The FBI, the Fusion Center, and the Far Right: US creep in Brazil
In an important new investigation, journalist Natalia Viana of Agência Pública has revealed how, during Sergio Moro's 15 month tenure as Justice and Security Minister under Jair Bolsonaro, he quickly enabled...
Moro “Hid Lava Jato’s collusion with the USA” – Lula Lawyer Zanin
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On Saturday, May 9, Cristiano Zanin, a...
Ten Reasons Why Sérgio Moro Cannot Be Absolved
After 16 months serving as one of the most ineffectual Brazilian Justice Ministers in modern history, Sérgio Moro, the disgraced former Lava Jato judge resigns from the far right Bolsonaro administration...
How the United States killed Brazil’s Democracy. Again.
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...
Brazil’s Power Vacuum: “Nobody wants to conduct a Ghost Train”
The military won't officially take over because nobody wants to be publically associated with the worst government in Brazilian history
By Leonardo Attuch
Bolsonaro’s pen has less and less ink in it. Every...
Attempt to outlaw the Workers Party is latest attack on Brazil’s democracy
An attempt to ban the Workers Party/PT, the most successful political party of Brazil's modern era, is the latest in a sequence of attacks on a democracy under siege.
By Nathalia Urban
On...
“He woke up this ghost that we didn’t even know was there.” Director Petra Costa on ‘The Edge of Democracy’
Brazilian director Petra Costa, whose third full length feature, 'The Edge of Democracy' has been nominated in the best documentary category at the 2020 Oscars, was interviewed on the Michael Brooks...
An interview with Lula. Part Two
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...
An interview with Lula. Part One
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...
Chief Justice Toffoli says Lava Jato destroyed Brazilian Industries
Dias Toffoli, Chief Justice of the Brazilian Supreme Court, accuses the US DOJ-backed Lava Jato investigation of destroying the national construction and petroleum industries.
by Vanessa Grazziotin
Last Monday (16), the Estado de...
The Tories’ War on Progressive Latin America
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...
Michael Brooks Interview: Lula, solidarity and the antifascist struggle
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,...
Notorious U.S. Intelligence Official Visits Lula Appeal Court
The controversial TRF-4 (4th Regional Federal Court) in Porto Alegre has been hit by fresh scandal, one which re-opens the question of United States interference in Brazilian law enforcement, and its...
As Lula Emerges From Prison, US Media Ignore How Washington Helped Put Him There
By Brian Mier.
The Brazilian Supreme Court reversed a 2018 ruling on November 7, upholding the principle of innocent until proven guilty in the 1988 Constitution and declaring it illegal to jail...
Lula promises to help “free Brazil from the insanity”
Released on Friday, November 8th, after 580 days in political imprisonment in Curitiba, former President Lula posted his first video on Instagram, sending a message to his supporters.
“I would like to...
Supreme Court renders Lula imprisonment illegal
Last night (11/8/2019) the Brazilian Supreme Court upheld the principal of innocent until proven guilty from the 1988 Constitution and ruled that it is illegal to imprison defendants until their appeals...
Justice for Lula, Peace for Brazil
On the day in which the Brazilian Supreme Court returns to deliberations over whether it will uphold the 1988 Constitution and respect defendants' rights to await their appeals verdicts in freedom...
New book describes how Bolsonaro was elected “by force” – by the Armed Forces
'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...
Better Than Kissinger: How Wall Street Recolonized Brazil. Part Four.
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...
Gold Against The Soul: How Wall Street Recolonized Brazil. Part Three.
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...
Smiling Assassins: How Wall Street Recolonized Brazil. Part Two.
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...
20 ways Lawfare led to Brazil’s State of Exception
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...
How Wall Street Recolonized Brazil. Part One.
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...
Lava Jato Soap Opera Nears Finale
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...
Lula refuses to trade dignity for freedom
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...
U.S. Congress demands answers on DOJ and Lava Jato
House Resolution 594 directs US DOJ inspector general to perform a full review of the Department’s activities in Brazil
On September 25 a group of 14 US Members of Congress filed...
Rousseff in El País: “My departure was the opening act in a play that has not ended.”
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...
Lula Interview: PT’s mistakes and US role in the Coup
In a subtitled interview which is linked below, the political prisoner Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaks of strategic errors made by the PT, BRICS, and the documented US involvement in...
Michel Temer: “It was a Coup”
During a television interview on September 16th, 2019, former Brazilian President Michel Temer twice referred to the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff as a Golpe (Coup).
Dilma Rousseff’s former VP, of the conservative...
Why is Lula still in Jail?
As momentum turns against right wing extremist Jair Bolsonaro and his ultra-neoliberal economic project, many former supporters have joined the opposition but refuse to demand the release of fraudulently convicted former...