Tag Archives | Jair Bolsonaro

‘Brazilians are hungry because they have no income, not because of a lack of production’: João Pedro Stedile

Originally published: Peoples Dispatch by Brasil de Fato interviewing João Pedro Stedile (September 15, 2021 ) | - Posted Sep 17, 2021

For Stedile, large sections of the bourgeoisie have already manifested their deep dissatisfaction with the Bolsonaro government but have not reached a consensus about an alternative.
Dossier no. 40: The challenges facing Brazil’s left

Originally published: The Tricontinental (May 11, 2021 ) |

If the social consequences of adopting an ultra-neoliberal project weren’t enough already, the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and the gross mismanagement and negligence in combatting the virus have led to the worst-case social, economic, and health scenarios.
Chevron, ExxonMobil and BlackRock want to teach the Left about “extractivism” in Latin America

Originally published: Brasil Wire (March 17, 2021 ) | - 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.