Workers' Party

But it's this sort of strange moment where you have a center-left government hosting the World Cup.

And I would bring up what happened in Brazil about 15 years ago, a little bit more, when the government of the Workers' Party under Dilma Rousseff hosted the World Cup and all the sort of contradictions that came out during that time.

These international sporting events are something, particularly football, is something that people in the Americas love, but it's being corporatized and occupied in a sense.

So I think that if we think about FIFA, it's really the occupation of the sport, in terms of an economic, political, colonial occupation of football.

Isn't that great? But the way that she's portrayed in these advertisements is also linking the first woman president to this idea of modernity.

So they think of Dilma Rousseff, who was the chief of staff of Lula right before she was the nominee of the Workers' Party in 2010.

Right.

And so she worked alongside this very popular president, Lula.

all of parties' presidential nominations and said, you know, what factors are most likely to move parties to nominate women instead of men? And so there's three, like, broad trends here.

So first of all, when parties are facing contexts of, like, voters are identifying less with parties, there's less partisanship.

There's fewer and fewer people saying, yes, I identify as a socialist or I identify as a workers' party or I identify as a Republican with the Republican Party or something.

in Latin America, when those rates of party identification are going down, that's when you see parties have a higher tendency to nominate women.

Isn't that great? But the way that she's portrayed in these advertisements is also linking the first woman president to this idea of modernity.

So they think of Dilma Rousseff, who was the chief of staff of Lula right before she was the nominee of the Workers' Party in 2010.

Right.

And so she worked alongside this very popular president, Lula.

So the key question again is, okay, how do women get these nominations, particularly from these major parties, but nominations in general? And so I sort of took, you know, survey data from the POP, America's Barometer, right? Data that looked at 17 Latin American countries, excluded Venezuela, because it didn't have democratic elections during the period I was looking at, and sort of looked at all the nominations of presidential all of parties' presidential nominations and said, you know, what factors are most likely to move parties to nominate women instead of men? And so there's three, like, broad trends here.

So first of all, when parties are facing contexts of, like, voters are identifying less with parties, there's less partisanship.

There's fewer and fewer people saying, yes, I identify as a socialist or I identify as a workers' party or I identify as a Republican with the Republican Party or something.

in Latin America, when those rates of party identification are going down, that's when you see parties have a higher tendency to nominate women.

says we also need to think about producing rice, beans, pineapple, corn, fruits, vegetables and many other foods that reach people's tables.

What should be the priority of Brazilian agriculture? Is it to feed the people? Or is it to produce more and more commodities and fuels for the market? But most Brazilian politicians across the political spectrum are on board with the country's ethanol boom, including President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva of the Workers' Party.

Brazil is the country of ethanol, he said a few years back in an interview online.

We don't need to be subordinated to the price of gasoline because we have ethanol.