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Power, Corruption And Lies: 3 Weeks In, Bolsonaro Regime Is Falling Apart

As Brazil’s Neofascist President Jair Bolsonaro and his Justice and Security Minister Sérgio Moro address the World Economic Forum at Davos, on the fight against corruption and need for unrestricted foreign investment in Brazil, the clock is already ticking for his administration and his Presidency. “They can label me anything, homophobic, racist….they just can’t call me […]

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Why I went to Venezuela: PT President Gleisi Hoffmann speaks

“All of this talk about democracy in Venezuela, about Maduro being a dictator, in reality, masks very strong commercial interests in accessing the petroleum. It’s the same thing that happened in Iraq. Nobody discusses whether Iraq has democracy or whether the Iraqi people are doing well these days, they have simply forgotten.” Gleisi Hoffmann grew […]

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Anti-corruption, Authoritarianism and the Arrest of a Governor

Rio Governor Luiz Fernando Pezão was not very popular, but his evidence-free preventative imprisonment by the Federal Police may be an ominous foreshadowing of what to expect under a totalitarian, militarized Bolsonaro government. By Gabriel Deslandes In an unprecedented show of power, the Federal Police arrested the standing governor of Rio de Janeiro, Luiz Fernando […]

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Send In The Clowns.

“Welcome to the Brazilian Necropolitical Circus.” On December 10 2018, the 70th anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights, Brazilian President elect Jair Bolsonaro and his Vice, General Mourão, received their diplomas from the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE). They were presented with the inaugural certificates after a lecture on democracy by Rosa Weber, the […]

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“I will not trade my dignity for freedom,” says Lula

In a letter written to an international crowd of union and social movement activists and political leaders gathered in a São Bernardo do Campo union hall, Lula evokes the memory of Gandhi, Mandela and King, and says that despite setbacks happening around the world, the fight for human rights will continue. On December 10, the […]

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The Strange Case Of The Guardian & Brasil

“If The Guardian was what it purports to be, Brasil Wire wouldn’t need to exist”. The British Newspaper’s coverage serves as a case study of how perception of what happened in Brasil became so distorted internationally.  The Guardian is of course the closest thing that the UK has to a mainstream progressive newspaper, and it had, until relatively recently, a […]

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222 days after political imprisonment, Lula speaks

With Bolsonaro’s new Justice Minister Sergio Moro claiming he was on vacation, Lula testified to a substitute judge in Curitiba on charges involving an allegedly illegal kitchen remodeling which took place after he left public office in a house that the courts do not claim he ever owned, located in a state outside of their jurisdiction. […]

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Army Chief admits threatening Supreme Court to Jail Lula

by Brian Mier. Originally published November 12 2018. On April 3, on the eve of the judgment which resulted in the arrest of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his subsequent removal from the presidential race, Brazilian Army Chief of Staff General Eduardo Vilas Boas made two tweets which appeared to threaten the […]

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Time is ripe for progressives to help Brazil

The joint US/Brazil Car Wash investigation destroyed the Brazilian economy and political system and led to the return of fascism. Nevertheless, progressive gains in Congress provide a moment of opportunity for building spaces of solidarity and resistance. by Brian Mier In 1988, after a brutal war which led to 50,000 deaths in the tiny Central […]

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Lula’s last chance?

As US-backed anti-corruption judge Sergio Moro reveals himself as a neofascist political operative, Lula’s defense lawyers file a habeas corpus with the Supreme Court. Could this be Lula’s last chance for freedom? by Brian Mier On November 2, US Department of Justice backed judge and prosecutor Sergio Moro revealed that he has been repeatedly lying […]