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Biden urged to abandon U.S. agreements with far-right Bolsonaro regime

United States President Joe Biden has been urged to abandon U.S. agreements with Brazil’s far-right Bolsonaro regime. A policy document, put together by experts on Brazil’s situation in academia, social movements, solidarity groups, human rights and environmental organisations, lays out the steps the United States needs to take to repair direct consequences of the foreign […]

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LAVA JATO LAWFARE SOVEREIGNTY UNITED STATES

“Put the US attorneys to work” (against Lula): Sergio Moro caught in new scandal

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 […]

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How the US led operation Lava Jato, and why: Congressman Paulo Pimenta

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 […]

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US Intelligence Penetration of Brazil: an Interview with Bob Fernandes

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 […]

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Lula speaks of U.S. power behind Bolsonaro in new documentary

In an interview for a new documentary, former Brazil president Lula explains how the United States government and corporations benefited from anti-corruption operation Lava Jato, while damaging the sovereignty of Brazil and lives of ordinary Brazilians. The new film ‘Dismantling Brazil: Bolsonaro’s Neoliberal Agenda’, was produced by Brasil Wire co-editor Brian Mier and US journalist […]

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Sérgio Moro’s strange new job

The Lava Jato judge and former Bolsonaro administration Justice Minister will now work with former NSA, DOJ and FBI officials in a consulting firm that has already collected R$17 million for helping rebuild the companies he destroyed in 2015 during the lead up to the coup against Dilma Rousseff. by Vivaldo Barbosa* It is very […]

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Obama “must explain” role in Lava Jato and 2016 Coup, as Supreme Court orders unsealing of secret US agreements

Workers Party President Gleisi Hoffman insists former US President Barack Obama “needs to explain his participation in the coup and Lava Jato” as the Brazilian Supreme Court rules that secret agreements made between Operation Lava Jato (Car Wash) and the US Government, in particular those relating to the prosecution of former President Lula, must be […]

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Temer Reveals Military Hand In Brazil’s 2016 Coup

A new ghostwritten book by Michel Temer reveals that the then Vice President held a series of previously undisclosed meetings with Brazilian Military chiefs during the year or more leading up to Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment. Temer recounts that Armed Forces top brass, worried about the direction of the country, sought behind closed doors discussions with the former […]

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US Election: What’s at stake for Brazil

If the US has been the number one enemy of democracy and freedom in Latin America for the past century, why would a new President make any difference? By Brian Mier In a recent interview for the Brazilian business newspaper O Valor, Tom Shannon, who was a key US State Department actor on Latin American […]

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Operation Amazônia: Brazilian Army “simulates war” with Venezuela

A massive Brazilian military exercise in the Amazon involved 3,600 soldiers and unprecedented rocket fire. During the simulation, Trump’s Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, was visiting Roraima, and triggered a diplomatic crisis by talking about “taking” Nicolás Maduro “out of there”. Former President Lula earlier referenced a a meeting of US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) generals […]