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Independent news & analysis on Brasil in English since 2014. @progintl partner. Support on Patreon: https://t.co/7qs0j4zVnv
Apr 9 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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.

brasilwire.com/temer-reveals-… 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.

brasilwire.com/category/lava-…
Dec 30, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Breaking: Jair Bolsonaro has embarked for the United States, on the advice of his lawyers, under threat of arrest.

He's gone. Image
Feb 3, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
US-backed Sergio Moro worked secretly to prevent Dilma Rousseff's 2014 re-election. brasilwire.com/us-backed-moro… 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…
Jun 3, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
White House admits to CIA involvement in the "War on Corruption" which jailed Lula and elected Bolsonaro.
➡️brasilwire.com/lula-arrest-is… Image Source: The White House. whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…
Mar 31, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
'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.

brasilwire.com/united-states-…
Mar 30, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Golpe de Estado (Coup d'état) is trending in Brazil following yesterday's government/military upheaval.

We have been writing about the possibility of an auto-coup since before Bolsonaro was elected.

He was already talking to the NYT about it in 1993.

brasilwire.com/wall-streets-n… Articles related to the threat of an auto-coup in Brazil, 2018-21. brasilwire.com/?s=auto-coup
Mar 29, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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. Image 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".

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Feb 5, 2021 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
No matter how disgraced its hero Sergio Moro and Lava Jato have become, Council of the Americas just can not let its anti-corruption fairytale go...

All articles on AS/COA, an organisation created specifically to interfere in Latin American politics:

🇺🇸brasilwire.com/category/counc… 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.

🇺🇸brasilwire.com/podemos-tirar-…