IPEC 2022 presidential election poll looks at 2 possible scenarios. In the 1st, disgraced ex-Lava Jato judge Sergio Moro appears in 3rd with 8%. The 2nd scenario includes folkloric, Christian fireman/former PSOL Congressman Cabo Daciolo. Here, Moro drops to 6%. Coincidence?
Daciolo joined PSOL after leading a Rio fireman's strike in 2011. He was elected to congress in 2014. In 2015, he was kicked out of PSOL for proposing an amendment changing wording in the Constitution from "All power emanates from the people", to "All power emanates from God."
During the 2018 presidential race, he provided a lot of comic relief in the debates, beginning every speech by saying "Glory to God" in a thick Rio de Janeiro accent. As the election date neared, he moved to a mountain top to live as a hermit.
The comedic highlight of the 2018 debates occurred when Daciolo accused moderate, center-left technocrat Ciro Gomes of belonging to an international communist conspiracy called "Ursal". He may have meant UNASUR (Union of S. American Nations)- but it led to endless memes.
Daciolo ended up getting 1.3 million votes and finishing ahead of former environmentalist turned 2014 neoliberal 3rd path hopeful Marina Silva and his former PSOL party mate Guilherme Boulos.
Phase 2 of Musk's "free Bolsonaro" campaign has begun, with help from sidekick Greenwald, who's released WhatsApp chats from Supreme Court Justice Moraes' staff showing him "informally directing" an Electoral Court investigation. The problem is there's nothing illegal about it.+
In the pages of Folha de S. Paulo, Glenn uses US law to claim his leaked messages prove that the Supreme Federal Court (STF) minister illegally acted 'outside the procedural framework' by having his staff request Superior Electoral Court (TSE) reports on investigation suspects.
The problem with this argument is that,when the chats took place, Moraes was also President of the Superior Electoral Court, conducting a court police investigation into the January 8 coup attempt. In other words, he asked staff to request reports issued by his own subordinates.
It's depressing to see the normally respectable magazine Current Affairs run yet another one of a long series of misleading, Perry Anderson-style "from the left" hit pieces against Lula. I'll highlight some of the worst examples of disinformation in this thread+
I'll start with these two examples of gaslighting of the Brazilian left.
1) On Dilma Rousseff's impeachment (over a budgetary infraction legalized 2 days after she left office), no material evidence was ever produced against her. The final charges were dropped in 2023. As Rousseff says, "impeachment without a crime is a coup." metropoles.com/brasil/trf-1-i…
When President Lula brought up Venezuela, AS/COA endorsed "leftist" Chilean President Gabriel Boric rolled his eyes and stuck his beloved US State Depatment narrative.
Here's the infamous Americas Quarterly (AS/COA's Latin American news magazine) 2021 fluff piece about Gabriel Boric, pictured here as a cool guy for going to a big oil/pharma/mining-funded think tank in a Nirvana t-shirt. americasquarterly.org/article/what-i…
Symour Hersh documented the Council of the Americas' (the "COA" in AS/COA) role as go-between for the CIA and Chilean business elites during the 1973 coup against Salvador Allende in this, l1981 Atlantic article. Boric's shmoozing with them is a disgrace. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
On September 6, 2018, the news broke that Jair Bolsonaro had been stabbed at a campaign rally. As World leaders expressed solidarity for him, a friend from the PT called and said, "this is our 9/11. We've lost the election". Later, all kinds of suspicious information came out +
Many Brazilians have never believed that Bolsonaro was really stabbed, in part because there was no blood (actually a pretty common situation in puncture wounds), but also because he had a series of intestinal surguries before and after the alleged stabbing.
Journalist Joaquim Carvalho made an interesting documentary that raises a lot of doubts about the whole episode, among other things exposing a prior relationship between the knife man and Bolsonaro's son Carlos. brasilwire.com/bombastic-docu…
Last week, I was shocked to learn that in 2021, Congresswoman Tabata Amaral (L) secretly pressed criminal charges against me in S. Paulo's TRF-3 Court in a clear attempt to suppress my free speech rights. Even more surprising: the Court appointed a public defender and I won. +
in April 2021, Amaral sided with the Bolsonaro coalition, voting to fast-track a bill to force reopening of public schools at the height of the Covid 19 pandemic, before teachers could access vaccines - against the wishes of the teacher and students unions. I tweeted this:
My second tweet in the thread that day continued on the theme. It was these two tweets that prompted Amaral, not to attempt to contact me to ask for an apology, but to press charges that could have resulted in a 2-year prison sentence.
One full spectrum warfare tactic against the Brazilian Workers Party involves attacks on environmental issues by ostensibly leftist academics & jornalists in the Global North to weaken solidarity. They never mention Brazil leads the Global South in sustainable energy transition+
According to the WEF's 2024 Energy Transition Index Brazil ranks 3rd among the World's 10 largest economies, 1st among nations with pop. > 100 million and 1st among developing nations in increased adoption of clean energy sources and energy efficiency.
During the 1st 13 years of Workers Party rule, Brazil was the World leader in greenhouse gas reduction, cutting emissions by 50% between 2005 and 2015. goias.gov.br/fapeg/em-uma-d…