Bolsonaro: Terrorist by definition
Jair Messias Bolsonaro, infamous Brazilian congressman, already received dozens of not-so-flattering nouns and adjectives: homophobic, misogynist, racist, virulent, hateful – the most recent adjective …
Campaign urges US University to cancel Bolsonaro appearance
Update 7/10/17: The Campaign has issued a response to the person responsible for Bolsonaro’s invitation Dr. Mark Langevin, a specialist on US-Brazil energy relations …
How Manufactured Economic Crisis in Brazil Paved Way for a Soft Coup
It is increasingly apparent that the Brazilian economy was deliberately destabilized to lay the groundwork for the 2016 soft coup that removed former President …
MST and the Fight to Change the Brazilian Power Structure: An interview with Gilmar Mauro
By Brasil Wire Contributing Editor Brian Mier. During the 1960s, legend has it that governor José Sarney sat …
Federal Prosecutor requests Lula’s acquittal
The MPF-DF (Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office in Brasilia) requested on Friday (1st) the acquittal of former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the …
Dilma Rousseff has been acquitted 5 times since her Impeachment
By Katia Guimarães. In the past year, elected President Dilma Rousseff has been acquitted at least five times of the charges that led Congress to …
Brasil’s US-Funded “Libertarians” & the Far-Right
On August 18, Vice Brasil journalist and occasional Brasil Wire contributor Marie Declerq, broke the news that the Instituto Mises Brasil think tank, which …
Vagner Freitas: Temer’s “Austericide”
In a recent article in NACLA, Sujatha Fernandes argues that there is a problem in the Northern left’s writing and analysis on Latin America, …
The Coup, Phase II: An interview with Dr. Ivana Bentes
By Brian Mier. The political situation in Brazil is getting confusing, even for people who study it. To summarise recent events, in April the …
3 years of Brasil Wire
To mark 3 years since the registration of brasilwire.com on 12th August 2014, this is a selected chronology of some of our most read and/or most …
