Category: Brazil

COVID-19: Brazil’s Bolsonaro Trumps Trump

April 22, 2020

The main objective of the Brazilian president’s expanded authority is expected to be the prevention and possible repressions of a social explosion, write Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram.

Brazil’s Ex-President on Venezuela: Maduro is Democratic, Guaidó Should Be in Prison, US Blockade Kills Civilians

April 3, 2020

Ben Norton reports on comments by Lula da Silva that have been ignored by English-language media.

Bloomberg Surrogate Was PR Guru for Bolsonaro

February 20, 2020

Arick Wierson, who is pushing the billionaire’s presidential bid, devoted himself in 2018 to softening the image of Brazil’s extreme-right leader, reports Ben Norton.

Washington Protest at Brazilian Embassy over Greenwald

January 24, 2020

WATCH: Activists and journalists gathered in front of the Brazilian Embassy in DC on Thursday to sound the alarm about the threat to press freedom emanating from the attempt to charge Glenn Greenwald for practicing journalism.

Empire War on Oppositional Journalism Escalates

January 23, 2020

Caitlin Johnstone compares the Brazilian case against Glenn Greenwald with the U.S. persecution of Julian Assange.

Those Who Search for Dawn Don’t Fear the Night

December 23, 2019

There is little that divides Modi’s fascistic Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and his Vishwa Hindu Parishad from the piety movements of Tablighi Jamaat (with its millions of Muslim followers) and these neo-Pentecostal formations in Latin America, says Vijay Prashad.