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O Processo / The Trial – A Review

After it premiered at the Berlinale to a 7 minute standing ovation and won numerous festival awards, a series of pre-screenings for Maria Augusta Ramos’ ‘O Processo’ (The Trial) were held in Brazil ahead of its May 17 theatrical release. The documentary records the illegitimate impeachment of Dilma Rousseff in 2016, a process which was […]

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Gleisi Hoffman: Why we don’t give up on Lula’s Candidacy

Despite being held as a political prisoner, with no material evidence justifying the charges made against him, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva continues to lead all presidential election polls by a wide margin, with twice the support of his nearest competitor, 6 times more support than any other left candidate, and 30 times the support […]

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May Day 2018: All roads lead to Curitiba

April 30, 2018. Hundreds of buses have already arrived in Curitiba and hundreds more are traveling in caravans on route to this Southern Brazilian city of 3 million, where ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been held as a political prisoner for three weeks, for what promises to be the largest May Day protest […]

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Fascism: 20 Shots fired at Lula Solidarity Camp, two injured

In the early hours of Saturday Morning, April 28th, as hundreds of protesters were sleeping in their tents at the Lula Livre Democratic Vigil outside the Parana Federal Police headquarters where Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is being held in solitary confinement, gunmen opened fire injuring two activists, one critically. As in the case of […]

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Jailed Lula is refused visitors – breaking Mandela Rules

By Cynara Menezes. The media repeat that Lula is not a political prisoner. Nevertheless, like all political prisoners, he is being barred from receiving visitors in jail. A judge from Curitiba is behaving as if she has superpowers and controlling who can and can not visit the ex-President of Brazil, an international personality with friends […]

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Globo: Evangelical ascension, a threat to its hegemony – Part 3

By Gabriel Deslandes. The successive institutional crises of Brazil, along with the social chaos provoked by the economic crisis, installed a climate of an apparently unforseen collective mistrust which all conventional politicians seem to be engulfed in. Globo, whose responsibility in this was central, couldn’t be out of this conjuncture. The network, who never inspired […]

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Globo: The fall of the Worker’s Party, live in color – Part 2

By Gabriel Deslandes. When the Worker’s Party PT saw itself being pressured like never before by the media coverage of the “mensalão” scandal, its’ leaders probably did not imagine that years later, an investigation of illegal currency exchange operations and capital flight by the Federal Police would end up influencing a campaign of public demoralization […]

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Globo: from coup-plotting to far-right contestations – Part 1

By Gabriel Deslandes. There’s something unforeseen stirring up in the empire of the biggest telecommunications network in Latin America. For the first time in a while, Rede Globo is confronted with adversaries contesting its’ power. For more than 50 years, the Globo group consolidated its absolute influence as the institution which is capable of not […]

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Inside The Lair Of Fu Manchu

To his political adversaries and their supporters, former Brazilian President Luiz Inacia Lula da Silva is the chief of the biggest crime organisation in human history. To them, da Silva is a criminal mastermind so sophisticated that his wrongdoing cannot be detected, even by the most valiant of investigators. Always one step ahead, Lula leaves […]

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Brasil’s Big 4 Leftist Parties Denounce Lula imprisonment

As protests grow in solidarity with Lula, Brasil’s biggest Left parties – PT, along with PDT, PSoL and PCdoB have launched a joint statement, denouncing what they say and many others insist is the political persecution of the former President and leading 2018 candidate. Note of Repudiation on the Imprisonment of ex-President Lula The imprisonment of […]