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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
By Nathalia Urban Political prisoner since March 18 for protesting with a banner reading “Bolsonaro Genocida”, the Workers’ Party (PT) activist, Rodrigo Grassi Cademartori, known as Rodrigo Pilha, has been subjected to the most horrifying abuse for having the courage to publicly oppose to the atrocities committed by Bolsonaro. The Bolsonaro regime has done everything […]
The Brazilian Senate has approved a bill that allows for the temporary breaking of patents on vaccines, medicines and tests for the duration of the Covid-19 pandemic. The bill, approved by 55 votes to 19 in the Senate, has now been sent for analysis by Congress. The proposal, from Workers Party Senator Paulo Paim of […]
Pressure mounts on French corporation after it deposits an unsolicited R$1.1 million in account of widow of Beto Freitas, the Afro-Brazilian man who was brutally murdered by Carrefour security guards in Porto Alegre in November, 2020 by Brian Mier In November, 2020, protests broke out across Brazil over the brutal assassination of Beto Freitas, a […]
Brazilian states attempting to buy Russia’s Sputnik V, and its manufacturer, both denounce regulatory agency Anvisa’s “political decision” to block the vaccine’s importation to Brazil. On March 15th 2021 Brasil Wire revealed in an exclusive that the United States had pressured Brazil’s government to refuse offers of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, which was the […]
U.S. historian James N. Green is a Professor of Modern Latin American History and Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University, Rhode Island, and National Co-Coordinator of the US Network for Democracy in Brazil. Author of four books on Brazil: Beyond Carnival, We Cannot Remain Silent: Opposition to the Brazilian Military, Exile Within […]
A new video shows the Lava Jato task-force forging a plea bargain testimony to help one side in a private sector legal battle, in order to harass defense firms that represented clients they were prosecuting After over 45 years in charge of the Brazilian National Commerce Confederation (Confederação Nacional do Comércio/CNC), Antonio Oliveira Santos discovered […]
Former President Lula’s defence lawyers Cristiano Zanin Martins and Valeska T. Z. Martins released a short statement following the Brazilian Supreme Court’s April 22 ruling to uphold an earlier judgement, making Sérgio Moro a suspect in a case of judicial bias over his prosecution and jailing of Lula, which enabled a Jair Bolsonaro election victory. […]