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.
Happy 74th to Dilma Rousseff, former accountant for VAR-Palmares, political prisoner, energy technocrat, Chief of Staff to President Lula, and Brazil's 1st woman president - illegally impeached in a US-backed effort to turn Brazil's petroleum over to imperialist multinationals.
The charge used to impeach her, fiscal pedaling - which she was later exonerated from - was not legally categorized as an impeachable offense in Brazil. It was legalized by the Senate 2 days after she left office and is currently practiced by the Bolsonaro administration.
In 2016, +- 8% of Brazil's pre-salt petroleum reserves (among the world's largest) were owned by foreign companies. By 2019, 75% had been auctioned off at pennies on the dollar. Unlike in the Middle East, the US didn't have to invade, thanks to Brazil's comprador bourgeoisie.
As Julian Assange's extradition approaches, let's remember how Wikileaks exposed Sergio Moro's role in the birth of the US/Curitiba Public Prosecutors Lava Jato investigation, which destroyed key sectors of Brazil's development strategy and helped put Bolsonaro in power. ctd
"This is the first regional conference conducted under the Projeto PONTES (Translation: Bridges Project) umbrella, a new training concept post introduced in February 2009 to consolidate bi-lateral law enforcement training."
"Judge Sergio Moro then discussed the 15 most common issues he sees in money laundering cases in the Brazilian Courts. U.S. presenters discussed [...] formal and informal international cooperation [...], plea bargaining,"
Hackers invaded the Brazilian health system last night and deleted 50 TB of data. Citizens can no longer prove vaccination for international travel. Lula switched goverment systems to Linux in 2003. After the 2016 coup, Michel Temer switched back to Microsoft- at taxpayer expense
Update (7 hours later). The Health dpt site is back online and hackers, who call themselves the Lapsus$ Group were bluffing about the 50 TB of stolen data. Meanwhile, they've hacked into the Education Ministry and insulted Bolsonaro. terra.com.br/noticias/brasi…
Here is a break down of the criminal charges against Brazil's far right President Jair Bolsonaro levied in the Parliamentary Covid 19 investigation and their maximum sentences. Thread
1) Exacerbating an epidemic resulting in deaths - maximum sentence of 30 years; 2) Ignoring implementation of preventative sanitary measures (an infraction) - maximum sentence of 1 year; 3) Charlatanism (infraction) - maximum sentence of 1 year.
4) Inciting criminal behavior (infraction) - maximum sentence of 6 months; 5) Counterfeiting of documents - maximum sentence of 5 years; 6) Irregular use of public funds (infraction) - maximum sentence of 3 months; 7) Malfeasance - maximum sentence of 1 year.
A bill for an amendment to improve oversight of public prosecutors - a response to Lava Jato which crippled the economy and broke laws to help elect Bolsonaro - was blocked in Congress yesterday, after PSOL broke from the left and sided with Partido Novo to unanimously oppose it.
The only other two parties to unanimously oppose the bill, which lost by 11 votes and was unanimously supported by the Workers Party (PT) and the Communist Party of Brazil (PC do B), were the tiny Partido Verde and Rede, which have 4 members of Congress between them.
For more on self-proclaimed "left" politicians and their support for the US DOJ/FBI/Curitiba Public Prosectors Lava Jato investigation, see this: brasilwire.com/whither-the-la…
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.
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.