Lula
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Why Brazil opposes Venezuela’s BRICS membership
This Monday, October 21, it became known that Brazil opposed Venezuela’s entry into the BRICS group, in the context of the 16th Summit of the block in the city of Kazan, Russia, an event to which President Nicolás Maduro was invited by the Russian President himself, Vladímir Putin, at the beginning of August. Continue reading
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Brazil’s Lula in a Wilderness of Mirrors
A surprising Supreme Court decision that, while not definitive, restores Lula’s political rights has hit Brazil like a semiotic bomb and plunged the nation into a reality show being played in a wilderness of shattered mirrors. At first, it looked like three key variables would remain immutable. Continue reading
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What Will Lula Do?
What is now described as the Banestado leaks and CC5gate is straight out of vintage WikiLeaks: a list, published for the first time in full, naming names and detailing what is one of the biggest corruption and money laundering cases in the world for the past three decades. Continue reading
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Car Wash Case: Brazil’s Authorities and FBI Colluded Illegally
The Workers’ Party (PT) denounced in the Brazilian Public Prosecutor’s Office the illegal cooperation agreement signed between the Car Wash (CW) task force and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Continue reading
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As Lula Emerges From Prison, US Media Ignore How Washington Helped Put Him There
The Brazilian Supreme Court reversed a 2018 ruling on November 7, upholding the principle of innocent until proven guilty in the 1988 Constitution and declaring it illegal to jail defendants before their appeals processes have been exhausted. Within 24 hours, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was released to an adoring crowd of hundreds… Continue reading
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Released Lula in for greatest fight of his life
Only two days after his release from a federal prison in Curitiba, southern Brazil, following a narrow 6×5 decision by the Supreme Court, former President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva delivered a fiery, 45-minute long speech in front of the Metal Workers Union in Sao Bernardo, outside of Sao Paulo, and drawing on his unparalleled… Continue reading
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Brazil: leaked conversations reveal legal stitch-up against Lula
Yesterday, The Intercept Brazil news site published a number of correspondences between former judge Sergio Moro, and the Lava Jato (“Car Wash”) prosecutors, led by Federal Public Ministry of Brazil attorney, Deltan Dallagnol. The Operation Car Wash corruption case led to the arrest and imprisonment of (among others) former PT president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva… Continue reading
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NYT Debates Hugo Chavez–Minus the Debate By Peter Hart
“On Eve of His Funeral, Debating Chávez’s Legacy” is the headline over William Neuman’s piece in the New York Times today (3/8/13). Funny headline, since there was no one in the Times’ “debate” who argued that Chávez left much of anything. Continue reading
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10 key facts about Venezuela’s Presidential Election this Sunday
On Sunday Venezuela will vote in their Presidential election. In total there are seven candidates but the main choice is between the Hugo Chavez, backed by a coalition of parties of the left and Henrique Capriles Radonski, a state governor backed by a number of right-wing parties in a coalition known as the M.U.D. Continue reading
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Robert Naiman, "It's 'Golllllll!' for Lula against Western Push for Iran Sanctions"
If I were in Washington this morning, I would run down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House to Congress with a big Brazilian flag, as the young Brazilians run down the Avenida Paulista in Sao Paulo during the ‘football’ match, shouting ‘Golllllll!’ Continue reading
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Pepe Escobar, "Luladinejad"
Brazil enriches uranium for its own nuclear energy program. No one is accusing Brazil of building a nuclear bomb. Brazil has been strongly against unilateral sanctions on Iran. In Lula’s own words, and again I quote: “It’s simple. What we advocate for us, we advocate for others as well.” Continue reading
The New Dark Age 