Correspondent for @teleSURenglish TV news program "From the South". Native Chicagoan who has lived 28 years in Brazil. Editor of "Year of Lead".
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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.
I'll start with these two examples of gaslighting of the Brazilian left. 
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. 
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: 
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. 
"We, former Mayors of the capital of Rio Grande, want to express our complete solidarity with all the families affected – directly or indirectly – by the climate catastrophe that is impacting Porto Alegre... 
"The fact that storm-water pumping station number 17 [EBAP-17] was broken, which caused flooding in an area of the city last September, had been known since 2018, according to a Matinal News report. Despite this, the bolsonarista city government of Sebastião Melo did nothing." 
Greenwald's Musk-alligneded PR campaign, that ridicules the Brazilian left, pushes Jair Bolsonaro's Trumpian "stop the steal" narrative and uses US law to make a baseless claim that Brazil's Supreme Court is totalitarian, therefore, reeks of hypocrisy. www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/monica…
Jair Bolsonaro was barred from politics for 8 years for committing an electoral crime on his national public TV network in August, 2022, when he invited foreign diplomats to the presidential palace and claimed Brazil's electronic voting system was flawed, providing 0 evidence. 
The article in in Portuguese for now, but non-speakers can get the gist of it using Chrome or any other electronic translator. The journalists at Intercept Brasil have followed the money. intercept.com.br/2024/04/08/seg…
It may shock some people in the US, but Brazil has it's own laws and Constitution and it's own legal definition of free speech, which doesn't protect things like Naziism. Pernambuco Federal University Law Professor @LianaCirne explains Brazil's "harmony of rights" here.
Former Air Force Commander Carlos Batista testified that at a November, 2022 meeting w/ military brass, Pres. Bolsonaro asked for help implementing a coup, and Army Commander Gomes Freire said he would arrest him if he tried. cartacapital.com.br/politica/freir…
I participated in the 3-5th National Cities Conferences, most recently representing the Central de Movimentos Populares. There two photos are old snapshots taken with a digital camera. It's was one of the biggest success stories in grassroots democracy. I'll explain it here. 
Read more on Martins here: brasilwire.com/former-us-emba…
On 2/5/2024, Supreme Court Minister Dias Toffoli authorized a request from the Attorney General's office to investigate charges that TI Brazil worked with the Car Wash taskforce to try to finance a private NGO with misappropriated government funds. cartacapital.com.br/justica/toffol…
The US DOJ publicly announced its partnership in Operation Car Wash in 2016. That year both NYT and WAPO published articles mentioning the partnership. It was public knowledge, so why did so many journalists and academics ignore it or even gaslight people who mentioned it?
At 11:16 on a Valuetainment program entitled, “No Limits On What He Will Do” - Why Lula is extremely Dangerous For Brazil, while talking about Jair Bolsonaro, Greenwald falsly claims, "The Brazilian left has already made Bolsonaro ineligible to run, without even convicting him." 
One example is how the northern media is mislabeling plans for Petrobras to drill 170 KM offshore in an area bordering French Guyana, as at the mouth of the Amazon river. The site is located 570 KM from the mouth of the Amazon. 