As Brazil’s richest man, Jorge Paulo Lemann, joins forces with fellow supporters of the 2016 coup in a drive to depose the neofascist president who they helped bring to office, former President Lula takes a pass. The PT should not get on the first bus that passes by against Jair Bolsonaro. With this metaphor, former […]
It is not just the Brazilian President and his followers’ flat-earthism that prevents Brazil overcoming the pandemic and the crisis it has generated. Sociopathic neoliberalism and its prioritisation of economic dogma over public safety, threatens everybody. by Marcelo Zero The social isolation guidelines established by science and by the World Health Organization in the fight […]
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 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 […]
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 with Pinochet. By John McEvoy, Daniel Hunt, Nathália Urban. On 9 November 2010, the new Conservative Foreign Secretary William Hague gave a speech at London’s Canning House, […]
Sooner or later, Brazil, Latin America and the World will have to choose between neoliberalism, fascism and authoritarianism on one side and real, substantive democracy on the other by Marcelo Zero Latin America is going through a deep crisis of political instability, fragilization of democratic institutions, lack of legitimacy of traditional representation systems, intense ideological […]
During the 1930s, Brazilian fascists, called the “Green Hens” by their opponents, beat up communists and praised God, family and liberal economic policies. In this article Wilson Luiz Müller says they’re back. By Wilson Luiz Müller* This is not a “Back to the Future” style science fiction story. If a Brazilian was frozen during the […]
Both the far-right and the “center” are afraid of Lula. It is not because he is a violent radical, but because he represents the possibility of real social, economic and political ascension for the common people. by Marcelo Zero Right wing extremist Steve Bannon recently said, “Lula is a great leader of the ‘globalist left’[…] […]
In Curitiba, former Senator from the center-right MDB party Roberto Requião reminds the public that purchasing stolen property from an illegitimate government is a crime and this opens the legal door for future governments to repossess privatized companies with no compensation. Investors will have to return privatized Brazilian assets November 10th. Roberto Requião, former senator from […]
In an interview in Buenos Aires with journalist Mario Vitor Santos, the former Brazilian Foreign Relations Minister Celso Amorim said that it is an important convergence of events that Alberto Fernandez’ victory in the Argentine presidential race would fall on Lula’s birthday. “Neoliberalism is being defeated because it does not correspond with the desire of […]