“Bolsonaro made threats he couldn’t carry out about replacing the Health Minister and reopening commerce. Now he is isolated and everyone has turned on him, as General Villas Boas admits. He’s been reduced to impotence.” writes sociologist Emir Sader. By Emir Sader The new right wing strategy is a perversion of liberal democracy that relies […]
An attempt to ban the Workers Party/PT, the most successful political party of Brazil’s modern era, is the latest in a sequence of attacks on a democracy under siege. By Nathalia Urban On February 10th, Brazil’s Worker’s Party (PT) celebrated its 40th anniversary. The party brought visibility to the struggle of the Brazilian working class, […]
Brazil’s far-right President is facing his second set of charges at the International Criminal Court in the Hague. The new second set of charges deals directly with Coronavirus and the Bolsonaro’s Government’s reckless and inadequate response. The first charges dealt with his genocidal policy towards the country’s indigenous population, who have also been put at risk […]
In conversation about the past and the present, Manuel Domingos Neto reflects on the role of the Armed Forces in Brazil. By Cristiane Sampaio and Pedro Stropasolas. Brasil de Fato In these times when the military presence takes shape in varied compartments of Brazilian politics, it is from memory and history that the writer Manuel […]
A survey by Instituto Quaest reveals that the elderly, evangelicals and the rich are most susceptible to Bolsonaro’s lies about Coronavirus. Valor Magazine’s Bruno Carazza says that according to the survey data, “Bolsonaro’s communication strategy is efficient in mobilizing his electorate. The message that the press is exaggerating to cover the coronavirus crisis is spreading […]
Former presidential candidates Ciro Gomes (PDT), Fernando Haddad (PT), Guilherme Boulos (PSOL), the governor of Maranhão, Flávio Dino (PCdoB), and other progessive leaders have demanded the resignation of Jair Bolsonaro for his mishandling of the Coronavirus pandemic. The full text is translated below. BRAZIL CANNOT BE DESTROYED BY BOLSONARO. Brazil and the world face an […]
For Héctor Luís Saint-Pierre, it is a military paradox to support the deregulation of the economy and the sell-off of assets. By Ana Penido. Brasil de Fato. 26 October 2019. With the broad participation of the military in the Jair Bolsonaro government, there is more interest in understanding which ideas carry this special category of […]
On the one hand the media is saying, “oh look at this crazy Bolsonaro, he’s insane, look what he is saying about coronavirus,” but he is really just transmitting the goals of international capital. This is the same thing Trump is doing, and it’s just things being said by the Lt. Governor of Texas and […]
by Marcelo Zero. Last night the tapeworm who rules Brazil said something unbelievable. Contradicting science, the WHO and the common sense of Brazil’s governors and all of the serious countries in the world, the talking tapeworm, once again, said that the covid-19 is nothing more than a “little flu”. He said that people should leave […]
In the first part of this series on British involvement in Brazilian internal affairs it was revealed that the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office has deleted its record of correspondence and meetings about Brazilian elections with strategic communications companies SCL and Cambridge Analytica. In this second article, more freedom of information requests show previously undisclosed […]