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Court Reduces Former President Lula’s Sentence

In a lightning fast ruling which was announced at the last minute without advance notice to former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s defense team, the Brazilian Justice Court ruled on Lula’s 3rd appeal today, reducing his sentence from 12 years and one month to 8 years, 10 months and 20 days. The move was […]

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Year of Lead: Michael Brooks on New Brasil Wire Book

Brasil Wire is proud to announce the launching of its new book, Year of Lead: Washington, Wall Street and the New Imperialism in Brazil, an anthology of articles about the threats to the country’s sovereignty, Lula’s political imprisonment and the rise of Jair Bolsonaro written by 20 authors. The following is the introduction to the […]

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Lula’s letter to the Brazilian People 7/4/2019

By Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Dear friends, untiring comrades, brothers and sisters in the struggle. Exactly one year ago today I was arrested for the crime of dedicating my whole life to building a more just, developed and sovereign Brazil. They blocked my candidacy for the Presidency so that I could not walk up the […]

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Why is there so much fear of a free Lula?

After one year of solitary confinement, former President Lula is allowed to write his first Op Ed, for newspaper Folha de São Paulo. By Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. It has been one year since I was unjustly imprisoned, accused and convicted for a crime that never existed. Every day that I spend here increases […]

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Media Censors Bolsonaro CIA Visit With Justice Minister

On March 18, on his first official visit to the United States far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro visited the Headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency. It was outside the President’s official agenda. None of his predecessors had visited the agency, and indeed very few foreign heads of state ever have. The scandal briefly engulfed coverage […]

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In Plain Sight: Bolsonaro, Moro and the CIA

On March 18, Brazil’s extreme-right President Jair Bolsonaro made history. Outside the official agenda of his first official trip to the United States he paid a visit to CIA Headquarters, becoming the first ever Brazilian President to do so. In contrast, Bolsonaro has never visited ABIN, Brazil’s moribund equivalent of the CIA. On the agenda, it is […]

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“Our Bastard”: Bolsonaro At The White House

On March 19 2019, extreme-right President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro will meet President Donald Trump in Washington DC, on official invitation to the White House. Whilst Trump sidemen John Bolton, Mike Pompeio, Mark Rubio, and rehabilitated war criminal Elliot Abrams, manipulate, confect and pontificate about the situation in Venezuela, they will entertain a man who […]

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US DOJ gives Lava Jato $682 million kickback

In a measure that bypasses Brazilian transparency legislation and governmental oversight, the US Department of Justice awards 80% of Petrobras fines to Brazilian partners to set up a privately managed fund to “fight corruption”. Petrobras profits were initially earmarked for Public Education and Health systems. By Brian Mier Over the past 4 years, as most […]

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SOUTHCOM: Bolsonaro barks for his master

Admiral Craig Faller announces an unprecedented joint military operation with Brazil to the US Senate Armed Services Committee. What does it mean for national sovereignty? By Marcelo Zero Brazil’s participation in US SOUTHCOM is part of a broader process that began with the coup of 2016. The aggression against our sovereignty is much more serious […]

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6 holes in the new lawfare conviction against Lula

Charges so flimsy that they could only be upheld in a State of Exception. by Brian Mier On February 6, interim judge Gabriela Hardt, who recently replaced Sergio Moro in the Operation Car Wash investigation, convicted Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on corruption charges related to alleged illegal reforms on a vacation property in Atibaia, […]