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US DOJ gives Lava Jato $682 million kickback

In a measure that bypasses Brazilian transparency legislation and governmental oversight, the US Department of Justice awards 80% of Petrobras fines to Brazilian partners to set up a privately managed fund to “fight corruption”. Petrobras profits were initially earmarked for Public Education and Health systems. By Brian Mier Over the past 4 years, as most […]

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47 US Organizations Warn of Risks of Bolsonaro Presidency

We are particularly concerned about a number of Bolsonaro’s policy proposals that, if implemented, can be expected to inflict far-reaching and lasting damage on Brazilian communities and on the environment The following Manifesto published on December 27 and signed by 47 US organizations, including the 12 million strong AFL-CIO, warns of risks to Democracy, the […]

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Army High Command Meets. Lula Stays In Jail. Who Is Running Brasil?

On December 19th 2018, Brazil was sent into a frenzy at the news that Supreme Court Judge Marco Aurélio had accepted a petition from PCdoB (Communist Party of Brazil) that called for the freeing of prisoners jailed while their appeals processes were still underway. This meant that former President Lula da Silva, recognised internationally as a political […]

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Supreme Court Justice Ruling Could See Lula Freed

by Brasil de Fato Brazil’s Supreme Court justice Marco Aurélio Mello issued a ruling this Wednesday, Dec. 19, ordering the suspension of prison sentences for all convicts who have appeals pending after having their conviction upheld by an appeals court. The decision could lead to the release of former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da […]

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Send In The Clowns.

“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 […]

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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 Guardian is of course the closest thing that the UK has to a mainstream progressive newspaper, and it had, until relatively recently, a […]

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Chile-Brazil: A New Laboratory For The Far-Right

The Neoliberal model implemented in Chile after the 1973 Military Coup gives us hints as to what will happen in Brazil under a future Jair Bolsonaro Government. The resemblance is no mere coincidence. By Joana Salém Vasconcelos and Rejane Carolina Hoeveler. Still shocked by the electoral results in Brazil, many Brazilians are asking how an […]

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222 days after political imprisonment, Lula speaks

With Bolsonaro’s new Justice Minister Sergio Moro claiming he was on vacation, Lula testified to a substitute judge in Curitiba on charges involving an allegedly illegal kitchen remodeling which took place after he left public office in a house that the courts do not claim he ever owned, located in a state outside of their jurisdiction. […]

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How conservative corruption opened a fascist door in Rio

Massive corruption in Rio de Janeiro’s disastrous Public/Private transportation partnerships brought an end to decades of MDB party hegemony, but the power vacuum that it opened was filled by neofascists. by Gabriel Deslandes When the June, 2013 protests against bus fare hikes and lack of quality public transportation rocked Brazil, protesters in Rio de Janeiro […]

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Army Chief admits threatening Supreme Court to Jail Lula

by Brian Mier. Originally published November 12 2018. On April 3, on the eve of the judgment which resulted in the arrest of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his subsequent removal from the presidential race, Brazilian Army Chief of Staff General Eduardo Vilas Boas made two tweets which appeared to threaten the […]