Yuwipi Woman
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Somehow I think if enough money was applied to the correct spot, that process would be streamlined for certain people.
Brazil votes in far right fascist Jair Bolsonaro
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Somehow I think if enough money was applied to the correct spot, that process would be streamlined for certain people.
1%er
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“Lula won't last long,” Bolsonaro warns
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Wednesday during a speech before a group of his followers in the US State of Florida that the current administration of President Luiz Inàcio Lula da Silva might have its days numbered. "If Lula continues like this, his government will not last long,” said Bolsonaro in what was his first public open appearance since leaving Brazil at the end of 2022 when he was still head of state.Bolsonaro has applied for a six-month tourist visa to stay in the United States and might not return to Brazil for a while because he might be arrested in connection with one of the several cases in which he is under investigation. During Wednesday's appearance in Orlando, Bolsonaro promised to remain active in politics but did not say when he will return to his country while insisting on his rejection of the Jan. 8 riots in Brasilia. “You can be sure, in a short time we will have news. On its own, if this government continues in the line it has shown in these first 30 days, it will not last long,” said Bolsonaro about Lula's first month in office.
Regarding his followers storming the headquarters of the three branches of government on Jan. 8, Bolsonaro distanced himself from these events and denied any involvement. “We regret what some inconsequential people did on January 8. That is not our right. It is not our people. There are many aggrieved people there. That is not terrorism by our legislation. There are people who have to be individualized, invasion, depredation, and each one pays for what they did,” he pointed out. “Those who financed terrorist and anti-democratic acts will be punished with the full force of the law,” he added. “I have been here for 30 days, I intend to stay a while longer. I don't know how much longer. I miss my country very much,” Bolsonaro also said.
Regarding his future in politics, Bolsonaro stressed that “I was never as popular as last year. Much more than in 2018. At the end of the day, we are left with a question mark on our heads. I think I left a lot of leaders for Brazil. There are a lot of good people coming to Congress, who were elected to the Executive. There are municipal elections in 2024 ahead, 2024 is very important. We cannot abandon politics. Politics is part of our lives. I am 67 years old and I intend to remain active in Brazilian politics.”
[What could Bolsonaro mean when he says "If Lula continues like this, his government will not last long”. The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies (Câmara dos Deputados) and the Federal Senate (Senado Federal) both have a majority of Bolsonaro supporters. Those who watch Brazilian politics may remember what happened to Dilma Rousseff, she was impeached for doing nothing that other President's haven't done for years. she was "alleged to have cooked the government's books to hide the scope of Brazil's deficit problem during her 2014 election". But in reality what was really behind her impeachment was that about 2004 and 2014, the state-run energy firm Petrobras engaged in one of the most astonishing corruption schemes ever to be uncovered. We're talking upward of $5.3 billion changing hands. Basically, construction executives secretly created a cartel to coordinate bids on Petrobras contracts and systematically overcharge the company. They then sent some of the profits they made from this to some politicians. An unrelated police investigation uncovered this Petrobras scandal in 2013. The politicians who received these bribes needed to get rid of her before the facts and names came out. The only way to do this was to impeach her. What Bolsonaro and his supporters are working on is to find something that they can impeach Lula for, they got away with it to get rid of Dilma and for sure will try it again to get rid of Lula.]
1%er
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Senator Do Val's statements regarding coup
After Senator Marcos Do Val (Podemos-ES) claimed to have participated in a meeting with former President Jair Bolsonaro to discuss a coup d'état, Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre De Moraes ordered Friday an investigation into such allegations.Federal Supreme Court (STF) Minister Alexandre de Moraes ordered this Friday (3) the opening of an investigation to investigate the statements of Senator Marcos do Val that he would have received a proposal to participate in a coup d'état.
Do Val said he had participated in a meeting with former president Jair Bolsonaro and former congressman Daniel Silveira seeking to induce De Moraes to “recognize” that he had crossed the four lines of the Constitution with the former head of state.
De Moraes argued that the senator presented a different version of the facts when he was heard by the Federal Police and, therefore, an investigation of the crimes of false testimony, slander, and coercion should be carried out in the process. “After the hearing, the rapporteur found that the senator presented four antagonistic versions of the facts, the last one in a statement to the Federal Police, which demonstrates the 'pertinence and necessity' of carrying out diligences for its complete clarification and for the investigation of the crimes of false testimony, slanderous accusation, and coercion in the course of the process.”
The judge also ordered media outlets who interviewed the lawmaker to forward the full records and requested access to live performances by Do Val on social media.
De Moraes explained that according to Do Val there was a plan to embarrass him so that he would not move on with the investigations into the dissemination of fake news attacks against STF Justices.
“Like countless parliamentarians, he [do Val] requested an audience. I received him in the white room and what he told me was that Congressman Daniel Silveira had sought him out and he had [then] attended a meeting with the [former] President of the Republic [Jair Bolsonaro],” De Moraes said in a video appearance.
Do Val said that Silveira and other people close to Bolsonaro planned to delegate to someone Moraes trusted the mission of recording a conversation with the minister, trying to obtain something compromising. Do Val would be this person, even though De Moraes assures that the two are not close, having only been together on three occasions.
“The genius idea they had was to bug the senator so that he, who has no intimacy with me, would record me so that, with that, they could request my removal from the presidency of the inquiries,” De Moraes added.
“I asked the senator if he would reaffirm this and put it on paper [because, this way] I would take his statement immediately. He told me that, unfortunately, he could not confirm [the account officially]. So I stood up, said goodbye, and thanked the senator for being there. Because for me, what is not official doesn't exist,” the Judge explained.
The senator eventually revealed the story to Veja magazine, which made a cover story. Before the magazine hit the stands, Do Val talked about the subject in a live broadcast on his Instagram profile. During the live broadcast, he even announced that he was planning to leave the political party.
Given the repercussions of Do Val's statements, De Moraes ordered the Federal Police to take his statement
This “operation shows exactly how ridiculous we have become in attempting a coup,” the De Moraes said.
Regarding the Jan. 8 riots in Brasilia, De Moraes said many perpetrators were under investigation because these people act “not only for ideology, for political taste, but also for economic reasons since they end up being economically favored.”
De Moraes also defended the regulation of social media, explaining that, although the subject is controversial and there is still no worldwide example to be followed in this sense, the main objective is to equate the activity of social networks to that of traditional media companies.
“What is being defended is exactly that social media should no longer be considered technology companies, but that they should be held responsible for what they publish. We want these companies to have the same responsibility as media companies that earn and raise money from advertising,” the minister defends. “It is not about previously analyzing content or establishing the need for authorization to broadcast something - which the Federal Constitution would never allow, but those who have the courage to publish hate speech, anti-democratic, personal offenses, should have the courage to take responsibility. The binomial of freedom and responsibility applies to traditional media, television and written, and, in my opinion, it should also apply to social media,” argued Moraes.
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1%er
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Bolsonaro hands over undeclared jewels to Brazilian authorities
A representative of Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday handed a set of diamond jewelry he received during his presidency over to a state bank, as ordered by a government watchdog amid an investigation into the gifts. Federal police and prosecutors are investigating whether the goods brought into the country from Saudi Arabia were public gifts that Bolsonaro improperly tried to prevent from being incorporated into the presidency’s public collection, or private gifts that Bolsonaro tried sneak into Brazil without paying taxes.The Senate’s transparency commission also is investigating whether the sale of a refinery by Brazil’s state-controlled oil giant was related to the jewels. The state bank Caixa Economica Federal received the box of precious stones Friday at one of its branches in capital Brasilia, the bank’s press office told The Associated Press. A representative also turned in firearms Bolsonaro received as a gift from authorities in the United Arab Emirates, according to the federal police’s press office.
A federal watchdog on Wednesday had given Bolsonaro five days to hand over the precious stones and guns that he had received while president. Brazilian media started reporting on the set of jewels earlier this month, along with another set that was seized earlier at the international airport in Sao Paulo. The confiscated set, composed of earrings, a necklace, a ring and a watch by Swiss brand Chopard, is estimated to be worth several million dollars. Neither set was declared to tax authorities.
Documents and video footage published by local press appear to show supposed emissaries of Bolsonaro making multiple unsuccessful attempts to retrieve the seized jewelry, up until just days before the end of his presidency. Bolsonaro, who denies any wrongdoing connected to the gifts, has been in the United States since late-December, just days before the end of his presidential term. The gifts add to the legal jeopardy already surrounding the right-wing populist politician. He is also under investigation for any involvement in a rampage by his supporters through the national capital after he left office and for numerous actions during the presidential election campaign he lost last fall.
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Jair Bolsonaro expected to return to Brazil on March 30
Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, who left the country days before the inauguration of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, is expected to return on March 30, his Liberal Party has said. "We are waiting for you, Captain, to fight together for a more just and freer Brazil," the party wrote on Instagram on Friday, citing its head, Valdemar Costa Neto, accompanied by an image of him and Bolsonaro embracing. Bolsonaro's return to Brazil is eagerly awaited by his conservative Liberal Party [PL], which became the largest in the Brazilian Congress after the election last October.Bolsonaro has spent three months in the American state of Florida after his narrow defeat to Lula in a second-round run-off for Brazil's presidency in October. His lawyer, Felipe Alexandre, described Florida as "his temporary home away from home," as Bolsonaro reportedly applied for a six-month visa in January — a move which received pushback from Democratic lawmakers in the US. Costa Neto has said he expects Bolsonaro to become the leader of the right-wing opposition to leftist President Lula and lead his party into municipal elections next year, where the PL hopes to triple the number of its mayors across Brazil . "I will resume a normal life, I will work for the PL, travel around Brazil and take part in politics," Bolsonaro said in an interview with TV Record broadcast on Thursday.
Bolsonaro expected to testify
Bolsonaro's push for the visa followed the invasion and ransacking of Brazil's three powers of government on January 8. His supporters managed to invade and ransack the Planalto Palace, or President's Office, Congress and the Supreme Federal Court — until security forces contained them. It resulted in detractors accusing Bolsonaro of undermining Brazil's democracy and encouraging the events.
Lula alleged that Bolsonaro rallied his base on social media and through public speeches — a charge Bolsonaro denied. The far-right politician was in Orlando, Florida, the following day after experiencing abdominal pain. Authorities are still investigating Bolsonaro concerning the January 8 events. The former president is expected to give testimony as part of an investigation into allegations that he attempted to illegally bring $3.2 million worth of luxury jewellery into the country, according to Justice Minister Flavio Dino.
The39thStep
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FT article on how the US saved Brazil from Bolsonaro. Motive was to appear to be the good guys ( and also to compete with China's influence) and last para suggests not too pleased with Lila's apparent ungratefulness
https://archive.ph/LwUPZ#selection-2653.75-2653.84
https://archive.ph/LwUPZ#selection-2653.75-2653.84
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as Ms Rice-Davies. would say, the Americans would say that, wouldn't they? There is no mention of American involvement in the Lavo Jato prosecutions in the article (my view is there was a lot of corruption uncovered, but the judicial process was unsound).
farmerbarleymow
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Banned from running for office until 2030
www.theguardian.com
Judges ban Bolsonaro from running for office for eight years over ‘appalling lies’
Electoral judges bar former far-right leader from running for office for eight years for ‘appalling lies’ during last year’s election
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Can't see the proper thread for this but .... fucking liberals 
www.theguardian.com
Amazon deforestation falls over 60% compared with last July, says Brazilian minister
Marina Silva welcomes progress but says climate crisis means upcoming regional summit needs to produce real action
Brazil's ex-leader Bolsonaro surrenders passport - BBC News
Jair Bolsonaro denies claims that he was involved in a plot to keep him in power.
www.bbc.co.uk
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