As we near the start of the last year of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's mandate, @renato_rovai writes in @revistaforum that,"he isn't going to pull off a coup, he won't be impeached, he won't resign and he won't be reelected." Image
I think one would have to be naive to think, after refusing to bring over 130 formal impeachment requests to the floor for vote during the first 3 years of Bolsonaro's mandate, that the center-right recipients of $billions in patronage who control Congress will do it now.
Senator Renan Calheiras (MDB/Alagoas) who is in charge of the Senate Covid 19 fraud investigation announced that the final report, scheduled to come out later this month, will detail 11 new felonies committed by Pres. Bolsonaro. Just add them to the list I guess. Image

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11 Oct
Back to the stone age. Brazil is self sufficient in natural gas, but Chicago Boy Finance Minister Paulo Guedes decided to irrationally link prices to the international market rate. Results: astronomical price hikes mean more Brazilians are now cooking with wood than with gas. Photo: Marcos Maluf/Campo G...
Not only is sad result of neoliberalism bad for the environment in a country where the President has ushered in a new era of out of control, man made forest fires in the Amazon rainforest, it is leading to a rise in respiratory infections and burn accidents in children.
Brazil has the World's largest natural gas reserves but the dismantling of Petrobras, which started when the US DOJ-backed Lava Jato operation began crippling strategic sectors of Brazilian industry, has left the company without enough production facilities to process it. Image
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Most journalists understanding of economics is limited to a handful of 19th Century clichés. The Brazilian economy has gone through commodities boom/bust cycles for 500 years. Attributing the Workers Party's success to a commodities boom ignores the 2008 Great Recession. Thread
Bahia demonstrates the limitations of commodities booms. For centuries its production of export commodities like Cocoa and Tobacco generated huge wealth for a handful of European/ Brazilian businessmen while the vast majority of the population suffered in abject poverty.
In other words, as the last 500 years of economic history of the developing world shows, commodities booms without any kind of redistribution measures are absolutely useless in reducing poverty. Example: mining boom in the Congo.
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Another relative of the Bolsonaro boys is under investigation for corruption, after a video surfaced showing an alleged henchman of cousin Leo Indio handing cash and T-shirts to poor people as they entered a bus in Pompeia, São Paulo. Leo is accused of illegal fundraising. Image
Some may remember Leo Indio from a 2020 corruption scandal when his boss, Senator Chico Mendes (DEM-RR) was forced to resign after police found R$18.000,00 of allegedly laundered money in his underwear. Indio was forced to resign as Mendes' chief of staff at the time. Image
Nepotism, skimming, money laundering... These allegations must all be fake news spread by lying communists, because President Bolsonaro said there hasn't been any corruption in Brazil in the last 2.8 years, during his UN speech, right? Image
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Renato Rovai, editor of @revistaforum writes that based on poll data, it will be impossible to impeach Jair Bolsonaro before next year's elections. As long as his support stay's above 20%, he says, impeachment is not an option, and Bolsonaro will make it to the 2nd round. Image
A third path candidate, he writes, "appears more like a dream of the traditional media and its well paid analysts than a reality". No third option candidate between Lula and Bolsonaro has cracked 10% in the polls.
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24 Sep
Troubles are growing for Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's son Carlos. A federal judge in Rio de Janeiro just granted prosecutors access to years of phone records from 11 of his Rio City Council Cabinet staff. 7 are relatives of his dad's 2nd wife, Ana Cristina Siqueira Valle. Image
Prosecutors allege that for years, Carlos Bolsonaro and his stepmother engaged in a salary skimming operation in collaboration with her extended family. The operation only stopped, allegedly, when Ana Christina and Jair Bolsonaro developed marital problems. Image
Among Ana Christina's relatives employed in Carlos Bolsonaro's Rio de Janeiro City Council Cabinet: 2 brothers, a cousin, his wife and two brothers in law. Many of them allegedly rarely or never showed up to work and kicked most of their salaries back to Ana Christina and Carlos. Image
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What is now happening to Paulo Freire's theory has, in the course of history, happened repeatedly to the theories of revolutionary thinkers and leaders of oppressed classes fighting for emancipation. (thread)
During his lifetime, the oppressing classes constantly hounded him, received his theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander.
After his death, attempts are made to convert him into a harmless icons, to canonize him [...] while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it. (Paraphrased from Lenin's "State and Revolution", ch. 1)
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