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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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. 
I started warning that a coup was underway against Dilma Rousseff in early 2015, after the US DNC-supported losing candidate in the 2014 Presidential elections, Aecio Neves, refused to accept the results and worked to paralyze Rousseff's government. thisishell.com/interviews/841…
Pochmann, who directed Brazil's Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA), during the oughties, oversaw a huge study on poverty. One of the findings was that minimum salary increases were significantly more important than the bolsa familia welfare system in reducing poverty. 
"Since we are far away," Lula said, "we have the calm of not having to get in the same mood as the Europeans. Our mood can be about building peace [...] The World is getting tired, countries are tiring. Peace is coming. We need countries that can dialogue with Russia & Ukraine." 
Monark first ran into trouble in February, 2022, when he defended the creation of a Nazi party. Like in Germany, apology for Naziism is a crime in Brazil. At this moment, Greenwald leaped to his defense, using a US legal argument to insinuate that anti-Nazi laws are censorship. 
@ConJur_Oficial In one passage, "Carol PGR," tells Deltan Dallagnol: "The mood with the Foreign Ministry is horrible. They're saying you invited the Americans and they're here gathering proof to screw [public gas station company] BR Distribuidora. I'm worried they'll plant this in the press." 
For years, the TRF-4 fast tracked rejection of every appeal against Lava Jato rulings by Sergio Moro. Tony Garcia now says he worked as an undercover agent for Moro for years, collecting "dirt" on public figures like the judges from the TRF-4 court. natelinha.uol.com.br/politica/2023/…
Starting this year, intelligence centers will be set up in every state in the Amazon region to support control and prevention actions against fires and logging. 
Grilled by DF State Congressman Fábio Felix (PSOL), Heleno, who was Bolsonaro's institutional security chief, admits to meeting with jailed "Ukrainize Brazil" movement leader Sara Winter, who I wrote about here: geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/03/16/bra…