Brazil

Brazil: 2019 – A Year Of Resistance And Hope

December 24, 2019 Jessy Dayane, BrasilWire.com. Resist! Brazil, Education, Lula da Silva, Neoliberalism

When I look back at where we were December 2018, I think we reached the end of 2019 better than we thought we would. Although we suffered losses, we had some important victories. Last year’s Christmas season was marked by tension in families that were divided over the elections. Leftist activists were preparing for a scenario of increased arbitrary arrests and the continence of Lula’s political imprisonment. We thought we were facing a year with no mobilization and much greater criminalization and isolation of the left in the face of a government composed by by neofascists. The fact is that we had a year in which the government showed efficiency in implementing its neoliberal economic program, which is unanimously supported by the ruling classes, as exemplified by the approval of the pension reforms.

Inside Brazil’s War On Small Farmers

December 23, 2019 By Michael Fox, Towardfreedom.org Educate! Brazil, Farms, Repression

The officers and soldiers stepped from their cars. They were armed, masked and wearing brown camouflage uniforms. There were no words. They began to fire. Rubber bullets. Tear gas. The residents screamed, forced from their homes, running through the red dirt streets of their communities. Just before dawn on November 25, federal police and military vehicles arrived to three occupations of landless workers in the north of the state of Bahia: Abril Vermelho, Dorothy, and Irany.

2019 Latin America In Review: Year Of The Revolt of the Dispossessed

December 15, 2019 Roger Harris, Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) Educate! Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Latin America, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Venezuela

A year ago, John Bolton, Trump’s short-lived national security advisor, invoked the 1823 Monroe Doctrine making explicit what has long been painfully implicit: the dominions south of the Rio Grande are the empire’s “backyard.” Yet 2019 was a year best characterized as the revolt of the dispossessed for a better world against the barbarism of neoliberalism. As Rafael Correa points out, Latin America today is in dispute. What follows is a briefing on this crossroads.

As Lula Emerges From Prison, US Media Ignore How Washington Helped Put Him There

November 18, 2019 Brian Mier, Fair.org Educate! Brazil, Electoral Politics, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, Regime Change

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 crowd of hundreds of union members and social movement activists who had maintained a camp outside the police station where he was held, shouting “good morning,” “good afternoon” and “good night” to him for 580 consecutive days.

Brazil: Lula Is Free

November 17, 2019 Ana Paula Vargas and Vijay Prashad, Brasil de Fato. Educate! Brazil, Justice System, Lula da Silva, US coup

Just before 6 p.m. on Friday the 8th of November, Brazil’s former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva walked out of his prison in Curitiba (Brazil). Lula went to prison in April last year on a 12-year sentence. Five hundred and eighty days of prison are now over, as the Federal Supreme Court ruled that inmates who have not yet exhausted their appeals should not be held in prison. In addition to Lula, about 5,000 Brazilians can be released based on the Supreme Court’s decision. According to the National Council of Justice (CNJ) this is the number of people arrested, exclusively and specifically, by conviction in second instance – and who were not, for example, target of preventive imprisonment. However, there are more than 190,000 prisoners in Brazil – the majority, black and poor – sentenced without trial, including those who were sentenced only in the first instance, and are imprisoned preventively.

Released Lula In For Greatest Fight Of His Life

November 13, 2019 By Pepe Escobar, Asiatimes.com Create! Brazil, Electoral Politics, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America

He’s back. With a bang. Only two days after his release from a federal prison in Curitiba, southern Brazil, following a narrow 6×5 decision by the Supreme Court, former President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva delivered a fiery, 45-minute long speech in front of the Metal Workers Union in Sao Bernardo, outside of Sao Paulo, and drawing on his unparalleled political capital, called all Brazilians to stage nothing short of a social revolution.

Brazilians March Against Bolsonaro And His Ties To Murder Of Activist

November 9, 2019 Mike Fox, The Real News Resist! Bolsonaro, Brazil, Class Struggle, March

Brazilians marched in dozens of cities across the country against the far-right government of president Jair Bolsonaro. The marches come amid extremely concerning revelations, which allegedly tie Bolsonaro to the murder of Marielle Franco last year. Franco was a black LGBT council woman from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. She was killed in March 2018 by hitmen. Her death sparked global outrage.

Pink Tide Against US Domination Rising Again In Latin America

October 14, 2019 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance Newsletter Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, Ecuador, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Puerto Rico, US Empire, Venezuela

Once again, the left is rising in Latin America as people revolt against authoritarian regimes, many of whom were put in place by US-supported coups. These regimes have taken International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans and are under the thumb of international finance, which is against the interests of people. After the embattled President of Ecuador claimed that President Nicolas Maduro was the cause of the massive protests against him, Maduro made clear what was occurring in Latin America, saying: “We have two models: the IMF model which privatizes everything and takes away the people’s rights to health, education and work; and the humanist-progressive model which is emerging in Latin America and has the Bolivarian Revolution at the forefront.”

Social Movements Plan March On Sao Paulo For Lula

October 9, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Resist! Brazil, Electoral Politics, Lula da Silva, March, Social Movements

Social movements in Brazil are planning a march to Sao Paulo for October 13th, to demand that former leftist President Lula Da Silva be freed from jail, where he has been detained since April 2018 on trumped-up charges. The organizers of the "Justice for Lula" event, together with the Lula Libre Committee, reported that the demonstration aims to denounce the crimes and legal war that have made it impossible for the ex-president to appear in the 2018 general elections, making him a political prisoner.

Brazilian Experts Warn In Open Letter To President Bolsonaro A ‘Genocide Is Underway’ Against Uncontacted Tribes

October 9, 2019 By Jessica Corbett, Commondreams.org Educate! Brazil, Indigenous Peoples, Latin America, Repression

In an open letter to Brazilian society and right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, a group of experts warned that a "genocide is underway" against uncontacted tribes because of Bolsonaro's efforts to strip away Indigenous peoples' rights and lands and open up more of the Amazon rainforest to agribusiness and mining. The letter (pdf), released in Portuguese on Friday, came after Bruno Pereira was dismissed last week as the coordinator for uncontacted tribes at FUNAI, the Brazilian government agency for policies relating to Indigenous peoples. Signatories include previous coordinators at FUNAI, Indigenous people, and field workers.

Lula Avoids Prosecutor’s Trap

October 6, 2019 Eric Nepomuceno, Resumen English. Educate! Brazil, Criminal Justice, Lula da Silva, Operation Carwash

Former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has refused any relaxation in the nature of his imprisonment until his innocence is recognized. He declared this in a handwritten letter in response to a petition by Operation Car Wash prosecutors to ease the conditions of his incarceration from enclosed to semi-free. The letter was given by Lula to his lawyers on September 30. According to Lula, the only thing acceptable is that he is declared innocent. He is not interested in anything else. Reiterating what he has been saying since he was sentenced, in a clearly manipulated process, Lula wrote to the Brazilian people that he is not going to swap his dignity for his freedom. “All the Car Wash Prosecutors should really do is to apologize to the Brazilian people, to the millions of unemployed people, and my family, for the harm they have done to democracy, to justice, and the country,” he said...

A Hundred Minutes In Jail With Lula

September 20, 2019 Ignacio Ramonet, Resumen-english.org Resist! Brazil, Electoral Politics, Latin America, Regime Change

The former president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, imprisoned in the city of Curitiba, in the south of the country, is only allowed two visits per week. One hour. On Thursday afternoons, from four to five. We have to wait our turn. And the list of those who want to see him is long… But today, September 12, it’s time for Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and me. Lula is in prison, serving a sentence of 12 years and 1 month “for passive corruption and money laundering”, but he has not been definitively convicted (he can still appeal) and above all, his accusers have not been able to prove his guilt.

Brazil: Temer Admits Impeachment Of Dilma Rousseff Was A Coup

September 19, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Educate! Brazil, coup, Electoral Politics, Latin America, Regime Change

Brazil's former President Michel Temer acknowledged that the impeachment of former president Dilma Rousseff, Worker's Party leader, was indeed a coup d'etat. During a TV interview watched by millions on Monday, the man who ruled Brazil from Aug. 2016 to Dec. 2019 stated that he never supported the "coup" which led to the impeachment of Rousseff, a leftist economist who held the Presidency from 2011 until her removal. "I never supported or committed to the coup," Temer confessed and added that he tried to prevent the political trial against Dilma.

Pepe Escobar Interviews Lula da Silva

September 10, 2019 By Pepe Escobar, Asiatimes.com Educate! Brazil, Electoral Politics, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Lula da Silva

In a wide-ranging, two-hour-plus, exclusive interview from a prison room in Curitiba in southern Brazil, former Brazilian president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva re-emerged for the first time, after more than 500 days in jail, and sent a clear message to the world. Amid the 24/7 media frenzy of scripted sound bites and “fake news”, it’s virtually impossible to find a present or former head of state anywhere, in a conversation with journalists, willing to speak deep from his soul, to comment on all current political developments and relish telling stories about the corridors of power. And all that while still in prison.

‘Brazil In Mourning’, Rallies In Defense Of Public Education

September 8, 2019 Telesur Resist! Bolsonaro, Brazil, Education

On September 7th, the Independence Day of Brazil, the National Student Union (UNE) led protests in defense of the Amazon and public education, both of which are being threatened by policies in favor of private companies promoted by President Jair Bolsonaro. “Education-related budget cuts end our dreams,” the UNE policy director Julia Aguiar said and explained that today's mobilizations seek to make visible growing social inequalities. "Over the last months we have witnessed mobilizations in defense of education and against a government which attacks the rights of the people as a whole," Aguiar said and recalled that the Education Ministry announced further cuts this week, which means that "the 2020 budget will have half the money than the current one."

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