Leftist unions and social movements promise to put hundreds of thousands on the streets of 400 towns and cities. by Brasil de Fato This past Tuesday (22nd), the group that unifies organizations seeking the impeachment of president Jair Bolsonaro, scheduled new acts of protest for the 24th of July under the banner “Bolsonaro, Out”, but […]
The recent increase in murders of Brazilian trans and death threats to trans elected officials, encouraged by the Brazilian far right, is cause for great concern among international activists. In response the LGBTI+ Working Group of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil (USNDB) has issued a report on the current state of affairs under […]
Brazil’s Workers Party (PT) has issued a communique in support of Cuba, and denounced United States interference in the Caribbean island nation, calling on it to end the 60 year economic blockade designed to bring the country to its knees. Having faced an international social media-led destabilisation campaign of its own, the PT’s statement condemns […]
Brazil’s former Finance Minister cites 2012 as the moment international capital began conspiring to bring down its left wing government. The same interests, many of which are represented by Council of the Americas, went on to back far-right Bolsonaro. It is one of the most frank denunciations yet of the role foreign capital played in Dilma Rousseff’s […]
By Shobhan Saxena and Florencia Costa. Originally published at The Wire India. In November 2020, when Bharat Biotech offered to sell its indigenously-made COVID-19 vaccine – Covaxin – to Brazil with the possibility of technology transfer, it was showcased as India’s growing prowess. Eight months later, not a single dose of the vaccine has been […]
President of the TSE (Superior Electoral Court), Luís Roberto Barroso, insists that the printed vote “will be bad for Brazilian democracy”. 247 – The president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Minister Luís Roberto Barroso, said at a press conference this Monday (21) that in his assessment the adoption of the printed vote represents a […]
In a White House ‘Background Press Call by Senior Administration Officials on the Fight Against Corruption’, a Biden administration official admitted that the CIA and other parts of the U.S. intelligence apparatus were involved in assisting the “War on Corruption” which jailed former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and elected Jair Bolsonaro. Read the […]
On Saturday May 29, 2021, Brazil saw its biggest public mobilisations since the Coronavirus pandemic began. Hundreds of thousands of protesters, organised in 213 cities nationwide, took to the streets against the Bolsonaro-Guedes regime. Amongst the visible messages, anger was directed specifically at its mishandling of the pandemic, with demonstrators demanding vaccines, emergency payments, and indignant […]
By Tereza Cruvinel This is what they were saying on Saturday as hundreds of thousands of people came to the the streets across the country: Bolsonaro is worse than the virus. It was time to overcome fear and, taking the necessary cautionary measures, show that the majority of the Brazilian people (57% according to a […]
By Julinho Bittencourt. Revista Forum. Former Health Minister Artur Chioro, commenting on an excerpt from the testimony of the Butantan Institute’s director, Dimas Covas, this Thursday (27th), at the Senate Inquiry (CPI) into the pandemic response, that “we could have prevented at least 250 thousand deaths, with Coronavac alone”, if it had been bought in […]