The scale of Bolsonaro’s so-called Secret Budget (Orcamento Secreto) bribery scheme is enormous, dwarfing previous corruption scandals that have hit Brazilian governments in recent decades. Senator Simone Tebet warns that “we may be facing the world’s biggest corruption scheme” and what began as a scheme to protect Bolsonaro from impeachment, is now central to a full […]
The Women’s Secretariat of Brazil’s Workers Party (PT) issues letter of repudiation on President Jair Bolsonaro’s comments about an alleged encounter with child prostitutes. The Workers’ Party repudiates and denounces the statements on pedophilia and the sexual exploitation of teenagers by Jair Bolsonaro, during an interview this week. It is unbelievable that a President of […]
Old-school electoral fraud casts shadow over the October 30th presidential runoff between Lula and Bolsonaro. A study by ValorData has demonstrated how Bolsonaro campaign misinformation which associated receipt of pensions with proof of voting for the far-right president, brought almost 1 million more elderly people to the polls in the 2022 first round than voted […]
A surge in abstentions has prompted the Brazilian Electoral Court to act on long voting lines that blighted the first round of the presidential election. Although he won comfortably, voting data suggests Lula vote was most hit by the unexpected no shows, which also skewed polling accuracy. At the October 2 first round of the presidential […]
With 130,000 votes, former teachers union leader makes history in one of Brazil’s most conservative states by Brasil de Fato Paraná Voters in the southern Brazilian state of Paraná broke from tradition of voting for white, conservative congressmen last Sunday and elected a new face: Carol Dartora (Workers Party/PT), the first black woman elected to […]
From the way that the Anglo media is treating Brazil’s treating the October 2, 1st round presidential elections a casual news consumer may get the impression that the Brazilian Workers Party suffered a crushing defeat. It takes an incredible amount of spin to create this impression. In order to pull this off, several important facts […]
By Brett Heinz. Originally published at CEPR. Meta is the king of the social media world. Not only is the company’s flagship product, Facebook, the world’s largest social networking platform, but two of its other properties — WhatsApp and Instagram — are also in the top five. With this popularity has come significant controversy, especially […]
Since 1932, Brazil’s elections have been managed by an electoral court system which establishes rules for and regulates the entire voting process, with the power to audit campaign finances and punish people who violate election laws. For the past 2 years, Brazilian President Bolsonaro and some allies in the military and business community have led […]
By Guilherme de Queiroz-Stein for Brasil de Fato Any concession to a “parallel count” of the 2022 elections by the Armed Forces poses a great risk to democracy. Firstly, it must be made clear that this is not a “parallel count”, but an estimate of electoral results, which, if carried out by sampling, will probably […]
Spokesperson for the Mossad-linked Israeli company CySource, Hélio Sant’Ana was IT director at Palácio do Planalto during the Bolsonaro government, and has been found to have spread disinformation about the 2022 election. By Paulo Motoryn for Brasil de Fato One of the representatives of the Israeli company CySource, which is in a technical cooperation agreement signed […]