Bob Fernandes, 65, is a veteran print and television journalist from Bahia who’s personal youtube channel has nearly 200,000 followers. Since starting his career in the 1970s, he has worked as a reporter and editor at some of the largest mainstream media outlets in Brazil, including Veja, Istoé and Folha de São Paulo and is […]
“Our central focus is to save lives and we will not abandon it.” During the 2018 presidential elections, Jair Bolsonaro lost by a 2:1 ratio to Workers Party candidate Fernando Haddad in Brazil’s traditional Northeast region, and left and center left governors were elected in 8 of its 9 states. Today, as the coronavirus pandemic […]
Brian Mier and Aline Piva discuss the latest situation surrounding the Novel Coronavirus pandemic in Brazil. [qpp]
Bolsonaro’s attempt to copy Trump’s coronavirus response is failing – this is good for Brazil. by Brian Mier Pepe Escobar has written a lot about this but, geopolitically speaking, Brazil has become a kind of battlefield in the full spectrum war between the United States and China. We had a Coup d’Ètat in 2016 in […]
On Monday 13th April, word began to spread that Brazil’s high profile Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta, having been saved from dismissal by the Military just a week earlier, had lost their support. Rumour was that Mandetta had upset the Generals in a frank interview with TV Globo’s Fantástico, the previous night. By Thursday 16th he was […]
In what has been called a “war operation”, the Communist Party-run Brazilian state of Maranhão has purchased Chinese ventilators to fight the Covid-19 pandemic and shipped them via Ethiopia, to evade possible confiscation by the US or Brazil’s own Federal Government. Folha de S.Paulo reports that the Northeastern state of Maranhão, under Communist Party of […]
Brian Mier and Aline Piva discuss the latest situation surrounding the Novel Coronavirus pandemic in Brazil. [qpp]
The military won’t officially take over because nobody wants to be publically associated with the worst government in Brazilian history By Leonardo Attuch Bolsonaro’s pen has less and less ink in it. Every day that goes by shows that he is losing power. This was shown during his April 9 live address to the Brazilian […]
Researchers analyze fake news coming from the Bolsonaro family shared on social media. By Marina Duarte de Souza. Brasil de Fato. Even after Twitter, Facebook and Instagram deleted president Jair Bolsonaro’s posts after determining their content spread “disinformation” and cause “real harm to people”, the president continues to propagate fake news about the coronavirus pandemic in […]
As the saga of an “Operational President” rolls on, former editor of Folha de Pernambuco and Diario de Pernambuco, Homero Fonseca, unpicks the details and concludes that whatever the Military’s intent, Bolsonaro will not go quietly. by Homero Fonseca The unprecedented, frantic and surreal political events of the past few days have confirmed two things: 1 – […]