Argentinian President Alberto Fernández cites Brazil’s growing death toll as justification for maintaining strict quarantine measures, and says the Presidents of Uruguay and Chile share his concern. In stark contrast to Brazil, Argentina’s Coronavirus response, with amongst the lowest per capita infection rates in the world, has been the success story of South America, with […]
Buried under a global pandemic is the most important Brazil story for decades. Unless the role of the United States in Brazil’s democratic collapse is acknowledged and understood, no useful sense can be made of its present, or its future, and no honest appraisal can be made of bipartisan U.S. foreign policy in Latin America. […]
For Héctor Luís Saint-Pierre, it is a military paradox to support the deregulation of the economy and the sell-off of assets. By Ana Penido. Brasil de Fato. 26 October 2019. With the broad participation of the military in the Jair Bolsonaro government, there is more interest in understanding which ideas carry this special category of […]
In the first part of this series on British involvement in Brazilian internal affairs it was revealed that the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office has deleted its record of correspondence and meetings about Brazilian elections with strategic communications companies SCL and Cambridge Analytica. In this second article, more freedom of information requests show previously undisclosed […]
The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has deleted records of its discussions with strategic communications companies SCL and Cambridge Analytica in Brazil, two Freedom of Information requests reveal. This is part one of a series on British involvement in Brazilian internal affairs. Parts two and three to follow shortly. Português. By John McEvoy, Nathalia […]
“A Pandemic is beaten with information and cooperation, not with ignorance and xenophobia.” By Dilma Rousseff The country most severely affected by the coronavirus, China, managed to overcome the acute phase of the epidemic after the enormous sacrifice of its people, with thousands of lost lives and a great effort by its scientists and researchers. […]
Brazil’s far-right government requested the return of thousands of Cuban doctors to help fight the coronavirus. Months ago, President Jair Bolsonaro smeared the doctors as “terrorists” and expelled them. By Ben Norton The coronavirus pandemic has overwhelmed the health infrastructure of countries around the world. Desperate to contain the deadly virus, hard-hit countries, including even […]
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 […]
Former Brazilian President Lula da Silva revealed in an exclusive interview with Brasil Wire and the Michael Brooks Show that Brazil already knew that then UK Prime Minister Tony Blair was lying about Iraq possessing weapons of mass destruction in the build up to the Iraq war. Lula says that they knew that Blair knew Saddam […]
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 […]