By Fiona Edwards The election of far right politician Jair Bolsonaro in last year’s Brazilian Presidential election sent shock-waves across Latin America and the entire world. What has been the impact of Bolsonaro’s first eight months in office? I interviewed Elias Jabbour, Professor at the Rio de Janeiro State University and member of the Communist Party […]
“Vaza Jato proves that Moro and his prosecutors concealed excerpts of Lula’s (illegally recorded) phone calls. The conversations show why Lula was being named minister of my government: to politically rearticulate the parliamentary base and try to stem the ongoing coup. Part of the damage Lava Jato has done to democracy is irreversible. The judiciary, however, […]
French politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the leftist movement France Insubmissa, has visited former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Curitiba, where he has been imprisoned since April 7 last year. Alongside former São Paulo Mayor Fernando Haddad, and former Senator Aloizio Mercadante, the former French Presidential candidate announced the creation of a new […]
Brazil’s Neofascist President Jair Bolsonaro may have lost his principal political ally in South America. Sebastian Piñera joined Senator Isabel Allende in condemning Bolsonaro for his remarks in response to former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, who is now the UN Commissioner for Human Rights. Jair Bolsonaro used his Facebook account to attack Bachelet after she […]
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“While Lula and Dilma defended national sovereignty, Bolsonaro encourages deforestation and burning” – Gleisi Hoffman, President Workers Party (PT) Ladies and gentlemen who accompany us on social networks, on TV Câmara and on Rádio Câmara, I come to this assembly today in great sadness, to talk about deforestation in our Amazon jungle, about the fires […]
By Brian Mier I arrived in Porto Velho yesterday and could see plumes of smoke billowing in the distance as the plane descended into city which, in itself, is covered in smoky haze. We grabbed a taxi in from the airport and the driver told us that he doesn’t understand why there are so many […]
As the Amazon burns, 13 progressive Democratic Members of Congress request clarification on the US Department of Justice’s role in Jair Bolsonaro’s rise to power. By Brian Mier 13 Democratic Members of Congress delivered a letter to US Attorney General William Barr this week, demanding answers to questions about the legality and ethics of the […]
Everyone who cared about Democracy who was paying attention to what was happening in Brazil knew, from day one, that Lula’s arrest was a sham result of a biased political witch hunt led by right wing extremists in order to remove him from the presidential race. The Intercept revelations now prove, unequivocally, that they were […]
In an interview with Bob Fernandes, on TVE Bahia, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said that the US government “created the Lava Jato investigation to take our oil.” For former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, events in Brazil since the 2016 coup that deposed President Dilma Rousseff were orchestrated by the US […]