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Brazilian democracy is dead
The elites made a serious mistake to bet on Bolsonaro. They’re making another mistake in thinking he can be easily sidelined. by Fernando Horta …
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AI-5 and the forbidden future of Brasil
On the 50th anniversary of Institutional Act 5, the 1968 “coup within the coup” which ushered in an even more brutal and repressive phase of …
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Lula, Political Prisoner
By Fernando horta. There is no government in the World that admits that it has political prisoners. They all are – and were – …
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Fernando Horta: Lula is “Plan O”
By Fernando Horta. Plan A was for us to pressure the coup-mongers in 2013, investigating who was financing the Movimento Brasil Livre, Vem para …
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Brazilian McCarthyism: Why don’t we learn from history?
By Fernando Horta. There are astonishing similarities between post-World War 2 US and present day Brazil. Both countries had same-party rule for extended periods. In …
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Moro, Lula and the consolidation of the Coup
By Fernando Horta. After helping Aécio Neves and Michel Temer avoid conviction, Judge Sergio Moro uses shaky evidence to prevent Ex-president Lula’s candidacy on …
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Beauty and the Beast
Since the emergence of what would come to be called “Lava Jato” in 2009, every honest political commentator has been clear: the operation was …
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Republic of the Snake
“Do we want to serve a snake? Brazil is not a Snake Republic!” – Janaína Paschoal These words were of Janaína Paschoal, the lawyer …
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Yes, it’s a coup…
Since “legality”, in Brasil, does not come necessarily from “peoples will” (but from some peculiar interpretation of legal acts) our democracy is almost becoming …
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A Temperamental Consensus
In 2001 when Brazilian democracy proved strong enough to bring ex-metalworker and union head Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to the Presidency the country became an …
