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Coronavirus FOREIGN POLICY

Brazilian Vaccine Production Halted After Bolsonaro’s China Attacks

By Nathalia Urban The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) interrupted its production of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine due to lack of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (IFA). The institute says that a shipment of IFA should arrive tomorrow (22/05). AstraZeneca and CoronaVac are the only two vaccines of the Ministry of Health’s National Immunization Program (PNI), that are produced […]

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Coronavirus

Sabotage and Denial: Brazil’s Disastrous Coronavirus Response

The following interview with Brasil Wire co-editor Brian Mier was conducted by Şerbet Sağlam for the Turkish newspaper Gazete Duvar. Şerbet Sağlam: In the last year, the number of daily cases and death rate in Brazil has increased dramatically in particular in April 2021. How does government manage the pandemic? What happened in April as […]

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AMAZON INDIGENOUS RIGHTS

Genocide in Brazil: SOS Yanomami

The Yanomami people have endured centuries of violence, but recently attacks on their very existence are intensifying. By Nathalia Urban A report by the National Indigenous Foundation (Funai) has revealed that seven mining boats carrying firearms fired on indigenous people from the Palimiú community in Roraima on May 10, since then they have suffered SEVEN […]

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ELECTION 2022

The Ciro Delusion

There is one person who believes that Ciro Gomes will be the next president of Brazil. His name is Ciro. 18 months out from the 2022 presidential election, Gomes sits on 6% in the latest Datafolha polls. This figure is less than half of what he achieved in the 2018 first round, and a withering […]

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AUTHORITARIANISM DEMOCRACY ECONOMY

Five Years On: Economic And Democratic Fallout From Dilma’s Impeachment

An article published by German news network DW has catalogued Brazil’s descent into the abyss following president Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment. So far, very few high profile supporters of the 2016 coup have acknowledged that it was a mistake, nor the damage it caused – economically, socially, and to Brazil’s democratic institutions. On August 31st 2016 […]

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COUNCIL OF THE AMERICAS ECONOMY ELECTION 2022 FOREIGN POLICY LATIN AMERICA SOVEREIGNTY UNITED STATES

South America’s ‘Business Friendly’ Bloodbath

International Business and Banking support for the most repressive regimes in Latin America is even more evident than it was during the original cold war. Now, Wall Streetʼs three main men in South America all face charges of crimes against humanity, even genocide, at the International Criminal Court.  Whilst the anglosphere regularly attacks governments of […]

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LAVA JATO POLITICS

Bolsonaro’s R$3 Billion Bribery Scheme To Keep Himself In Power

A fascist president, brought to power through a spurious anti-corruption campaign faces his most serious corruption scandal yet, with the revelation of what could be the world’s biggest bribery scheme – a play to keep the crumbling Bolsonaro-Guedes regime in power. An explosive report in newspaper Estado de S.Paulo has revealed that Brazil’s far right […]

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Coronavirus

Nicolelis: Brazil’s Pandemic Is A ‘Biological Fukushima’

In an article for Scientific American magazine, Brazilian Scientist Miguel Nicolelis compared Brazil’s Coronavirus pandemic to Japan’s 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident, and warns that it threatens the entire planet. “Like a nuclear reactor that goes into an uncontrollable chain reaction, the Brazilian tragedy shows all the signs of an emerging global threat.” Miguel Nicolelis is […]

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LAVA JATO LAWFARE SOVEREIGNTY UNITED STATES

How The US Taught Judge Moro To “Take Down” Lula

How a US State Department official taught illegal tactics to Brazilian judges and prosecutors that went on to be used to remove Lula from the 2018 presidential race by Joaquim de Carvalho In November 2009, the Brazilian Federal Police Agents Association held its fourth congress in Fortaleza, Ceará, to discuss corruption, impunity and security at […]

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Coronavirus COUNCIL OF THE AMERICAS FOREIGN POLICY SOVEREIGNTY UNITED STATES

Brazil is ground-zero for the genocidal logic of U.S. vaccine diplomacy

Whilst the United States rushes to complete the vaccination of its own people, Brazil witnesses massive loss of life. Reduced to pawns in the latest geopolitical game of the new cold war, Brazilians have been viewed by the United States as expendable, to prevent growth of Russian and Chinese diplomatic influence in Latin America. U.S. […]