Behind the News: Bolsonaro's Brazil & Alabama Amazon Workers

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🗓️ 22 February 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. In this episode, Doug speaks with Forrest Hylton on Bolsonaro's Brazil: disease, chaos, and creeping military dictatorship. Plus: Luis Feliz Leon on organizing Amazon workers in Alabama (Gainesville article here; Bessemer, here).

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0:34.0	Hello and welcome to Behind the News, my name is Doug Henwood.
0:36.0	Two guests today, first frequent behind the news guest,
0:39.0	Forest Hilton, will analyze the misery, chaos, and evolving
0:42.0	military dictatorship that is JR Bolsonaro's Brazil.
0:45.0	And at the end of the show, the journalist Luis Feliz Leon will
0:48.0	report an efforts to organize a union at an Amazon
0:51.0	distribution center in Alabama.
0:53.0	Poor Brazil, overrun by COVID and governed by a crew of
0:56.0	deeply corrupt incompetent authoritarians led by the dreadful
1:00.0	JR Bolsonaro, who is worse than Trump.
1:03.0	Here to explain as far as Hilton, who normally teaches history
1:06.0	and politics at the National University of Columbia in Medellín.
1:09.0	He's supposed to have a visiting gig in Brazil, but because of
1:13.0	the madness around COVID and Bolsonaro, it's all in limbo now.
1:16.0	Bolsonaro was the ultimate beneficiary of a scheme run by the
1:20.0	Brazilian elite in partnership with the US government to destroy
1:23.0	the workers party, known by its Portuguese initials, the PT,
1:27.0	and to destroy two members of that party, who serve
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