Many visitors to Rio de Janeiro recognize the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) by its Moorish Pavilion-style headquarters, which pops up from a patch of forest on the edge of Manghinhos favela along the road in from the international airport. More than just a pretty building, though, it is one of the world’s foremost public health […]
Former presidential candidates Ciro Gomes (PDT), Fernando Haddad (PT), Guilherme Boulos (PSOL), the governor of Maranhão, Flávio Dino (PCdoB), and other progessive leaders have demanded the resignation of Jair Bolsonaro for his mishandling of the Coronavirus pandemic. The full text is translated below. BRAZIL CANNOT BE DESTROYED BY BOLSONARO. Brazil and the world face an […]
For Héctor Luís Saint-Pierre, it is a military paradox to support the deregulation of the economy and the sell-off of assets. By Ana Penido. Brasil de Fato. 26 October 2019. With the broad participation of the military in the Jair Bolsonaro government, there is more interest in understanding which ideas carry this special category of […]
Northeastern Brazil’s predominantly left-wing Governors have issued a strongly worded letter in what they describe as “deep indignation” at the stance of Jair Bolsonaro’s Federal Government in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. In 2018, Fernando Haddad beat Bolsonaro 2/1 in the Northeast, now its Governors are attacking the covid-19 crisis without him. Letter from the […]
On the one hand the media is saying, “oh look at this crazy Bolsonaro, he’s insane, look what he is saying about coronavirus,” but he is really just transmitting the goals of international capital. This is the same thing Trump is doing, and it’s just things being said by the Lt. Governor of Texas and […]
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz is one of the World’s most respected tropical disease and public health research institutions. Founded in Rio de Janeiro by epidemiologist Oswaldo Cruz in 1900 to fight a series of pandemics that were sweeping through Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and boarding houses, during it’s 120 year history it has made important scientific […]
Federal Government propaganda which asks Brazilians to get out of isolation and back to work, is “criminal”, says Congressman. By Igor Carvalho, Brasil de Fato Federal deputy Alexandre Padilha (PT-SP) has filed a lawsuit in the Federal Audit Court against the federal government, on account of the advertising campaign “Brazil cannot stop”, which will cost […]
by Marcelo Zero. Last night the tapeworm who rules Brazil said something unbelievable. Contradicting science, the WHO and the common sense of Brazil’s governors and all of the serious countries in the world, the talking tapeworm, once again, said that the covid-19 is nothing more than a “little flu”. He said that people should leave […]
In the first part of this series on British involvement in Brazilian internal affairs it was revealed that the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office has deleted its record of correspondence and meetings about Brazilian elections with strategic communications companies SCL and Cambridge Analytica. In this second article, more freedom of information requests show previously undisclosed […]
“No room for sentiment” said Wall Street insiders in 2018, as their man Jair Bolsonaro ascended to the Brazilian Presidency. In the face of Coronavirus, Brazil’s people are now living with the deadly consequences of that collusion. In a televised speech during the evening of March 24 2020, as the sound of Panelaço protests reverberated around […]