Tag Archives: Lula DaSilva

Lula detailed the current “terrible conditions” for Brazilian workers. He ripped to pieces the economic program – basically a monster sell-out – of Finance Minister Paulo Guedes, a Chicago boy and Pinochetist who’s applying the same failed hardcore neoliberal prescriptions now being denounced and scorned every day in the streets of Chile. He detailed how the Brazilian right wing openly bet on neo-fascism, which is the form that neoliberalism recently took in Brazil. He blasted mainstream...

Lula's recent interview with Pepe Escobar and others.Asia TimesLula tells world he’s back in the game from jail Pepe Escobar

Long and detailed.The InterceptI Just Visited Lula, the World’s Most Prominent Political Prisoner. A “Soft Coup” in Brazil’s Election Will Have Global Consequences. Noam Chomsky

Meanwhile in Brazil meet Jair Bolsonaro.The InterceptLula Goes to Prison, Deepening Brazil’s Political Crisis — as Military Waits in the Wings Leandro Demori

Brazilian-style"justice" comparable to Brazilian-stlye jiu-jitsu? According to Brazilian law if you have a conviction underway, that appeal process underway, you can't run for office. But if you're already in jail you can run for office. So Lula has announced that he is going to declare his candidacy anyway. And it's not unprecedented for political prisoners to win elections.... TRNNUnder Threat of Military Coup, Brazil's Supreme Court Sends Lula to Prison Sharmini Peries interviews Brian...

Backgrounder on Brazil. This is also a challenge for BRICS in addition to Brazil, since all of these countries have a significant and endemic corruption problem. Naked KeynesianismGoodbye Lula?Matias Vernengo | Associate Professor of Economics, Bucknell University

Brazil has become an international laughingstock and poster child of a banana republic, but this is no laughing matter for millions of people. Sadly, Brazil is becoming a failed state.TRNNBrazil's Corruption Scandals: No Winners, No End in Sight Gregory Wilpert interviews Alex Hochuli