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South America’s Right-Wing And The US “United Behind Bolivian Coup”

By Nathalia Urban According to the spokesman of the Bolivian government Jorge Richter, Brazil and Chile may have been involved in clashes between protesters and security forces that took place in the country following the resignation of Evo Morales in 2019. Richter said that possible international collaboration will now be investigated, without giving further details. […]

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AUTHORITARIANISM LGBT SOCIAL INCLUSION

Murder Wave of Brazilian Trans Causes International Alarm

The recent increase in murders of Brazilian trans and death threats to trans elected officials, encouraged by the Brazilian far right,  is cause for great concern among international activists. In response the LGBTI+ Working Group of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil (USNDB) has issued a report on the current state of affairs under […]

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Covid 19 Scandal: Brazilian Military Threatens Senate

Days after visit by CIA director, top military brass attempt to pressure end of corruption investigation against General Eduardo Pazuello and his former aides. By Brian Mier For weeks, millions of Brazilians have been tuning into the televised, ongoing Senate investigation of alleged crimes committed by the Bolsonaro Government in the ambit of it’s disastrous […]

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Bolsonaro And The CIA Conspire Against “New Pink Tide” In South America

A picture is emerging of the agenda being pursued by CIA director William J. Burns on his classified visit to the Bolsonaro government. By Nathalia Urban  As reported yesterday, the CIA Director William J. Burns travelled to Brazil to meet Bolsonaro government ministers. The reason for the meetings had been kept secret, but Jair Bolsonaro […]

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Lava Jato: Sergio Moro’s 7 Crimes of Judicial Bias

Update 23/6/21: Brazil’s Supreme Court has re-confirmed its March 2021 ruling that Sergio Moro acted with bias in his prosecution of Lula as part of the US-orchestrated Lava Jato investigation. by Brian Mier The Brazilian Supreme Court just released its March, 2021, 411 page ruling that reverses all Lava Jato related convictions against former President […]

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AUTHORITARIANISM Coronavirus PROTEST SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

The Beginning Of The End: #29M Anti-Bolsonaro Protests

On Saturday May 29, 2021, Brazil saw its biggest public mobilisations since the Coronavirus pandemic began. Hundreds of thousands of protesters, organised in 213 cities nationwide, took to the streets against the Bolsonaro-Guedes regime. Amongst the visible messages, anger was directed specifically at its mishandling of the pandemic, with demonstrators demanding vaccines, emergency payments, and indignant […]

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AUTHORITARIANISM DEMOCRACY ECONOMY

Five Years On: Economic And Democratic Fallout From Dilma’s Impeachment

An article published by German news network DW has catalogued Brazil’s descent into the abyss following president Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment. So far, very few high profile supporters of the 2016 coup have acknowledged that it was a mistake, nor the damage it caused – economically, socially, and to Brazil’s democratic institutions. On August 31st 2016 […]

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Anti-Bolsonaro Activist Rodrigo Pilha Tortured In Jail

By Nathalia Urban Political prisoner since March 18 for protesting with a banner reading “Bolsonaro Genocida”, the Workers’ Party (PT) activist, Rodrigo Grassi Cademartori, known as Rodrigo Pilha, has been subjected to the most horrifying abuse for having the courage to publicly oppose to the atrocities committed by Bolsonaro. The Bolsonaro regime has done everything […]

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To Carrefour, black man’s life worth less than dog

Pressure mounts on French corporation after it deposits an unsolicited R$1.1 million in account of widow of Beto Freitas, the Afro-Brazilian man who was brutally murdered by Carrefour security guards in Porto Alegre in November, 2020 by Brian Mier In November, 2020, protests broke out across Brazil over the brutal assassination of Beto Freitas, a […]

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Lava Jato’s devil’s deal with the private sector

A new video shows the Lava Jato task-force forging a plea bargain testimony to help one side in a private sector legal battle, in order to harass defense firms that represented clients they were prosecuting After over 45 years in charge of the Brazilian National Commerce Confederation (Confederação Nacional do Comércio/CNC), Antonio Oliveira Santos discovered […]