Violence against social movements expected to increase across Brazil before Bolsonaro takes office On the night of Saturday (12/8), two activists from the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) were assassinated inside the Dom José Maria Pires agrarian reform camp, in Alhandra County, Paraiba, around 45 km from João Pessoa. Witnesses say that the criminals entered […]
“If The Guardian was what it purports to be, Brasil Wire wouldn’t need to exist”. The British Newspaper’s coverage serves as a case study of how perception of what happened in Brasil became so distorted internationally. The Guardian is of course the closest thing that the UK has to a mainstream progressive newspaper, and it had, until relatively recently, a […]
The Neoliberal model implemented in Chile after the 1973 Military Coup gives us hints as to what will happen in Brazil under a future Jair Bolsonaro Government. The resemblance is no mere coincidence. By Joana Salém Vasconcelos and Rejane Carolina Hoeveler. Still shocked by the electoral results in Brazil, many Brazilians are asking how an […]
Once in office, Jair Bolsonaro – aligned with other right-wing governments in Latin America and backed by the US – could launch a military invasion of Venezuela. by Victor Figueroa Clark. The presidential election victory of the far-right politician Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil is not just bad news for the people and social organisations of […]
One part of Bolsonaro’s supporters believe in a democracy on paper and a dictatorship on the streets. Another part of his supporters openly defends the return of the military to power. By Guilherme Soares Dias and Juliana Gonçalves. As Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro (Partido Social Liberal/PSL) rises in the polls, more and more cases […]
By Lu Sudré. An investigative story published by the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo today proves that companies are paying for WhatsApp bulk messaging services to spread fake news and attack ads against the Workers’ Party (PT). According to the article, companies are planning a big operation for the week before the runoff election in […]
The most fraught election since re-democratisation ended with extreme-right Jair Bolsonaro on 46,03%, short of a first round victory, to the relief of progressive democratic forces in Brasil and the region as a whole. As occured with Donald Trump’s election in the US and Brexit in the UK, polls uniformly failed to pick up a […]
On September 26, the Federal Supreme Court upheld the exclusion of 3.3 million registered voters who did not attend an special electoral review between before a deadline of May 2018. Most of those cancelled did not register their biometrics, which became mandatory in 1,248 cities, unevenly distributed around the country, and concentrated in the traditionally left voting North East. The move has […]
These are sombre times for Brasil. An election looms, its leading candidate is in jail on politically motivated charges, and has been withdrawn. His distant challenger now sits in first place. He is a fascist and a white supremacist, in a country with well over half of its population of African or Indigenous descent. To his supporters, Jair Bolsonaro’s rape […]
“No room for feelings” say Wall Street insiders as they back another Neofascist to deliver Neoliberalism, at the point of a gun, in the most resource-rich nation on earth. New York Times, July 1993. In an article called “Conversations/Jair Bolsonaro; A Soldier Turned Politician Wants To Give Brazil Back to Army Rule“, Journalist James Brooke […]