Brasil Wire is proud to have been invited to partner with the Progressive International, a new movement with a mission to unite, organize, and mobilize progressive forces around the world. Our work will feature in its media platform: Wire. The launch includes our recent interview with Brazil’s former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Announcing the […]
“I am going to be very realistic here. The situation in Belém is not good at all, friend. No no no no, not even a little. If I could write this in giant cartoon lettering for you to see I would write that it is terrible. Because, yes, it is terrible. People are dying like […]
Argentinian President Alberto Fernández cites Brazil’s growing death toll as justification for maintaining strict quarantine measures, and says the Presidents of Uruguay and Chile share his concern. In stark contrast to Brazil, Argentina’s Coronavirus response, with amongst the lowest per capita infection rates in the world, has been the success story of South America, with […]
It has come to light that agents of the private security contractor behind a mercenary invasion group that was captured by Venezuelan forces on May 3-4, were based in Brazil during the 2018 election. The paramilitary group behind the foiled operation, called Gedeon, was based around security contractor Silvercorp USA, which has been linked to U.S. […]
On May 1, Lula released a video message to the Brazilian people which viralized on social media platforms. The following transcript of his speech was translated by Brian Mier. My friends, workers of Brazil and the World. I would like to start by expressing my solidarity to the families of all of the victims of […]
Bob Fernandes, 65, is a veteran print and television journalist from Bahia who’s personal youtube channel has nearly 200,000 followers. Since starting his career in the 1970s, he has worked as a reporter and editor at some of the largest mainstream media outlets in Brazil, including Veja, Istoé and Folha de São Paulo and is […]
“Our central focus is to save lives and we will not abandon it.” During the 2018 presidential elections, Jair Bolsonaro lost by a 2:1 ratio to Workers Party candidate Fernando Haddad in Brazil’s traditional Northeast region, and left and center left governors were elected in 8 of its 9 states. Today, as the coronavirus pandemic […]
Last Friday, Jair Bolsonaro decided to make a confusing and incriminating statement in reaction to the departure of his Minister of Justice, Sergio Moro. For forty minutes, TV viewers watched the largely improvised speech in astonishment, as the sound of panelaço protest echoed around Brazil’s towns and cities. Read the full transcript of the Brazilian President’s […]
By Bruno Falci and Clara Domingos. Jornalistas Livres. Professor Boaventura de Sousa Santos, with a PhD in Sociology of Law from Yale University, is a professor and coordinator at CES – Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, and one of the most important Ibero-American thinkers. He gave this live interview while coincidentally, […]
After 16 months serving as one of the most ineffectual Brazilian Justice Ministers in modern history, Sérgio Moro, the disgraced former Lava Jato judge resigns from the far right Bolsonaro administration that he helped bring about. In honor of this event, Brasil Wire remembers ten times he disgraced himself, sullied Brazil’s judiciary, and broke the […]