Greenwald Book’s Curious Blindspot for US Involvement In Brazil
Brazil-based lawyer turned journalist Glenn Greenwald made his name in 2013 with exposures of US spying on the world, including the then government of Dilma Rousseff. Despite regular critiques of US imperialism elsewhere in the world, since 2015 he has published...
Vargas Llosa And The Autocratic Involution Of Liberalism
By Atilio Borón
I must admit, Vargas Llosa is, as Jorge Luis Borges would say, "incorrigible." The passage of time is implacable and in his case, unlike others, it has accelerated his physical but above all mental degradation. The Peruvian storyteller has...
Guilherme Boulos: Is A Coup In Brazil A Risk Or A Smokescreen?
By Guilherme Boulos
Bolsonaro, after a "sabbatical period" in which he stopped talking about electronic voting machines, returned to threaten the integrity of the electoral process. In the last few weeks, he attacked the Electoral Court (TSE) again, spoke again about the...
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White House admits CIA involvement in “War on Corruption” which jailed Lula and elected Bolsonaro
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...
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Brazilian Armed Forces Sign Deal With Israeli Cybersecurity Firm To Help “Supervise Election”
By Paulo Motoryn. Originally published by Brasil de Fato.
General Héber Garcia Portella, Commander of Cyber Defense of the Brazilian Army (ComDCiber), was responsible for signing a cooperation agreement with the Israeli...
Folha de S.Paulo: Bolsonaro Has Coup Planned With Support From Military And Centrão
In August 2021 we reported how Brazil's US-backed military regime (yes, regime) cast a shadow over hopes for the next presidential election. There was clearly a doubt whether it would go ahead...
5 Decades with Lula
On May 1, 1978, the first issue of the Brazilian underground newspaper O Trabalho hit the streets. The paper was the result of the fusion of 4 clandestine Trotskyist organizations with...
Damage Control: CIA Told Bolsonaro “Not To Mess” With Brazil Election, US Government Sources Claim
Through a series of coordinated, limited statements, the United States appears to be distancing itself from Brazilian neofascist president Bolsonaro, the coup-threatened coming election, and its own involvement in the disgraced...
Bolsonaro Refuses EU Observers For October Election
With the 2022 election under a shadow of threats from far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and his military backers, a delegation of EU observers have had their invitation to follow the October...
US Coup Specialist Victoria Nuland Visits Brazil
With an election six months away which promises to be far from business as usual, the notorious US official Victoria Nuland's arrival in Brazil has aroused understandable suspicion.
By Nathalia Urban
The US...