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  •    Thousands came out to Avenida Paulista in downtown S Paulo on Saturday night to celebrate Lulas record performance in the first round 2022 Brazilian presidential election   MR Online

    Media spin Lula victory as defeat

    Originally published: Brasil Wire on October 4, 2022 by Brian Mier (more by Brasil Wire)  | (Posted Oct 06, 2022)

    Workers Party Candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva beat incumbent Jair Bolsonaro by 6.2 million votes.

  •    Greenwald debates Mier   MR Online

    Brazil Elections 2022: Greenwald debates Mier

    Originally published: Brasil Wire on January 27, 2022 (more by Brasil Wire)  | (Posted Jan 29, 2022)

    On January 24, Brasil Wire editor Brian Mier appeared on Eoin Higgins podcast, Flashpoint, to present his analysis of Brazilian Congressman David Miranda and his husband Glenn Greenwald’s abandonment of the PSOL (Socialism and Liberty Party) for the moderate PDT.

  •    Marília Mendonça   MR Online

    Brazil mourns Marília Mendonça

    Originally published: Brasil Wire on November 7, 2021 by Brian Mier (more by Brasil Wire)  | (Posted Nov 09, 2021)

    In the macho, back-country world of Sertanejo music, Mendonça demanded respect for women.

  •    Alvorada 2021 Anna Muylaert  Lô Politi   MR Online

    5 years since the 2016 Coup: an Interview with Dilma Rousseff

    Originally published: Brasil Wire on August 31, 2021 by Olímpio Cruz Neto interviewing Dilma Rousseff (more by Brasil Wire)  | (Posted Sep 03, 2021)

    The 2016 coup was ground zero. It was the inaugural act, but the process continues.

  •    Biden Admin Offers Hand Of Friendship To Bolsonaro Brasil Wire   MR Online

    Biden Admin offers hand of friendship to Bolsonaro

    Originally published: Brasil Wire on August 6, 2021 by Nathália Urban (more by Brasil Wire)  | (Posted Aug 09, 2021)

    Latest U.S. government visit is further evidence that the Biden administration has no qualms about supporting Brazil’s far-right military-dominated regime.

  •    Brazils US Backed Military Regime Casts Shadow Over Hopes For 2022 Election   MR Online

    Brazil’s U.S.-backed military regime casts shadow over hopes for 2022 election

    Originally published: Brasil Wire on August 3, 2021 by Brasil Wire (more by Brasil Wire)  | (Posted Aug 05, 2021)

    Bolsonaro’s candidacy was democratic packaging for the long game of the military’s return to government. As they look to defend their position a year out from elections, the situation has escalated.

  •    Genocide in Brazil SOS Yanomami   MR Online

    Genocide in Brazil: SOS Yanomami

    Originally published: Brasil Wire on May 17, 2021 by Nathalia Urban (more by Brasil Wire)  | (Posted Jun 23, 2021)

    A report by the National Indigenous Foundation (Funai) has revealed that seven mining boats carrying firearms fired on indigenous people from the Palimiú community in Roraima on May 10, since then they have suffered SEVEN DAYS of consecutive attacks

  •    How The US Taught Judge Moro To Take Down Lula   MR Online

    How the U.S. taught Judge Moro to “take down” Lula

    Originally published: Brasil Wire on May 3, 2021 by Joaquim de Carvalho (more by Brasil Wire)  | (Posted May 08, 2021)

    How a U.S. State Department official taught illegal tactics to Brazilian judges and prosecutors that went on to be used to remove Lula from the 2018 presidential race

  •    Chevron ExxonMobil and BlackRock Want To Teach The Left About Extractivism In Latin America   MR Online

    Chevron, ExxonMobil and BlackRock want to teach the Left about “extractivism” in Latin America

    Originally published: Brasil Wire on March 17, 2021 (more by Brasil Wire)  | (Posted Mar 26, 2021)

    Americas Quarterly and AS/COA’s media arm ran a de-facto PR campaign for discredited Operation Lava Jato, which helped impeach Dilma Rousseff, jail Lula, and bring a neofascist (who it called an “arch-conservative”) Jair Bolsonaro to power.

  •    Washington pressured Brazil not to buy malign Russian vaccine   MR Online

    Washington pressured Brazil not to buy ‘malign’ Russian vaccine

    Originally published: Brasil Wire on March 2021 by John McEvoy (more by Brasil Wire)  | (Posted Mar 17, 2021)

    Brazil has suffered the world’s second-worst number of COVID-19 death rates, with Bolsonaro’s COVID-19 policy being described as “homicidally negligent”.

  •    Lulas arrest is a gift from the CIA mocked Lava Jato prosecutor   MR Online

    Lula’s arrest is “a gift from the CIA”, mocked Lava Jato prosecutor

    Originally published: Brasil Wire on February 9, 2021 (more by Brasil Wire)  | (Posted Feb 13, 2021)

    A petition filed with the Federal Supreme Court (STF) by the defence of ex-president Lula presents such new evidence that ex-judge Sergio Moro colluded with foreign authorities in conducting the process which led to the arrest of the Workers Party leader, and his subsequent barring from a run for the presidency in 2018.

  •    Lula   MR Online

    Lula: “U.S. hand” on everything that’s happened in Brazil

    Originally published: Brasil Wire on August 17, 2019 (more by Brasil Wire)  | (Posted Aug 20, 2019)

    In an interview with Bob Fernandes, on TVE Bahia, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said that the U.S. government “created the Lava Jato investigation to take our oil.”

Monthly Review Essays

  • Nikolai Gogol’s Department of Government Efficiency
    Andy Merrifield    A 1926 Soviet illustration of a production of Gogols play The Government Inspector showing audience members in the foreground and actors on stage in the background   MR Online

    Almost two centuries after its opening night, Gogol’s five-act satirical play The Government Inspector continues to create a stir with every performance, seemingly no matter where. Maybe because corruption and self-serving double-talk aren’t just familiar features of 19th-century Russia, but have become ingrained facets of all systems of government and officialdom, making them recognizable to […]

Lost & Found

  • Strike at the Helm: The First Ministerial Meeting of the New Cycle of the Bolivarian Revolution
    Hugo Chávez    Mural of Chávez in Caracas Univision   MR Online

    On October 7th, 2012, after hearing of his victory as the nation‘s candidate with 56 percent of the vote, President Hugo Chávez Frias announced from a balcony in his hometown that a new cycle was beginning the very next day, October 8th.

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