The imperative behind CIA director William J. Burns classified trip to Brazil appears to be part of an effort to contain and prevent ascendence of South American governments allied with, or sympathetic to, the Peoples Republic of China. By Nathalia Urban The recent visit to Brazil by the director of CIA William J. Burns was […]
A picture is emerging of the agenda being pursued by CIA director William J. Burns on his classified visit to the Bolsonaro government. By Nathalia Urban As reported yesterday, the CIA Director William J. Burns travelled to Brazil to meet Bolsonaro government ministers. The reason for the meetings had been kept secret, but Jair Bolsonaro […]
Background: Shortly after taking office, Jair Bolsonaro became the first Brazilian leader to visit CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. He was accompanied by his Justice Minister Sergio Moro who had jailed main opponent Lula da Silva before the 2018 election, on now annulled charges. As a result, US-trained Moro now faces Supreme Court investigation for […]
Brazil’s former Finance Minister cites 2012 as the moment international capital began conspiring to bring down its left wing government. The same interests, many of which are represented by Council of the Americas, went on to back far-right Bolsonaro. It is one of the most frank denunciations yet of the role foreign capital played in Dilma Rousseff’s […]
By Shobhan Saxena and Florencia Costa. Originally published at The Wire India. In November 2020, when Bharat Biotech offered to sell its indigenously-made COVID-19 vaccine – Covaxin – to Brazil with the possibility of technology transfer, it was showcased as India’s growing prowess. Eight months later, not a single dose of the vaccine has been […]
President of the TSE (Superior Electoral Court), Luís Roberto Barroso, insists that the printed vote “will be bad for Brazilian democracy”. 247 – The president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Minister Luís Roberto Barroso, said at a press conference this Monday (21) that in his assessment the adoption of the printed vote represents a […]
Update 23/6/21: Brazil’s Supreme Court has re-confirmed its March 2021 ruling that Sergio Moro acted with bias in his prosecution of Lula as part of the US-orchestrated Lava Jato investigation. by Brian Mier The Brazilian Supreme Court just released its March, 2021, 411 page ruling that reverses all Lava Jato related convictions against former President […]
By Brian Mier US involvement in Brazil’s fraudulent Lava Jato “anti-corruption” investigation has been a matter of public record for years, since the Department of Justice and SEC began levying billions of dollars of fines on companies in key sectors of the Workers Party’s national development strategy in the southern New York court district. Initially […]
In a White House ‘Background Press Call by Senior Administration Officials on the Fight Against Corruption’, a Biden administration official admitted that the CIA and other parts of the U.S. intelligence apparatus were involved in assisting the “War on Corruption” which jailed former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and elected Jair Bolsonaro. Read the […]
On Saturday May 29, 2021, Brazil saw its biggest public mobilisations since the Coronavirus pandemic began. Hundreds of thousands of protesters, organised in 213 cities nationwide, took to the streets against the Bolsonaro-Guedes regime. Amongst the visible messages, anger was directed specifically at its mishandling of the pandemic, with demonstrators demanding vaccines, emergency payments, and indignant […]