Brasil’s US-Funded “Libertarians” & the Far-Right
On August 18, Vice Brasil journalist and occasional Brasil Wire contributor Marie Declerq, broke the news that the Instituto Mises Brasil think tank, which …
Dilma: Globo incites arrest and imprisonment without due process
13 MAY 2017. The journalistic war promoted against me and president Lula is proof that the rise of authoritarianism has radically contaminated public opinion makers, …
Fascist Bolsonaro: “Where there is indigenous land, there is wealth beneath it.”
UPDATE 3/10/17: Jair Bolsonaro has been prosecuted and fined R$50,000 for his racial slur against Quilombola communities. A campaign has been launched to urge …
Escalating repression and managing disorder
FASE – one of Brazil’s oldest and most respective Non-Governmental Organisations, have published this bulletin on the current situation in the country. Although Michel …
The Golpista Everyman & the “Clean” City
In October São Paulo voters went to the polls and threw out one of the World’s most progressive big city governments in favor of …
In Post-Coup Brazil, Struggle is a Crime
By Tiago Rodrigues Santos Since 1984, the MST (Movimento Sem Terra or Landless Rural Workers’ Movement) has voluntarily built 1500 public schools in its …
“Captain Brazil” & the arbitrary manipulation of Public Life
A theatre play that mocks the violence of the Military Police was interrupted by the Military Police itself, indicative of a dark moment — Brazil’s flirtation …
[VIDEO] Repression of Anti-Coup Protests 31/8/2016
Military Police repression of Anti-Coup protest in São Paulo, 31/8/2016
After the Coup, the Prison State
When former military dictatorship official Michel Temer became interim president, through what is increasingly appearing to be a fraudulent impeachment process, many people feared …
Brasil’s Senate and the Legacy of Dictatorship
On May 25 leaders of the Koch brothers-associated organization Movimento Brasil Livre met with Senator Alvaro Dias from the PSDB party to talk about …