What does South-South cooperation actually look like on the ground? In Brazil, the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) – the largest social movement in Latin America – is partnering with international allies like China to build tech sovereignty from the ground up. By utilizing Chinese open-source AI models and small-farm machinery, popular movements are creating tools tailored specifically for agroecology and peasant farming, offering a stark alternative to the privatized, extractive models coming out of Silicon Valley. As Tings Chak explains, it is these types of partnerships that grew under President Lula and what may be threatened under a Flávio Bolsonaro administration. Read her full article “How Brazil’s election could reshape relations with China” at breakthroughnews.org.

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