With assassins, militia leaders and drug traffickers all circulating within the security zone around President Bolsonaro it’s time to investigate, says PT Congressional Leader Paulo Pimenta. On Wednesday, June 26th, PT’s congressional leader, Paulo Pimenta, (Rio Grande do Sul) said that Congress should investigate the grave crime committed inside the President of the Republic’s security […]
Bolsonaro ally Governor Wilson Witzel’s Military Police are now killing 5 people a day. Most victims are Afro-Brazilian youth. Many are being killed execution style with gunshots at close range to the back of the head, or by helicopter snipers. On February 8th, in Fallet Favela near downtown Rio de Janeiro, members of the military […]
Rio De Janeiro Governor Wilson Witzel orders use of helicopter snipers in poor communities and police break 20 year record for killing civilians. On Sunday, May 5, a video appeared on the internet, showing Rio de Janeiro’s right-wing extremist governor, Wilson Witzel, addressing the camera: “Hello people,” he said, “we are starting today, in Angra […]
“In whose interests is Temer’s arrest at this moment?” – Lawyer Patrick Mariano questions the methods of the operation and raises doubts about the legality of the arrest of the former president. By Leonardo Fernandes for Brasil de Fato. By order of Judge Marcelo Bretas, of the 7th Federal Criminal Court of Rio de Janeiro, former President Michel […]
With two former governors in jail, the Rio de Janeiro justice system continues its efforts to dismantle the PMDB party. On March 21, Rio de Janeiro Judge Marcelo Bretas, a friend of neofascist governor Wilson Witzel who is loosely connected to the Curitiba based Lava Jato task force and a possible 2020 Rio de Janeiro mayoral candidate, […]
As the net around Marielle Franco’s killers tightens, more and more evidence is pointing to an extermination group that has a relationship with the Bolsonaro family. Who ordered the killing of Marielle Franco? Today marks the one year anniversary of the brutal assassination of socialist Rio de Janeiro City Councilwoman Marielle Franco and her driver […]
Suspect Ronnie Lessa, a former Military Policeman, lived in luxury condo within yards of the President’s home. At 4 AM on the morning of March 12, the Rio de Janeiro Civil Police raided the houses of and arrested two suspects in the killings of socialist city councilwoman Marielle Franco and her driver, Anderson Gomes. Both […]
As Brazil’s Neofascist President Jair Bolsonaro and his Justice and Security Minister Sérgio Moro address the World Economic Forum at Davos, on the fight against corruption and need for unrestricted foreign investment in Brazil, the clock is already ticking for his administration and his Presidency. “They can label me anything, homophobic, racist….they just can’t call me […]
Reports have emerged that PSOL’s newly elected Federal Deputy, Marcelo Freixo, elected in October is the target of an assassination plot by a paramilitary group from Rio de Janeiro’s West Zone. “This isn’t a threat against Freixo, but against Democracy. The Democratic State.” said the Federal Deputy elect. Rio de Janeiro Civil Police intercepted militia plans […]
“Welcome to the Brazilian Necropolitical Circus.” On December 10 2018, the 70th anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights, Brazilian President elect Jair Bolsonaro and his Vice, General Mourão, received their diplomas from the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE). They were presented with the inaugural certificates after a lecture on democracy by Rosa Weber, the […]