U.S. historian James N. Green is a Professor of Modern Latin American History and Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University, Rhode Island, and National Co-Coordinator of the US Network for Democracy in Brazil. Author of four books on Brazil: Beyond Carnival, We Cannot Remain Silent: Opposition to the Brazilian Military, Exile Within […]
A new video shows the Lava Jato task-force forging a plea bargain testimony to help one side in a private sector legal battle, in order to harass defense firms that represented clients they were prosecuting After over 45 years in charge of the Brazilian National Commerce Confederation (Confederação Nacional do Comércio/CNC), Antonio Oliveira Santos discovered […]
Former President Lula’s defence lawyers Cristiano Zanin Martins and Valeska T. Z. Martins released a short statement following the Brazilian Supreme Court’s April 22 ruling to uphold an earlier judgement, making Sérgio Moro a suspect in a case of judicial bias over his prosecution and jailing of Lula, which enabled a Jair Bolsonaro election victory. […]
During the Supreme Court’s April 22 decision to try Lava Jato judge Sérgio Moro for judicial bias in his jailing of presidential candidate Lula da Silva in 2018, Minister Ricardo Lewandowski laid out the damage the politically motivated anti-corruption operation did to Brazil’s economy and questioned who benefitted, speaking of the “mortal sin of collaborations […]
On the fifth anniversary of Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment, the role foreign media played in propagandising for it still warrants further investigation. Little of international media coverage of Brazil’s 2016 coup and its centrepiece, the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, has dated well. But one opinion piece in US newspaper the New York Times stands out […]
Disgraced Lava Jato judge and former Bolsonaro Justice Minister Sérgio Moro’s presence at private bilateral US-Brazil meeting over the Amazon rainforest is cause for further concern. Holding no disclosed position with the US or Brazilian government, whose interests is he representing? Behind-closed-doors negotiations between the Joe Biden administration and the Bolsonaro regime are facing fierce […]
Since its inception in 2014, Brasil Wire has published 230 critical articles on Operation Lava Jato, and specifically its relationship with the United States government. Evidence we and Brazilian independent media platforms published in this period was routinely ignored and dismissed by both national and international journalists and outlets. Thus the principal conceit, the narrative […]
On 7th March 2021, hours after Brazil broke 4000 deaths per day from Covid-19, far-right president Jair Bolsonaro held a lavish dinner in São Paulo for business, banking and media leaders at which he sought to regain support of the corporate core which backed him at the 2018 election. Folha de S.Paulo reports that one […]
199 Brazilian networks and civil society organisations have written an open letter to the United States Government urging it to end behind-closed-doors negotiations with the Bolsonaro regime. Read the letter in full below. A LETTER FROM BRAZILIAN CIVIL SOCIETY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Brazil, April 6th, 2021 In his inauguration […]
Ex-president Lula da Silva delivered an historical speech in São Bernardo do Campo, on March 10th, 2021, two days after the annulment of Operation Car Wash convictions. Below is the full transcript. I was sitting at your place and I was finding it a little difficult to understand the words you were saying, possibly because you […]