Top right: Six months of Bolsonaro in Brazil

Ernesto Bohoslavsky, Coordinator of the CLACSO Working Group “Contemporary Right-Wing Groups: Dictatorships and Democracies”, produces the podcast series “Up with the Right-Wing Group”, dedicated to exchanging opinions on elites, hierarchies and the right wing in Latin America.

In the first installment, Bohoslavsky speaks with Brazilian historian Rodrigo Patto Sá Motta about the current political situation in Brazil, during the first six months of Jair Bolsonaro's presidency. They focus particularly on the difficulties the social sciences faced in predicting the 2018 election results, as well as the social and political impacts of the authoritarian shift that Brazilian society has undergone in recent years.

Rodrigo Patto Sá Motta specializes in the study of Brazil's last dictatorship and the various currents of anti-communism in the 20th century. He has worked for several years at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, where he teaches and researches 20th-century Brazilian political history. He was president of the National Association of University Professors of History (ANPUH), the organization that brings together historians residing in Brazil. He is a member of the CLACSO Working Group "Contemporary Right-Wing Movements: Dictatorships and Democracies."

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