White House admits CIA involvement in “War on Corruption” which jailed Lula and elected Bolsonaro. brasilwire.com/white-house-ad…
Progressive US lawmakers again demand answers on the Department of Justice's role in Brazil's Operation Lava Jato which jailed Lula and brought Bolsonaro to power. brasilwire.com/us-lawmakers-d…
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For the Musk fanboys and brand new “Brazil experts” who have found us. Supreme Court Minister Alexandre de Moraes was not a Lula pick. On the contrary, he was appointed in 2017 by then coup president and US stooge, Michel Temer, Bolsonaro’s predecessor.
To underline distance from Lula: in 2018 de Moraes cast deciding Supreme Court vote to deny Lula habeas corpus, which meant he could be arrested for bogus corruption charges and removed as election frontrunner. This is literally how Bolsonaro was elected.
And for those grotesquely inverting controversies over de Moraes predecessor Teori's death; point was that he had become enemy of Lava Jato, its far right protagonists and supporters. His skepticism threatened to ruin their proven plot to jail Lula and keep him out of election.
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".