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Brazilian Military Curtails President Bolsonaro’s Power Over COVID19 Dispute

April 8, 2020 By Emir Sader, Brazil Wire , , , ,
Bolsonaro made threats he couldn’t carry out about replacing the Health Minister and reopening commerce. Now he is isolated and everyone has turned on him, as General Villas Boas admits. He’s been reduced to impotence. It remains to be seen how he and his children will react. We now have a kind of prime minister in General Braga Netto, who has taken on the role of coordinator of all ministries and, especially, health policy, to prevent Bolsonaro from committing any more acts of madness. The next stage is the government armoring itself to prevent the PT from winning the 2022 presidential elections. This is the next goal.

Brazil’s Ex-President Lula Speaks Out On Venezuela

April 4, 2020 Ben Norton, The Grayzone. , , ,
The far-right government of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is one of Washington’s closest allies in Latin America. It has played a major supporting role in the Donald Trump administration’s coup attempt against Venezuela, even supporting a terror plot against the government of President Nicolás Maduro. This March, the Bolsonaro administration signed a historic military agreement, bringing Brazil directly into the US imperial sphere of influence, essentially merging the country’s defense industry with Washington’s military-industrial complex. Days before the deal was finalized, however, Brazil’s former president, the left-wing labor organizer Lula da Silva, spoke out vociferously against US meddling in Latin America, harshly criticizing Washington’s putsch against Evo Morales in Bolivia and its ongoing coup attempt against Venezuela.

SouthCom Boosts US Military Presence In Latin America

April 3, 2020 Ben Norton, The Grayzone. , , ,
The Donald Trump administration has ramped up US interventionism in Latin America, overseeing a far-right military coup in Bolivia and backing coup attempts against the leftist governments of Venezuela and Nicaragua. Against the backdrop of regime-change operations, the United States Southern Command has announced a massive expansion of its military presence in the region. Brazil will play an anchoring role in the new arrangement, embracing its new role as an extension of Pax Americana under the far-right government of Jair Bolsonaro. In recent months, Brazil has been designated a “major non-NATO ally” and signed a historic agreement incorporating its domestic defense industry into a Pentagon funding and research program.

Amid Coronavirus Pandemic, Bolsonaro’s Brazil Begs For Cuban Doctors – After Expelling Them

March 21, 2020 Ben Norton, Thegrayzone.com , , , ,
The coronavirus pandemic has overwhelmed the health infrastructure of countries around the world. Desperate to contain the deadly virus, hard-hit countries, including even rich European nations like Italy and Britain, have reached out for expert medical help from Cuba, China, and Venezuela. Even Brazil, currently under the control of a far-right administration that has joined the US in demonizing Cuba’s socialist government...

Over 3500 Landless Women To Occupy Brasilia At 1st National MST Women’s Meeting

March 9, 2020 Staff, Brasil de Fato , , ,
With the motto, “Women in the Struggle: Sowing Resistance”, around 3500 women will occupy Brasilia, between the 5th and 9th of March, during the 1st National Landless Women’s Meeting. This is the first time in the history of the Landless Workers Movement (MST) that a meeting is spearheaded exclusively by rural women.

Bolivia Proves That Breakdowns In Democracy Are Coups

February 26, 2020 By Emir Sader, ALAI, translation, Resumen Latinoamericano, North America bureau ,
Since it adopted its new strategy, the right-wing in Latin America has tried to prove that they have overthrown Latin American progressive governments by democratic means, through popular, civic, civil society mobilizations against governments which would have broken the institutionalism, committed arbitrary acts against democracy.

Bolsonaro Has Destroyed Brazil In 400 Days

February 14, 2020 Eric Nepomuceno, Pagina 12, translation Resumenlatino Americano. North America bureau , , ,
Right-wing extremist Jair Bolsonaro has just served his first 400 days as President of the largest, most populous and economically powerful nation in Latin America, Brazil. It has turned out to be enough time to impose a regression that reaches all, absolutely all, aspects of my country. There is not a single sector, a single segment, which has not been reached by his devastating fury.

The Inversion Of Human Rights In Brazil

February 9, 2020 Jacob Blanc, NACLA.org. , , ,
Aluízio Palmar, a Brazilian journalist, human rights activist, and former political prisoner, is being sued for defamation by his own torturer. The physical and psychological torture happened 40 years ago, when Palmar was imprisoned by the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985. But it was only last month, in a climate defined by Brazil’s right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro, that Palmar’s abuser felt emboldened to file the suit. Like thousands of others under the military regime, Palmar was subjected to various forms of torture: electrocution, simulated drowning, and the infamous “parrots perch” where he was strung up on a pole with his hands and feet tied together, his body dangling below, crouched and suspended in the air.

Brazilian Judge Delays “For Now” Decision On Indictment Of U.S. Journalist Greenwald

February 7, 2020 Anthony Boadle , Reuters.com , , ,
BRASILIA (Reuters) - A Brazilian judge indicted six people accused of hacking the phones of prosecutors in the country’s biggest corruption case on Thursday, but held off “for now” on accepting cybercrimes charges against U.S. journalist Glenn Greenwald. The judge, Ricardo Soares Leite, said the Supreme Court had to rule first on an earlier injunction shielding Greenwald from investigation before he could decide on the indictment, which charges Greenwald.

Brazil Petrobras Workers Call Indefinite Strike From Saturday

January 31, 2020 Staff, Telesurenglish.net , , ,
The federation and its 13 unions said the decision to layoff workers violates the collective labor agreement signed between union representatives and the firm. Workers at the Brazilian oil company Petrobras approved Wednesday a plan to go on an indefinite strike from Saturday, protesting a plan by the state-controlled company to close the Parana Nitrogen Fertilizer plant and fire its 396 workers.

Lula da Silva: Obama, Hillary Ordered Me Not To Negotiate With Iran

January 28, 2020 By Alan Macleod, Mintpressnews.com , ,
“I remember that Hilary Clinton worked hard against my idea to go to Iran. She even called the Emir of Qatar and asked him to convince me not to go. When I arrived in Moscow and met with [Dmitry] Medvedev, I found out Obama had called and asked him to help convince me not to go.” He was the world’s most popular leader. Now he is “the world’s most prominent political prisoner” according to American political philosopher Noam Chomsky.

Over 40 Press Freedom And Civil Liberties Groups Denounce Brazil’s Charges Against Glenn Greenwald

January 28, 2020 Parker Higgins, Freedom.press , ,
In an open letter today, more than 40 press freedom and civil liberties groups strongly condemned the “cybercrime” charges against Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald and demanded that Brazilian authorities renounce them immediately. The letter was organized by Freedom of the Press Foundation and Reporters Without Borders, and it includes prominent members of the human rights, civil liberties, and press freedom organizations from Brazil and around the world.

Glenn Greenwald Is Innocent

January 26, 2020 Chip Gibbons, Jacobin Magazine. , , ,
Brazil’s far-right government, under the helm of Jair Bolsonaro, has taken a major step to criminalize journalism and silence one of its most effective critics. Yesterday, a federal prosecutor announced that he is seeking criminal charges against Brazil-based journalist Glenn Greenwald for “cyber crimes.” The charges stem from the Intercept Brazil’s groundbreaking reporting on leaked chat messages giving a firsthand look into the country’s anti-corruption task force. The articles not only exposed a high-profile anti-corruption investigation as politically biased, they helped set the stage for the release of former Brazilian president Lula da Silva from prison. Authorities insist that Greenwald illegally helped the hackers. But make no mistake: this is a massive assault on press freedom.

Glenn Greenwald Faces Possible Imprisonment By Bolsonaro Regime

January 23, 2020 Ilana Novick, Truthdig.com , ,
When Edward Snowden was an anonymous National Security Agency subcontractor with documents revealing the existence of global surveillance programs, Glenn Greenwald, then at The Guardian, was among the small group of journalists Snowden trusted to publish the documents in 2013. The publication earned Greenwald a reputation as an outspoken defender of free speech and whistleblowers. He went on to co-found The Intercept, and then The Intercept Brasil, after moving to Brazil in 2005.

The Freedom Of Lula

December 25, 2019 Fernando Ayala, Wall Street International ,
After 19 months in prison, former Brazilian president Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva was released in the city of Curitiba, where he was serving a sentence of 8 years and 10 months for passive corruption, without the judicial process being concluded. If Lula manages to free himself from the legal accusations that weigh against him, he will have the way to run again for the presidency in 2022, with 77 years. Or he can try to find a candidate of his thought to prevent the ultra-right from continuing to govern in Brazil That is the great fear of Brazilian conservative sectors, who see in Lula a threat to the way of life of a minority sector that enjoys privileges from which much of Brazilian society has been excluded.
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