Filipe Martins, special foreign policy advisor to President Jair Bolsonaro has been accused of making a white supremacist hand gesture during a speech by Minister for Foreign Affairs Ernesto Araújo during a Senate session. It was caught on the Senate’s own TV channel, and Randolfe Rodrigues, Senator for Amapá, reported the incident to the police. Martins has […]
It will be assumed by many outside that to describe Brazil’s pandemic as genocide is an exaggeration. Unfortunately it isn’t. From suppressing vaccines to refusing Brazilian states and municipalities the right to implement lockdown measures, it is wrong for international media to report Bolsonaro’s Covid-19 catastrophe as mismanagement, incompetence, or “failure to act”, when it […]
A week after charges against former president Lula were annulled, invigorating the Brazilian left to unite and challenge neofascist Jair Bolsonaro, US magazine Americas Quarterly responded with the kind of cynical propaganda we should always expect from it. Having enthusiastically supported the lawfare campaign against him, the AQ piece was an attack on Lula and the […]
In a March 17 interview with US news network CNN, Brazil’s former president Lula called on US President Joe Biden to convene a special emergency Covid-19 summit of G20 leaders with one purpose: to facilitate the vaccination of the whole world, not just wealthy nations. On March 14, Brasil Wire revealed that the previous US […]
On Sunday March 14 2021, Brasil Wire published an exclusive story on how the United States pressured its ally, Brazil’s Bolsonaro regime, into rejecting Sputnik V, the world’s first approved Covid-19 vaccine, developed by Russia’s Gamaleya institute. The story, by investigative journalist John McEvoy, was based on discovery of a report from the US Department […]
The Supreme Court’s annulment of former president Lula’s convictions, which kept him out of the 2018 election, is forcing re-examination of events that year. Having removed the Workers Party from power in 2016, phase two of the plot was to prevent their return at the ballot box. A meeting between the head of the Armed […]
Mônica Bergamo in Folha reports on a new study published by the CUT Trade Union Confederation which surveys the economic damage the now disgraced anti-corruption operation Lava Jato did to Brazil’s economy. The economic effect of the US-backed Lava Jato on unemployment, GDP and currency, were used as rhetorical weapons in the campaign to oust […]
How would Brazilian handling of the Covid-19 pandemic have been different if Bolsonaro had never come to power? April 2018: Facing international outcry, denunciation at the UN, and the threat of economic retaliation from its principal trading partner, China, Brazil’s Armed Forces have abandoned their efforts to exclude former president Lula da Silva from the […]
An international Libertarian organisation is behind proposals to privatise Brazilian cities, creating vast luxury condominiums for the most wealthy, and removing democratic rights from their citizens. Brazil’s federal government has been quietly exploring a grand libertarian experiment. Proposals have been put forward for the creation of privatised charter cities, special economic zones inspired by Honduras, Hong […]
Minister Dias Toffoli has revealed the Supreme Court is investigating international funding behind the far-right “hate office”, a network engaged in an ongoing campaign against Brazil’s democratic institutions. The network were active in the campaigns to elect Jair Bolsonaro, for the imprisonment of Lula da Silva, and in support of the 2016 coup to remove Dilma […]