Turmoil in Brazil

[Waldo]

There is a total blackout of MSM news coming out of Brazil. Here is a video that I hope is true. If you have any other sources of news please share.

https://rumble.com/v20buzw-military-declare-bolsonaro-true-president-of-brazil-and-begin-executing-cor.html
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[palehorse]

It is not a military coup, that is exactly what they want to show the world. The elections was stolen, there was a huge fraud, was proved and nobody did nothing until now. My contacts there says there is military all over the country, in the borders (land), air and sea.
there is a risk of invasion of criminal factions from neighbor communist countries that are part of the "Foro of Sao Paulo".

Things are boiling in Brazil. Watch out the media lying in plain sight over again.

Also in this thread some relevant information

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?111071-Brazil-s-President-Bolsonaro-s-legacy-and-values&p=1528640

[yelik]

I think China is targeting Brazil

[mojo]

The title of that video is powerful. Brazil is the template for the U.S. and imagine if that news title broke out here? The military will bring receipts so it will be the beginning of the end of the corrupt Biden regime.... Hoorah!

[ozmirage]

From the Communist manifesto:
"In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property."
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Since 1933, and the STATE OF EMERGENCY, confiscation of lawful money (gold coin) and the criminal penalties for "hoarding" gold money; private property ownership (absolute ownership by an individual) has ceased to exist. Ergo, the USA has been covertly communist for the past 89 years.
Blaming "other" communist / socialist regimes may be erroneous.
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Ironically, few Americans paid attention to the military takeover of the USA, and the rapid rate of disarmament. Consider the National Firearms Act of 1934 that cleverly took out automatic weaponry from the hands of the sheeple - or being available to counter-revolutionaries.
Or dared to oppose "saint" Roosevelt in his collectivist "New Deal."

[ExomatrixTV]

Military Taking Over Brazil？

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[Bill Ryan]

It seems not. (I have a friend who's just returned from a month in Brazil, and he says there's no such thing happening.)

Also this update:

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https://www.brasilwire.com/an-interview-with-lula-part-one/

An interview with Lula. Part One

In January, 2020, Brasil Wire in partnership with Michael Brooks, host of the Michael Brooks Show, interviewed former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the Workers Party (PT) headquarters in São Paulo. The interview was the culmination of a 6 month process which started with the filing of a request in the Curitiba Court system to interview him while he was still a political prisoner due to a kangaroo court procedure which leaked social media messages exposed by Walter Delgatti now show was designed to catapult neofascist Jair Bolsonaro to the presidency. While preparing for the interview, we made the decision not to cross-examine him about his imprisonment, as most interviewers have done recently. Instead, we decided to focus on questions related to the legacy of a historically important union leader and President, US imperialism and how to defeat the resurgence of fascism on the World stage. The following edited transcript represents Part 1 of the 80 minute interview. Part 2 will be released in one week. The video was filmed by Edge of Democracy cinematographer Ricardo Stukert and TeleSur producer Nacho Lemus and can be viewed on the Michael Brooks Show Youtube channel, here.

Michael Brooks: Mr President it’s an honor to be here – it’s great to come from Brooklyn to visit you. It really is great to be here and it’s been very good to help get some of the people in North America to get to know about Brazil and your leadership. I want to start on that theme. Recent news out of Iran has been very disturbing and a lot of North Americans don’t know about your role in 2010, negotiating an agreement with Iran for peace and a political solution similar to what Obama would negotiate several years later. So, in two parts: why did President Obama walk away from the deal that you negotiated? And today we see that President Trump escalated. He rejected the deal, he assassinated Soleimani. What role do you see Brazil and other southern countries playing in creating peace in international relations and how could the US be a partner to that instead of an antagonist?

Lula: First of all it is important to look at that moment when Brazil, together with Turkey, made a deal with Iran on uranium enrichment. It was a different historic moment from that which Brazil is in today. Brazil was more respected in the World. Brazil was almost an international protagonist because we had removed the FTAA [Free Trade Agreement of the Americas] from the debate and had strengthened MercoSul. We had created UnaSul, which was the union of the countries of South America. We had created the BRICS, we had created IBAS, we had created a union between Africa and South America, we had created a union between countries in the Middle East and South America, we had created CELAC which was the only international encounter which included Cuba but did not include the United States and Canada. We had created the BRICS bank, and the Bank of the South here in South America. Brazil was transforming into a protagonist and it was a strong candidate to become part of the UN Security Council. We believed that Brazil should have joined it, along with India, Germany and Japan. What we did not factor in was Japan’s contentious relationship with China – it was very contentious and very strong. China, which was so favorable to the expansion of the UN Security Council, did not support our idea. But we had support from Russia, France and the UK. Bush seemed very favorable to the idea at first. Obama was less supportive. When we proposed to negotiate with Ahmadinejad, it was historically important because we were in the United States at the time. We were in a G20 meeting in Princeton. I had spoken with Ahmadinejad in the hotel but at this point I did not have a friendly relationship with him. So I arrived in the meeting and I asked Obama if he had spoken with Ahmadinejad and he said no. I asked Angela Merkel and she said no. I asked Gordon Brown and he said no. I spoke with Sarkozy and he said no. The fact was that nobody had spoken with Ahmadinejad. I thought, ‘how do these people want to make a deal without a conversation’? Because international politics is really outsourced, especially in Europe. There are employees who do the negotiations and this makes it hard. I remember that Hilary Clinton worked hard against my idea to go to Iran. She even called the Emir of Qatar and asked him to convince me not to go. When I arrived in Moscow and met with Medvedev, I found out Obama had called and asked him to help convince me not to go, because I would be tricked.

Michael: Why were they so concerned?

Lula: Obama didn’t want me to go to Iran, but he had written a letter saying that if Ahmadinejad agreed with such and such terms, he would be happy with it. So it was with this letter that I traveled to Iran. We got there and after two days of very tough talks I told Ahmadinejad that I would not return to Brazil without his signature. He said, “can’t it just be an oral agreement?”

I said, “It’s not enough, because nobody believes in you over there. They say that Iranians are liars and they don’t honor agreements. So I’ll only leave with something in writing.”

So he accepted our agreement. I was surprised because I imagined that Obama would be happy with the deal but he increased the sanctions against Iran. Then we discovered that Hilary Clinton didn’t know about the letter that Obama had sent me. She got angry when Celso Amorim and I told her about the letter. So I had no option but to publish Obama’s letter so people could see that we hadn’t done anything crazy. The deal that we brokered was more precise than that which was later signed by Europe and the United States. So it was a very disagreeable situation and my impression was that the rich countries – influenced by the thinking of the US State Department – did not accept a new protagonist in the area. In their minds Brazil was not big enough to get involved in an issue of that scale. It was easy for me to speak with Ahmadinejad because I told him that the only thing I wanted from them is what we have in Brazil. I wanted him to have the same rights as Brazil. Brazil’s constitution supports the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons but allows the enrichment of uranium for peaceful purposes – for the production of medicine and things like that. So, he and the President of Iran’s Congress agreed. I flew from Iran to Madrid for an EU meeting thinking that everyone would be happy because I had managed to broker a deal which they were unable to pull off and when I got there everyone was against it. Everyone was acting like Brazil had gotten into something that nobody had invited it to do – that Brazil was a personna non grata on the international political stage. It was unpleasant. I think as long as there are only conversations between the Israeli government and the US government we will not have peace in the Middle East, because they are responsible for the conflicts. If you don’t put all the people who are involved at the table and listen to everyone, you will not make a deal. Every once in a while they give a Noble Prize to some American or Israeli authority and peace, which is what the people really want, never arrives.

Brian Mier: President Lula, there has been a lot of effort to damage the legacy of the Workers Party (PT) internationally. One thing I see is criticism coming from middle class, self-proclaimed leftists about the PT’s economic record. Brazil has had a 500 year history of economic boom and bust cycles but there is a line of thinking circulating, in part influenced by ideas of [Center-right PSDB Party founder and economist] Bresser-Perreira, that says that the PT was unable to prepare for bust cycles and its economic model only worked during boom periods. So I would like to ask what you did to successfully protect Brazil from the 2008 World financial crisis and what measures the government took to protect against future recession cycles when you were President?

Lula: It’s really funny, Brian – this intellectual theory here in Brazil that my government was successful because of the boom in agribusiness and that this is why things worked out. Think about the following: from 1950 to 1980, Brazil was one of the fastest growing economies in the World. On average, Brazil grew 7% per year from 1950-1980 – that’s 30 years of economic growth. Why weren’t any policies for income redistribution implemented? Why weren’t there any social inclusion policies? Why didn’t the growth of the Brazilian economy cause the people to grow together with it? Do you know why, Brian? Because the miracle of our government was not the commodities boom – it was the boom of social inclusion.

I was absolutely certain that the poor would not be a problem. The poor would be the solution in the sense that we could include them in the federal budget and guarantee that, if they had access to jobs and salaries, their income and credit would cause them to become consumers. There has never been, on the face of the earth – even to those people who think it’s flat – and in the history of humanity, a moment in which any economy grew without a strong internal demand or a strong external demand. We managed to increase the external demand and the internal demand. Brazil’s international trade increased from $117 Billion to $465 billion. Brazil’s internal credit, available from public and private banks, rose from R$360 billion to R$2.7 Trillion by 2010. We also generated 22 million formal sector jobs, with labor cards signed, with the right to vacation and retirement pensions, and we raised the minimum salary by 74%. So, the poorest 20% of the population’s income grew faster than that of the wealthiest 20%. It was the first time in our history that this happened, and Brazil was the only country in the World where the poor had proportionately higher income gains than the rich during the entire Lehman Brothers crisis. So the commodities boom was not the miracle. It was the miracle of the inclusion of the poor. It was the miracle of the social policies. Because it wasn’t just Bolsa Familia and the higher minimum salaries that we created – it was a whole set of public policies. I’ll cite a statistic here which you might not know about. Our government allocated 49 million hectares of land for agrarian reform. This represents 50% of the total amount of land that was redistributed for agrarian reform during the entire previous 500 year history of Brazil. In just 8 years we did half of everything that was done in 500 years in Brazil. When we decided to start a program called Luz para Todos (Light for All) – because there were people living next door to electrical power plants who didn’t have electricity in their homes even though the power cables were passing over their houses – we brought electricity for the first time to 15 million people, for free. The State paid for it because if the State doesn’t bring electricity to the poor, the rich won’t do it. The rich only bring electricity to people who can pay for it. The PT has an obligation to guarantee that the poor can switch on a light and own a refrigerator because this is why we were created in the first place. Our miracle was to see the 54 million people who didn’t have anything to eat. It was to see the millions of people who were unemployed. It was to see that the minimum salary did not enable people to eat the amount of calories and protein that they needed. This is why the PT was born – to solve society’s problems. This was the miracle. It is important to remember that the economy grew 3.9% during Dilma Rousseff’s first year in office and that it grew over 2% in 2012. It is important to remember that the recession only began to deepen after the 2014 elections when Eduardo Cunha, Michel Temer and Congress made a pact against Dilma that prevented her from making any of the needed changes, like her attempt to pass a law that would have ended tax evasion. The fact is that it is not enough to have money. Economic growth is not enough. You need to decide who will benefit from this money and this growth. If you take $1 billion and give it to a rich man, he’ll deposit it in a bank account and use it for speculation. But if you take this $1 billion and divide it among 1 million people, giving each one $100, you will see that this dollar will start to work. It will circulate and make the markets work. People will buy food, they’ll buy shoes and socks and the economy will work. This was the PT’s miracle. This is why there is so much hatred of the PT. The hatred against the PT is because for the first time in the 500-year history of this country the poor could travel by plane. During my government the number of people who traveled by air rose from 43 million to 113 million – that’s 70 million more. We put 60 million more people into the financial system. We installed 1.4 million transformers and nearly 8 million light poles with the Luz para Todos program. And the quantity of electrical wiring we used was long enough to circle the Earth 35 times. When people got electricity through Luz para Todos, the middle class thought I was favoring the poor. But 89% of the people who received electricity bought TVs, refrigerators, blenders and fans, so the fact is that the multinational companies that manufacture these products in Brazil and people who work in stores all benefited from Luz para Todos. They didn’t understand the revolution that happens in this country when the poor start having access to food and jobs and income. What the Brazilian intellectuals criticize sometimes and don’t understand is that they are the ones who governed in Brazil since Cabral arrived here in 1500. They are the ones who have been governing Brazil since the Proclamation of the Republic in 1889. A worker never governed this country. And it was during the government of a worker that we were able to make this miracle of putting the poor into the budget. And this, Brian, is is why there is so much hate. Because I am the first Brazilian president who never got a university degree and I am the President who built the largest number of new universities in the history of the country. I am the President who built the most vocational schools in the history of the country. And I am the President who put the most students into university. This is unforgivable to them. It is unforgivable that poor people could start eating meat, could start going to the movies and the theater, that the poor could start occupying the airports. The elites started saying, “my God, the airport is beginning to look like a bus station – there are a lot of people here.” Because they were empty before that. So the elites should try to find another moment when poor people lived better than they did in our government and the PT governments. Make a historical analysis of Brazil and see if there was one moment in which the poor lived as well as they did in our governments. To give you an idea, for the first time in the history of the country 94% of the union deals were made above the level of inflation. 94%! So this explains the success. It was the growth of national income with money in the pockets of the poor.

Daniel Hunt: Mr. President, both the Lula and the Dilma governments were the target of US espionage, including infiltration of law enforcement and intelligence. These stories often look more significant now than they were thought of at the time. There was a major spying scandal in your first mandate which forced US Ambassador Donna Hrinak to apologize to you. Now she is head of Boeing Latin America which has just bought Embraer, and thus major projects such as Brazil’s production and export of modern jet fighters are in doubt. What are your thoughts on the relationship between US espionage and Brazilian technological sovereignty? Do you think Brazil was properly defended by its own intelligence apparatus?

Lula: Brazil has always had a cordial relationship with the United States. I think the United States relationship with Brazil is very important. But it took us 54 years to learn that there was a US aircraft carrier in Brazilian waters in 1964 ready to give backup to the military officers who conducted the Coup. After 54 years, we were even able to even see photos and hear audio tapes of President Kennedy giving orders to the US ambassador here in Brazil. But this took 54 years. The US espionage against Brazil and other countries around the world was very serious. The worst thing is that the US apologized to Germany but did not apologize to Brazil. I think that Brazil should have gone further to demand an apology. Brazil should have looked for other forms of communications to guarantee autonomy and independence. Nobody in the UN has ever authorized the US to be the World’s auditor or sheriff. When we discovered the pre-salt offshore petroleum reserves here in Brazil, a shipping container was stolen from Petrobras full of confidential information. The multinational Petroleum corporations never accepted the idea of Brazil owning its own petroleum. They never accepted our law declaring that the Brazilian people were the owners of its petroleum, that it was not the corporations who owned the petroleum. From that moment forwards, movement began to destabilize our country. I am convinced that the Americans never accepted the fact that we made a deal with France to build nuclear powered ships. Comrade Obama was not happy when we decided to make a deal to buy Rafale jets, and that Dilma decided to buy Swedish fighter jets. He wasn’t happy with that. He also wasn’t happy with a certain level of independence that Brazil had.

China was beginning to occupy economic and political space in Africa and South America with investments and purchases of public companies, building roads and bridges in Africa and I think the Americans woke up one morning and said, “hold on a second, Latin America is ours and we will not allow the Chinese to continue acquiring Latin America.” Then there was this rude, foolishness against Venezuela. The idea that you would officially recognize a con-artist, a congressman who declared himself President of the Republic – imagine if this fad catches on around the World. What I think is mediocre is that countries around the World approved of it and that this guy could try to commit a coup by declaring himself president. If you want to be president run in the elections, win them and take over the job. If Maduro has problems he is a problem for the Venezuelan people, for Venezuela. It’s not a problem for the American people, for the Brazilians or for the Chinese. It is the people of Venezuela who have to worry about Maduro. I defend this principle for Venezuela, I defend it for the United States and I defend it for Brazil. So these days I have a lot more understanding, Daniel…

Brian, I am going to give you a letter written by a group of American congressmembers to the Attorney General, which hasn’t been answered yet. If you could follow up on it. [Lula hands Brian a copy of the letter written by Congressman Hank Johnson and signed by 12 members of US Congress to Attorney General William Barr demanding answers on the US Department of Justice’s role in the Lava Jato investigation and Lula’s political imprisonment] Because the congressmembers sent a letter giving the Attorney General 30 days to respond and he hasn’t responded yet. So I would like it if you could try to talk to someone or if Michael or Daniel could help to learn why he hasn’t given an answer yet.

Today we know there were clear US Department of Justice interests in Petrobras, in my imprisonment and in the closing of Brazilian companies, especially in the construction industry. Today this is all clear. It’s very clear that there were American prosecutors interested in my imprisonment. There is video on the internet of a public prosecutor laughing about my imprisonment [ed: US Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Blanco]. I think that the goal was to change the logic of Petrobras so that it would no longer be a Brazilian company, so that it could no longer belong to the Brazilian people. Who do they think this oil should belong to? The multinationals, and within these multinationals the United States. I read a book called Petroleum. It tells the story of Petroleum from 1859 forwards. Most of the big wars we’ve had on the face of the earth since then have been over petroleum. The Iraqi invasion was because of petroleum, the Libya invasion was because of petroleum. The attempt to invade Venezuela was because of petroleum. Most of the conflicts in the Middle East are because of petroleum. Because the rich countries don’t have petroleum – except for the Americans, who have a lot of it. They need to have a strategic reserve which was set up after World War II, when Germany lost because it ran out of fuel – Germany ran out of gas and lost the war. So all the rich countries are obliged to have huge gasoline and petroleum reserves and they are dismantling Petrobras. Brazil, which planned on being an exporter of petroleum derivatives, has stared importing diesel and gasoline from the United States even though we are self sufficient in petroleum. So there are things that make no sense and then there is the sale of Embraer, which is really bad. A country will never be sovereign if it doesn’t generate its own technological and scientific knowledge. Embraer was a key company for this. Embraer was a company that did not have to depend on Boeing or anyone else to produce airplanes. So now they sold Embraer to Boeing. Embraer was the third largest aviation company in the World. It exported more than Bombardier. It was a company that was widely respected. Now they are trying to sell off Petrobras, the Banco do Brasil, the Caixa Economica [national mortgage bank] and Eletrobras. In other words Brazil is selling off our public companies to public companies from other countries. So I think that Brazil needs to build a new independence. Brazil has to have a good scientific-technological, political and economic relationship with the United States but it has to be independent. We are a country with 210 million inhabitants, 8.5 million square kilometers and 360 million hectares of totally preserved tropical forests. Brazil can’t be dependent, whether its on the United States, China, India or Russia. Brazil has to depend on the freedom of it’s people, on the education of its people and on the jobs and salaries of its people. So I think that Brazil is living its worst moment in history. We have a subservient government – subservient. For a long time I refused to participate in international forums to keep Brazil from getting tied up. But now Brazil has given away its freedom and its independence and it salutes an American president. Frankly speaking, I don’t think anyone respects people who don’t respect themselves. Nobody does. Brazil has to return to greatness. For this to happen it needs political leaders who respect themselves, who like Democracy and who know that a nation that borders on 10 countries, which has the entire West African coast across a river called the Atlantic from it, could be showing a lot more solidarity to poorer nations than it is now by transferring some of its technology. We brought Embrapa to Africa because I believed that the African Savannah has the same productive capacity as the Brazilian semi-arid Cerrado. That program doesn’t exist anymore. We brought a factory to Mozambique to produce generic anti-retroviral medication to fight AIDS. We brought the Open University to Mozambique. We extended the Mais Alimentos program, which we developed in Brazil to support small farmers, to Africa and Latin America. It’s over. So now Brazil is an island, subordinated in an embarrassing manner to the interests of Trump and asking Trump for favors. The fact is that no government does favors for another government. We have State policies for relations with other States, that have to be respected. So that’s it, my dear. Brazil is not respecting itself. Brazil has regressed to the status of a colony.

Part 2 is here,


https://www.brasilwire.com/an-interview-with-lula-part-two/

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[pacificator]

Bolsonaro
He left the people supporting him hanging dry.
never said Thanks to any who voted in him.
Never worked after he lost the election
Left office two day early for the USA on a official plane because if leaving after the first of January he would have to pay for it's ticket and get a visa..
And the most: he left a legacy > Brasil running in a sewer.

Bolsonaro is a COWARD

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Bolsonaro
He left the people supporting him hanging dry.
never said Thanks to any who voted in him.
Never worked after he lost the election
Left office two day early for the USA on a official plane because if leaving after the first of January he would have to pay for it's ticket and get a visa..
And the most: he left a legacy > Brasil running in a sewer.

Bolsonaro is a COWARD

I agree with you.

I think that Vox Day sums it up brilliantly in his blog (https://voxday.net/2022/12/30/clown-world-claims-brazil/), which I reproduce below:


As was the case with Donald Trump, Bolsonaro’s courage failed him at the Rubicon (https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/bolsonaro-says-%C2%ABnothing-justifies%C2%BB-violence-and-dissociates-himself-from-protests-outside-barracks/ar-AA15Okrd):

The outgoing president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has affirmed that “nothing justifies” violent plans such as the one that allegedly foresaw an attack in the area of the Brasilia airport and has disassociated himself from the mobilizations organized in recent days in front of Armed Forces installations to demand a military uprising.

He has also disassociated himself from the camps that demand in his name the annulment of the results of the last elections and the intervention of the Armed Forces. In this sense, he said that these are spontaneous rallies and that he has “withdrawn” from any kind of protest of this type.

What a strange thing to say, given the way in which violence has been deemed appropriate and necessary by everyone from the Pope and the Founding Fathers to the Zionists, the Greatest Generation, and the invaders of Grenada, Iraq, and Afghanistan, to say nothing of those who are funding violence, and increasingly, engaging in violence, on behalf of Ukraine. These cuckservative leaders were happy enough to order their militaries into action against foreign nations that have never done anything to their people, but shirked at actually using them to defend the people against their actual enemies.

“I tried to find a solution inside our constitution but I didn’t have enough support.”

And that is why conservatives will never save anyone or anything. Despite all their brave rhetoric, they’re cowards at heart. All evil has to do to defeat a conservative is tell him that resistance is illegal.

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Russian upper house speaker delivers Putin’s message to Brazil’s new president

Valentina Matviyenko also reminded Luis Arce of the invitation to Russia

BRASILIA, January 1. /TASS/. The speaker of Russia’s Federation Council (upper house of parliament) Valentina Matviyenko has said that she has delivered to Brazil’s newly-elected President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva a written message from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"I have delivered a written message from Russia’s president to the esteemed president of Brazil. I also confirmed that Moscow is looking forward to his visit as soon as his schedule allows and he can make a trip to Russia," Matviyenko said following a meeting during her visit to Brazil for the inauguration of the newly-elected head of state.

She stressed that the participation of Russia’s delegation in the inauguration was a token of respect and a signal that "Russia is determined to further actively develop relations with friendly Brazil."

"Despite his very tight schedule the president found a time slot to meet with us. Originally it was expected it would be some kind of protocol meeting, but in fact, we talked for almost an hour. It was a very meaningful conversation," Matviyenko emphasized.

She said that she had discussed with the newly-elected president a wide range of bilateral interstate relations.

"It should be stressed that we remember very well the times when the current newly elected president Lula da Silva was in office. We had very meaningful and constructive relations between our countries then. They reached a level of strategic partnership. We also remember that President Lula da Silva was one of the founders of the BRICS group. Now it is an internationally recognized association of great authority that many countries aspire to join," Matviyenko said.

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Lula da Silva to Meet Six Latin American Presidents


On Monday, Brazil's President Lula da Silva will hold bilateral meetings with six Latin American presidents, Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan, the King of Spain Felipe VI and other African leaders.

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After a meeting with the Spanish king, Lula will receive Luis Arce (Bolivia), Alberto Fernandez (Argentina), Guillermo Lasso (Ecuador), and Gabriel Boric (Chile).

Around noon, Lula will meet with Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who previously told reporters that they would discuss Brazil's new role in the world and the trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur, which has no t yet been ratified.

In the afternoon, the Brazilian president will hold meetings with Colombian President Gustavo Petro and Honduran President Xiomara Castro. Later, he will meet Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan, Angolan President Joao Lourenco, the President of the Democratic Republic of East Timor Jose Ramos-Horta, and the Prime Minister of Mali, Choguel Kokalla Maiga.

Finally, Lula will hold bilateral meetings with the Cuban Vice President Salvador Valdes, the president of the Council of Ministers of Peru, Luis Alberto Otarola; and with the president of the National Assembly of Venezuela Jorge Rodriguez.


On Sunday, Lula da Silva, the historical leader of the Workers' Party (PT), was sworn in as president of Brazil for a four-year term. His inauguration took place at 3:00 p.m. local time during a plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies in Brasilia.

This is his third presidential term and his return to power comes after having spent more than a year in prison between 2018 and 2019, due to a controversial sentence that was later annulled by the Supreme Court.

In October, Lula da Silva was elected president with 60.3 million votes, or 50.9 percent of the vote, while then President Jair Bolsonaro obtained 58.2 million votes or 49.1 percent.

After the elections, Lula stressed in recent weeks that he will govern for everyone and that it is necessary to unite the country. He returns to the presidency with an agenda focused on strong social programs aimed at fighting poverty, under the motto "union and reconstruction."

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https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-Recovers-Its-Embassy-in-Brazil-20230103-0011.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork

Venezuela Recovers Its Embassy in Brazil

On Monday, Brazilian social movements held a symbolic act in Brasilia to return to Venezuela its embassy in Brasilia, which was closed during the administration of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2013).

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The Venezuelan delegation included the Embassy Business Minister Irene Rondon, the Embassy Minister Counselor Freddy Meregote, and the National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez, who traveled to participate in the inauguration of President Lula da Silva.

These Venezuelan officials ratified the Bolivarian nation's commitment to promote peace diplomacy, strengthen bilateral ties, and defend the principles of sovereignty.

On the Brazilian side, members of the Workers' Party, the National Front of Struggle, Popular Uprising, the Workers' Single Central, the Popular Union Party, and the Abreu e Lima Anti-imperialist Committee were present.

Venezuela and Brazil broke diplomatic relations in 2019, when Bolsonaro recognized Juan Guaido, an opposition politician who declared himself interim president of Venezuela.

“When the Bolivarian house suffered the harassment of the Empire by Guaido's impostor hand, it was up to us to rise up and defend the house of the peoples,” said Joao Pedro Stedile, a leader of the Brazil's Landless Movement (MST).

“For three years we were here resisting, just as you are resisting in Venezuela all the difficulties of the blockade,” he added.

In Dec, 2022, President Nicolas Maduro appointed Manuel Vadell as Venezuela's ambassador to Brazil. Diplomatic relations between the two countries were fully reestablished on Jan. 1.

[palehorse]

Some interesting development in Brazil, started today in Brazilian, they want to unite a huge number of people in the capital, including people from Agribusiness, transports and common folks, the movement is getting motion and for the next two days (7 and 8 January of 2023), they will stop as much as they can in as much as states as they can. Rondonia state already fully involved, no goods moving around this area, specially fuel.

On Facebook there is one Brazilian guy seems to be pretty much involved in all of it, or at least have some important information and are updating often.. name is "boscofozoficial" but it is ALL in Portuguese.

Now something that is not talk about because there is no interest in exposing it, there is an area about the size of Portugal located deep in the Amazon bordering with another countries which is planned to be a new country in South America, it is controlled by indigenous people backed by communist money and power, Lula is involved as other presidents and political influences from other countries, they even tried to create a cryptocurrency for this supposed "new country", but it was stopped by Bolsonaro administration back in 2019/20.

Folks, I am not claiming I know what is going on there, because I don't know to be frank, by now what seems to be is that anything in the armed forces that has a rank bellow Colonel, are not happy, and seems pretty much that anything above Colonel are corrupted and playing along.

Things are heating up in Brazil, probably it will turn into civil war soon.

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Lula’s Inauguration Speech

”I want to begin by giving a special greeting to each and every one of you, a way of remembering and repaying the affection and strength that I received every day from the Brazilian people represented by the Lula Livre vigil, in one of the most difficult moments of my life.

Today, in one of the happiest days of my life, the greeting I give you could not be any other, so simple and at the same time so full of meaning: Good afternoon, Brazilian people!

My gratitude to you who faced political violence before, during, and after the electoral campaign, who occupied the social networks and took to the streets under sun and rain, even if it was only to win a single precious vote. Who had the courage to wear our shirt, and, at the same time, wave the Brazilian flag when a violent and anti-democratic minority tried to censor our colors and appropriate the green and yellow that belongs to all Brazilian people. To you, who came from all corners of this country, from near or far away, by plane, by bus, by car or in the back of a truck, by motorcycle, by bicycle, and even on foot, in a true caravan of hope for this celebration of democracy.

But I also want to address those who opted for other candidates. I will govern for 215 million Brazilians, and not only for those who voted for me. I will govern for all, looking to our bright common future and not through the rear view mirror of a past of division and intolerance. Nobody is interested in a country on a permanent war footing, or a family living in disharmony. It is time to reconnect with friends and family, bonds broken by hate speech and the dissemination of so many lies. Enough of hate, fake news, guns and bombs. Our people want peace to work, study, take care of their families, and be happy. The electoral dispute is over.

I repeat what I said in my speech after the victory on October 30th, about the need to unite the country. There are not two Brazils. We are a single country, a single people, a great nation. We are all Brazilians, and we share the same virtue. We never give up. Even if they pluck all our flowers, one by one, petal by petal, we know that it is always time to replant, and that spring will come, and spring has already arrived. Today joy takes hold of Brazil in arms with hope.

My dear friends, I recently reread the speech of my first inauguration as President in 2003, and what I read made it even more evident how far Brazil has gone backwards. On that first January 2003, here in this very place, my dear vice-president José Alencar and I made the commitment to recover the dignity and self-esteem of the Brazilian people. And we did. Of investing to improve the living conditions of those who need it most, and we did. Of caring for health and education, and we did. But the main commitment we took on in 2003 was to fight inequality and extreme poverty, and to guarantee to every person in this country the right to have breakfast, lunch, and dinner every single day, and we fulfilled this commitment, we put an end to hunger and misery, and we strongly reduced inequality.

Unfortunately, today, 20 years later, we are returning to a past that we thought was buried. Much of what we did was undone in an irresponsible and criminal way. Inequality and extreme poverty are back on the rise. Hunger is back, and not by force of fate, not by the work of nature nor by divine will, hunger. The return of hunger is a crime, the most serious of all crimes committed against the Brazilian people. Hunger is the daughter of inequality, which is the mother of the great evils that delay the development of Brazil. Inequality belittles our continental-sized country by dividing it into unrecognizable parts. On one side a small portion of the population that has everything, on the other side a multitude that lacks everything and a middle class that has been growing poorer year by year due to the injustices of the government. Together we are strong, divided we will always be the country of the future that never arrives and that lives in permanent debt with its people. If we want to build our future today, if we want to live in a fully developed country for everyone, there can be no room for so much inequality. Brazil is great, but the real greatness of a country lies in the happiness of its people, and nobody is really happy in the midst of so much inequality.

My friends, when I say govern, I mean to take care. More than governing, I will take care of this country and the Brazilian people with great affection. In the last few years Brazil has gone back to being one of the most unequal countries in the world. It has been a long time since we have seen such abandonment and discouragement in the streets. Mothers digging through the garbage in search of food for their children. Entire families sleeping outdoors, facing the cold, the rain, and the fear. Children selling candy or begging when they should be in school, living the full childhood they have a right to. Unemployed men and women workers, exhibiting at the traffic lights cardboard signs with the phrase that embarrasses us all: “Please help me”. Queues at the door of butcher shops in search of bones to alleviate hunger, and, at the same time, waiting lines to buy imported cars and private jets. Such a social abyss is an obstacle to the construction of a truly fair and democratic society and a modern and prosperous economy.

That is why I and my vice-president Geraldo Alckmin assume today, before you and all the Brazilian people, the commitment to fight day and night against all forms of inequality in our country. Inequality of income, gender and race inequality, inequality in the labor market, in political representation, in State careers, inequality in access to health, education, and other public services. Inequality between the child who goes to the best private school and the child who shines shoes in the bus station with no school and no future, between the child who is happy with the toy he just got as a present and the child who cries of hunger on Christmas night. Inequality between those who throw food away and those who only eat leftovers. It is unacceptable that the richest 5% of people in this country have the same income share as the other 95%. That six Brazilian billionaires have a wealth equivalent to the assets of the 100 million poorest people in the country. That a worker earning a minimum monthly wage takes 19 years to receive the equivalent of what a super-rich person receives in a single month. And there is no point in rolling up the windows of a luxury car to avoid seeing our brothers and sisters who are crowded under the viaducts, lacking everything. The reality is there on every corner.

My friends, it is unacceptable that we continue to live with prejudice, discrimination, and racism. We are a people of many colors and all of us must have the same rights and opportunities. No one will be a second-class citizen, no one will have more or less support from the State, no one will be obliged to face more or less obstacles just because of the color of their skin. That is why we are recreating the Ministry of Racial Equality, to bury the tragic legacy of our slaveholding past. The indigenous peoples need to have their lands demarcated and free of threats from illegal and predatory economic activities, they need to have their culture preserved, their dignity respected, and sustainability guaranteed. They are not obstacles to development. They are guardians of our rivers and forests and a fundamental part of our greatness as a nation. This is why we are creating the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples to combat 500 years of inequality. We cannot continue to live with the hateful oppression imposed on women, subjected daily to violence in the streets and inside their own homes. It is unacceptable that they continue to receive lower salaries than men, when in the exercise of the same function they need to conquer more and more space in the dissuasive instances of this country, in politics, in the economy, in all strategic areas. Women must be what they want to be, they must be where they want to be. That is why we are bringing back the Ministry of Women. It was to fight inequality and its sequels that we won the election. And this will be the great mark of our government, from this fundamental fight a transformed country will emerge, a great and prosperous country, strong and fair, a country of all by all and for all, a generous and solidary country that will leave no one behind.

My dear comrades, I reassume the commitment to take care of all Brazilians, especially those who need it most, to end hunger in this country once again, to take the poor out of the bone line and put them back in the Union’s budget. We have an immense legacy still vivid in the memory of each and every Brazilian, beneficiary or not of the public policies that made a revolution in this country. But we are not interested in living in the past. Therefore, far from any nostalgia, our legacy will always be the mirror of the future that we will build for this country. Under our governments, Brazil has reconciled record economic growth with the greatest social inclusion in history, and has become the sixth largest economy in the world, at the same time in which 36 million Brazilians have been lifted out of extreme poverty, and we have generated more than 20 million jobs with signed work cards and all rights guaranteed. We adjusted the minimum wage always above inflation. We broke records of investment in education, from kindergarten to university, to make Brazil also an exporter of intelligence and knowledge, and not only an exporter of commodities and raw materials. We more than doubled the number of students in higher education and opened the door to universities for the poor youth of this country. Young whites, blacks, and indigenous people for whom a university degree was an unattainable dream became doctors. We fought one of the great focuses of inequality, access to health, because the right to life cannot be held hostage to the amount of money one has in the bank. We created the Farmácia Popular (Popular Pharmacy), which provided medicines to those who needed them most, and more than that, which brought care to about 60 million Brazilians in the outskirts of the big cities and in the most remote parts of Brazil. We created Smiling Brazil to care for the oral health of all Brazilians. We have strengthened our Single Health System. And I want to take the opportunity to make a special thanks to the SUS professionals for the great work during the pandemic, bravely facing a virus, a lethal virus, and an irresponsible and inhumane government.

In our governments we invested in family agriculture and in small and medium farmers, responsible for 70% of the food that reaches our tables, and we did this without neglecting agribusiness, which obtained investment in record harvests year after year. We took concrete measures to combat climate change and reduced the deforestation of the Amazon by more than 80%. Brazil has consolidated itself as a world reference in the fight against inequality and hunger, and has become internationally respected for its active and haughty foreign policy. We were able to accomplish all of this while taking care of the country’s finances with total responsibility; we were never irresponsible with public money. We have made fiscal surplus every year, eliminated the foreign debt, accumulated reserves of 370 billion dollars, and reduced the foreign debt to almost half of what it was when we took office. In our governments there has never been and never will be any unnecessary spending. We have always invested and will invest again in our most precious asset, which is the Brazilian people.

Unfortunately, much of what we built in 13 years was destroyed in less than half of this time. First by the coup against President Dilma in 2016, and then by the four years of a government of national destruction whose legacy history will never forgive: 700,000 Brazilians killed by covid-19, 125 million suffering some degree of food insecurity from moderate to very severe, and 33 million going hungry. These are just a few numbers that are actually not just numbers, statistics, and indicators. They are people, men, women and children who are victims of a misgovernment that was finally defeated by the people on the historic October 30, 2022. The technical groups of the transition cabinet coordinated by my vice-president Alckmin, who for two months delved into the entrails of the previous government, have brought to light the real dimension of the tragedy.

What the Brazilian people have suffered in the last few years has been the slow and progressive construction of a true genocide. I want to quote, as an example, a small excerpt from the one hundred pages of this true chaos report produced by the transition cabinet. The report says: Brazil has broken feminicide records. Racial equality policies have suffered severe setbacks. Youth policy was dismantled and indigenous rights have never been so violated in the recent history of the country. The textbooks that will be used in the 2023 school year have not yet begun to be published. There is a shortage of medicine at the popular pharmacy, and no stock of vaccines to confront the new variants of covid-19. There is a lack of resources for the purchase of school meals. Universities run the risk of not finishing the school year. There are no resources for Civil Defense and the prevention of accidents and disasters. And who is paying the bill for this blackout is, once again, the Brazilian people.

My friends, these last few years we have lived through, without a doubt, one of the worst periods of our history, an era of shadows, uncertainties and a lot of suffering. But this nightmare came to an end through the sovereign vote in the most important election since the re-democratization of the country. An election that demonstrated the commitment of the Brazilian people to democracy and its institutions. This extraordinary victory for democracy forces us to look forward and forget our differences, which are much smaller than what unites us forever: the love for Brazil and the unshakeable faith in our people.

Now is the time to rekindle the flame of hope, solidarity, and love for our neighbor. Now is the time to take care of Brazil and the Brazilian people again, generate jobs, readjust the minimum wage above inflation, lower the price of food, create even more vacancies in universities, invest heavily in health, education, science and culture. Resume the infrastructure works of Minha Casa, Minha Vida, abandoned by the neglect of the government that is now gone. It is time to bring in investments and reindustrialize Brazil, fight climate change again and put an end once and for all to the devastation of our biomes, especially our beloved Amazon. We must break away from international isolation and resume relations with all the countries of the world. This is no time for sterile resentments. Now is the time for Brazil to look forward and smile again. Let us turn this page and write together a new and decisive chapter in our history.

Our common challenge is to create a fair, inclusive, sustainable and creative, democratic and sovereign country for all Brazilians. I have made a point of saying throughout the campaign: Brazil is resilient. And I say it again with all conviction, even in the face of the picture of destruction revealed by the transition cabinet: Brazil is resilient. It depends on us, all of us. And we will rebuild this country.

In my four years in office, we will work every day for Brazil to overcome the backwardness of more than 350 years of slavery, to recover the time and opportunities lost in these last years, to regain its prominent place in the world, and for each and every Brazilian to have the right to dream again and the opportunities to realize what they dream of. We need all together to rebuild and transform our beloved country. But we will only really rebuild and transform this country if we fight with all our strength against everything that makes it so unequal. It is urgent and necessary to form a broad front against inequality that involves society as a whole, workers, entrepreneurs, artists, intellectuals, governors, mayors, deputies, senators, unions, social movements, class associations, public servants, liberal professionals, religious leaders, ordinary citizens. After all, it is time to unite and rebuild our country. That is why I make this call to all Brazilians who want a more just, solidary, and democratic Brazil. Join us in a great collective effort against inequality. I want to end by asking each and every one of you that the joy of today be the raw material of the fight of tomorrow and of all the days to come, that the hope of today ferments the bread that is to be shared among all, and that we are always ready to react in peace and order to any attacks from extremists who want to sabotage and destroy our democracy. In the fight for the good of Brazil we will use the weapons that our adversaries fear the most, the truth that has overcome the lie, the hope that has overcome fear, and the love that has defeated hatred. Long live Brazil and long live the Brazilian people!”

[TomKat]

I'm skeptical of people who support forced medical treatment or Nazi drag queens calling others fascists.

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https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Brazil-Returns-to-the-UN-Global-Compact-for-Safe-Migration-20230105-0008.html

Brazil Returns to the UN Global Compact for Safe Migration

On Thursday, the Foreign Affairs Ministry announced that Brazil will once again adhere to Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM), which is an intergovernmentally negotiated agreement prepared under the auspices of the United Nations.

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In 2018, during a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), 152 countries ratified the GCM. Among the South American nations was Brazil.

Shortly after, however, Brazil withdrew from this compact in 2019, when Jair Bolsonaro became president of the country. His decision was part of a far-right agenda in which multilateral commitments used to be seen as expressions of "globalism."

Lula da Silva, who assumed the Presidency on January 1, said that his foreign policy's priority will be "the return of Brazil to the world" under the banner of multilateralism.

As part of this reincorporation into the global community, the Lula administration is also strengthening international programs. On Wednesday, for example, the Health Ministry announced it will resume the operation of the "More Doctors" Program.

Established by the government of Dilma Rousseff (2011-2016), this program allowed the participation of Cuban doctors in primary health care throughout the Brazilian territory.

In the coming months, however, the new phase of the program will give priority to the hiring of Brazilian health professionals who have been trained in the country or abroad. Subsequently, authorities will hire foreign doctors.

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Lula’s Government To Resume the More Doctors Program in Brazil

"The agenda to resume More Doctors is immediate. We want to place doctors in all Brazilian municipalities in a short period of time," Fernandes revealed, as quoted by a local newspaper.

He explained that now the priority will be to hire Brazilians, with registration in the regional councils and to offer vacancies to nationals trained abroad. After that, he specified foreigners would fill other positions.

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Established in 2013 during Dilma Rousseff's administration, More Doctors was intended to increase the number of professionals to provide care, mainly in cities in the interior of the country.

The doctors came from several nations, including Cuba, which revalidated on November 14, 2018, the solidary and humanistic vocation of its health professionals in dozens of countries, by announcing the departure of More Doctors from Brazil, in the face of conditionings and derogatory statements of the then elected ruler Bolsonaro about its specialists.

In 2019, the former military president replaced More Doctors with Doctors for Brazil.

However, according to Fernandes, until today, many of the vacancies of the Cuban doctors who left the South American giant "have not been filled."

As part of More Doctors, the Cuban Ministry of Public Health detailed in a communiqué that in the last five years, nearly 20,000 Cuban collaborators attended 113,359,000 patients in some 3,600 municipalities, "covering a universe of up to 60 million Brazilians".

Following the departure of the Caribbean doctors, current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Lula thanked the Cuban professionals who participated in the program and for Cuba helping other peoples of the world with their medicine.

"How good it would be if we had, like Cuba, doctors even to export to other countries," said the former trade unionist in a letter sent to the Cuban people following the termination of their participation in the program.

He assured that the bonds of fraternity between the peoples of Brazil and Cuba are much stronger than irrational hatred and the Cuban professionals "earned the affection and gratitude of millions of Brazilians."

"That is why I want to say to the people of Cuba: be very proud of your doctors and your medical schools. You have won millions of admirers, millions of grateful people in Brazil," the founder of the Workers' Party stressed on the occasion.

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Brazil Announces ‘Immediate’ Return to CELAC

Brazil has announced its decision to rejoin, fully and immediately, all political and technical entities of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).

President Lula will attend the 7th CELAC Summit, to be held in Buenos Aires on January 24th, at the invitation of Alberto Fernandez, President of Argentina, which holds the forum’s interim presidency. Brazil’s decision to rejoin CELAC is an essential step in restoring our diplomatic heritage and in repositioning Brazil in the international stage.

CELAC brings together all 33 countries of the Latin American and Caribbean region and does not include the United States and Canada. It’s a forum for the promotion of political dialogue, regional coordination and cooperation in themes including health, social inclusion, environment, food security and energy security. Leaders around the region have called for the strengthening of CELAC as an alternative to the discredited Organization of American States (OAS).

[Ravenlocke]

We discuss the latest in Brazil with Brazilian political cartoonist Carlos Latuff and Brazilian-Quechua Bolivian human rights activist Natalie Illanes Nogueira.


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[norman]

Why is this thread called a Military Coup ?

There is no Military Coup

[ExomatrixTV]

Why is this thread called a Military Coup ?

There is no Military Coup


That was already explained ... how the military CAN intervene because that is how their constitution is set up if there is proof of election fraud ... they do it differently than how it works in the USA or UK or anywhere else in Europe.

[Gwin Ru]

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... from Jim Stone:


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... reminds me of my earliest English lessons:


"They have the same tailor and he is very rich!"

... something like that...

[Bill Ryan]

A 20 minute analysis from Alexander Mercouris, just published:

Meanwhile, Bolsonaro has been hospitalized in the US (which seems strange) and Lula has already taken steps to strengthen Brazil's commitment to BRICS (he's close to Putin, and that will please no-one in Washington).

Brazil divided. Lula faces tough road ahead as president


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5_N6vJ6JYI

[ExomatrixTV]

Brazilian Rioters Storm Congress!

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[arwen]

Brazil's former President Bolsonaro is 'admitted to Florida hospital with abdominal pains' one day after his supporters stormed government buildings (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11615709/Brazils-former-President-Bolsonaro-admitted-Florida-hospital-abdominal-pains.html)

He was taken to Advent Health Celebration hospital in Orlando, Florida, on Monday.

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[arwen]

Oh - PS - I should mention - he was spotted having a meal at a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet in Kissimmee, just outside Orlando before he landed in hospital with the intestinal issue. Somebody really should have warned him about American fast food, which is pure poison and can have a devastating effect if you are not used to it and are from a country that has proper food.....

[arwen]

As Brazil reels from riots, Bolsonaro finds home in Central Florida (https://www.clickorlando.com/news/florida/2023/01/09/as-brazil-reels-from-riots-bolsonaro-finds-home-in-central-florida/)

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KISSIMMEE, Fla. – As Brazil reels from mobs of rioters swarming its seats of power, its former leader has decamped to a Florida resort, where droves of supporters flocked to cheer on their ousted president.

Devotees have traveled in recent days to the temporary home of Jair Bolsonaro, a gated community with towering waterslides, for a chance to see him. He signed autographs, hugged children and took selfies with adoring masses, some sporting “Make Brazil Great Again” shirts.

“I will always support him,” said 31-year-old Rafael Silva, who left Brazil eight years ago and now installs flooring in central Florida, where he stood outside Bolsonaro’s rental home Monday. “He was the best for the country.”

By early afternoon, the handful of supporters in yellow jerseys dissipated as word spread that the divisive, hard-right leader was hospitalized with abdominal pain. His wife, Michelle, said on social media that he had been hospitalized for observation due to abdominal discomfort related to a 2018 stabbing that has led to multiple hospitalizations in the past. A photo published by Brazilian newspaper O Globo showed him smiling from his hospital bed. A hospital spokesperson didn't immediately respond to a phone call and text message.

Prior to Sunday’s angry storming of Brazil's Congress, Supreme Court and presidential palace, Bolsonaro had been seen repeatedly in this central Florida community, wandering a Publix supermarket’s aisles, dining alone at a local KFC and, most of all, surrounded by clusters of adoring fans.

Though the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office said it received a request from the Secret Service to provide a police escort for Bolsonaro when he arrived and he was still a sitting president, he has not been surrounded by a noticeable phalanx of security.

“He will make himself right at home in Florida’s right-wing ecosystem of grifting and podcasting, finding allies with whomever thinks they can use him to advance their far-right agenda,” said Andy Reiter, a professor of politics and international relations at Mount Holyoke College who has researched foreign strongmen.

His new home, Encore Resort at Reunion in the suburbs of Orlando, is made up of furnished rental homes with foosball tables, screening rooms, Disney decor on the walls and Mickey Mouse stuffed animals on beds.

If it all seems too odd, the sight of the former leader of one of the world’s biggest countries wandering a gated community a stone’s throw from Walt Disney World in shorts, consider the history.

A stream of regional leaders have called the state home, at least for a time, over the past half century, from Haiti’s Prosper Avril to Nicaragua’s Anastasio Somoza to Panama’s Manuel Noriega. Alongside a list of other Latin American notables, they’ve camped out in both modest homes and elaborate mansions and, in the case of Noriega, a Miami prison cell, where he served 17 years on drug charges.

When asked by reporters Monday if the U.S. would send Bolsonaro back to Brazil, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the Biden administration hadn’t received any requests from Brazil related to the former president.

Brazilian Justice Minister Flavio Dino told reporters that, as of now, Brazil had no plans to ask the U.S. for Bolsonaro to be extradited.

A bevy of Brazilians have been lured to central Florida in the past two decades and have in turn transformed the region with scores of Brazilian shops and restaurants.

Florida has the largest population of residents who were born in Brazil – nearly 130,000 people –- of any U.S. state, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. Many more come as visitors, with 830,000 Brazilians traveling to central Florida in 2019, the third largest international market for the area.

Though Lula da Silva won Brazil’s election by more than 2 million votes, Brazilian voters living in Florida appear to have heavily favored Bolsonaro. Election data for Brazilians living abroad shows 56 polling locations listed under Miami, the only Florida city under which data is compiled.

In each of the 56 areas, Bolsonaro prevailed, some by margins of 6-to-1. All told, more than 16,000 votes were counted among Brazilians under the Miami umbrella, with 81% favoring Bolsonaro.

“He is very popular with the Brazilian emigres in central Florida,” said Joel Stewart, former honorary consul for Brazil in Orlando. Brazil opened a consular office in Orlando last year.

Bolsonaro has long been called the “Trump of the tropics,” so it may come as no surprise that he wound up just a few hours’ drive away from the former American president’s Palm Beach compound. Both rode to power fueled by right-wing, anti-establishment anger, pursued nationalist platforms while in office, then spread lies about voter fraud in their own defeats. Followers of both men attacked the seats of government in anger after their preferred candidate lost.

Rodrigo Constantino, a right-wing Brazilian commentator who lives in Florida, says he sees parallels between Bolsonaro’s support in the state and the reelection triumph of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. Both, he said, amounted to rejections of “the totalitarian, woke, economic egalitarianism and sensational demagogy of the radical left.”

Whatever anger might exist against Bolsonaro in Brazil, Constantino says Brazilians living in Florida will understand and accept him.

“If he wants to come to my house and eat barbecue and chat about soccer or talk bad about communism, he will be very well received,” Constantino said.

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Local leader joins call for removal of former Brazilian president from Central Florida (https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/01/10/local-leader-joins-call-for-removal-of-former-brazilian-president-from-central-florida/)


KISSIMMEE, Fla. – Orlando-area lawmakers are calling for the expulsion of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro from the United States after he was released Monday from an Osceola County hospital.

State Rep. Anna Eskamani (D) told News 6 that Bolsonaro needs to leave the U.S. and take accountability for the ongoing tension in Brazil.

“I think we need to be clear that Bolsonaro is not a only dictator and a far-right facist individual, but he’s in Florida partially to avoid four criminal investigations that he’s currently being sought for,” she said.

As many across the country call on President Joe Biden to remove Bolonsaro from the country, Eskamani said she has been urging Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to take action to remove the former Brazilian president.

In a tweet, saying in part, “Why are are you giving refuge to Jair Bolonsaro in Florida? Is it because you support far-right fascist regimes storming capitols?!”

“It does not make sense that Bolonsaro is here in Florida avoiding criminal investigations, allowing disinformation to be spread in Brazil and around the world,” she said, “This is why I want DeSantis to help urge the White House (to have Bolsonaro removed).”

Congressman Darren Soto spoke to News 6 about the possible motive why Bolsonaro left his country where he faces criminal and electoral investigations that could lead to his arrest.

“Certainly, he wanted to separate himself from perhaps what he felt would be a violent response, but he went to a country with extradition laws. If you’re going to try to escape prosecution going to the United States is not a venue to do that,” Soto, who represents district 9 in Osceola County where the former leader has been staying since December 30th said.

“This is mostly an immigration and foreign diplomatic matter, so it is predominantly President Biden and the State department – certainly we’ve been in touch with them on that and respect the decision they make,” Soto said. “My message is the same for supporters and opposition alike, which is that we’ll follow the law and make sure we abide by the visa and immigration in this country and we’ll respect official extradition request only.”

On Monday, the State Department said if a diplomatic visa holder is no longer involved in official business, it is up to the visa holder to leave the U.S. or request a new type of visa.

“I suppose that they could revoke his diplomatic visa, the State Department is reviewing that, but we shouldn’t be politicizing this. This really needs to be decided by Brazilians; it’s a matter of their democracy,” Soto said. “It’s estimated that Bolsonaro is here on a diplomatic visa, he is no longer a government official, so he’ll have 30 days from the day he arrived to apply for another visa, perhaps a tourism visa or return to Brazil.”

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Brazilian Prosecutor Asks to Block Jair Bolsonaro's Assets

On Tuesday, Lucas Rocha, the deputy prosecutor of the Public Ministry, asked the Brazilian Court of Accounts to block the assets of former president Jair Bolsonaro due to the assault on public buildings that far-right militants carried out on Sunday.

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He has also called for the blocking of the assets of Ibaneis Rocha, the suspended governor of Brasilia, and of Anderson Torres, a faithful ally of Bolsonaro.

To justify his request, the Prosecutor recalled the acts of vandalism that took place on Jan. 8, when Bolsonaro's supporters mobilized from various parts of the country to take over the Presidential Palace, Congress, and the Supreme Court by force.

Aimed at prompting a coup d'état, their actions generated millions in damages, which should be compensated by the perpetrators and accomplices of the attempted destabilization.

On Sunday, Brasilia experienced chaos for four hours until the Bonsonaristas were dispersed by security forces. In the last 48 hours, some 1,500 people have been arrested for assaulting the three branches.


On Tuesday, however, the Federal Police reported that they had released "elderly with chronic illnesses" and "adults responsible for minors." The authorities did not specify the number of Bolsonarists released.

For its part, the Supreme Court removed Ibaneis Rocha from the post of governor of Brasilia for 90 days. This decision was made after considering that this policeman did nothing to neutralize what was happening in the country's capital.

Meanwhile, Bolsonaro has been in the United States since December 30 as he left Brazil two days before his term officially ended. Some Brazilian parliamentarians have already asked the courts to force Bolsonaro to return to the country to clarify his responsibility for the terrorist acts experienced in Brasilia.

Bolsonaro must also respond to dozens of criminal cases, including trials for spreading fake news about democratic institutions and the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Democrat lawmakers urge Biden to void visa of Brazil’s Bolsonaro (https://www.clickorlando.com/news/florida/2023/01/12/dem-lawmakers-urge-biden-to-void-visa-of-brazils-bolsonaro/)


RIO DE JANEIRO – A group of 46 Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to President Joe Biden on Thursday demanding former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s diplomatic visa be canceled in the wake of the rampage in Brazil’s capital by his supporters.

“We request that you reassess his status in the country to ascertain whether there is a legal basis for his stay and revoke any such diplomatic visa he may hold,” said the letter. It continued: “The United States must not provide shelter for him, or any authoritarian who has inspired such violence against democratic institutions.”

The letter was led by Reps. Joaquin Castro of Texas, Gregory Meeks of New York, Ruben Gallego of Arizona, Chuy Garcia of Illinois and Susan Wild of Pennsylvania.

It isn't certain which visa Bolsonaro used to enter the United States on Dec. 30, just before the end of his presidential term. He is staying in a home outside Orlando, Florida, and video has shown him snapping photos with supporters in the gated community and walking around inside a supermarket.

Asked about Bolsonaro's entry, State Department spokesman Ned Price declined Monday to provide specifics about the former president's visa status, citing privacy concerns. He said, however, that anyone entering the U.S. on a so-called A-1 visa reserved for sitting heads of state would have 30 days to either leave the country or adjust their status with the Department of Homeland Security upon conclusion of their term of office.

Following the Oct. 30 election, many of Bolsonaro's die-hard supporters claimed the election was fraudulent. They blocked highways nationwide and began camping outside army buildings, demanding military intervention to overturn the election and keep Bolsonaro in power. Then on Sunday, they trashed Congress, the Supreme Court and the presidential palace.

The lawmakers’ letter contends Bolsonaro is responsible for the mayhem, citing his insistent claims that electronic voting machines were susceptible to fraud and the fact he never conceded defeat nor asked supporters to respect results.

Instead, Bolsonaro and his party petitioned the electoral authority to nullify millions of votes cast on the majority of voting machines that featured a software bug. The request didn’t say how the bug might affect results, and independent experts said it would not undermine reliability in any way. The electoral authority’s president swiftly dismissed the request and imposed a multimillion-dollar fine on the party for what he called a bad-faith effort.

"The unlawful and violent attack on January 8 against Brazilian government institutions was built upon months of pre- and post-election fabrications by Mr. Bolsonaro and his allies," the lawmakers said in the letter.

In the wake of the attack, Bolsonaro said on Twitter that peaceful protests form part of democracy, but destroying public buildings crosses the line.

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A brief biography of Brazilian President Lula to understand his trip to China and his pivotal speech on dedollarization.

Born as the 7th child of poor farmers in Brazil, Lula — Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva — started working at the age of 8 as a delivery boy and a shoeshiner.

As a young adult, he started working in a factory when US foreign policy had a major impact on his life.

In April 1964, the US/CIA staged a coup in Brazil and installed a brutal fascist/military dictatorship that lasted 21 years. Everyone from US President LBJ and the CIA to US military and U.S. Ambassador were deeply involved in this coup.

The US Navy was ready to send warships to Brazil to facilitate the coup!

It was typical Cold War era arrogance and hysteria. US elites didn’t want Brazil to become the “China of the 1960s.” Too many Western corporations were making $$$$ from Brazil’s natural resources.

Leftists and union leaders like Lula were arrested and tortured.

Eventually, in 1980, Lula founded the Worker’s Party and advocated numerous reforms to help the working class and the poor.

In 2002, he won the Presidency and did a lot to help the average Brazilian. When he stepped down after two terms, his approval rating was whopping 87%.

He fully understands imperialism, colonialism, Monroe Doctrine, debt traps of IMF/World Bank etc. at a personal level.

This term might be his last and best chance to leave behind a historic legacy that transforms Brazil and Latin America.

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Declassified documents on how the US engineered the coup in Brazil in 1964 to install a fascist, right-wing, military dictatorship.

And the U.S. President at that time was Lyndon B. Johnson, a liberal Democrat.

This is what Americans and people around the world don’t understand.

Regardless of the rhetoric about freedom and “liberal democracy,” the American Empire always prefers fascists and dictators in developing nations.

Exploitation is easier that way.

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The U.S. media endlessly cries about the Tiananmen Square, but never talks about the tanks in Brazil in 1964.

Or the human rights abuses and widespread torture; or the murders of political leaders, leftists, labor union leaders etc. that took place in Brazil for two decades.

Well, it was a “good” dictatorship that enriched American, British and European multinational corporations!

Even British Queen Elizabeth loved hanging out with Brazilian (and Chilean) fascist dictators!

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🇺🇸🇧🇷 U.S. President Donald Trump has come to the defense of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, warning that he will closely monitor any potential illegal actions taken against Bolsonaro by Brazilian courts.

Trump also stated that he would act to protect Bolsonaro and his family, emphasizing the need to ensure free and fair elections in Brazil in 2026.

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Trump's irrational Brazil tarrif's have given Lula a bump in the polls, but have also given hope to the far right Liberal Party, who are waging an uphill battle trying to get their leader, Jair Bolsonaro, out of Jail. My story
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#Brazil | The Supreme Federal Court (STF) received the final defense brief from former President Jair Bolsonaro, who could face up to 40 years in prison.

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Brazil’s Supreme Court Receives Bolsonaro’s Final Defense in Coup Plot Trial

The far-right politician could face up to 40 years in prison.

On Wednesday, Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court (STF) received the final defense brief from former President Jair Bolsonaro, who could face up to 40 years in prison.

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Bolsonaro Before Justice: An Indispensable Democratic Milestone for Brazil

The far-right politician and 33 of his associates and allies are accused of crimes including coup d’etat, attempted abolition of the democratic rule of law, armed criminal conspiracy, aggravated damage to public property, and deterioration of public assets.

His lawyers asked the Supreme Court to acquit the former president, who has dismissed the accusations as absurd and denied taking part in any coup plot.

“There is no way to convict Jair Bolsonaro based on the evidence in the case, which showed that he oversaw the transition of government, avoided chaos during the truckers’ protests, and told his supporters the world would not end on Dec. 31, 2022 (when his administration ended),” the politician’s attorneys argued.

Bolsonaro is accused of leading a conspiracy with military officers and senior members of his administration to try to prevent the inauguration of Lula da Silva, the Workers’ Party leader who defeated him in the 2022 presidential election.

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The text reads, “History repeats itself when crimes against democracy go unpunished. Spread the word: there will be no amnesty. Bolsonaro belongs in jail!”

“At no time did Jair Bolsonaro engage in any conduct aimed at preventing or hindering the swearing-in of the then president-elect. On the contrary, he always defended and reaffirmed democracy and the rule of law,” his lawyers insisted, calling the coup attempt charge “based on inferences and distorted interpretations.”

In their closing arguments, the defense also asked for the annulment of a plea agreement granted by prosecutors to Bolsonaro’s former aide-de-camp, Lt. Col. Mauro Cid. Under the deal, the ex-aide admitted guilt and implicated others in exchange for a reduced sentence.

The main evidence in the case against Bolsonaro is Cid’s testimony, in which he said he attended meetings at the presidential palace where a draft decree to nullify the election results was discussed.

Bolsonaro’s legal team submitted its final arguments just hours before the defense deadline, which expired at midnight Wednesday, completing the last procedural step before presiding Justice Alexandre de Moraes calls the trial’s final hearing.

The hearing is expected to be scheduled for September, at least for the former president and seven other main defendants, who are identified as the “political nucleus” of the accused.

In July, prosecutors submitted their own final arguments, seeking convictions for these eight defendants, saying there is sufficient evidence to support the charges.

Other defendants include former Chief of Staff Gen. Walter Braga Netto; former head of the Institutional Security Cabinet, Gen. Augusto Heleno Ribeiro; former Defense Minister Gen. Paulo Sergio Nogueira; and former Justice Minister Anderson Torres.

Braga Netto — who was Bolsonaro’s running mate — is the only defendant awaiting trial in prison. Currently, Bolsonaro is under house arrest, ordered two weeks ago by De Moraes after the former president violated restrictions imposed on him, including a ban on sending messages through his own or third-party social media accounts.

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Not content with sanctioning Supreme Court Justices, the Trump govt has announced it will sanction govt officials involved with "Mais Medicos" (more doctors) - one of the most successful public health programs in Brazilian history - because of its partnership with Cuba. +

Mais Medicos was founded by President Dilma Rousseff with the Pan American Health Organization and government of Cuba in 2013. There was no shortage of Brazilian doctors at the time, but it's a traditional elite profession. The vast majority of them preferred to live in cities.

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Mais Medicos was set up to guarantee free universal medical coverage for the 65 million Brazilians who lived in remote rural areas and slums where it was hard to find Brazilian doctors willing to work.

In order to guarantee universal access to doctors, the Rousseff administration announced 18,000 job openings for Brazilians. For the vacancies they were unable to fill, they offered the jobs to doctors from other countries. 11,000 positions were filled by Cubans.

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Jair Bolsonaro gave yet another example of his prioritization of stupid, social media-fueled right wing dogma over the welfare of his own people when he changed the name of the program, cut funding by 50% and invented bureaucratic "rules" for Cubans. Cuba left the program.

One of Lula's 1st steps after taking office was reestablishing Mais Medicos. Now the US Government is harassing the officials managing the program, favoring silly and hypocritical human rights posturing to worsen access to a human right (free healthcare) for millions of people.

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Flávio Bolsonaro does not represent “renewal” or a real alternative for Brazil. He represents the continuation of a project of external subordination, authoritarianism and civilizational regression.

The Bolsonaro clan has no national project. What it has is a project of automatic alignment with the United States under the Trumpist logic, exactly like Milei in Argentina: strategic submission disguised as “liberalism”, with the dismantling of the State, erosion of sovereignty and the surrender of national assets in the name of an imported ideology.

At a moment when U.S. foreign policy toward Latin America is once again operating under the logic of the Monroe Doctrine, now repackaged as China containment, hemispheric control and political disciplining, autonomy is not a diplomatic luxury. It is survival as a nation.

Lula, with all the contradictions that any government inevitably has, represents today something fundamental: the preservation of Brazil’s capacity to act as a sovereign player in the international system, expanding its space within the BRICS and BRICS+, along the Russia–China–India–Southeast Asia–Africa axis, and within what has come to be called the Global Majority. This is not “ideology”. This is pure geopolitics.

Electing Flávio Bolsonaro would mean turning Brazil, in practice, into a strategic backyard of the United States, giving up international room for maneuver, energy, industrial and diplomatic autonomy, precisely at the moment when the world is reorganizing itself into blocs.

Not to mention the domestic project. Bolsonarism comes coupled with a Christian religious fundamentalism that operates as an organized political force, deeply aligned with the Zionist regime and the most reactionary agendas of the West. This is not “private faith”. It is power engineering, social disciplining and the corrosion of the secular state.

The Brazilian Congress already shows the price of this: the systematic dismantling of environmental, labor, civil and social rights legislation, a civilizational regression in progress, legitimized by a far right that instrumentalizes religion, moral panic and cultural fear as a political method.

Flávio Bolsonaro is not just a bad candidate. He is the local expression of a global project of democratic regression, geopolitical subordination and theocratic capture of the State.

Brazil has nothing to gain from this. And everything to lose.

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