Portuguese Sociologist sees Brazil as the next Latin American country to confront Neoliberalism. In Brazil to participate in the opening of the annual meeting of the National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Education (ANPED), at Fluminense Federal University (UFF), the Portuguese sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos harshly criticized the government of Jair Bolsonaro, […]
‘Os Onze – O STF, seus bastidores e suas crises’ reveals further evidence of the Pro-Bolsonaro Soft Coup at the 2018 Election. By André Barrocal, CartaCapital. On Tuesday before Sunday’s final vote in the 2018 election, there was a meeting in the Superior Electoral Court between court judges and the then-general at the head of government […]
In September 2019, Brazilian Minister for Foreign Affairs Ernesto Araújo met US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Washington D.C. and the pair announced a new U.S.-Brazil bilateral agreement to open up the Amazon Rainforest to private sector development. Araújo called the agreement “…the Holy Grail of Brazil’s foreign policy, at least for the private sector”. Behind […]
In September 2019, Brazilian Minister for Foreign Affairs Ernesto Araújo met US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Washington D.C. and the pair announced a new U.S.-Brazil bilateral agreement to open up the Amazon Rainforest to private sector development. Araújo called the agreement “…the Holy Grail of Brazil’s foreign policy, at least for the private sector”. Behind […]
In September 2019, Brazilian Minister for Foreign Affairs Ernesto Araújo met US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Washington D.C. and the pair announced a new U.S.-Brazil bilateral agreement to open up the Amazon Rainforest to private sector development. Araújo called the agreement “…the Holy Grail of Brazil’s foreign policy, at least for the private sector”. Behind […]
The rise of Bolsonaro is the result of a long and systematic process of bending or violating laws for political ends to remove one democratically elected president and arrest another. It may have taken the Intercept’s Telegram leaks for the international press to stop uncritically supporting Lava Jato but the fact that it was conducted […]
In September 2019, Brazilian Minister for Foreign Affairs Ernesto Araújo met US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Washington D.C. and the pair announced a new U.S.-Brazil bilateral agreement to open up the Amazon Rainforest to private sector development. Araújo called the agreement “…the Holy Grail of Brazil’s foreign policy, at least for the private sector”. Behind […]
As the Supreme Court invalidates most of the Lava Jato convictions for failing to respect due process, task force members become more and more desperate. by Florestan Fernandes Jr.* The telenovela about former President Lula’s political imprisonment had one of its most hate-filled and violent episodes on Tuesday, October 1st, in Curitiba. This episode starred […]
As former President’s case comes up to the Supreme Court, corrupt prosecutor Delton Dallagnol tries to strike a deal to transfer him to semi-open regime. In a note read to the public today, Lula refuses the offer. “I won’t trade my dignity for freedom he says.” The letter reads as follows: To the Brazilian people […]
In an interview with El País, Dilma Rousseff, ousted in 2016, warned “It was a Coup. My departure was the opening act in a play that has not ended.” Speaking to the Spanish newspaper’s Cecilia Ballesteros, Brazil’s former president talked about the multi phase Coup which removed her, and then prevented her predecessor Lula da […]