Pedro Marin is the founder and editor-in-chief of Revista Opera, an independent news outlet in Brazil that he founded at the age of 16, and an opinion editor at Opera Mundi. He was born in a working-class family on the east side of São Paulo and currently lives in northeast Brazil. Pedro is the author of Successive Approaches: The Military Party under Bolsonaro and Lula’s Third Administration (Writings: 2019–2023), co-author of The Trick up their Sleeves: The Return of the Military Party in Brazil, and has written extensively on Venezuela, China, Iran, and the influence of the military on Brazil’s political scene.