Skip to content

Brazil

Brazil: The Hidden Plot Against Lula

June 11, 2019 Glenn Greenwald and Victor Pougy, Theintercept.com , , ,
A massive archive exclusively provided to The Intercept confirms long-held suspicions about the politicized motives and deceit of Brazil’s corruption investigators. AN ENORMOUS TROVE of secret documents reveals that Brazil’s most powerful prosecutors, who have spent years insisting they are apolitical, instead plotted to prevent the Workers’ Party, or PT, from winning the 2018 presidential election by blocking or weakening a pre-election interview with former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with the explicit purpose of affecting the outcome of the election.

Legal Victory Strengthens LGBT Activists As Threat From Bolsonaro Looms

June 5, 2019 Jaimee A. Swift, Truthout.org , , , , ,
On Thursday, June 13, after months of postponement, Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court officially made homophobia and transphobia –– locally known as “LGBTphobia” –– a crime and outlawed discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. In an eight to three ruling, the remaining judges of the Supreme Federal Court voted to criminalize LGBTphobia under existing anti-discrimination laws that prohibit intolerance and bias based on race, religious intolerance and xenophobia.

The Real Owner Of The House That Lula Is Accused Of Owning Is Selling It

June 2, 2019 Staff, Resumen , ,
The fact that a court has approved the sale of a property they claimed belonged to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Atibaia municipality, Sao Paulo, as part of a payment for alleged political favors, refutes the accusations against the Brazilian ex-president. The Federal Public Ministry approved the sale request made by entrepreneur Fernando Bittar, the actual owner of the property. The action strengthens the arguments submitted by the lawyers of the former president, who argued that he has no relation with that house. The process against Lula, “without evidence and without crime, has resulted in a legal anomaly.”

One Million Protest In Brazil Against Education Budget Cuts And Pension Reform

May 25, 2019 Emilly Dulce, Igor Carvalho and Luciana Console, Brasildefato.com.br , , , ,
Hundreds of thousands of school and university students, teachers, professors, and staff took to the streets on Wednesday, May 15, all over Brazil to protest against the education budget cuts announced by the government. According to Brazil’s National Confederation of Workers in Education (CNTE), more than one million people took part in the demonstrations. Based on reports from all over the country, Brasil de Fato estimates that there were protests in more than 180 cities. On Apr. 30, Brazil’s Education minister, Abraham Weintraub, announced budget cuts for all levels of public education.

Brazil’s Bolsonaro: ‘Exterminator Of The Future’

May 15, 2019 Staff, Therealnews.com , ,
Eight former Brazilian Ministers of Environment issued a warning last week that the government of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro is in the process of systematically destroying Brazil's environmental protection policies. They say the environmental ministry's powers are being stripped, and that deforestation of the Amazon is on the rise again. Marina Silva, who was the environmental minister under President Lula da Silva, called Bolsonaro an “exterminator of the future.” After four months in office, Bolsonaro's environmental record has been devastating, Alexander Zaitchik told The Real News Network's Greg Wilpert.

New York Museum Cancels Gala To Honor Far-Right Brazilian Leader

April 30, 2019 Merrit Kennedy, Npr.org , ,
The American Museum of Natural History in New York has announced that it will no longer host an event honoring Brazil's far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, who is outspoken about his desire to roll back environmental protections. Environmental organizations had pushed for the event to be moved. "The decision echoes the museum's institutional values and its tireless quest for truth through science and education, which is the exact opposite of all the Brazilian President stands for," said the Brazilian environmental organization Observatório do Clima.

Over 450 Brazilian Jurists Call For Release Of Lula

March 30, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net , ,
A manifesto signed by 464 Brazilian jurists calls for the release of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has been held as a political prisoner since April 7, 2018, after being sentenced on the second instance for passive corruption and money laundering without any evidence against him. The document is addressed to the ministers of the Fifth Panel of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ), Felix Fischer, Jorge Mussi, Reynaldo Soares da Fonseca and Ribeiro Dantas. In the text, jurists point out that Lula is a victim of injustice and violence practiced by the state.

Brazil’s Labor Unions Prepare For War With Far-Right President Jair Bolsanaro

March 29, 2019 Michael Fox, Inthesetimes.com , , ,
FLORIANÓPOLIS, BRAZIL—On a gray afternoon in early February, 60 local leaders from roughly 40 unions meet at the tan, seven-story headquarters of the Santa Catarina State Commerce Workers Federation to discuss how to move forward under Brazil’s new, far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro. They represent metalworkers, teachers and just about everything in between. Similar meetings have been held around the country. Since Bolsonaro's inauguration January 1, he has unleashed an assault on workers and unions.

Where To Look For Hope In Brazil

March 25, 2019 By Pedro Telles, Inequality.org , ,
Brazil’s new president, far-right Jair Bolsonaro, was sworn into office just a couple of months ago, and he’s made it clear from the start that he intends to act upon campaign promises to weaken social protections and dismantle human rights policies. His government has already taken actions that include reducing projected minimum wage growth, weakening the land rights of indigenous people and traditional communities, pulling out from the UN Migration Accord, and considering pension reform proposals that would hit the poorest the hardest while keeping the privileges of the military and government officials.

Is It Really All That Surprising That Trump Wants Brazil In NATO?

March 25, 2019 By Andrew Korybko, Globalresearch.ca , , ,
Brazilian President Bolsonaro’s first visit to the US made global headlines after Trump announced that he intends to designate his South American partner as a “Major Non-NATO Ally” (MNNA) and possibly even seek its formal admission into the multilateral alliance. The news immediately triggered a flurry of reactions from folks who feigned shock and published moralizing polemics about this impending geo-military development, but the fact of the matter is that it was entirely predictable that the US’ “Fortress America” grand strategy would eventually reach this phase, even if it happened a lot quicker than many had expected.

Where To Look For Hope In Brazil

March 21, 2019 By Pedro Telles, Inequality.org , ,
Brazil’s new president, far-right Jair Bolsonaro, was sworn into office just a couple of months ago, and he’s made it clear from the start that he intends to act upon campaign promises to weaken social protections and dismantle human rights policies. His government has already taken actions that include reducing projected minimum wage growth, weakening the land rights of indigenous people and traditional communities, pulling out from the UN Migration Accord, and considering pension reform proposals that would hit the poorest the hardest while keeping the privileges of the military and government officials.

Who’s Afraid Of Lula?

March 13, 2019 Emir Sader, Jornada.com.mx , ,
In his brief trip to go to the funeral of his grandson, Lula was treated as the most dangerous person in Brazil. With the largest military apparatus ever arrayed for a ceremony such as a funeral. He was surrounded by hundreds of policemen, dozens of patrols, helicopters and machine guns. Lula’s brief departure from prison was treated as a war operation. Whose war against whom? Lula inspires so much fear, in whom, who is afraid of Lula?

Brazil’s Black Lives Matter Moment

February 19, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net , , ,
Hundreds protested Sunday in cities across Brazil in what commentators are calling Brazil’s Black Lives Matter moment, sparked by the death of a young Black man as a result of restraining choke hold used by a supermarket security guard. Pedro Gonzaga, 19, a young Black Brazilian man was put into a chokehold when confronted by two security guards at an Extra supermarket in the affluent neighborhood of Barra da Tijuca in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Feb. 14. The chokehold left him asphyxiated and he collapsed in front of his mother. He later died in the hospital of a heart attack, according to the Guardian.

Disaster Capitalism In Brazil: Mining Greed Produces A Horrific Death Toll

February 6, 2019 By Vijay Prashad, Independentmediainstitute.org/globetrotter   , , ,
On January 25, 2019, a dam burst in the town of Brumadinho, north of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The dam was built by the iron-ore company Vale to store residue after the iron ore had been extracted. Once the dam began to crumble, it did not take long for its 13 million cubic meters of iron waste to sweep down onto the workers and into their town. Approximately 300 people have been killed in this disaster. Many more have been injured. Within four hours of the breach, the sludge had swept down into the Paraopeba River, threatening to pollute the entire region’s water.

Brazilian Indigenous Respond To Bolsonaro: ‘We Are Not Animals In Zoos, We Are People In Our Homeland’

January 16, 2019 Elaine Tavares, Resumen-english.org , , ,
The Bolsonaro government’s racist attacks on indigenous peoples, the administrative change in the Agricultural portfolio, and responsibility for the demarcation of original lands are already provoking an immediate reaction from the organized and autonomous communities that survive and struggle in the national territory. More than 500 years after the European invasion and a systematic policy of extermination, 305 ethnic groups still resist, occupying little more than 12% of Brazilian territory.
«12345678910»
assetto corsa mods

Urgent End Of Year Fundraising Campaign

Online donations are back! Keep independent media alive. 

Due to the attacks on our fiscal sponsor, we were unable to raise funds online for nearly two years.  As the bills pile up, your help is needed now to cover the monthly costs of operating Popular Resistance.

Donate Here

Urgent End Of Year Fundraising Campaign

Online donations are back! 

Keep independent media alive. 

Due to the attacks on our fiscal sponsor, we were unable to raise funds online for nearly two years.  As the bills pile up, your help is needed now to cover the monthly costs of operating Popular Resistance.

Donate Here
Sign Up To Our Daily Digest

Independent media outlets are being suppressed and dropped by corporations like Google, Facebook and Twitter. Sign up for our daily email digest before it’s too late so you don’t miss the latest movement news.