Organized by Elcio Basilio. Edited and reviewed by Anna Paula Bennech and Giovanna Imbernon. "Brazilian Cinema has been recognized for its tradition of social denunciation. From the Palme d’Or winner Keeper of Promises (1962) to City of God (2002), passing through Entranced Earth (1967) and Pixote (1980), Brazil’s social inequalities have been represented and denounced on the big screen."

Organized by Luiz Eduardo Garcia da Silva. Edited and reviewed by Anna Paula Bennech and Giovanna Imbernon. "Although changing and with minor presidential activism since the Brazilian parliamentary coup against Dilma Rousseff in 2016 (Mariano, Ramanzini, and Vigevani 2021), the Brazilian foreign policy reached its tension and discredit apex within the first years of Jair Messias Bolsonaro government under the remit of Ernesto Araújo as Foreign Affairs Minister, between January/2019 and March/2021 (Frenkel and Azzi 2021)."

Organized by Luiz Eduardo Garcia da Silva. Edited and reviewed by Anna Paula Bennech and Giovanna Imbernon. "Brazil was the leading articulator of the SADC’S creation. The country’s exit from Unasur in 2019 expresses Brazilian foreign policy and leadership retraction within the region. Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, and Peru in 2019 and Uruguay in 2020 left the institution too – a setback in regional integration."

Organized by Luiz Eduardo Garcia da Silva. Edited and reviewed by Anna Paula Bennech and Giovanna Imbernon. "those negationist practices and discourses are all but selfless or naïve: besides promoting uncertainties among the public opinion, they mostly aim at keeping the 30% of his electoral basis busy, revolving around the outcomes of negationism, while Bolsonaro, his clan, and parliamentary coalition go ahead with their economic and ideological interests."

Organized by Luiz Eduardo Garcia da Silva. Edited and reviewed by Anna Paula Bennech and Giovanna Imbernon. "This special issue aims to understand and reflect on this change. What were the main drivers of Brazilian foreign policy since January 2019, and how have they changed the path of Brazil’s international insertion? Moreover, our goal is not to present a mere collection of events but, instead, to offer different analyses to support the idea of a non-orthodox President of Brazil."

Organized by Flavia Batista da Silva. Edited and reviewed by Anna Paula Bennech and Giovanna Imbernon. "If Bolsonaro's consistent polarizing, racist, sexist, and anti-democratic remarks were not enough to prevent people from casting their vote for him in 2018, perhaps his blatant economic failures in the last three years – and particularly during the pandemic – will have such an effect."

Organized by Flavia Batista da Silva. Edited and reviewed by Anna Paula Bennech and Giovanna Imbernon. "The COVID-19 pandemic can be classified as the most significant health crisis in the last hundred years (Paula dos Reis et al., 2020). Some international organizations have been predicting this event for decades; this pandemic is not the first one and will not be the last global health crisis (De Freitas Lima Ventura and Costa Bueno, 2021). Still, most of the countries are struggling to deal with it. For the Brazilian democracy, the pandemic only escalated the debilitation of the yet unstable democratic regime."

Organized by Flavia Batista da Silva. Edited and reviewed by Anna Paula Bennech and Giovanna Imbernon. "The 33-old-Brazilian democracy is under severe threat. Bolsonaro is particularly helping to backslide the yet unconsolidated system by using his power to weaken important democratic institutions and discredit the electoral system. The effects of his anti-democracy playbook are especially apparent now amidst the COVID-19 pandemic's mismanagement in Brazil. Institutional and economic crises, social inequality aggravation, and corruption scandals are some of the consequences of Bolsonaro's aggrandizement and manipulation."