In an interview with Bob Fernandes, on TVE Bahia, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said that the US government “created the Lava Jato investigation to take our oil.” For former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, events in Brazil since the 2016 coup that deposed President Dilma Rousseff were orchestrated by the US […]
Brazil’s president has a long history of controversial remarks that put Donald Trump to shame. Here are 13 of his most shocking comments. From Congresso em Foco, Treze frases de Bolsonaro de natureza sexual e machista. Not even a year has passed since he became president of the Republic, and already Jair Bolsonaro has amassed […]
“Does anyone still doubt that Sérgio Moro was a central player in the coup?” said Congressman Henrique Fontana, on the revelation that Bolsonaro’s Justice Minister and former Lava Jato judge Sérgio Moro ordered prosecutors not to seize Eduardo Cunha’s cell phones. Cunha, now serving a 14 year prison sentence for corruption and money laundering, was […]
The National Student Union and 187 allied student associations calls a national strike against Bolsonaro’s privatization plan to open public university system to private sector investment and control. by Marcos Hermanson Brazil’s National Students Union (UNE) announced a schedule of social and institutional mobilization during August to stop Jair Bolsonaro’s government from implementing a program […]
On the morning of August 7th, local Curitiba criminal court judge Carolina Lebbos, who has made a series of illegal, politicized rulings denying former President Lula’s Mandela Rights, ruled that the former President, 73, can be transferred to a prison in São Paulo. Although this initially appeared to be good news for the millions of […]
After satellite data from the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research showed an 88% rise in Amazon deforestation, President Bolsonaro denied that it was happening. When the Institute’s director argued back, he was fired. August 2. The director of the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Ricardo Galvão, who revealed data showing a large […]
The crimes that he himself reported should be enough to cause Justice Minister Sérgio Moro’s dismissal and imprisonment. His persistence in office and the explicit US government actions to protect him confirm that he is a central player in the hybrid war into which Brazil has plunged. By Antonio Martins From the heights of his […]
500 days after the socialist city councilwoman’s assassination, the people who ordered her killing are still at large On Saturday, July 27th, Congressman Marcelo Freixo (PSOL-Rio de Janeiro) published a video of city councilwoman Marielle Franco in Pedra do Sal, downtown Rio, in 2017, on her 38th birthday. The socialist lawmaker would have turned 40 […]
On Twitter, Glenn Greenwald accused former Lava Jato judge and current Justice Minister Sérgio Moro of practicing terrorism, after he issued a ministerial decree that could be used to deport the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. Journalist Glenn Greenwald accused far right President Jair Bolsonaro’s Minister of Justice and Public Security, Sérgio Moro, of practicing terrorism […]
The far right Bolsonaro administration may be gearing up to frame journalist Glenn Greenwald, from the Intercept , who recently revealed social media conversations showing collusion between Lava Jato judge Sérgio Moro (currently working as President Bolsonaro’s Justice Minister), public prosecutors and members of the Supreme Court during the conviction of former President Lula. A […]