COUNCIL OF THE AMERICAS
RenovaBR: Wall Street Gets ‘Em While They’re Young
RenovaBR is the latest in Washington and Wall Street’s ongoing efforts to manipulate Brazilian politics by grooming its “future leaders”.
On May 13, a joint AS/COA RenovaBR event was held in New...
31/3/1964: Brasil’s Zombie History
On March 31, extreme-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has called for the Military to commemorate the Coup of 1964, a Coup which he insists was nothing of the sort. Such commemorations were outlawed...
The Strange Case Of The Guardian & Brasil
"If The Guardian was what it purports to be, Brasil Wire wouldn’t need to exist". The British Newspaper's coverage serves as a case study of how perception of what happened in Brasil became so distorted internationally.
The...
Lava Jato/Fascism is a match – who’s the matchmaker?
After arresting Brazil's antifascist presidential front runner on trumped up charges to bar his candidacy, Inquisitor Sergio Moro now announces his ideological alignment with a militarized, neofascist regime. Did outside meddling...
Thy Will Be Done: Brasil’s Holy War
A fifty year foreign battle to combat Catholic Liberation Theology in Brazil promises rich rewards for the vested interests which initiated it, at great human cost.
"Brazil is at the vanguard of...
Wall Street’s New Man In Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro
"No room for feelings" say Wall Street insiders as they back another Neofascist to deliver Neoliberalism, at the point of a gun, in the most resource-rich nation on earth.
New York Times,...
Media Watch: The Strange Return Of Coup-Denial
Two competing narratives on Brazil: one says Dilma Rousseff was deposed in a procedural Coup d'état and Lula's imprisonment is to stop him becoming President again. The other says that all...
Brasil’s Post-Coup Submission To Foreign Capital Faces Backlash
In his landmark work, “A Fantasia Organizada”, legendary developmentalist economist Celso Furtado described the modern history of Brazil as a conflict between internationally-backed monetarist economic strategies and efforts to implement a...
The Protection Of Geraldo Alckmin
In the words of a prominent Brasil-based journalist in June 2013: "There is an unwritten understanding amongst foreign correspondents that the US wants PSDB in power"
In his April 12 piece for...
Brazilians take the fight for its Democracy & Sovereignty to AS/COA HQ in New York
On the morning March 2, 2018, a small but determined group of protesters braved the New York rain, sleet and snow to demonstrate outside the Park Avenue headquarters of Americas Society...
AS/COA and Fake News: How a corporate think tank molds mainstream media narratives on Latin America
When Luis Inacio Lula da Silva took office in 2003, one of his first moves was to prioritize open source software for the federal government computer systems in order to reduce costs,...
A boycott of Americas Quarterly and AS/COA, and why it is needed
On March 2 in New York, Wall Street Lobby & Think Tank, AS/COA will hold a special event in New York heralding a supposed “Anti-Corruption movement" in Latin America. Key speaker...
Hidden History: The US “War On Corruption” In Brasil
The story of how an overlooked Bush-era Foreign Policy edict led to Brazil's Coup of 2016 and its consolidation in the conviction of Former President Lula.
Despite public ignorance, and its root...
The Atlantic Council & Latin American “Regime Change”
Founded in 1961, the Atlantic Council (AC) is part of the NATO offshoot Atlantic Treaty Association, described as an umbrella organization which acts as a network facilitator in the Euro-Atlantic and...
David Rockefeller & a dark legacy in Brasil – A critical obituary
On March 20, David Rockefeller died at the age of 101. As the obituaries for one of the world's richest men gush over his philanthropy, it needs to be pointed out...
