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    Can China help Brazil restart its global soft power?
    Bolsonaro reduced Brazil to resources-exporter status; now Lula should follow Argentina’s lead into Belt and Road

    by Pepe Escobar December 22, 2022

    Ten days of full immersion in Brazil are not for the faint-hearted. Even restricted to the top two megalopolises, Sao Paulo and Rio, watching live the impact of interlocking economic, political, social and environmental crises exacerbated by the Jair Bolsonaro project leaves one stunned.

    The return of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for what will be his third presidential term, starting January 1, 2023, is an extraordinary story trespassed by Sisyphean tasks. All at the same time he will have to

    fight poverty;
    reconnect with economic development while redistributing wealth;
    re-industrialize the nation; and
    tame environmental pillage.
    That will force his new government to summon unforeseen creative powers of political and financial persuasion.

    Even a mediocre, conservative politician such as Geraldo Alckmin, former governor of the wealthiest state of the union, Sao Paulo, and coordinator of the presidential transition, was simply astonished at how four years of the Bolsonaro project let loose a cornucopia of vanished documents, a black hole concerning all sorts of data and inexplicable financial losses.

    It’s impossible to ascertain the extent of corruption across the spectrum because simply nothing is in the books: Governmental systems have not been fed since 2020.

    Alckmin summed it all up: “The Bolsonaro government happened in the Stone Age, where there were no words and numbers.”

    Now every single public policy will have to be created, or re-created from scratch, and serious mistakes will be inevitable because of lack of data.

    And we’re not talking about a banana republic – even though the country concerned features plenty of (delicious) bananas.

    By purchasing power parity (PPP), according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Brazil remains the eighth-ranked economic power in the world even after the Bolsonaro devastation years – behind China, the US, India, Japan, Germany, Russia and Indonesia, and ahead of the UK and France.

    A concerted imperial campaign since 2010, duly denounced by WikiLeaks, and implemented by local comprador elites, targeted the Dilma Rousseff presidency – the Brazilian national entrepreneurial champions – and led to Rousseff’s (illegal) impeachment and the jailing of Lula for 580 days on spurious charges (all subsequently dropped), paved the way for Bolsonaro to win the presidency in 2018.

    Were it not for this accumulation of disasters, Brazil – a natural leader of the Global South – by now might possibly be placed as the fifth-largest geo-economic power in the world.

    What the investment gang wants

    Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr, a former vice-president of the New Development Bank (NDB), or BRICS bank, goes straight to the point: Brazil’s dependence on Lula is immensely problematic.

    Batista sees Lula facing at least three hostile blocs.

    The extreme right supported by a significant, powerful faction of the armed forces – and this includes not only Bolsonarists, who are still in front of a few army barracks contesting the presidential election result;
    The physiological right that dominates Congress – known in Brazil as “The Big Center”;
    International financial capital – which, predictably, controls the bulk of mainstream media.
    The third bloc, to a great extent, gleefully embraced Lula’s notion of a United Front capable of defeating the Bolsonaro project (which project, by the way, never ceased to be immensely profitable for the third bloc).

    Now they want their cut. Mainstream media instantly turned to corralling Lula, operating a sort of “financial inquisition,” as described by crack economist Luiz Gonzaga Belluzzo.

    By appointing longtime Workers’ Party loyalist Fernando Haddad as finance minister, Lula signaled that he, in fact, will be in charge of the economy. Haddad is a political-science professor and was a decent minister of education, but he’s no sharp economic guru. Acolytes of the Goddess of the Market, of course, dismiss him.

    Once again, this is the trademark Lula swing in action: He chose to place more importance on what will be complex, protracted negotiations with a hostile Congress to advance his social agenda, confident that all the lineaments of economic policy are in his head.

    A lunch party with some members of Sao Paulo’s financial elite, even before Haddad’s name was announced, offered a few fascinating clues. These people are known as the “Faria Limers” – after the high-toned Faria Lima Avenue, which houses quite a few post-mod investment banks’ offices as well as Google and Facebook HQs.

    Faria Lima Avenue in San Paulo. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
    Lunch attendees included a smattering of rabid anti-Workers’ Party investors, the proverbial unreconstructed neoliberals, yet most were enthusiastic about opportunities ahead to make a killing, including an investor looking for deals involving Chinese companies.

    The neoliberal mantra of those willing – perhaps – to place their bets on Lula (for a price) is “fiscal responsibility.” That frontally clashes with Lula’s focus on social justice.

    That’s where Haddad comes up as a helpful, polite interlocutor because he does privilege nuance, pointing out that only looking at market indicators and forgetting about the 38% of Brazilians who only earn the minimum wage (1,212 Brazilian real or US$233 per month) is not exactly good for business.

    The dark arts of non-government

    Lula is already winning his first battle: approving a constitutional amendment that allows financing of more social spending.

    That allows the government to keep the flagship Bolsa Família welfare program – of roughly $13 a month per poverty-level family – at least for the next two years.

    A stroll across downtown Sao Paulo – which in the 1960s was as chic as mid-Manhattan – offers a sorrowful crash course on impoverishment, shut-down businesses, homelessness and raging unemployment. The notorious “Crack Land” – once limited to a street – now encompasses a whole neighborhood, much like junkie, post-pandemic Los Angeles.

    Rio offers a completely different vibe if one goes for a walk in Ipanema on a sunny day, always a smashing experience. But Ipanema lives in a bubble. The real Rio of the Bolsonaro years – economically massacred, de-industrialized, occupied by militias – came up in a roundtable downtown where I interacted with, among others, a former energy minister and the man who discovered the immensely valuable pre-salt oil reserves.

    In the Q&A, a black man from a very poor community advanced the key challenge for Lula’s third term: To be stable, and able to govern, he has to have the vast poorest sectors of the population backing him up.

    This man voiced what seems not to be debated in Brazil at all: How did there come to be millions of poor Bolsonarists – street cleaners, delivery guys, the unemployed? Right-wing populism seduced them – and the established wings of the woke left had, and still have, nothing to offer them.

    Addressing this problem is as serious as the destruction of Brazilian engineering giants by the Car Wash “corruption” racket. Brazil now has a huge number of well-qualified unemployed engineers. How come they have not amassed enough political organization to reclaim their jobs? Why should they resign themselves to becoming Uber drivers?

    José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, the new head of the UN Economic Commission on Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), may carp about the region’s economic failure as even worse now than in the “lost decade” of the 1980s: Average annual economic growth in Latin America in the decade up to 2023 is set to be just 0.8%.

    Yet what the UN is incapable of analyzing is how a plundering neoliberal regime such as Bolsonaro’s managed to “elevate” to unforeseen toxic levels the dark arts of little or no investment, low productivity and less than zero emphasis on education.

    President Dilma in da house

    Lula was quick to summarize Brazil’s new foreign policy – which will go totally multipolar, with emphasis on increasing Latin American integration, stronger ties across the Global South and a push to reform the UN Security Council (in sync with BRICS members Russia, China and India).

    Mauro Vieira, an able diplomat, will be the new foreign minister. But the man fine-tuning Brazil on the world stage will be Celso Amorim, Lula’s former foreign minister from 2003 to 2010.

    In a conference that reunited us in Sao Paulo, Amorim elaborated on the complexity of the world Lula is now inheriting, compared with 2003. Yet along with climate change the main priorities – achieving closer integration with South America, reviving Unasur (the Union of South American Nations) and re-approaching Africa – remain the same.

    And then there’s the Holy Grail: “good relations with both the US and China.”

    The Empire, predictably, will be on extreme close watch. US national security adviser Jake Sullivan dropped in to Brasilia, during the fist days of the World Cup soccer tournament, and was absolutely charmed by Lula, who’s a master of charisma. Yet the Monroe Doctrine always prevails. Lula getting closer and closer to BRICS – and the expanded BRICS+ – is considered virtual anathema in Washington.

    Jake Sullivan and Lula in Brasilia on November 28. Photo: Ricardo Stuckert
    So Lula will play most overtly in the environment arena. Covertly, it will be a sophisticated balancing act.

    The combo behind US President Joe Biden called Lula to congratulate him soon after the election results. Sullivan was in Brasilia setting the stage for a Lula visit to Washington. Chinese President Xi Jinping for his part sent him an affectionate letter, emphasizing the “global strategic partnership” between Brazil and China. Russian President Vladimir Putin called Lula earlier this week – and emphasized their common strategic approach to BRICS.

    China has been Brazil’s top trade partner since 2009, ahead of the US. Bilateral trade in 2021 hit $135 billion. The problem is lack of diversification and focus on low added value: iron ore, soybeans, raw crude and animal protein accounted for 87.4% of exports in 2021. China exports, on the other hand, are mostly high-tech manufactured products.

    Brazil’s dependence on commodity exports has indeed contributed for years to its rising foreign reserves. But that implies high concentration of wealth, low taxes, low job creation and dependence on cyclical price oscillations.

    There’s no question China is focused on Brazilian natural resources to fuel its new development push – or “peaceful modernization,” as established by the latest Party Congress.

    But Lula will have to strive for a more equal trade balance in case he manages to restart the nation as a solid economy. In 2000, for instance, Brazil’s top export item was Embraer jets. Now, it’s iron ore and soybeans; yet another dire indicator of the ferocious de-industrialization operated by the Bolsonaro project.

    China is already investing substantially in the Brazilian electric sector – mostly due to state companies being bought by Chinese companies. That was the case in 2017 of State Grid buying CPFL in Sao Paulo, for instance, which in turn bought a state company from southern Brazil in 2021.

    From Lula’s point of view, that’s inadmissible: a classic case of privatization of strategic public assets.

    A different scenario plays in neighboring Argentina. Buenos Aires in February became an official partner of the New Silk Roads, or Belt and Road Initiative, with at least $23 billion in new projects on the pipeline. The Argentine railway system will be upgraded by – who else? – Chinese companies, to the tune of $4.6 billion.

    The Chinese will also be investing in the largest solar energy plant in Latin America, a hydroelectric plant in Patagonia, and a nuclear energy plant – complete with transfer of Chinese technology to the Argentine state.

    Lula, beaming with invaluable soft power not only personally when it comes to Xi but also appealing to Chinese public opinion, can get similar strategic partnership deals, with even more amplitude. Brasilia may follow the Iranian partnership model – offering oil and gas in exchange for building critical infrastructure.

    Inevitably, the golden path ahead will be via joint ventures, not mergers and acquisitions. No wonder many in Rio are already dreaming of high-speed rail linking it to Sao Paulo in just over an hour, instead of the current, congested highway journey of six hours (if you’re lucky).

    A key role will be played by former president Dilma Rousseff, who had a long, leisurely lunch with a few of us in Sao Paulo, taking her time to recount, in minutiae, everything from the day she was officially arrested by the military dictatorship (January 16, 1970) to her off-the-record conversations with then-German chancellor Angela Merkel, Putin, and Xi.

    President Dilma Rousseff during a bilateral meeting with the president of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, at the G20 Saint Petersburg summit in 2013. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
    It goes without saying that her political – and personal – capital with both Xi and Putin is stellar. Lula offered her any post she wanted in the new government. Although still a state secret, this will be part of a serious drive to polish Brazil’s global profile, especially across the Global South.

    To recover from the previous, disastrous six years – which included a two-year no man’s land (2016-2018) after the impeachment of president Dilma – Brazil will need an unparalleled national drive of re-industrialization at virtually every level, complete with serious investment in research and development, training of specialized work forces and technology transfer.

    There is a superpower that can play a crucial role in this process: China, Brazil’s close partner in the expanding BRICS+. Brazil is one of the natural leaders of the Global South, a role much prized by the Chinese leadership.

    The key now is for both partners to establish a high-level strategic dialogue – all over again. Lula’s first high-profile foreign visit may be to Washington. But the destination that really matters, as we watch the river of history flow, will be Beijing.
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    That's what's so queer about the modern 'left' when pushed into daylight, it loves weapons more than plough shares. Power more than creativity and honest work.

    Even if exploitation of labour was completely dealt with and vanished, I can't see the lefties coming out blinking into the sunlight, any more. I used to think they would, but I've learned a hell of a lot more about the human condition since those days. All that hate and resentment went straight to hell, and fighting, kicking and cheating to rule hell is no ambition I can align with.
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    Can China help Brazil restart its global soft power?
    Bolsonaro reduced Brazil to resources-exporter status; now Lula should follow Argentina’s lead into Belt and Road

    by Pepe Escobar December 22, 2022

    Ten days of full immersion in Brazil are not for the faint-hearted. Even restricted to the top two megalopolises, Sao Paulo and Rio, watching live the impact of interlocking economic, political, social and environmental crises exacerbated by the Jair Bolsonaro project leaves one stunned.

    The return of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for what will be his third presidential term, starting January 1, 2023, is an extraordinary story trespassed by Sisyphean tasks. All at the same time he will have to

    fight poverty;
    reconnect with economic development while redistributing wealth;
    re-industrialize the nation; and
    tame environmental pillage.
    That will force his new government to summon unforeseen creative powers of political and financial persuasion.

    Even a mediocre, conservative politician such as Geraldo Alckmin, former governor of the wealthiest state of the union, Sao Paulo, and coordinator of the presidential transition, was simply astonished at how four years of the Bolsonaro project let loose a cornucopia of vanished documents, a black hole concerning all sorts of data and inexplicable financial losses.

    It’s impossible to ascertain the extent of corruption across the spectrum because simply nothing is in the books: Governmental systems have not been fed since 2020.

    Alckmin summed it all up: “The Bolsonaro government happened in the Stone Age, where there were no words and numbers.”

    Now every single public policy will have to be created, or re-created from scratch, and serious mistakes will be inevitable because of lack of data.

    And we’re not talking about a banana republic – even though the country concerned features plenty of (delicious) bananas.

    By purchasing power parity (PPP), according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Brazil remains the eighth-ranked economic power in the world even after the Bolsonaro devastation years – behind China, the US, India, Japan, Germany, Russia and Indonesia, and ahead of the UK and France.

    A concerted imperial campaign since 2010, duly denounced by WikiLeaks, and implemented by local comprador elites, targeted the Dilma Rousseff presidency – the Brazilian national entrepreneurial champions – and led to Rousseff’s (illegal) impeachment and the jailing of Lula for 580 days on spurious charges (all subsequently dropped), paved the way for Bolsonaro to win the presidency in 2018.

    Were it not for this accumulation of disasters, Brazil – a natural leader of the Global South – by now might possibly be placed as the fifth-largest geo-economic power in the world.

    What the investment gang wants

    Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr, a former vice-president of the New Development Bank (NDB), or BRICS bank, goes straight to the point: Brazil’s dependence on Lula is immensely problematic.

    Batista sees Lula facing at least three hostile blocs.

    The extreme right supported by a significant, powerful faction of the armed forces – and this includes not only Bolsonarists, who are still in front of a few army barracks contesting the presidential election result;
    The physiological right that dominates Congress – known in Brazil as “The Big Center”;
    International financial capital – which, predictably, controls the bulk of mainstream media.
    The third bloc, to a great extent, gleefully embraced Lula’s notion of a United Front capable of defeating the Bolsonaro project (which project, by the way, never ceased to be immensely profitable for the third bloc).

    Now they want their cut. Mainstream media instantly turned to corralling Lula, operating a sort of “financial inquisition,” as described by crack economist Luiz Gonzaga Belluzzo.

    By appointing longtime Workers’ Party loyalist Fernando Haddad as finance minister, Lula signaled that he, in fact, will be in charge of the economy. Haddad is a political-science professor and was a decent minister of education, but he’s no sharp economic guru. Acolytes of the Goddess of the Market, of course, dismiss him.

    Once again, this is the trademark Lula swing in action: He chose to place more importance on what will be complex, protracted negotiations with a hostile Congress to advance his social agenda, confident that all the lineaments of economic policy are in his head.

    A lunch party with some members of Sao Paulo’s financial elite, even before Haddad’s name was announced, offered a few fascinating clues. These people are known as the “Faria Limers” – after the high-toned Faria Lima Avenue, which houses quite a few post-mod investment banks’ offices as well as Google and Facebook HQs.

    Faria Lima Avenue in San Paulo. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
    Lunch attendees included a smattering of rabid anti-Workers’ Party investors, the proverbial unreconstructed neoliberals, yet most were enthusiastic about opportunities ahead to make a killing, including an investor looking for deals involving Chinese companies.

    The neoliberal mantra of those willing – perhaps – to place their bets on Lula (for a price) is “fiscal responsibility.” That frontally clashes with Lula’s focus on social justice.

    That’s where Haddad comes up as a helpful, polite interlocutor because he does privilege nuance, pointing out that only looking at market indicators and forgetting about the 38% of Brazilians who only earn the minimum wage (1,212 Brazilian real or US$233 per month) is not exactly good for business.

    The dark arts of non-government

    Lula is already winning his first battle: approving a constitutional amendment that allows financing of more social spending.

    That allows the government to keep the flagship Bolsa Família welfare program – of roughly $13 a month per poverty-level family – at least for the next two years.

    A stroll across downtown Sao Paulo – which in the 1960s was as chic as mid-Manhattan – offers a sorrowful crash course on impoverishment, shut-down businesses, homelessness and raging unemployment. The notorious “Crack Land” – once limited to a street – now encompasses a whole neighborhood, much like junkie, post-pandemic Los Angeles.

    Rio offers a completely different vibe if one goes for a walk in Ipanema on a sunny day, always a smashing experience. But Ipanema lives in a bubble. The real Rio of the Bolsonaro years – economically massacred, de-industrialized, occupied by militias – came up in a roundtable downtown where I interacted with, among others, a former energy minister and the man who discovered the immensely valuable pre-salt oil reserves.

    In the Q&A, a black man from a very poor community advanced the key challenge for Lula’s third term: To be stable, and able to govern, he has to have the vast poorest sectors of the population backing him up.

    This man voiced what seems not to be debated in Brazil at all: How did there come to be millions of poor Bolsonarists – street cleaners, delivery guys, the unemployed? Right-wing populism seduced them – and the established wings of the woke left had, and still have, nothing to offer them.

    Addressing this problem is as serious as the destruction of Brazilian engineering giants by the Car Wash “corruption” racket. Brazil now has a huge number of well-qualified unemployed engineers. How come they have not amassed enough political organization to reclaim their jobs? Why should they resign themselves to becoming Uber drivers?

    José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, the new head of the UN Economic Commission on Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), may carp about the region’s economic failure as even worse now than in the “lost decade” of the 1980s: Average annual economic growth in Latin America in the decade up to 2023 is set to be just 0.8%.

    Yet what the UN is incapable of analyzing is how a plundering neoliberal regime such as Bolsonaro’s managed to “elevate” to unforeseen toxic levels the dark arts of little or no investment, low productivity and less than zero emphasis on education.

    President Dilma in da house

    Lula was quick to summarize Brazil’s new foreign policy – which will go totally multipolar, with emphasis on increasing Latin American integration, stronger ties across the Global South and a push to reform the UN Security Council (in sync with BRICS members Russia, China and India).

    Mauro Vieira, an able diplomat, will be the new foreign minister. But the man fine-tuning Brazil on the world stage will be Celso Amorim, Lula’s former foreign minister from 2003 to 2010.

    In a conference that reunited us in Sao Paulo, Amorim elaborated on the complexity of the world Lula is now inheriting, compared with 2003. Yet along with climate change the main priorities – achieving closer integration with South America, reviving Unasur (the Union of South American Nations) and re-approaching Africa – remain the same.

    And then there’s the Holy Grail: “good relations with both the US and China.”

    The Empire, predictably, will be on extreme close watch. US national security adviser Jake Sullivan dropped in to Brasilia, during the fist days of the World Cup soccer tournament, and was absolutely charmed by Lula, who’s a master of charisma. Yet the Monroe Doctrine always prevails. Lula getting closer and closer to BRICS – and the expanded BRICS+ – is considered virtual anathema in Washington.

    Jake Sullivan and Lula in Brasilia on November 28. Photo: Ricardo Stuckert
    So Lula will play most overtly in the environment arena. Covertly, it will be a sophisticated balancing act.

    The combo behind US President Joe Biden called Lula to congratulate him soon after the election results. Sullivan was in Brasilia setting the stage for a Lula visit to Washington. Chinese President Xi Jinping for his part sent him an affectionate letter, emphasizing the “global strategic partnership” between Brazil and China. Russian President Vladimir Putin called Lula earlier this week – and emphasized their common strategic approach to BRICS.

    China has been Brazil’s top trade partner since 2009, ahead of the US. Bilateral trade in 2021 hit $135 billion. The problem is lack of diversification and focus on low added value: iron ore, soybeans, raw crude and animal protein accounted for 87.4% of exports in 2021. China exports, on the other hand, are mostly high-tech manufactured products.

    Brazil’s dependence on commodity exports has indeed contributed for years to its rising foreign reserves. But that implies high concentration of wealth, low taxes, low job creation and dependence on cyclical price oscillations.

    There’s no question China is focused on Brazilian natural resources to fuel its new development push – or “peaceful modernization,” as established by the latest Party Congress.

    But Lula will have to strive for a more equal trade balance in case he manages to restart the nation as a solid economy. In 2000, for instance, Brazil’s top export item was Embraer jets. Now, it’s iron ore and soybeans; yet another dire indicator of the ferocious de-industrialization operated by the Bolsonaro project.

    China is already investing substantially in the Brazilian electric sector – mostly due to state companies being bought by Chinese companies. That was the case in 2017 of State Grid buying CPFL in Sao Paulo, for instance, which in turn bought a state company from southern Brazil in 2021.

    From Lula’s point of view, that’s inadmissible: a classic case of privatization of strategic public assets.

    A different scenario plays in neighboring Argentina. Buenos Aires in February became an official partner of the New Silk Roads, or Belt and Road Initiative, with at least $23 billion in new projects on the pipeline. The Argentine railway system will be upgraded by – who else? – Chinese companies, to the tune of $4.6 billion.

    The Chinese will also be investing in the largest solar energy plant in Latin America, a hydroelectric plant in Patagonia, and a nuclear energy plant – complete with transfer of Chinese technology to the Argentine state.

    Lula, beaming with invaluable soft power not only personally when it comes to Xi but also appealing to Chinese public opinion, can get similar strategic partnership deals, with even more amplitude. Brasilia may follow the Iranian partnership model – offering oil and gas in exchange for building critical infrastructure.

    Inevitably, the golden path ahead will be via joint ventures, not mergers and acquisitions. No wonder many in Rio are already dreaming of high-speed rail linking it to Sao Paulo in just over an hour, instead of the current, congested highway journey of six hours (if you’re lucky).

    A key role will be played by former president Dilma Rousseff, who had a long, leisurely lunch with a few of us in Sao Paulo, taking her time to recount, in minutiae, everything from the day she was officially arrested by the military dictatorship (January 16, 1970) to her off-the-record conversations with then-German chancellor Angela Merkel, Putin, and Xi.

    President Dilma Rousseff during a bilateral meeting with the president of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, at the G20 Saint Petersburg summit in 2013. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
    It goes without saying that her political – and personal – capital with both Xi and Putin is stellar. Lula offered her any post she wanted in the new government. Although still a state secret, this will be part of a serious drive to polish Brazil’s global profile, especially across the Global South.

    To recover from the previous, disastrous six years – which included a two-year no man’s land (2016-2018) after the impeachment of president Dilma – Brazil will need an unparalleled national drive of re-industrialization at virtually every level, complete with serious investment in research and development, training of specialized work forces and technology transfer.

    There is a superpower that can play a crucial role in this process: China, Brazil’s close partner in the expanding BRICS+. Brazil is one of the natural leaders of the Global South, a role much prized by the Chinese leadership.

    The key now is for both partners to establish a high-level strategic dialogue – all over again. Lula’s first high-profile foreign visit may be to Washington. But the destination that really matters, as we watch the river of history flow, will be Beijing.

    what a fine piece of trash huh, Scobar??? what a joke.

    Lula, Alckmin, Dilma all top notch professional thieves and gangsters. They are good when they are dead.
    The left wing in Brazil is extremist, they are terrorists, every thing they touch they corrupt.
    Going further Lula is a murderer, he ordered the killings of majors and others that stepped in his way.
    I am not afraid in saying that, I can provide hard proof if you want. It is already common sense in Brazil, only the scam of earth supports Lula over there.
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    BRAZIL UPDATE: Military Movements Continue – “The Armed Forces Have to Act”
    thegatewaypundit - By Richard Abelson - Published December 24, 2022

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...ed-forces-act/

    Speaking to Steve Bannon, Matt Tyrmand said that “The coup is on Lula’s side. Justice Barroso said, ‘We don’t win elections, we take them. These are Communists.”


    Deputy Colonel Tadeu of the Bolsonaro-allied Liberal Party has accused the Judiciary of “abuse of power”, as Jornal da Cidade reports: “The situation is getting unbearable. The time will come when the Armed Forces have to act, If Brazil starts to become a dictatorship, I believe the Army will act without anyone asking”, Tadeu told JCO TV. “We will not need to ask them to intervene.”


    Timeline

    By law, Bolsonaro should have left the Presidential Palace 15 days before powers is handed over to Lula on Jan. 1. This did not happen.

    The Army, Navy, and Air Force Commanders Lula wants to replace have also remained in position.

    Protests continue all over Brazil.

    The (pro-Lula) Supreme Court has decided to buy its own APCs

    The Armed Forces have begun exercises all over Brazil and signed a national mobilization order.

    The Minister of Defense called up the reserves and called for volunteers to join the reserves.

    Bolsonaro relocated 300 staffers to the Presidency.

    Bolsonaro nominated 12 new diplomats, which the Senate approved.

    Bolsonaro transferred many generals and promoted others, strengthening his support.

    Bolsonaro authorized huge quantities of gasoline to be bought to fuel tanks and APCs.

    The Ministry of Defence expropriated areas reserved for nuclear energy.

    The Ministry of Defence signed up companies for the so-called Estado de Mobilization de guerra (mobilization state war).

    The Parliament has gone on holiday, so there will not be interference from the Senate.

    Lula only has a few days to make deals with the party.

    The governor of Rio Grande do Sul broke off his relationship with Lula.

    What will happen next?


    https://rumble.com/v223rry-matthew-t...il-update.html


    Source: https://www.rumble.com/video/v1zhmws/?pub=4

    Yesterday I had a chat with my old relative living in Brazil, he said the current president (Bolsonaro) until 31/12/2022 already spoke about the article 142 which gives the power for the 3 forces in the country, they will then set up a military junta, and the elections will be cancelled.
    It is 4 days from now, the 3 forces will act as "moderators" of the situation in the country until new elections can be held again. The people of Brazil already demonstrated on streets and made it clear what they want which goes exactly as the article says, the request for intervention must come from the people.

    article 142 source:
    PT: Artigo 142 da Constituição Federal de 1988
    EN: Article 142 of the 1988 Federal Constitution
    https://www.jusbrasil.com.br/topicos...ederal-de-1988
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    Prez Bolsonaro's call to arms inspired foiled Brazil bomb plot: Cops
    Police have been told that the man arrested for attempting to set off a bomb in protest against Brazil's election result was inspired by far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's call to arms.

    By Reuters: A man arrested for attempting to set off a bomb in protest against Brazil's election result was inspired to build up an arsenal by far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's call to arms, according to a copy of his police testimony seen by Reuters.

    George Washington de Oliveira Sousa was arrested on Saturday, the day after police said they foiled his plot to set off an explosive device near the Brasilia airport.

    The incident added a new dimension to post-election violence in Brazil, where tensions remain high after the most fraught election in a generation.

    Incoming Justice Minister Flavio Dino said in a television interview on Monday that security would need to be beefed up for Sunday's inauguration of leftist President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who defeated the incumbent Bolsonaro.

    ALSO READ | 'Hurts my soul': Brazil's Bolsonaro as his supporters seek military coup against Lula

    "We're not talking about a lone wolf," Dino said of Sousa. "There are powerful people behind this and the police will investigate. We won't allow political terrorism in Brazil."

    Sousa's initial lawyer, Wallison dos Reis Pereira, said he had confessed and was cooperating with police. His current lawyer, Jorge Chediak, said he had yet to speak with Sousa, who is in jail, but said his confession to police was full of "contradictions."

    A 54-year-old gas station manager from the northern state of Para, Sousa told police that Bolsonaro's sowing of election doubts inspired his Dec. 12 journey to the capital.

    After arriving in Brasilia, he joined an encampment of pro-Bolsonaro election-deniers outside the army headquarters who were calling for a coup.

    "My trip to Brasilia was so I could join the protests in front of the army headquarters and wait for the armed forces to authorize me to take up arms and destroy communism," he said, according to the copy of his testimony.

    Sousa said he had become a registered gun-owner, known as CAC, in October last year, joining a group that has swelled sixfold to nearly 700,000 people since Bolsonaro was elected in 2018 and began loosening gun laws.

    He said he had invested nearly 160,000 reais ($30,800) since then to grow his arsenal. He said he took two 12-gauge shotguns, two revolvers, three pistols, a rifle, over a thousand rounds and five sticks of dynamite with him on his drive to Brasilia.

    "What motivated me to buy the guns were the words of President Bolsonaro, who always emphasized the importance of civilians being armed by saying, 'An armed population will never be enslaved,'" Sousa said.

    He added that he planned to share his weapons with other CAC-holders in the Brasilia camp. On Dec. 12, the day Lula's victory was certified, some of the camp-dwellers attacked the federal police HQ in Brasilia.

    Sousa said he enjoyed some level of official support.

    ALSO READ | World Bank to lend $500 million to help Brazil meet climate goals

    After the Dec. 12 attack, he said police and firemen near the camp told him they would not arrest any protesters for vandalism, as long as they did not attack cops. Their comments led him to believe that "the armed forces' intervention would be declared soon."

    But as the weeks passed without a coup, he said he and others in the camp came up with a plan to prevent Lula from taking office. Their idea, he said, was "to provoke a military intervention and the decree of a state of siege to prevent the installation of communism in Brazil."

    An initial scheme was to blow up a bomb in the car park of Brasilia's airport, followed by anonymous tips of two more bombs in the departure lounge, he said. The plotters also considered blowing up an electrical sub-station, he added.

    Sousa told police he built the bomb on Dec. 23, using the dynamite he had brought with him from Para, and a remote triggering device that someone else in the camp gave him. He said he handed the bomb to a fellow camp-dweller, asking him to install it by the sub-station as "I did not agree with the idea of exploding it in the airport carpark."

    That same day, Sousa saw on the news that police had found the bomb near the airport. The following day, after seeing strange men near his rented apartment, he decided to pack his bags and put his weapons in the trunk of his car to leave Brasilia, but wa

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    Bolsonaro's call to arms inspired foiled Brazil bomb plot, suspect tells police
    BRASILIA –

    A man arrested for attempting to set off a bomb in protest against Brazil’s election result was inspired to build up an arsenal by far-right President Jair Bolsonaro’s call to arms, according to a copy of his police testimony seen by Reuters.

    George Washington de Oliveira Sousa was arrested Saturday, the day after police said they foiled his plot to set off an explosive device near Brasilia Airport.

    The incident added a new dimension to post-election violence in Brazil, where tensions remain high after the most fraught vote in a generation.

    Incoming Justice Minister Flavio Dino said in a television interview Monday that security would need to be strengthened for Sunday’s inauguration of leftist President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who defeated the incumbent Bolsonaro.

    “We’re not talking about a lone wolf,” Dino said of Sousa. “There are powerful people behind this and the police will investigate. We won’t allow political terrorism in Brazil.”

    Sousa’s initial lawyer, Wallison dos Reis Pereira, said he had confessed and was cooperating with police. His current lawyer, Jorge Chediak, said he had yet to speak with Sousa, who is in jail, but said his confession to police was full of “contradictions.”

    A 54-year-old gas station manager from the northern state of Para, Sousa told police that Bolsonaro’s sowing of election doubts inspired his Dec. 12 journey to the capital.

    After arriving in Brasilia, he joined an encampment of pro-Bolsonaro election-deniers, outside the army headquarters, who were calling for a coup.

    “My trip to Brasilia was so I could join the protests in front of the army headquarters and wait for the armed forces to authorize me to take up arms and destroy communism,” he said, according to the copy of his testimony.

    Sousa said he had become a registered gun-owner, known as CAC, in October last year, joining a group that has swelled sixfold to nearly 700,000 people since Bolsonaro was elected in 2018 and began loosening gun laws.

    He said he had invested nearly 160,000 reais ($30,800) since then to grow his arsenal. He said he took two 12-gauge shotguns, two revolvers, three pistols, a rifle, over a thousand rounds and five sticks of dynamite with him on his drive to Brasilia.

    “What motivated me to buy the guns were the words of President Bolsonaro, who always emphasized the importance of civilians being armed by saying, ‘An armed population will never be enslaved,'” Sousa said.

    He added that he planned to share his weapons with other CAC-holders in the Brasilia camp. On Dec. 12, the day Lula’s victory was certified, some of the camp-dwellers attacked the federal police HQ in Brasilia.

    Sousa said he enjoyed some level of official support. After the Dec. 12 attack, he said police and firemen near the camp told him they would not arrest any protesters for vandalism as long as they did not attack police officers. Their comments led him to believe that “the armed forces’ intervention would be declared soon.”

    But as the weeks passed without a coup, he said he and others in the camp came up with a plan to prevent Lula from taking office. Their idea, he said, was “to provoke a military intervention and the decree of a state of siege to prevent the installation of communism in Brazil.”

    An initial scheme was to blow up a bomb in the car park of Brasilia’s airport, followed by anonymous tips of two more bombs in the departure lounge, he said. The plotters also considered blowing up an electricity substation, he added.

    Sousa told police he built the bomb on Dec. 23, using the dynamite he had brought with him from Para, and a remote triggering device that someone else in the camp gave him. He said he handed the bomb to a fellow camp-dweller, asking him to install it by the substation as “I did not agree with the idea of exploding it in the airport car park.”

    That same day, Sousa saw on the news that police had found the bomb near the airport. The following day, after seeing strange men near his rented apartment, he decided to pack his bags and put his weapons in the trunk of his car to leave Brasilia, but was arrested by police before he could depart.
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    Analysis: Bolsonaro election loss could cut Brazilian Amazon deforestation by 89%


    A loss for Jair Bolsonaro in the upcoming Brazilian presidential election could lead to Amazon deforestation in his nation falling by 89% over the next decade, according to new analysis conducted for Carbon Brief.

    A victory for left-wing challenger and current frontrunner Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – commonly known as Lula – could avoid 75,960km2 of Amazon rainforest loss by 2030, the analysis shows – an area roughly the size of Panama. This would also significantly curb Brazil’s emissions when accompanied by a new focus on forest restoration.

    This assumes that Lula would follow through on a pledge to address illegal deforestation in the Amazon, in line with his previous presidency, while Bolsonaro would continue to oversee weak environmental governance that allows such activities to continue. It also assumes these conditions would remain the same out to 2030.

    The analysis, by researchers at the University of Oxford, the International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA) and the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), models the implementation of Brazil’s Forest Code, the country’s flagship legislation for tackling deforestation in the Amazon and other ecosystems.

    There are many factors that could influence the future of the Amazon, but the results highlight the impact that enforcing environmental legislation could have after years of neglect under Brazil’s current right-wing leader.

    (31/10/2022: Lula has won a very slim majority in the second round of the presidential election, ousting Bolsonaro. In his victory speech, the veteran left-wing politician pledged to fight for zero deforestation and said he was open to international cooperation to protect the Amazon.)

    Amazon election

    Brazil is the world’s sixth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, largely due to the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from deforestation and the methane from cattle pastures on cleared land. Its land-use emissions also make it the fourth-largest historical emitter.

    By far the main driver of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is beef production, with soybeans for animal feed a distant second. The nation is the largest beef exporter in the world, primarily serving markets in China and the US.

    All of this gives global significance to the Brazilian government’s approach to deforestation and big agribusiness expansion.

    For the past four years since his election, right-wing president Bolsonaro has weakened existing environmental protections and legitimised illegal activity. As the chart below shows, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has increased since he took power, wiping out 34,018km2 of rainforest, an area larger than Belgium, in his first three years.

    Forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon (km2) under different presidents, including Lula (red) and Bolsonaro (blue). Source: Program to Calculate Deforestation in the Amazon (PRODES), INPE. Chart made by Josh Gabbatiss for Carbon Brief using Highcharts.
    This is because, despite pledging to end illegal deforestation by 2030, in reality the president has thrown his support behind the nation’s powerful agricultural sector, allowing them to operate without restrictions and spread into Indigenous lands.

    In contrast, between 2003 and 2010, when Lula was last president, deforestation in the Amazon fell by around three-quarters from a peak in 2004. Forest loss remained low under his fellow Workers’ Party politician Dilma Rouseff, who held the presidency until she was removed from office in 2016.

    Lula, who is Bolsonaro’s main challenger in the upcoming presidential election after a spell in prison on controversial corruption charges, has published a manifesto referencing this past success. It notes that:

    “In our governments, we have reduced deforestation by almost 80% in the Amazon, the largest contribution ever made by a country to mitigate climate change between 2004 and 2012.”

    It adds that Lula intends to repeat these achievements, while mentioning plans to tackle illegal deforestation and invest in forest restoration.

    With Brazil heading to the polls on 2 October, there are signs that a victory for Lula could see a reversal of the downward trend in environmental standards that has marked Bolsonaro’s time in office.

    No Forest Code

    To explore the implications of each presidential candidate winning the upcoming election, new analysis for Carbon Brief projects the future of the Brazilian Amazon under two different scenarios.

    It is a refined update of a 2018 study that assessed the implementation of Brazil’s flagship Forest Code. It uses the GLOBIOM-Brazil model, which computes land-use change, while accounting for the production of dozens of agricultural products, global trade and various other factors, and its initial land-use data comes from MapBiomas.

    The Forest Code, first introduced in 1965, remains Brazil’s main law to reduce deforestation. It requires landowners to preserve a certain proportion of forest on their property and restore land that has been illegally deforested.

    Deforestation of isolated brazil nut trees to make way for a soy plantation in the Amazon rainforest near Santarem, 1 August 2020. Credit: BrazilPhotos / Alamy Stock Photo.
    Changes over the past decade have benefited many landowners and the code has been poorly enforced under Bolsonaro.

    Dr Aline Soterroni is the researcher who led the analysis, along with colleagues at the University of Oxford, the International Institute for Applied System Analysis and National Institute for Space Research (INPE) as part of the Agile, Nature-based Solutions and Oxford Net Zero Initiatives.

    Soterroni tells Carbon Brief that under a baseline scenario in which the Forest Code continues being ignored, “annual deforestation rates in the Amazon are projected to stay above 10,000km2, on average, this decade”.

    This can be seen in the chart below, with levels remaining at roughly the same level as they have been during Bolsonaro’s presidency so far. (The modelling runs from 2000 to 2050 in five-year steps. In the chart, model outputs were divided into years and begin from 2022.)

    Forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon (km2) under different presidents, including Lula (red) and Bolsonaro (blue), and projected future forest loss in a “baseline” scenario in which the Forest Code is not implemented, using results from the GLOBIOM-Brazil model. For values beyond 2021, total deforestation in calculated in five-year intervals and then divided across the period. Source: University of Oxford, Program to Calculate Deforestation in the Amazon (PRODES), INPE. Chart made by Josh Gabbatiss for Carbon Brief using Highcharts.
    Soterroni notes that a slight dip in projected deforestation in the coming years can be attributed to modelling assumptions on technological changes and smaller growth rates in demand for Brazilian beef, soy and other products when compared to previous years.

    Experts tell Carbon Brief that despite references to addressing illegal deforestation in his manifesto, there is little reason to think the Forest Code would be enforced under Bolsonaro. Carlos Rittl, a senior policy advisor at Rainforest Foundation Norway, says:

    “If he remains in power in 2023, no one should expect that Bolsonaro’s war against the Amazon, Indigenous people, environmental legislation, including the Forest Code, and science to monitor forests and land use [to] change.

    In fact, Rittl says that, in his view, a victory for Bolsonaro would likely see the pace of deforestation accelerate in the coming years, including “huge” areas beyond the scope of the Forest Code.

    Forest Code observed

    In contrast, while Lula was president between 2003 and 2010, the downward trend in deforestation has been attributed to an array of measures including improved satellite monitoring systems, new protected areas and enhanced enforcement of the Forest Code.

    The second modelled scenario involves the full implementation of the Forest Code, including an end to illegal deforestation as well as restoration of illegally degraded areas and other measures to protect forests.

    As the chart below shows, this sees deforestation levels drop by 89%, from 13,038km2 in 2021 to 1,480km2 at the end of the decade. In percentage terms, this is a comparable reduction to the one that took place during Lula’s last eight-year presidency.

    Forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon (km2) under different presidents, including Lula (red) and Bolsonaro (blue), and projected future forest loss in a scenario in which the Forest Code is implemented, using results from the GLOBIOM-Brazil model. For values beyond 2021, total deforestation in calculated in five-year intervals and then divided across the period. Source: University of Oxford, Program to Calculate Deforestation in the Amazon (PRODES), INPE. Chart made by Josh Gabbatiss for Carbon Brief using Highcharts.
    While they say complete enforcement could be difficult, experts are optimistic about Lula’s adherence to the Forest Code. Dr Grace Iara Souza, a fellow of the King’s College Brazil Institute, tells Carbon Brief:

    “Lula has a track record of conservation and control policies from past mandates…There is hope that Lula’s government will be mindful of the global climate change and the Amazonian tipping point concerns and will restore the Forest Code.”

    Rittl notes the recent reunion of Lula and his former environment minister Marina Silva, who oversaw much of his administration’s successes in the Amazon. The two politicians, who had fallen out in recent years, met to discuss “proposals for a more sustainable Brazil”.

    There are many challenges facing a president wanting to curb illegal deforestation, not least the fact that much of it has been taking place on illegally occupied public lands subject to “land grabbing” in recent years. There has also been a surge in illegal gold mining on Indigenous lands under Bolsonaro.

    Lula would also have to rebuild the nation’s environmental agencies and infrastructure, operating on the lowest environmental budget a Brazilian government has had in decades.

    Dr Brenda Brito, an associate researcher at the research institute Imazon, tells Carbon Brief a sudden drop in deforestation, of the kind implied by the five-year intervals of the model, is unlikely:

    “I think it’s more likely to expect a drop next year similar to the one observed between 2004 to 2005 (around 30%) and then higher cuts in the deforestation rate as the government reorganises the environmental institutions that were significantly weakened under Bolsonaro`s government and implement additional policies.”

    Rittl concludes: “It won’t be an easy task. However, it would be an administration that would work for the enforcement of environmental laws, which includes the Forest Code.”

    Source to sink

    In total, the modelling covers the whole of Brazil, including changes across a variety of landscapes such as savannas, natural grassland and other ecosystems, as well as rainforests.

    Many of the regions most vulnerable to farmland conversion – such as the central Cerrado region – are not, in fact, in the Amazon. Even in the Forest Code scenario, Soterroni notes that 330,000km2 of native vegetation would disappear by 2050, especially in the Cerrado and the north-eastern Caatinga region.

    This can be seen in the maps below, which show the distribution of deforestation (red) and ecosystem restoration (green) across the whole 2021-2050 period the model runs for, under the baseline (left) and Forest Code (green) scenarios. It shows a particularly marked reduction in deforestation in the Amazon region in the north-west if the code is implemented.

    These changes would have significant implications for Brazil’s climate targets.

    Bolsonaro has committed to a net-zero emissions target by 2050, but the credibility of this goal has been questioned. Experts have noted that Brazil’s land-use sector would be essential to achieving such a target, but the latest data suggests CO2 emissions from the Amazon under Bolsonaro have been double the average for the previous eight years.

    In its analysis of total land-use emissions, which make up roughly one-third of Brazil’s total greenhouse gas emissions, the new modelling shows the impact of addressing deforestation and promoting ecosystem restoration.
    The chart below shows land-use emissions across Brazil under the baseline scenario, with tree-planting (purple) offsetting a small amount of emissions but the sector remaining a net source out to 2050. Crucially, these numbers are higher than reality as they do not include carbon removals from native forests.

    Emissions from land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) in Brazil at five-year intervals between 2020 and 2050, under the “baseline” scenario where the Forest Code is not implemented. Negative values for ecosystem restoration (blue) and afforestation (purple) indicate emissions that have been removed from the atmosphere. Source: University of Oxford. Chart made by Josh Gabbatiss for Carbon Brief using Highcharts.
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    However, a very different picture emerges if the Forest Code is implemented, meaning landowners have to restore large areas that have been illegally deforested in the past.

    As the chart below shows, emissions removals from the combination of ecosystem restoration and afforestation would be nearly cancelled out emissions from land-use change by 2035 and the sector would become a carbon sink by 2040.

    Emissions from land use, land-use change, and forestry (LULUCF) in Brazil at five-year intervals between 2020 and 2050, under the scenario where the Forest Code is implemented. Negative values for ecosystem restoration (blue) and afforestation (purple) indicate emissions that have been removed from the atmosphere. Source: University of Oxford. Chart made by Josh Gabbatiss for Carbon Brief using Highcharts.
    These results show the importance of the Forest Code and other measures to curb deforestation and enhance restoration, if Brazil is to stand a chance of achieving its net-zero target by the middle of the century.
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    Waw, he's going see in the new year and the expected inauguration, with President Donald Trump.

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    Report: Brazil's Bolsonaro to skip successor's inauguration for Mar-a-Lago vacation instead
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    Brazil Election Court Could Ban Jair Bolsonaro from Office

    Brazil’s Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE) may soon impose a ban on former President Jair Bolsonaro from running for office, national media outlets reported this week, for allegedly having spread disinformation about the nation’s electoral system during an official encounter with diplomats in July.

    The speculation over potential action by the TSE is ongoing alongside legal proceedings in a case against the former president over allegations of improper handling of jewels gifted to Brazil by the government of Saudi Arabia.

    The former case’s rapporteur, TSE minister (judge) Benedito Gonçalves, informed Bolsonaro and his defense team on Friday that they had two working days to submit their closing arguments, as the TSE had concluded the instruction phase of the case.

    Gonçalves is expected to release the case against Bolsonaro to be judged by Brazil’s Superior Electoral Tribunal on April 10. If a majority of the top court’s judges rule against Bolsonaro at the end of the trial, the former president may be banned from running for public office for a period of eight years, barring him from the 2026 presidential race.

    “The rich body of evidence gathered in the records, which was formed with extensive participation of the parties and the [Electoral Public Ministry], exhausts the purposes of the instruction,” Gonçalves said. “Which is why it is necessary to close the present procedural stage.”

    Bolsonaro stands accused of having allegedly spread misinformation about Brazil’s electoral ballot boxes and having questioned the nation’s electoral system during an official meeting with foreign ambassadors in July 2022, in the middle of the 2022 presidential election campaign.

    Videos of the meeting between Bolsonaro and the ambassadors were removed from Facebook, Instagram, and Google in August after the TSE ordered their immediate deletion. The TSE fined Bolsonaro 20,000 Brazilian reais (roughly $3,966) for having asserted to the group of diplomats that Brazil’s electoral system was “completely vulnerable” without presenting evidence to sustain his claims.

    The Electoral Court’s legal proceedings against the former president were carried out after Brazil’s Democratic Labour Party (PDT) filed a lawsuit against Bolsonaro in August demanding the former president be banned from running for office over his statements given at the meeting with ambassadors in July.

    TSE’s actions are ongoing as Bolsonaro faces a second probe. The Brazilian Federal Police are investigating a set of jewelry that Bolsonaro claimed in an interview with CNN Brasil shortly before his return to the country was given to him and his wife Michelle Bolsonaro by the government of Saudi Arabia as gifts.

    Bolsonaro, who returned to Brazil last week after spending three months in the United States, gave his deposition regarding the jewelry at the headquarters of the Brazilian Federal Police in Brasília on Wednesday afternoon. The Federal Police are conducting an investigation to determine if Bolsonaro committed a crime by attempting to keep the luxury jewelry in his possession.

    The jewelry, estimated to have a value of 16.5 million Brazilian reais (roughly $3.27 million), was brought over to Brazil by former Energy and Mines Minister Bento Albuquerque in October 2021 after an official trip. Brazilian customs and tax authorities seized and retained the jewelry at the Guarulhos airport for failure to pay the required import duty fees.

    Bolsonaro denied any irregularities pertaining to the jewelry during his interview with CNN Brasil, identifying them as gifts and insisting he had properly registered them with his government.

    “If there was bad faith on the part of someone, they would not have been registered,” Bolsonaro told CNN. “Nothing was hidden. If the press divulges it, it is because there is a record saying that it was received.”

    According to the Brazilian newspaper Estadao, Bolsonaro reportedly requested the release of the jewelry from the nation’s autonomous tax authorities on several opportunities, to no avail.

    “It was sought, documentally, with letters,” Bolsonaro told CNN. “We sought to recover this material for the collection, by letter, no one wanted to seek it in the big hand [Brazilian slang term for thievery].”

    Bolsonaro handed over another set of jewelry and firearms received from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates through his lawyers on March 24. The items are reportedly being stored at the Caixa Economica Federal state-owned bank at the request of a Brazilian court, which also ordered an audit of all of the gifts received by Bolsonaro during his presidency.

    Brazilian law states that travelers entering or returning to Brazil with goods worth more than $1,000 are obligated to declare them at customs and pay hefty import taxes equivalent to 50 percent of the value of each item — failure to do so incurs in a fine amounting to 25 percent of the value of each undeclared item.

    “I make it very clear; in 2021, a minister of ours went to the region [sic] of Saudi Arabia and got two gifts, one for me, one for the first lady,” Bolsonaro expressed to CNN. “The one for me, I learned at the end of last year that it had arrived. The first lady stayed at customs. She found out, and so did I, through the press.”

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    CGU states that Bolsonaro used the state for electoral purposes
    Agency indicates that the government used a public machine to win 2022 elections, in addition to irresponsibility in the pandemic

    A report by the Office of the Comptroller General of the Union (CGU) points out that the Bolsonaro government used the state's public machine to benefit in the 2022 elections.

    From the observation of broken secrets and reviews of requests issued by the Access to Information Law, the agency reached a balance sheet of the use of the public machine for electoral purposes. The information is from Folha de São Paulo.

    Review of secrets

    It is through this review of secrecy that the controllers concluded the rigging of the state in favor of the incumbent of the executive at the time.

    The data showed, for example, that the release of consigned loans from the Brazil Aid intensified in October 2022. However, the information remained confidential and was only disclosed after requests from the current government.

    In addition, the expenses of the corporate card on motorcycle dates, or the actions of the PRF on the day of the second round in states with Lula's victory have become public with the opening of data from the Access to Information Law.

    The Access to Information Law was an achievement of the PT governments and, this year, it will be 12 years old. Lula's management has committed to comply with the legislation, which gives more transparency to public spending.

    Next week, the government is expected to announce new measures to regulate and make the use of the Access to Information Law more efficient.

    For the CGU, the Bolsonaro administration inappropriately used secrecy to shield itself during the 2022 electoral process. The balance sheet of the body can serve for the action that tries to make the former president ineligible in the TSE.

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    Lula Unveils Plan to Legalize Indigenous Lands, Halt Illegal Amazon Deforestation by 2030

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva made major moves to reverse the environmental course set by his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, including unveiling a plan to halt illegal deforestation in the Amazon and to set aside huge amounts of the rainforest for government protection.
    “Brazil will once again become a global reference in sustainability, tackling climate change, and achieving targets for carbon emission reduction and zero deforestation,” Lula said on Monday.
    Called the Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Amazon (PPCDAm), the plan will coordinate policy across more than a dozen Brazilian ministries. It calls for ending illegal deforestation by 2030 and achieving net zero deforestation, meaning just as much forest is being replanted as is cut down.
    It will use satellite images to track criminal activity as well as to regularize land titles, and will create a rural registry to monitor correct forest management. It also aims to help degraded forests recover and increase the growth of native vegetation to undo some of the damage done by deforestation, which is driven in large part by cattle ranching.

    The Brazilian Federation of Banks (Febraban) also announced that it would begin tying future lines of credit to Brazilian meat producers, including meatpackers and slaughterhouses, to environmental monitoring requirements. By the end of 2025, Brazilian meat companies that purchase cattle from Brazilian Amazon supplies will have to create a “traceability and monitoring system” for connections to illegal deforestation and the use of land in protected areas.

    Febraban President Isaac Sidney said on Tuesday that banks “are at the center of [Brazil’s] supply chain” and that the move “will encourage actions to foster an increasingly sustainable economy.”
    The financial sector “is aware of the need to advance in managing and mitigating social, environmental, and climate risks in business dealings with their clients, while also directing more resources towards financing the transition to the Green Economy,” he said.
    Lula also announced that an Amazon reserve would be increased by 4,400 acres, and that another 140 million acres of public lands without special protection would be allocated - an area roughly the size of France.
    In late April, Lula announced the creation of six new indigenous reserves, banning mining and most farming operations there. The areas cover some 1.5 million acres of the Amazon. Environment Minister Marina Silva said on Monday the government would begin the process of study toward creating more conservation units.
    In addition, Lula also announced that Brazil, the world’s fifth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, would commit to reducing carbon emissions by 37% by 2025 and 43% by 2030. The commitment is a substantial increase from the levels set by Bolsonaro, who retreated from prior commitments.

    Roughly half of Brazil’s carbon emissions come from deforestation, which often uses a crude “slash and burn” method that pours carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. One recent estimate found that 800 million trees were felled in two years to make way for cattle ranching.

    The 77-year-old left-wing president returned to office in January 2023 after defeating Bolsonaro in the presidential election. Lula was previously president from 2003 to 2010, part of the wave of left-wing governments that swept Latin America in what was called a “Pink Tide.” Since returning to office, Lula has set about reversing course on many of the right-wing Bolsonaro’s policies, including on the environment, and pushing new efforts to build economic and political systems not centered on Europe and North America.
    The Amazon represents half of the planet’s remaining rainforest, and 60% of it sits inside Brazil’s borders. Scientists have said that preserving the dense forest is key to efforts to combat climate change and keep the planet from warming to a level that could be dangerous to humans.

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