Lula
On the Road to Interview Lula, Into a Brazilian Black Hole
From Cambodia to Brazil and Argentina and back to Bangkok gave Pepe Escobar insights into the disastrous course his native land is taking.
BRICS Needs a Unified Front Against US Intervention in Venezuela
Venezuela’s destabilisation by the US is understood best by the countries that have faced imperialist interference. Cuba’s revolutionary process, for example, has produced consistent political solidarity with Venezuela and is actively urging countries to reconsider their stance as regards the US sanctions which are creating severe humanitarian consequences.
Brics Was Created as a Tool of Attack: Lula
Former Brazilian leader wishes emerging economies were closer, recalls Obama ‘crashing’ Copenhagen climate meet
Pepe ESCOBAR
In a wide-ranging, two-hour-plus, exclusive interview from a prison room in Curitiba in southern Brazil, former Brazilian president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva re-emerged for the first time, after more than 500 days in jail, and sent a clear message to the world.
Lula tells world he’s back in the game from jail
Meanwhile, fires rage in the Amazon and Brazilian President Bolsonaro has become a target of global indignation.
Pepe ESCOBAR
Brazil has always been a land of superlatives. Yet nothing beats the current, perverse configuration: a world statesman lingers in jail while a clownish thug is in power, his antics now considered a threat to the whole planet.
“J’ai visité Lula, le prisonnier politique le plus célèbre du monde. Un coup d’État ‘doux’ au Brésil une élection aura des conséquences globales”. Par Chomsky
Source : The Intercept, Noam Chomsky, 02-10-2018
Photo : Heuler Andrey/AFP/Getty Images; Fabio Vieira/FotoRua/NurPhoto via Getty Images
Brazil’s Bolsonaro channels MAGA message to sweep first round election results (Video)
Zerohedge reports that after one of the most bizarre presidential campaigns in Brazilian history (it at one point featured one candidate who was in prison and another who was hospitalized with a life-threatening stab wound), Jair Bolsonaro, the right-wing candidate who has embraced the label of “Brazil’s Donald Trump” has outperformed even the rosiest expectations.
Brazilian elections: Two candidates dogged by controversy
The general elections in Brazil on October 7 come amid recent upheavals which have resulted in a sharp political divide, with a large portion of the population either defending the idols they see as persecuted, or turning to the right in an attempt to escape the left they see as fully responsible for corruption and graft.
Meanwhile, a large percentage of the electorate are reeling in horror at the thought of voting for either of the two frontrunners.
Is Brazil back in business?
Temer is trying to push a package of spending cuts through parliament and other measures to lift Brazil out of its worst recession in decades [Xinhua]
Despite ongoing political turbulence following a slew of corruption charges aimed at sitting and previous leaders and lawmakers, Brazil’s economy appears to have bandaged itself and started to grow again.
The Left: Business Accommodation and Social Debacle
In 2004 I wrote Brazil and Lula: Year Zero (Edifurb: Blumenau, Sao Paolo 2005), in which I presented my analysis of the Lula-Workers Party (PT) regime in Brazil undergoing a Grand Transformation with the first stage represented by the PT’s incorporation into a government apparatus led by of bankers and exporters (the agro-mineral elite).