By Brian Mier. Originally published at FAIR. The Brazilian Supreme Court on March 8 dismissed all charges against former President Luis Inacio “Lula” da Silva made during the Lava Jato investigation, a little over a month after the investigation was officially ended. The termination came shortly after the Supreme Court admitted 6 terabytes of leaked […]
Mônica Bergamo in Folha reports on a new study published by the CUT Trade Union Confederation which surveys the economic damage the now disgraced anti-corruption operation Lava Jato did to Brazil’s economy. The economic effect of the US-backed Lava Jato on unemployment, GDP and currency, were used as rhetorical weapons in the campaign to oust […]
How would Brazilian handling of the Covid-19 pandemic have been different if Bolsonaro had never come to power? April 2018: Facing international outcry, denunciation at the UN, and the threat of economic retaliation from its principal trading partner, China, Brazil’s Armed Forces have abandoned their efforts to exclude former president Lula da Silva from the […]
Minister Dias Toffoli has revealed the Supreme Court is investigating international funding behind the far-right “hate office”, a network engaged in an ongoing campaign against Brazil’s democratic institutions. The network were active in the campaigns to elect Jair Bolsonaro, for the imprisonment of Lula da Silva, and in support of the 2016 coup to remove Dilma […]
Facing a 300 year prison sentence, the man who hacked into chats between Judge Sergio Moro and the Curitiba Lava Jato task-force explains why he did it and why he is disappointed with the Intercept. By Brian Mier Walter Delgatti, 31, grew up in a conservative region of Sao Paulo in the mid-sized city of […]
Originally published by Transcience Journal following Jair Bolsonaro’s election, the following paper is a thorough and essential overview of Brazil’s long coup, the geopolitics and hybrid warfare behind it, by Professor Dr. Carlos Henrique Vieira Santana, containing vital technical detail and extensive citations. Abstract: Besides the judicial achievements going after the corrupt schemes which were bleeding the balance […]
The arrest and jailing of former Brazilian President Lula da Silva in April 2018 changed the course of the country’s history, opening the door to far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro, who came to power with the support of the United States and powerful corporate interests. Although US involvement in the once heralded anti-corruption investigation operation Lava […]
Supreme Court Minister Ricardo Lewandowski has lifted the confidentiality on conversations between prosecutors from Operation Lava Jato and ex-judge Sergio Moro, which were captured via a hack of the Telegram messaging platform in 2018 The new conversations were released to former President Lula’s defence team. The material, 50 pages long, adds to excerpts released last […]
Paulo Pimenta is a Workers Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores/PT) Congressman from the Rio Grande de Sul city of Santa Maria who began his political careers as a student union leader in the 1980s. Since then, he has served as a student union leader, city councilor, state congressman, federal congressman and PT leader in Congress from […]
On July 4, 2015, Brazil learned, through Edward Snowden, that President Dilma Rousseff and 29 members of her government were being spied on by the NSA. At that time, FBI agents were already working inside the Lava Jato investigation. by Brian Mier Bob Fernandes is a veteran journalist from Bahia. During his 43 year career […]