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Once an exuberant procession of thousands, the commemoration was replaced by a sombre walk of about 400 clergymen and parishioners around the grounds of the capital’s cathedral, after the government banned the church from using the streets.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AP3V7QH3YBEZ5AVME7AEG3PLZE","additional_properties":{"_id":1661516864471},"content":"Those present said the repression had not dented the faith of the Nicaraguan people but acknowledged that the fear had kept many from joining the celebration.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EHW6AZWJTNDL3MIMKDHQZB6VJE","additional_properties":{"_id":1661516864472},"content":"“We know that this attack against the church is not just against Catholics, but against all the voices that speak up in solidarity with the people,” said Inés Pérez, a 60-year-old Catholic who came to celebrate Our Lady of Fátima from the nearby city of Masaya. “Even from confinement we can express ourselves, demonstrate our faith. 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Although Catholicism in Nicaragua, like elsewhere in the region, has been steadily losing ground to Evangelical churches, it remains the largest denomination in the country, the poll shows.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EB5R2ORJ2JMPTZJDFWDITC5XDU","additional_properties":{"_id":"2ZHOOHAW4FBHBPNULR4DLMKHUA"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"J5T3R2KEBBFOJN6RT6AT4HHEUA","additional_properties":{"_id":1661516864475},"content":"Bolaños said that for the past seven years he had walked with a local priest to help officiate an informal Mass on weekends in remote communities lacking a church. He said that on arriving in a hamlet, the conversation usually immediately turns to politics.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S7TJ2OGQ6ZAU7BHCZ5AJYDOGYM","additional_properties":{"_id":1661516864476},"content":"“All the institutions are already controlled by the government,” he said. “The people want to know what’s really happening in the country.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"7EKK3DVMYFCMBKZ4EXD37JR3NY","additional_properties":{"_id":1661516864477},"content":"The scale of religious repression in Nicaragua has brought back memories of the worst years of the Central American civil wars of the 1980s, when dozens of priests and nuns in nearby El Salvador and Guatemala were killed by both sides for speaking out against dictatorships.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UJ5QV3MH75AP3LADP5AOD7X4QE","additional_properties":{"_id":1661516864478},"content":"In Nicaragua the systematic dismantling of Catholic institutions signifies the end of Ortega’s long-running efforts to make clergy instruments of the socialist movement he has come to embody, the Sandinistas.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GBDV2LZCRREAFEGBECQN7DPH4Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1661516864479},"content":"During the armed struggle against right-wing dictator Anastasio Somoza in the 1970s, Sandinista guerrillas received unlikely support from a progressive group of Catholic priests who advocated for the poor and spoke out against oppression.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WSCZLLBZHFESJM5XA3WE3JMU6I","additional_properties":{"_id":1661516864480},"content":"After taking power in 1979, the Sandinistas purged the reactionary clergymen allied with Somoza but tried channelling the religious devotion of the Nicaraguan people toward revolutionary goals, said Humberto Belli, a former senior Sandinista official who has broken with Ortega.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D25LQAFMTRCWTPDK5AOWPVFNI4","additional_properties":{"_id":1661516864481},"content":"“The government promoted the idea that being a true Christian meant being a revolutionary,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X6TII566EFDJVHUD5FINTIERII","additional_properties":{"_id":1661516864482},"content":"The alliance with sectors of the church largely ended in 2018, when a wave of national protests led to the death of about 300 protesters at the hands of security forces and paramilitaries. Many priests opened their churches to protesters seeking refuge and denounced the violence in their sermons.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YOJYOHOLGRGVBM6AQLQU2QASKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1661516864483},"content":"The demonstrations showed the church’s power in legitimising social protests, Belli said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MEKKZJ67K5GCVD4TR6JNVVRHPE","additional_properties":{"_id":1661516864484},"content":"Now, no longer able to co-opt church leaders, Ortega appears to have decided to eradicate independent Christian practice to complete his total control of the nation, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SXGPHSPWOBFLZLV33TZ3QIC4K4","additional_properties":{"_id":1661516864485},"content":"“Christianity means subordination to a being outside the revolution,” Belli said. “This government can’t tolerate this.” — This article originally appeared in <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/23/world/americas/nicaragua-catholic-church-daniel-ortega.html\">The New York Times</a>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Alfonso Flores Bermúdez, Anatoly Kurmanaev and Yubelka Mendoza in Matagalpa, Nicaragua"}]},"description":{"basic":"Arrest of Bishop Rolando Álvarez is the latest and most aggressive move against the church"},"display_date":"2022-08-29T11:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Nicaragua silences its last outspoken critics: Catholic priests","native":""},"label":{},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"UXT5NHQFAJTIIJZI7BLJUCFMEM","auth":{"1":"7377d8210b15bf5a8770863a3569bcedf0d64d8fda6c4da6eda4b4e60aebf968"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/UXT5NHQFAJTIIJZI7BLJUCFMEM.jpg"}},"subtype":"feature","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Americas"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/americas/2022/08/29/nicaragua-silences-its-last-outspoken-critics-catholic-priests/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/americas","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Americas"}}}},{"_id":"SGCN5NHFQBCF5JNULBRAK4RJZQ","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":582,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/4926793/media/b5d3621de3a355041e9d2a108512df12_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/world/americas/2022/08/27/soft-power-irish-lobbyists-in-the-us-secure-access-to-representatives-way-beyond-that-of-other-small-countries/","content_elements":[{"_id":"YV3WNPUHNBDT7IMV2VDYBT26MM","additional_properties":{"_id":1661249750306},"content":"In April 2019 Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the United States House of Representatives, visited Ireland and Britain at the head of a congressional delegation. Its mission was to emphasise American concern at the threat to the peace settlement in Northern Ireland posed by the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union. A second delegation, led by the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee Richard Neal, followed in February 2022. And in May Pelosi repeated earlier warnings that Congress would punish any action that undermined the principles of the Belfast Agreement by vetoing a future free trade deal between Britain and the US.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D7UG5QO2B5EFBBM5BH6UR3USHM","additional_properties":{"_id":1661249750307},"content":"Why is the UK’s much smaller neighbour able to call on such formidable American backing? The answer might at first sight seem obvious. The image of the Irish as supremely successful operators of the electoral system, particularly in the great cities of the east and mid-west, is part of American political folklore. But this is an image from the past. Suburbanisation long ago dispersed the tight-knit communities that supported the political machines of men like Chicago’s Richard Daly.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NDAHQGETVRDHBFQR7MARRCNKZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1661264362698},"content":"The strong party loyalties that gave coherence to the Irish vote have likewise disappeared. Conflicts over abortion, equal marriage, crime and race have driven a wedge between the Democratic party and its once loyal Irish Catholic supporters. To the more affluent, meanwhile, the Republican Party – business-friendly and tax-averse – has become increasingly attractive.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YF2YG5TS7ZF6VOWFWTOO44B56I","additional_properties":{"_id":1661249750308},"content":"The collapse of traditional political alignments was obvious as early as the 1980s when Ronald Reagan captured more than half of the Irish-American vote. During the Democratic Party primaries in 2008 neither Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton were willing to commit themselves to offering special treatment to undocumented Irish immigrants. Obama also refused an invitation to attend the Irish-American Presidential Forum, a regular pilgrimage from 1984 for contenders for the Democratic nomination, and the venue at which Bill Clinton first committed himself to an activist policy on Northern Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HHM7FDNYRNDVPKUEYGBCKTOWRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1661249750309},"content":"More recently this erosion of the Irish-Democrat alliance has been partially obscured. President Joe Biden has made what he presents as his Irishness – he also has significant English ancestry – a key feature of his political persona. During the presidential election of 2020 his team reportedly combed lists of voters in swing districts picking out Irish surnames for particular attention. 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In a succession of inglorious episodes the establishment of a political settlement in Northern Ireland stands out as a rare American diplomatic success.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GZYAPUEZOVDL7B35V24FGWIKMU","additional_properties":{"_id":1661264362703},"content":"But there is also something less tangible: a form of soft power that allows Irish lobbyists to secure a hearing that representatives of other small countries could never hope to receive.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QQAXAUWKMFADBGLIYZTIOQEKQI","additional_properties":{"_id":1661249750311},"content":"A favourable disposition towards Irish requests is in part a legacy of the deep cultural footprint created by successive generations of Irish immigrants, reinforced in recent decades by a spectacular process of reinvention. The earliest Irish immigrants to the United States encountered ethnic and religious hostility, discrimination and, on occasion, violence. By the mid-20th century, however, the Irish had become America’s favourite ethnic group. The stereotyped Irishman might still like a drink and, in some versions, a good bout of fisticuffs. But he was warm-hearted, generous and above all fun to be with.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GGHHGHT7WRC7TLY4UVNDUUEEXI","additional_properties":{"_id":1661249750312},"content":"In more recent decades what was already a largely benign image of Irishness has undergone a further transformation. The origins of the process can be traced back to the 1960s. By then consumers in America and elsewhere were seeking an alternative to the bland uniformity of a society of mass consumption in supposedly more authentic ethnic cultures. Ireland, with a marketable heritage, reassuringly rooted in a well-advertised, if tragic history, and largely accessible through the English language, was well placed to respond. It was against this background that the Clancy Brothers, attired in their trademark Aran sweaters but with a musical style honed in the Greenwich Village of Pete Seeger and the young Joan Baez, made their breakthrough appearance on the <i>Ed Sullivan Show</i> in 1961.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MBUJGXHY4ZE2ZPXJ4NLKWLRYJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1661249750313},"content":"The real change, however, came in the 1990s as a spectacular burst of economic growth gave Irishness a new glamour and a brash self-confidence. This was the decade in which the Riverdance ensemble adapted the country’s distinctive and highly specialised style of traditional dance to the demands of the MTV age. It was also the decade in which a new cultural artefact, the Irish pub, made its appearance in cities across the world.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F2FVLHK35RC3VJ3XNHIO3TUW2Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1661249750314},"content":"The image of Irishness that was thus projected on the international stage was a startling reinvention. The founders of the Irish State established in 1922 were inspired by the vision of a pious, puritanical society to be protected from corrupting foreign influences. The image summed up in the Irish pub, by contrast, is of a confident, secular society, at ease in its interactions with the outside world, characterised above all by a genial secular hedonism. And, as a synthesised authenticity perfectly aligned to modern tastes, brand Ireland has proved a hugely successful product.","type":"text"},{"_id":"T7QW6QVCSNAFZDFZAPANNWJDAI","additional_properties":{"_id":1661249750315},"content":"This does not mean, however, that the access Irish representatives currently enjoy in the US can be taken for granted. A positive international image, and the legacy of past political alignments, can go only so far in influencing the decisions of a superpower. An awareness of the fragility of their privileged position was evident in the frantic efforts of Irish diplomats to secure a commitment from the Trump administration that the annual St Patrick’s Day pilgrimage to Washington of senior Irish politicians would remain a significant event in the White House calendar.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JOEW5C6FQNEW3J2S2A5N4RNRJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1661264362709},"content":"The same underlying insecurity inspired earlier attempts to persuade the Obama administration to continue the practice of appointing a special envoy for Northern Ireland. Ten years on from the cessation of violence, the Irish ambassador admitted to Obama aide Trina Vargo there was no obvious need for an envoy. But “it made them feel special”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HQKD436VTBFPLLOYGMH2UM34GA","additional_properties":{"_id":1661249750316},"content":"There is one other point to consider. From the 1920s onwards Democratic politicians in particular kept their Irish constituents happy by regularly denouncing continued British rule over Northern Ireland. For Frank Skeffington, the old-style political boss of Edwin O’Connor’s classic novel of machine politics <i>The Last Hurrah</i> (1958), foreign policy boiled down to two clear principles: Trieste belonged to Italy and Ireland should be united.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EPMT4KEZIFHDLJUPXJT63KM6DM","additional_properties":{"_id":1661249750317},"content":"What is less often noticed is how little practical impact these ritual protests achieved. In 1950, for example, the Truman administration, with mid-term elections approaching, allowed the House of Representatives to pass a grandstanding amendment to a foreign aid bill denying Marshall Aid to Britain until partition ended. But there was no question of the administration inflicting this sort of damage on its main Cold War ally. Ancestral honour satisfied, the amendment was quietly killed off in committee.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LILDVKSQ4FB4NPA5IONDFVGO6Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1661249750318},"content":"In the 1990s all this changed. For President Bill Clinton intervention in Northern Ireland was an attractive option, following a string of foreign policy missteps. But he was able to seize this opportunity only because the collapse of the Soviet Union meant that British opposition to this intrusion could be more easily discounted.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FWN4WKUSIJDHTGTBZZPPV5OU7Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1661249750319},"content":"Recent events suggest that that foreign policy calculation is in the process of being reviewed. As the reinvigoration of Nato in the face of Russian aggression becomes a priority, the first suggestions are being heard that a British-American trade deal will not after all depend on a satisfactory resolution of differences over the Northern Ireland protocol. 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Ever hungry to expand, cartel bosses are devising new routes to reach new markets. “What we’re seeing now is the culmination of the globalisation of the drugs trade,” said Jimena Blanco, head of Americas political research at Verisk Maplecroft. “This is a trend which began five to 10 years ago but has been accelerating in the past couple of years”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VUAP2HG5AVD5TOSDWO2RHLFF7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1661418211376},"content":"Antwerp seized more cocaine than any other European port last year, almost 90 tonnes. Belgian customs said the three main source countries were Ecuador, Paraguay and Panama — none major producers of the drug. Most Europe-bound cocaine is smuggled in shipping containers, and “when the seizure rates hit 20 to 25 per cent, the drug traffickers tend to switch routes”, said Jeremy McDermott, executive director of InSight Crime.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FASFXRWJGBFIBBAC3OTAPWCWM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1661418211377},"content":"Along with the Brazilian port of Santos and Costa Rica’s Limón facility, Guayaquil is one of what McDermott terms a “second wave of ports” used for cocaine shipment in recent years. Paraguay, Uruguay and Chile are newer additions. Things are so bad that all but three of Latin America’s 21 mainland nations are now “main countries of source or transit” for cocaine, according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. (The exceptions are the tiny nations of Guyana, Belize and El Salvador.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"5HQK2BZ45JCDJBKS2EW7OTXP7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1661418211378},"content":"The drug cartels have not just expanded their routes. They have also grown the total size of the cocaine business and diversified into adjacent criminal enterprises. After five decades of the US-led war on drugs and billions of dollars spent on interdiction and the pursuit of cartel bosses, the trade has never been larger. Total cocaine production hit a new record of 1,982 tonnes in 2020, according to the UNODC, more than twice as much as in 2014. Cocaine in Europe has never been more plentiful or cheaper in real terms, and the traffickers are growing lucrative markets in Russia, China and parts of Asia where the drug fetches two or three times more. As McDermott put it, “cocaine’s popping up everywhere”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4G6Q4W3EQBGO7MPSXULSJK62QE","additional_properties":{"_id":1661418211379},"content":"Major cartels have moved well beyond trafficking drugs. They now smuggle refugees, extort from businesses, kidnap the wealthy, and trade illegal Amazon timber or gold. Chilean organised crime has dipped into illicit fishing, while the latest business for Mexican gangs, according to Verisk’s Blanco, is smuggling abortion pills over the border to the US. The litany of depressing statistics from the failed drug war and its ghastly human toll have prompted an increasing number of politicians in Latin America to call for the legalisation of cocaine.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MXFWJYSYIZBGJMFXEGDZMHBTXY","additional_properties":{"_id":1661418211380},"content":"Yet, as Shannon O’Neil, vice-president at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, points out: “These are no longer really drug cartels. They are organised crime groups. 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Its cash position had dwindled to $107 million (€105.6 million) from $1 billion (€990 million) at the start of the year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y6SJLFO4BBCZDBKDZYCGASULSA","additional_properties":{"_id":1660822008580},"content":"Bed Bath & Beyond is one of a handful of meme stocks that became popular at the start of 2021 but has garnered less attention than GameStop, the video game retailer, and AMC, the cinema chain.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZWGEZBG5ANDYLGDNDTADA6OLA4","additional_properties":{"_id":1660822008581},"content":"The increase in its share price has been driven by interest from retail investors attracted by the stock’s small free float and a significant number of short sellers betting the share price will fall.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R2JX5WIF5VBPFD7QUGZRKZJVA4","additional_properties":{"_id":1660822008582},"content":"Those two characteristics tend to draw interest from retail investors frequenting Reddit forums. 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The face of waning Trumpian populism is taking on a resurgent icon of the left.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2LYEDT75KRHEJOFOLR36XZB3KA","additional_properties":{"_id":1659617934687},"content":"Like Donald Trump did, hard-right president Jair Bolsonaro is preparing for his likely election defeat this October by claiming the presidential vote is rigged and has already been stolen. The 67-year-old former army captain, threatened with, though apparently evading, multiple corruption charges, is seeking a second four-year term, and has also borrowed from his hero’s playbook in trying to enlist, so far unsuccessfully, the army to intervene and put things right. Times have changed, however, and the army, although barely wedded to the democratic system, is less enthusiastic about military rule and coups these days.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W6CYAS6T2RB5BHGEVE42VCM4RQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1659617934688},"content":"Meanwhile, Brazilian senators are calling for an investigation into one of the country’s top prosecutors after she shelved several charges against the president over his egregious mishandling of Covid-19. Bolsonaro constantly downplayed the severity of the pandemic, initially calling it <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/23/brazils-jair-bolsonaro-says-coronavirus-crisis-is-a-media-trick\">“a little flu”</a> and telling Brazilians to man up because “we are all going to die anyway”. More have died from Covid-19 in Brazil (676,964) than in any other country, except the US.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L62Q6RF5BNCTTNSHRWBTTESJ74","additional_properties":{"_id":1659617934689},"content":"The many signs of Bolsonaro’s increasing desperation reflect not only his likely defeat, but, particularly, ignominious defeat at the hands of arch-nemesis Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The left-wing former president and Workers’ Party leader “Lula” left office in 2010 with an approval rating above 80 per cent, but served a term in jail for corruption that had embroiled and discredited his whole party, saw the economy tank and the impeachment of his handpicked successor, Dilma Rousseff. His revival — polls give him a clear lead — is little short of what the Financial Times has called as “the political comeback of the decade — if not the century”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EDVPPA66QJBFPNPAFYD7LPY7R4","additional_properties":{"_id":"PD5AQU5VKJGN5H24H7MPOYLK4Y"},"content":"Brazil’s criminal gangs have Bolsonaro to thank for easier access to weapons","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"TNXK64YMZVGX3GQQXEFEB2MTME","additional_properties":{"_id":1659617934690},"content":"“Bolsonaro is someone who bluffs,” Lula told a recent interview. The president may want a coup but “he would be on his own”, he predicts, somewhat optimistically.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CECXSDY7CZDXRF44JGSGBBANTM","additional_properties":{"_id":1659617934691},"content":"It is a comeback not only for Lula in Brazil, but continentwide for the left. After a decade or more of leaning to the right, Latin America is veering sharply to the left, a turn that began in 2018 with Andrés Manuel López Obrador winning the presidential election in Mexico, and has seen the elections of a radical former student activist in Chile, the son of poor farmers in Peru, a former guerrilla rebel in Colombia, and a leftist in Argentina. The region’s six largest economies will be run by leaders elected on socialist platforms, and in most cases far more socially progressive than their predecessors.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XEDCOXSJXVBSTALF22FPT73J2E","additional_properties":{"_id":1659617934692},"content":"But, while the last surge to the left in the early 2000s was assisted by a commodities boom that paid for significant social reform and the substantial widening of the middle class, now economies are sliding into recession, budgets have been battered by Covid and inflation fed by the war in Ukraine. Lula, like his comrades across the continent, will face into far more difficult challenges in the face of greater than ever expectations from the poorest and indigenous and expanded middle classes in some of the world’s most unequal and divided societies.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4RBNVBN4UFEZJECL7GHNGXWB6I","additional_properties":{"_id":1659617934693},"content":"Extreme poverty in Brazil jumped by more than a third last year to 14 per cent, and polls report some 36 per cent of the population did not have enough money for food in a country that is one of the world’s biggest agricultural exporters. “I am very sad because 12 years after I left the presidency, I find Brazil poorer,” Lula says. “I find more unemployment, more people going hungry and Brazil with a government that has very low credibility at home and abroad.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"SGLTW3SMDZDFNKJORJ56NNDBN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1659617934694},"content":"During his first term bulging state coffers allowed him sharply to reduce poverty through radical social welfare programmes such as Bolsa Familia — a cash transfer programme for the poorest. Generous state spending promises will now be even more difficult and open his campaign to charges of fiscal irresponsibility, but Lula has gone a long way to reassure a business community rattled by Bolsonaro’s recklessness that, as he told the Financial Times recently, he is “more experienced, more seasoned and with a much greater desire to get it right”. More the economic pragmatist of his first years than the more ideological interventionist who emerged during his second term.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YIZXSTS4NJFIXCBMH54BR6H4HY","additional_properties":{"_id":1659617934695},"content":"His commitment to sharply reduce deforestation of the Amazon will be welcomed worldwide.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QIV54NDIG5DLZJEVF4WE4UR7UU","additional_properties":{"_id":1659617934696},"content":"It looks like Brazil is about to give this former shoeshine boy and metalworker a second chance.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Patrick Smyth"}},"name":"Patrick Smyth"}]},"description":{"basic":"If Lula becomes president, the region’s six largest economies will be run by socialist leaders"},"display_date":"2022-08-05T23:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"A win for Lula in Brazil would see Latin America swing further to the left","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"MCQOA65RYY5OU7PJAQ3NFLTSGI","auth":{"1":"9eb923f88045eb65e958bdacdf9f0efa8f308ea5ca008acfbb74c455b3f42a50"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/MCQOA65RYY5OU7PJAQ3NFLTSGI.jpg"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"},{"name":"Americas"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/2022/08/06/a-win-for-lula-in-brazil-would-see-latin-america-swing-further-to-the-left/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}},{"_id":"BMHOUHONF5CABORQCOMYJH3O7E","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":293,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/4764592/media/66e00d6566dc286d47255464f5db2a8a_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/world/americas/2022/08/04/brazils-criminals-gangs-have-bolsonaro-to-thank-for-easier-access-to-weapons/","content_elements":[{"_id":"ZGRSKP4PGVGF7KGES4FNVOF2VU","additional_properties":{"_id":1659630285670},"content":"When it was revealed that a figure in Brazil’s criminal underworld had taken advantage of lax new gun regulations drawn up by the administration of Jair Bolsonaro to legally source an automatic rifle, the country’s public security community was not surprised. “This is the Chronicle of a Death Foretold,” says Carolina Ricardo, citing the famous novella by Gabriel García Márquez.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VQRZHSJ7YBGWFLILJN6BHDASL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1659630285671},"content":"Brazil’s far-right president has long advocated looser restrictions on gun ownership and, during a chaotic three years in power, it is one of the few policy areas in which he has delivered. 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Historically the majority of guns seized by police from criminals in Brazil started life as legally held weapons. But the new ease of access and resultant spike in the volume of guns now circulating has been a huge boon to the underworld, where the price of sourcing an automatic rifle has fallen from about €10,000 to as little as €2,000, analysts calculate.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4JBEHY52KNDR3KBJVDJPFVSHQE","additional_properties":{"_id":1659630285674},"content":"“When we saw this level of access to guns opening up we knew it would turn out badly,” says Ricardo, director of Sou da Paz (I’m For Peace), an institute in São Paulo that works on violence-prevention public policies. Working with the Espírito Santo state government to improve its gun control regime, Sou da Paz gathered evidence that criminals are now paying ordinary members of the public to register for gun ownership and then passing over newly obtained weapons to crime gangs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"APXHPYIGPZDAJAKHUYLOW2V4RY","additional_properties":{"_id":"6YLNNQD7G5GRBC7IAZKTKRTPK4"},"content":"Gripping podcast that has taken Brazil by storm reveals a tale of slavery and an escape from US justice","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"CFI456QKIVG6NGPYYTK2RNYPOI","additional_properties":{"_id":1659630285675},"content":"Gun control campaigners say this new source of weapons for criminals has been facilitated by the failure of the military, charged with overseeing private gun ownership in Brazil, to invest in new capacity to accompany the soaring demand for weapons. After it was revealed that the São Paulo criminal wanted on murder and drug trafficking charges had bought an automatic rifle, the army released a terse note saying he was legally entitled to do so based on the paperwork he had provided, but the permit would be revoked. “As it is a political project of the Bolsonaro government to facilitate the arming of the population, the military has not invested in the capacity needed to accomplish its oversight task. Its technical competence has diminished as a result of political interference by Bolsonaro,” notes Ricardo.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZRO33VZSUJAEDL5RMRVR3KTGCQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"XNXS2ZVKWVFF7KZPIHAOMGO4Q4"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"DOAZ2QYLPZH5JDGVHRDT22SRMM","additional_properties":{"_id":1659630285676},"content":"The president and the country’s increasingly powerful gun lobby have been silent on the mounting evidence that his gun policy is facilitating criminals’ access to weapons. This is despite the fact they long made a citizen’s right to defend themselves against Brazil’s endemic criminality a key justification for laxer gun laws. But public security campaigners point to an important change in Bolsonaro’s rationale for weaker controls on gun ownership in recent years. “His discourse on weapons used to focus on legitimate defence but after 2020 there is a change and it starts to become a political question for him,” says Isabel Figueiredo of the Brazilian Forum on Public Safety.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XQRL6WES25BFNJQCA3J2YGQHSQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1659630285677},"content":"As Bolsonaro escalated his attacks on opposition governors, the media and the supreme court and its judges who oversee elections, he increasingly linked his desire to arm the population to facing down his political opponents. The statement “An armed people will never be enslaved” is now a staple of presidential speeches in which he also calls into question the legitimacy of Brazil’s voting system in advance of October’s presidential election, in which every poll shows him heading for defeat.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WVMQOMUWZZEOROEWRP6IVSMFVQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1659630285678},"content":"The increase in gun ownership in states that voted for Bolsonaro in 2018 has far outstripped that in states his left-wing opponent Fernando Haddad won, fuelling fears that among the cohort of new gun owners is an extremist fringe of the president’s supporters ready to support him if, as he has hinted, he refuses to accept defeat in October. “As well as the leaking of weapons to the criminal world we also now have to worry about the risk this arming of the population poses for democracy in Brazil,” warns Figueiredo.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Tom Hennigan"}},"name":"Tom Hennigan"}]},"description":{"basic":"Far-right president’s lax gun laws have put more weapons in criminal hands, and even threaten democracy, say public safety experts"},"display_date":"2022-08-04T17:05:32.019Z","headlines":{"basic":"Brazil’s criminal gangs have Bolsonaro to thank for easier access to weapons","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"RVIHL5S5YIFPEZ6AEOKIWIXZXA","auth":{"1":"6667c9e2293f29a251160c50016aae73db03ec09cdc61950b08a974f38b02c9d"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/RVIHL5S5YIFPEZ6AEOKIWIXZXA.jpg"}},"subtype":"feature","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Americas"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/americas/2022/08/04/brazils-criminals-gangs-have-bolsonaro-to-thank-for-easier-access-to-weapons/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/americas","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Americas"}}}},{"_id":"MWCTHNJQQFGDVMURXCVFUOVBYY","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":590,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/6052887/media/edc3f865bd48b37ee27a8f95ba746b9f_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/world/americas/2022/08/04/mexicos-cruel-drought-here-you-have-to-chase-the-water/","content_elements":[{"_id":"WMAYPJYGCBAS3OKLU6F7JOEAWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1659607529979},"content":"Mexico, or large parts of it, is running out of water.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CBYLHTU2M5FBHN4AVONTMSKEYA","additional_properties":{"_id":1659607529980},"content":"An extreme drought has seen taps run dry across the country, with nearly two-thirds of all municipalities facing a water shortage that is forcing people in some places to line up for hours for government water deliveries.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SHXM5W3DMZANTANXR4EFUIHHIU","additional_properties":{"_id":1659607529981},"content":"The lack of water has grown so extreme that irate residents block highways and kidnap municipal workers to demand more supply.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MREM2DWBSVHMLJBHCL2ZAKADMU","additional_properties":{"_id":1659607529982},"content":"The numbers underlining the crisis are startling: In July, eight of Mexico’s 32 states were experiencing extreme to moderate drought, resulting in 1,546 of the country’s 2,463 municipalities confronting water shortages, according to the National Water Commission.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RO6GEA6YM5HPXBZIYAFI37RDWY","additional_properties":{"_id":1659607529983},"content":"By mid-July, about 48 per cent of Mexico’s territory was suffering drought, according to the commission, compared with about 28 per cent of the country’s territory during the same period last year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GFHEUY54X5A6BPKVJDUC2XCMUU","additional_properties":{"_id":1659607529984},"content":"While tying a single drought to human-caused climate change requires analysis, scientists have no doubt that global warming can alter rainfall patterns around the world and is increasing the likelihood of droughts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RGQRL4W5EBFCXBXK6E2Y6ZQYVI","additional_properties":{"_id":"FKNDVPW3YRGQHJK6N7XY3COXCM"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"HDJIJDZKKFDUBF3OZH6JOZPWQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1659629503839},"content":"Across the border in recent years, most of the western half of the United States has been in drought, with conditions ranging from moderate to severe. 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As the former editor of Mixmag magazine, the monthly bible of 90s dance culture, he was by far the most successful journalist at our humble gathering.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QTRQ23HOPRAVPPFPDR6NUPV5VE","additional_properties":{"_id":1656687033770},"content":"I seem to remember pestering him with questions about hanging out backstage with the likes of Fatboy Slim and other DJs I had once queued up to see. But he was already far more interested in all things Brazilian, having landed in the South American country just a few months earlier. Originally from Merseyside, his connection with São Paulo dated back to 1998 when he came on a four-day reporting trip for Mixmag. On it he met Henrique Cury, one of the partners in a club at the heart of the city’s emerging electronic scene. 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