As Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro launches his new brazenly Neofascist party ‘Alliance for Brazil’, inspired by ARENA (Alliance for National Renewal) of the Dictatorship era, his ministers and foreign supporters are normalising a return to the repression of the 1960s and 1970s to protect their economic interests. Paulo Guedes, Bolsonaro’s Chicago Schooled Finance Minister, says […]
During the 1930s, Brazilian fascists, called the “Green Hens” by their opponents, beat up communists and praised God, family and liberal economic policies. In this article Wilson Luiz Müller says they’re back. By Wilson Luiz Müller* This is not a “Back to the Future” style science fiction story. If a Brazilian was frozen during the […]
By Brian Mier. The Brazilian Supreme Court reversed a 2018 ruling on November 7, upholding the principle of innocent until proven guilty in the 1988 Constitution and declaring it illegal to jail defendants before their appeals processes have been exhausted. Within 24 hours, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was released to an adoring […]
Both the far-right and the “center” are afraid of Lula. It is not because he is a violent radical, but because he represents the possibility of real social, economic and political ascension for the common people. by Marcelo Zero Right wing extremist Steve Bannon recently said, “Lula is a great leader of the ‘globalist left’[…] […]
By Nathália Urban and John McEvoy. As the Brazilian Amazon burned, edging the global climate towards an irreversible and catastrophic feedback loop, UK Minister of State at the Department for International Trade Conor Burns was in Río de Janeiro with the state’s governor, Wilson Witzel. Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) offer […]
By Nathália Urban On November 1st, Paulo Paulino Guajajara was violently murdered by loggers. Paulino, was a member of the Guardians of the Forest group. The group patrols and protects the Araribóia indigenous land in Maranhão. This was not the first time the group has suffered from loggers’ retaliation for their territorial protection work. Paulino […]
Released on Friday, November 8th, after 580 days in political imprisonment in Curitiba, former President Lula posted his first video on Instagram, sending a message to his supporters. “I would like to thank you all for your solidarity from the bottom of my heart and tell you that I am free to help liberate Brazil […]
Last night (11/8/2019) the Brazilian Supreme Court upheld the principal of innocent until proven guilty from the 1988 Constitution and ruled that it is illegal to imprison defendants until their appeals process has fully played out. The decision effectively reverses a ruling from April 5, 2018. That ruling – made the day after General Vilas […]
On the day in which the Brazilian Supreme Court returns to deliberations over whether it will uphold the 1988 Constitution and respect defendants’ rights to await their appeals verdicts in freedom (which they made an exception to in order to facilitate Lula’s imprisonment last year), a group of 14 of Brazil’s top artists and intellectuals […]
Federal Police agent who issued arrest warrant for Rousseff is a subordinate and close ally of disgraced Justice Minister Sérgio Moro. The move was blocked by the Attorney General’s Office and the Supreme Court. On November 5, Brazilian federal police agent Guidali Amaral, a close ally of the corrupt former judge and current Justice Minister Sérgio […]