I really want to polarize. I want to hold deep ideological debates. I want the people to know that there is no teaching anywhere that says a person has to go three days without food. – Lula In January, 2020, Brasil Wire, in partnership with Michael Brooks, host of the Michael Brooks Show, interviewed former […]
In January, 2020, Brasil Wire in partnership with Michael Brooks, host of the Michael Brooks Show, interviewed former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the Workers Party (PT) headquarters in São Paulo. The interview was the culmination of a 6 month process which started with the filing of a request in the Curitiba Court […]
2019 was a year of vicious attacks and great resistance but we finished it on our feet. It is up to us to gather our strength, intensify our base level organizing work and strengthen the resistance in 2020. By Jessy Dayane* When I look back at where we were December 2018, I think we reached […]
By Cynara Menezes Never in my worst nightmares did I imagine Jair Bolsonaro would become President of Brazil. To me he was always just a bad joke – an evil folk character and B-level politician who would never rise to greater heights. Imagine my surprise and displeasure to see that millions of Brazilians would vote […]
Cosying up to Bolsonaro, supporting coup d’états and facilitating crackdowns on human rights – the Tory record in Latin America today tells you why they were so willing to make friends with Pinochet. By John McEvoy, Daniel Hunt, Nathália Urban. On 9 November 2010, the new Conservative Foreign Secretary William Hague gave a speech at London’s Canning House, […]
Host of the Michael Brooks Show and Majority Report co-host talks about the challenges that lie ahead in the global fight against fascism and the fight to preserve Lula’s legacy Michael Brooks, host of the Michael Brooks Show and the Majority Report, is one of the most well-informed people in the US media about Brazil […]
Sooner or later, Brazil, Latin America and the World will have to choose between neoliberalism, fascism and authoritarianism on one side and real, substantive democracy on the other by Marcelo Zero Latin America is going through a deep crisis of political instability, fragilization of democratic institutions, lack of legitimacy of traditional representation systems, intense ideological […]
As Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro launches his new brazenly Neofascist party ‘Alliance for Brazil’, inspired by ARENA (Alliance for National Renewal) of the Dictatorship era, his ministers and foreign supporters are normalising a return to the repression of the 1960s and 1970s to protect their economic interests. Paulo Guedes, Bolsonaro’s Chicago Schooled Finance Minister, says […]
During the 1930s, Brazilian fascists, called the “Green Hens” by their opponents, beat up communists and praised God, family and liberal economic policies. In this article Wilson Luiz Müller says they’re back. By Wilson Luiz Müller* This is not a “Back to the Future” style science fiction story. If a Brazilian was frozen during the […]
Both the far-right and the “center” are afraid of Lula. It is not because he is a violent radical, but because he represents the possibility of real social, economic and political ascension for the common people. by Marcelo Zero Right wing extremist Steve Bannon recently said, “Lula is a great leader of the ‘globalist left’[…] […]