"In June, Dilma Rousseff gave a 2 hour interview to the Guardian in which she described how Lula’s prosecution was “phase 2” of the Coup which removed her, and that it would open the door for Neofascist Jair Bolsonaro. The Guardian did not publish it." brasilwire.com/the-strange-ca…
Based on its record with Iraq, Libya and Yugoslavia, it is entirely reasonable to expect that the Guardian will attempt to justify US/NATO Military action against Venezuela, should the situation escalate. brasilwire.com/the-strange-ca…
The @guardian and its Latin America staff are unsurprisingly banging the drum for Trump's Venezuelan Coup.
The @guardian are now regularly quoting personnel from @ascoa, an organisation created to interfere in Latin American politics, which was directly involved in Coups such as Brazil's in 1964 and Chile's in 1973 and now supports Venezuela regime change. brasilwire.com/boycott-americ…
"By inviting Chevron/ExxonMobil-bankrolled pundits, who had closed door meetings with Bolsonaro and are close to his Finance and Justice ministers, from an organisation actually involved in Chile's 1973 Coup, what are we to conclude about the @guardian?" brasilwire.com/the-strange-ca…
The ridiculous manner in which @guardian reported Brazil's 2016 Coup should be remembered when evaluating its coverage elsewhere in Latin America. brasilwire.com/the-strange-ca…
"You can smell the change"... The intensity of propaganda @guardian is now publishing exceeds anything in the newspaper's modern history. brasilwire.com/the-strange-ca…
Guardian/Observer on March 16 2016: "Rousseff’s duty is plain: if she cannot restore calm, she must call new elections – or step aside." brasilwire.com/the-strange-ca…
"Comment is free": Guardian staff are now blocking critics of its pro-regime change stance on Venezuela. They did the same to critics of their pro-regime change stance on Brazil. brasilwire.com/the-strange-ca…
Bolsonaro shocked Brazil by visiting CIA HQ with US-trained Judge & Justice Minister Moro, who by jailing Lula delivered the Presidency to a neofascist. Guardian have published 3 articles on his US trip - NONE mention the CIA visit. brasilwire.com/in-plain-sight…brasilwire.com/the-strange-ca…
Peak @Guardian: Publishes piece on revisionism of Brazil's 1964 coup, whilst pretending that the US wasn't involved.
(The first US Government admissions of involvement came in the late 70s). brasilwire.com/the-strange-ca…
Is the @Guardian Latin America editor @tomphillipsin similarly "amazed" that Bolsonaro and his justice minister visited the CIA? Or that the US was behind the 1964 coup that Bolsonaro will commemorate? Because neither are mentioned in his newspaper. brasilwire.com/the-strange-ca…
The @guardian is now intentionally censoring any reference to U.S. involvement in Brazil, even that which occurred 55 years ago. brasilwire.com/guardian-accus…
The @guardian reverts to script with the 4th letter from Brazil's Ambassador to the UK that it has published since the 2016 coup. brasilwire.com/the-strange-ca…
When challenged on why the US DoJ's role in Lula's case had not been reported, a Guardian writer argued that the "public wouldn’t be interested". Throughout Lula’s prosecution, his defence team held regular press conferences - the @guardian never attended. brasilwire.com/the-strange-ca…
The Guardian amplifying far-right demonstrations in Brazil whilst they downplay the enormous #15M and #30M mobilisations in defence of public education, should surprise nobody. brasilwire.com/the-strange-ca…
In March 2016 a Guardian/Observer editorial suggested Dilma should resign, then called Michel Temer "The man who could fix Brazil". A writer contacted Brasil Wire privately to insist neither he nor editor Jonathan Watts knew who was writing this material. brasilwire.com/the-strange-ca…
From Danilo Gentili to “rightwing rappers”, the @guardian’s @tomphillipsin’s odd, counter-intuitive alignment with Latin America’s far-right should deeply trouble its readership. More: brasilwire.com/the-strange-ca…
@guardian@tomphillipsin Despite the huge decrease in Amazon deforestation under PT administrations, @guardian attacked Dilma Rousseff’s Government as if it was an environmental pariah. It then promoted the “free markets” campaign for the coup, and even called for her resignation. brasilwire.com/the-strange-ca…
@guardian@tomphillipsin Guardian correspondent selectively quotes Chomsky to attack PT, ousted via a coup 3 years ago - a coup the journalist has never admitted. Omits Chomsky talking about that coup, the US role, and Lula who he calls “the world’s foremost political prisoner”. brasilwire.com/the-strange-ca…
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New evidence shows how US-coached judge Sergio Moro fabricated a scandal on the brink of the 2014 election, designed to bring down then incumbent president Dilma Rousseff. brasilwire.com/us-backed-moro…
Moro's earlier interference in the 2014 presidential election is further proof that Operation Lava Jato, which he now admits he commanded, was a political weapon from the outset, working on behalf of the U.S. Government and its corporate interests. brasilwire.com/us-backed-moro…
'Jango': Sílvio Tendler's masterful documentary told the real story of Brazil's 1964 coup.
In her 1977 book “United States Penetration of Brazil“, former CIA researcher, Professor Jan K Black, exposed the complex role the US played in the 1964 coup.
In 2015, worried about what was happening in Brazil, she gave us this exclusive epilogue to it.
We must add that the situation is fluid, the outcome unclear, and most analysis available so far is based upon speculation. But we do advise watching Brazil very carefully in the coming days and weeks.
Breaking: Far-right minister of foreign affairs, Ernesto Araújo, dubbed "the worst diplomat in Brazil's history", has now asked to resign, after facing massive pressure for his removal.
One month ago, Brazil's outgoing far-right Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo was on a remote charm offensive in the United States.
In an online Q&A hosted by Council of the Americas, Bolsonaro's Amazon policy was called a "win win".
In 2015's #PodemosTirarSeAcharMelhor scandal, Reuters employees were caught censoring an admission by former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso that the Petrobras bribery scheme targeted by Lava Jato and blamed on the PT began under his government.
Lava Jato did not "lose its way”. It was always a political and geopolitical weapon, with a domestic and international propaganda campaign that is perhaps unprecedented outside wartime. brasilwire.com/the-narrative-…