Brazil

Pompeo Pushes Brazil And Colombia For Regime Change In Venezuela

January 7, 2019 By Ricardo Vaz, Venezuelanalysis.com Educate! Brazil, Colombia, Latin America, Regime Change, US Imperialism, Venezuela

The Trump administration has been increasingly hostile towards the Caribbean nation, escalating sanctions and even threatening a military “option.” Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is due to start his second term on January 10, having won re-election on May 20, but Washington and several right-wing regional governments have refused to recognize the election and may look to further isolate Caracas in coming days. For its part, Venezuela has repeatedly denounced what it terms US-led destabilization efforts. Tensions have likewise heightened with some of Venezuela’s Latin American neighbors, especially Brazil and Colombia...

Lula Followers Celebrate Xmas, ‘Hope, Resistance’ at His Prison

December 25, 2018 Staff, Telesur Resist! Brazil, Lula da Silva

Brazilian former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s supporters gathered in front of the jail where he is imprisoned to celebrate Christmas in solidarity with him. Members of the Lula Livre (Free Lula) movement called on Lula’s followers to attend a vigil outside the Curitiba Federal Police station in the state of Parana where he has been held as a political prisoner since April. Hundreds of followers gathered at the doors of the headquarters of the Federal Police of Curitiba in the southern state of Parana on Christmas Eve. A dinner and outdoor concert were held in celebration.

The Strange Case Of The Guardian & Brasil

December 12, 2018 Staff, Brasilwire.com Educate! Brazil, Journalism, Media, Propaganda

The Guardian is of course the closest thing that the UK has to a mainstream progressive newspaper, and it had, until relatively recently, a rich history of quality investigative reporting. In the 1970s its coverage of Latin America, with writers the calibre of Richard Gott, was responsible for fixing stories like that of Chile’s in the public consciousness, and with that fuelling solidarity movements for the region’s oppressed peoples, suffering under sub-fascist imperial rule. It continues to host important and talented writers, and publish valuable material, particularly in its comment is free section.

Colombia Suggests Alliance With Brazil’s Bolsonaro To Overthrow Venezuela’s Maduro

November 10, 2018 By Adriaan Alsema, Colombiareports.com Educate! Brazil, Colombia, Fascism, Venezuela

A top Colombian official told Brazilian newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo that its government will support Brazilian’s far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro if he wants to overthrow the socialist government of Venezuela. According to Folha, a top diplomatic official said that “if [President-elect] Bolsonaro wants to help overthrow Maduro with a military intervention, he will have the support of Colombia.” According to the anonymous source, Colombian President Ivan Duque and his political patron, the hard-right former President Alvaro Uribe, would agree with a military intervention. “If it is [United States President Donald] Trump or Bolsonaro are the first to set foot in Venezuela, Colombia will follow suit without hesitation,” the diplomat told Folha.

Financial Press Cheers Election Of Fascist In Brazil

November 2, 2018 Alan MacLeod, Fair.org Educate! Brazil, Electoral Politics, Fascism, Finance and the Economy

Brazil’s controversial elections pitted far-right Jair Bolsonaro against the center-left Workers’ Party candidate Fernando Haddad. But it was clear which candidate international markets—and therefore the financial press—wanted. Bolsonaro was elected with 55.5 percent of the vote in an election that saw former leftist President Lula da Silva, by far the most popular candidate, jailed and barred from running on highly questionable charges. Bolsonaro was an army officer during Brazil’s fascist military dictatorship (1964–85), which he defends, maintaining that its only error was not killing enough people. An incendiary character with a long history of racist and sexist outbursts, he told a female federal deputy that she was not worthy of being raped by him...

The Election Is Over, But The Fight Is Just Beginning: We Are Still Holding Our Heads High For Brazil!

November 1, 2018 Staff, Resumen-english.org Resist! Brazil, Electoral Politics, Latin America

We have just lived through a totally atypical electoral process. Since the end of the military period we did not have the imprisonment of a leader, like Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, unjustly condemned, and whose candidacy was challenged by the Superior Electoral Tribunal. A process in which forces in a presidential struggle emerged from the darkness of the country, causing a great wave of hatred and violence against the Brazilian people. Our candidacy was a democratic response to the arbitrariness that has contaminated the political scene since the parliamentary coup that toppled President Dilma Rousseff in 2016. We faced abuses practiced by currents committed to petty anti-popular, anti-democratic and anti-national interests.

Brazil: The Indispensable Need For Resistance

October 30, 2018 Carlos Aznárez, Resumen-english.org Resist! Brazil, Electoral Politics, Fascism, Revisionism, Right-Wing

The die is cast. There are no longer any polls that can be used to draw un provable results. The truth is that a fascist has come to the presidency of Brazil by a vote of millions. The fact is serious from any point of view, and not only for Brazilians, but this vote will undoubtedly have an unpredictable impact on the rest of the continent and beyond. The Nazi Bolsonaro won by nearly a ten point advantage thanks to many factors that will have to be analyzed starting from this very moment. One of them, the fundamental one, is this insistence from many popular sectors of not taking into account that in the framework of these bourgeois democracies that they are absolutely controlled by the enemies of the peoples.

Brazil: How Could A Far-Right Demagogue Win The Election?

October 30, 2018 By Jorge Martin, Marxist.com Educate! Brazil, Electoral Politics, Fascism, Right-Wing

Bolsonaro won the second round of the Brazilian presidential election with 55 percent of the vote, defeating Haddad – the Workers’ Party (PT) candidate – who received 45 percent. Any hopes of a last-minute rally were dashed. This result is a setback for the working class and the poor. We need to understand what it means, what led to this situation and what strategy the workers’ movement should follow, faced with this reactionary government. The second round of the presidential campaign was extremely polarised. There was a mobilisation from below on the part of the left in an attempt to stop Bolsonaro, and tens of thousands turned up at big rallies for Haddad in Sao Paulo, San Salvador de Bahía, etc.

‘We Are Afraid’: Anti-Bolsonaro Voters, Journalists Targeted

October 14, 2018 Telesur. Educate! Bolsonaro, Brazil, Elections

Thousands of activists, women and young Brazilians marched in Sao Paulo Thursday to protest against right-wing presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro, who won the first round of the Brazilian presidential election on Oct. 7. Angered by Bolsonaro's sexist, misogynist, and homophobic comments, along with a wave of violence against persons unwilling to support Bolsonaro, protesters used the hashtag #EleNao, or #NotHim to drum up support against the former army captain. The #NotHim hashtag, which has become increasingly popular over the last few weeks, has seen people in 24 countries and 52 cities show solidarity with Brazilian women and other at-risk groups.

Future Of Western Democracy Being Played Out In Brazil

October 10, 2018 Pepe Escobar, Consortiumnews.com Educate! Brazil, Democracy, Electoral Politics

Nothing less than the future of politics across the West – and across the Global South – is being played out in Brazil. Stripped to its essence, the Brazilian presidential elections represent a direct clash between democracy and an early 21st Century, neofascism, indeed between civilization and barbarism. Geopolitical and global economic reverberations will be immense. The Brazilian dilemma illuminates all the contradictions surrounding the Right populist offensive across the West, juxtaposed to the inexorable collapse of the Left. The stakes could not be higher. Jair Bolsonaro, an outright supporter of Brazilian military dictatorships of last century, who has been normalized as the “extreme-right candidate,” won the first round of the presidential elections on Sunday with more than 49 million votes.

Brazil: Again The Alternative Is Between “Socialism Or Barbarism”

October 9, 2018 Carlos Aznárez, Resumen-english.org Educate! Brazil, History, Ideology, Socialism

The most feared, but foreseeable at the same time, has already happened. Jair Bolsonaro almost won the presidency of Brazil in the first round and thanks to the consequent vote of the poor people of the Northeast, he has to go to a second round. I emphasize the word “consequent” since there were an abundance of peripheral neighborhoods in the great cities and towns of different States, that in this so called “democracy”, supported the Latin American Hitler. These neighborhoods not only experience the most stranded and plundered of the people of Brazil but also an ample amount are from afro-descendant sectors.

Brazilians Take To Streets To Demonstrate Against Jair Bolsonaro

October 1, 2018 Tom Hennigan, Irishtimes.com Resist! Brazil, Class Struggle, Electoral Politics

Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians took to the streets this weekend to protest against far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro who leads opinion polls ahead of Sunday’s first round of voting. Organised on social media by feminist groups under the hashtag #elenão – not him – the demonstrations were the largest popular mobilisation so far of the election campaign and the biggest since the impeachment crisis of 2016 that saw president Dilma Rousseff removed from office. Bolsonaro was the target of women’s rights groups because of his history of trivialising rape and defence of unequal pay for women, arguing this is an inevitable consequence of the fact they become pregnant. Counter demonstrations in favour of the retired army captain were also held but attracted much smaller numbers.

A Glimmer Of Hope In Brazil

September 26, 2018 Bryan McCann, Dissentmagazine.org Educate! Brazil, Democracy, Electoral Politics, Revisionism

Renata Souza, candidate for Rio de Janeiro State Chamber of Deputies from Brazil’s Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL), knows she has big shoes to fill and a difficult path to walk. Souza was the chief of staff—and a close friend—to Marielle Franco, the Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman gunned down in a drive-by shooting in March 2018. In the wake of Franco’s assassination, Souza pledged to run for office herself, to carry on Franco’s commitment to fighting for the rights of Rio’s disenfranchised—particularly the poor and predominantly black residents of the city’s favelas, for women of color more generally, and for LGBT citizens, especially those from poor communities. These positions make Souza vulnerable to the same backlash, vitriol...

Port Allegre Shows How Participatory Budgeting Works

September 23, 2018 By Steve Rushton, Occupy.com Create! Brazil, New Economy, Participatory budgeting

Porto Alegre in Brazil is the world's first city where residents participate in budgeting decisions, having done so since 1989. But participatory democracy traces far further back. The indigenous Iroquois Confederacy co-participated in that nation's economic decisions. Now, three decades since Porto Alegre brought this wisdom to non-indigenous politics, the practice has become widespread with over 3,000 municipalities worldwide using participatory budgeting to make financial choices for their communities.

A Way Out For Brazil

August 22, 2018 By Joao Pedro Stedile, Peoplesdispatch.org Resist! Brazil, Class Struggle, Regime Change

Brazil is going through a grave economic, political, social and environmental crisis. Many factors have contributed to the emergence of this crisis, principally the subordination of our economy to finance and international capital that steal from the whole society. The coup of 2016 [which saw the overthrow of president Dilma Rousseff] was an attempt by the bourgeoisie to save itself from the crisis by placing the weight of it on the working class. To do this, it used its media, judicial and parliamentary power. The plan was to rob public resources, take away rights, subordinate the country completely to international interests, hand over natural resources like petroleum, minerals and water and companies like Petrobras, Electrobras and Embraer [companies in the petroleum, power and aeronautics sectors] .

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