce that our LSE LACC Visiting Fellow, Dr has been appointed Professor in the Department of Geography at the State University of Campinas in São Paulo, Brazil. Congratulations!

Despite the efforts from the Superior Electoral Court, disinformation has been widely spread in the current presidential campaign in Brazil.

Back in 2018, the Internet and digital media became a wide space for political activism and means of communication.

In our latest blog post, Jéssica Duarte (EL22 election research project) Universidade Federal de Pernambuco analysed how disinformation tools were not a mere occurrence in the 2018 election but a phenomenon that is here to stay and will define much of the political game in the country for some time.

Read more below:

Brazil elections 2022: From the unprecedented to the inherent | LSE Latin America and Caribbean Conservative movements using disinformation were an occurrence in 2018. In 2022 social media is flooded with messages pointing at beliefs and values to distort voters

From free legal assistance in Nicaragua to the recognition of the right to refuge for people fleeing environmental disasters in Ecuador, Latin American refugee laws are exceptional.

But they often seem to represent more of a utopian manifesto than the basis for political action, Omar Hammoud Gallego, PhD (LSE) and Luisa Feline Freier (Universidad del Pacífico (PE) found.

Read more in our latest blog post.

Symbolic refugee protection: Latin America's progressive laws that were never meant to use | LSE Latin America and Caribbean Refugee protection has been largely symbolic in the region with states reluctant to invest in their asylum systems, research has found.

The upcoming Brazilian election takes place in a context of crisis and with countries highly dependent on the market’s fate.

🇧🇷 The broader contradiction between neoliberalism and democracy is at the heart of this year’s electoral dispute, polarised between former President Luís Inácio Lula da Silva and the current President, Jair Bolsonaro.

Today, Brazil faces the challenge of restoring confidence in the democratic process, explains LACC's visiting fellow Leonardo Fontes.

Read more in our latest blog post.
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Bolsonaro's authoritarian neoliberalism and the future of Brazilian democracy | LSE Latin America and Caribbean Brazil faces the challenge of restoring confidence in the democratic process with the contradiction between neoliberalism and democracy

Our researcher’s engineering food project investigates how food is made available in São Paulo and Belo Horizonte in Brazil 🇧🇷

Although hunger and reliance on unhealthy food are pervasive, the research challenges the idea that neighbourhoods are ‘food deserts’. São Paulo's wholesale market, CEAGESP, is the focal point for fresh food distribution (🥔🌶️🍍), connecting supply chains across Brazil.

🚚🚛 With 4,000 porters .oficial operates 24/7 with trucks, carts and people constantly on the move. We learned how vegetables and fruit arrive at CEAGESP, and are sorted, graded, packed, and sold.

Coordination relies on ‘know who’ although there is a shift to mechanized haulage and the use of IT for order fulfilment.

Many individual traders buy produce at CEAGESP in person and then sell at stalls and street markets (feira), small shops and stores (hortifruti, or sacolão).

Stay tuned on Tuesdays to find out more about our project and see more about its outcomes in our bio 👀

The coproduction of public services during the pink tide in the early 2000s made significant improvements in people's lives 👫.

What can this new generation of left-leaning governments learn from these experiences?

Geoff Goodwin, Patrick O'Hare, Jonathan Alderman and Miranda Sheild Johansson analyse it.

Discover more in our newest blog post.

What can Latin America's new generation of left governments learn from the pink tide? | LSE Latin America and Caribbean Coproduction of public services was key in the leftist governments in the early 2000s. Today it could be a basis for the region's reconstruction after Covid-19

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has produced significant geostrategic changes worldwide.

In this article Armando Chaguaceda and Adriana Boersner Herrera explain how Latin America is part of the increasing interest in promoting Russia's international presence and trade relations with the region.

Read more in our latest blog post:

Russia in Latin America: the illiberal confluence | LSE Latin America and Caribbean Russia has expanded its presence in Latin America. And that is why it is important to pay attention to determine how likely it is that they can consolidate illiberal alliances in the continent.

Last week some of our researchers carried out a workshop and a visit to seeking to gain insight into issues of food security and organisational responses in the UK, as a comparison to their research in Brazil. Learn more about their project in our website!

The death of 53 people from Mexico 🇲🇽 , Guatemala 🇬🇹, Honduras 🇭🇳 and El Salvador 🇸🇻inside a truck in June is one of the deadliest cases of human smuggling across the US border with Mexico.

This set a very clear example of the difficulties that migrants face when they want to have better opportunities.

In the documentary The Vertical Border, Sonja Wolf explores, how they had negotiated violence before, during, and after displacement.

This project produced analytical reports, testimonial collections, and podcasts narrating migrants’ lived experiences.

Read more and watch 📽️ here:

Migration needs different storytelling to push for policy changes | LSE Latin America and Caribbean Forced migration is on the rise globally. In The Vertical Border, Sonja Wolf explores the dangers of migrating and the lack of alternatives for those who try their luck