@BrasilWire's Threads
Lawfare: Notorious U.S. Intelligence official visits the controversial regional court (TRF-4) which is handling former President Lula's legal appeals. brasilwire.com/notorious-us-i…
"Tenney Smith’s visit to TRF-4 comes after Mike Pompeio’s statement that the US would assist its favoured governments in Latin America to control popular unrest, and thus prevent repetition of the Chilean uprising in allied countries, such as Brazil." brasilwire.com/notorious-us-i…
The controversial 4th Regional Federal Court (TRF-4) in Porto Alegre has been hit by fresh scandal, one which re-opens the question of United States interference in Brazilian law enforcement, and its judiciary, for political ends. brasilwire.com/notorious-us-i…
Paraisópolis Massacre: São Paulo Governor João Doria’s Military Police kill 9 unarmed youth at street party. brasilwire.com/sao-paulo-poli…
Scandal grows as smartphone videos show laughing police officers beating unarmed teenagers on a night of 9 deaths. São Paulo Governor João Doria has defended the police officers involved. brasilwire.com/sao-paulo-poli…
“On Nov 25th, Governor Doria announced his new State Security plan, which, for the first time in decades, contained no contingency plan, or even mention of police violence. 33% of São Paulo murders in 2018 were committed by police officers.” brasilwire.com/sao-paulo-poli…
São Paulo’s brave Military Police in action...
The story behind this video. brasilwire.com/sao-paulo-poli…
“Narrow win” = 11%. The Guardian is up to its old tricks in Bolivia. brasilwire.com/the-strange-ca… 
A continent wide uprising against Neoliberalism and Neocolonialism in Latin America? For *some reason* The Guardian can’t seem to “smell the change” like it could in Venezuela last January.
This story was extensively reported a year ago during the election. It was a form of electoral fraud. Everyone knew it was happening but the Guardian chose to wait a full year before reporting it themselves. Why was that? brasilwire.com/whats-up-fasci…
[PART THREE] Gold against the Soul. How Wall Street Recolonized Brazil. brasilwire.com/gold-against-t…
"Personal data of citizens was intercepted indiscriminately. Corporate information – often of high economic and even strategic value – was at the center of espionage activity." - President Dilma Rousseff addressing the UN General Assembly 24/9/2013. brasilwire.com/gold-against-t…
"Just six years later, with Embraer improbably sold off and transformed into “Boeing Brazil”, far-right extremist President Jair Bolsonaro would himself address the UN, with the explicit support of the U.S. Government and the monopolies it serves." brasilwire.com/gold-against-t…
[PART TWO] Smiling Assassins: How Wall Street Recolonized Brazil. brasilwire.com/smiling-assass…
"In Ecuador, Chevron used powerful corporate intelligence agency Kroll to recruit young journalists to join a spy network, which was working to undermine an $27 billion environmental lawsuit for possibly the worst oil-related catastrophe on the planet." brasilwire.com/smiling-assass…
"Many people have died in Latin America as a direct result of decisions made at 680 Park Avenue, New York." brasilwire.com/smiling-assass…
Senior Lat Am Editor at @TheEconomist thinks that @theintercept #VazaJato exposure of Lava Jato as an inherently corrupt, political weapon, which enabled a coup d'état and neofascist takeover of Brazil, is bad, because "the left needs to self criticize". brasilwire.com/category/inter…
The left needing to "self criticize" was a prevalent narrative before the #VazaJato leaks began. Now that every accusation against Lava Jato by its political victims is being systematically proven, only a magazine like @TheEconomist would persist with it. brasilwire.com/category/lawfa…
This is @TheEconomist which was so disappointed at its preferred candidate Aécio Neves losing 2014 election to Dilma Rousseff, that it asked "What if GDP voted, not people?" i.e. "What if Brazil's poor didn't vote?". It went on to support her impeachment. brasilwire.com/the-economist-…
Brazil under Lula and Dilma disrupted US plans for South America, admits former ambassador Tom Shannon Jr. #VazaJato brasilwire.com/brasil-under-l…
"The US believed that Brazil was moving towards the construction of a cohesive international bloc of progressive and left orientation. This would be an obstacle to the resuscitation of the Free Trade Area of the Americas, or FTAA." brasilwire.com/brasil-under-l…
All articles 2014-19 relating to the FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas), which was defeated by an alliance of Lula, Nestor Kirchner and Hugo Chavez in 2005. Resurrection of the FTAA was a key motive behind US support for Brazil's slow coup of 2013-18. brasilwire.com/?s=FTAA
A 2009 US State Department cable released by @wikileaks revealed the origins of anti-corruption operation Lava Jato, which jailed Presidential Candidate Lula, and opened the door for Bolsonaro. #Lawfare brasilwire.com/dont-call-it-b…
State Department cables released by @wikileaks revealed that defeated 2002 / 2010 presidential candidate José Serra was already negotiating with the US and Chevron about opening up Brazil's massive pré-sal oil discoveries for easier foreign exploitation. brasilwire.com/snowden-wikile…
State Department cables released by @wikileaks revealed that Globo News anchorman William Waack was a US informant. brasilwire.com/waack
"In June, Dilma Rousseff gave a 2 hour interview to the Guardian in which she described how Lula’s prosecution was “phase 2” of the Coup which removed her, and that it would open the door for Neofascist Jair Bolsonaro. The Guardian did not publish it." brasilwire.com/the-strange-ca…
Based on its record with Iraq, Libya and Yugoslavia, it is entirely reasonable to expect that the Guardian will attempt to justify US/NATO Military action against Venezuela, should the situation escalate. brasilwire.com/the-strange-ca…
The @guardian and its Latin America staff are unsurprisingly banging the drum for Trump's Venezuelan Coup.
