This month Brazil held elections for 5,568 mayors and over 58,000 municipal council members. Join us to hear a leading expert on contemporary Brazilian politics discuss the implications for Brazil’s democracy, the country’s left/right divide, and the 2026 presidential election.
Speaker:
André Pagliarini is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Louisiana State University and a research fellow in the Washington Brazil Office. In addition to writing widely for outlets such as The Guardian, New Republic, The Nation, Foreign Policy, and Folha de S. Paulo, he is currently preparing a book manuscript on the contested politics of nationalism in twentieth-century Brazil.