<h4>Professor Luiz E. Soares is an anthropologist and political scientist at the State University of Rio de Janeiro.</h4>

Luiz E. Soares

Magdalena Edwards is a writer, actor, and translator from Spanish and Portuguese. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at UCLA's Latin American Institute and an Artist in Residence at Highways Performance Space. Her work has appeared in Boston Review, The&nbsp;Paris Review Daily, Los Angeles Review of Books, Words Without Borders, Full Stop, The Point, London Review of Books,&nbsp;The Millions, Rattle, The Critical Flame, and Chile’s leading newspaper, El Mercurio. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA and a BA in Social Studies from Harvard. More at <a href="http://www.magdalenaedwards.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.magdalenaedwards.com</a> and on Twitter @magda8lena and Instagram at @msmagda8lena

Magdalena Edwards

Brazil: The Ground Shakes in the Country of Inequalities and Paradoxes

Professor Luiz E. Soares is an anthropologist and political scientist at the State University of Rio de Janeiro.