What's at stake in a polarized Brazil?
On Wednesday, September 30, at 16:00 PM in Argentina, Uruguay and most of Brazil (UTC-3), InfoCLACSO will be live on the YouTube channel and the Facebook and LinkedIn profiles.
On Sunday, October 4, Brazilians will go to the polls to elect a president. Among the 13 candidates, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers' Party (PT) and Flávio Bolsonaro of the Liberal Party (PL) stand out. If no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote, a runoff election will be held on October 25.
The elections are taking place against a backdrop of Latin American oligarchy aligning itself with the United States, largely due to Trump's interference in elections during his second term in various countries of the region. This time, he has already announced his support for Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of Jair Bolsonaro, who was convicted of attempting a coup in January 2023.
The analysis of:
-Pablo Vommaro , Executive Director of CLACSO
-Silvia Borelli , member of the CLACSO Steering Committee for Brazil
– Monica Valente , Director of the Perseu Abramo Foundation, Executive Secretary of the São Paulo Forum and member of the Lula 2026 Campaign Coordination
-Luyara Franco , Marielle Franco Institute, Brazil
-Beto Vasques , Director of Institutional Relations at the Instituto Democracia em Xeque and Coordinator of the Public Opinion Laboratory at the School of Sociology and Politics of São Paulo
-Daniela Silva , Executive Director of CTRL+Z Brazil
– Josué Medeiros , Brazilian political scientist, professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, coordinator of the Political and Electoral Observatory and Director of Training and Research at the Marielle Franco Foundation
-Matías Bianchi , President of the Argentine Association of Evaluation and coordinator of the +Digital project in Southern Affairs
-Oliver Kornblihtt , Midia Ninja, an independent and self-managed media outlet formed by young Brazilian activists starting in 2011 as an alternative to the traditional press
– Edna Castro , Professor Emerita of the Federal University of Pará. Interviewed in the framework of the XXXV Latin American Congress of Sociology in Rio de Janeiro “Between polycrisis and alternatives: horizons of Latin American critical sociology”.
The program for Wednesday, September 30th covers one of the axes of the Platforms for Social Dialogue that CLACSO is promoting for the coming years: “Democracies in dispute: horizons, resistances and construction of alternatives from the public and the common”
She drives: Gustavo LemaDirector of Communication and Information at CLACSO
Directed and edited by: Guido Fontán
Production: Eric Domergue and Noelia Croci
Design and programming: Sebastián Higa, Christian Iturricha and Renata Maestrovicente
Open to the addresses of the Executive Secretariat and the members of the Steering Committee of CLACSO to disseminate activities and topics specific to each country, this communication channel is also a space to analyze and deepen the Platforms for Social Dialogue (PDS) that CLACSO promotes for the coming years, to interview researchers, and for everything that makes up the life and production of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences.
