José Kast and Javier Milei: More Than Just Friends in Latin America’s Right-Wing Movement (archived)
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AOC-Led Delegation Can Push for New Approach to Latin America
You might not know it by the relatively scant news coverage, but the U.S. congressional delegation, led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, that visited Brazil, Chile, and Colombia in August marked a big step forward in the development of a new U.S. approach to Latin America and highlighted the important role that the U.S. progressive left has to play in it.
AOC-Led Delegation Can Push for New Approach to Latin America
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Asked if the left needs to build a counterweight network, Ocasio-Cortez, whose trip to Latin America was branded “AOC’s socialist sympathy tour” by Rupert Murdoch’s conservative Wall Street Journal newspaper, replied: “I absolutely believe that the battle for democracy must be transnational and it must be global, and it especially must be hemispheric.
Steve Bannon Called Bolsonaristas, ‘Freedom Fighters’ 🧐💭
Steve Bannon has spent months falsely saying the Brazilian election was stolen
“It’s the Brazilian Spring,” Bannon added. [Like the US-backed Arab Spring?!]
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Then on January 8, as the pro-Bolsonaro riot was commencing in Brazil’s capital, Bannon repeatedly posted on Gettr that “Lula stole the election” and referred to the insurrectionists as “Brazilian Freedom Fighters.” [Like the US-backed Afghan Freedom Fighters or the Syrian Freedom Fighters?!]
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He is a former executive chairman of Breitbart News and previously served on the board of the now-defunct data-analytics firm Cambridge Analytica.
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While serving in the navy, he earned a master’s degree in national security studies in 1983 from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.
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Bannon was an officer in the United States Navy for seven years in the late 1970s and early 1980s; he served on the destroyer USS Paul F. Foster as a surface warfare officer in the Pacific Fleet, and afterwards as a special assistant to the chief of naval operations at the Pentagon.
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Brazil Is Having Its Own Jan. 6 Right Now
Brazil Is Having Its Own Jan. 6 Right Now (archived)
Much like former U.S. President Donald Trump, the right-wing populist Bolsonaro has claimed for years that the country’s elections are riddled with fraud, claims many elections officials, election security experts, and fact-checkers have adamantly refuted. Bolsonaro has even alleged that detractors attempted and failed to steal the election from him in 2018. For weeks since Bolsonaro’s defeat by leftist opponent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Nov. 1, his supporters have been calling for a coup. Trump allies Steve Bannon and Jason Miller have reportedly been advising Bolsonaro since his defeat, and his son, Brazilian congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro, has reportedly met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
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The three buildings, representing Brazil’s three branches of government, are connected through Three Powers square. Brazilian TV aired footage of the attackers in the palace, per the AP. Bolsonaro, who left Brazil for Florida before Lula took office, did not immediately comment on the violence—evocative of the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol. Aides to former President Donald Trump have met with Bolsonaro’s aides since Brazil’s election, per the Insider, and Steve Bannon recommended contesting the results of the Oct. 30 vote. Like Trump, Bolsonaro has not conceded the election. Brazil’s justice minister tweeted Sunday that reinforcements are on the way to stop the invasion. “This absurd attempt to impose their will by force will not prevail,” said Justice Minister Flavio Dino posted. (Read more Brazil stories.)
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Tucker/Fox Rally Behind Bolsonaro
Olavo de Carvalho, a Brazilian far-right activist and President Bolsonaro’s “apprentice”, has died
Carvalho was the apprentice of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and a relative of Steve Bannon, a former adviser to Donald Trump.
Olavo de Carvalho, a Brazilian far-right activist and President Bolsonaro’s “apprentice”, has died
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Is Brazil About to Face a Military Coup? Brian Mier on Brazil’s March Towards Fascism + Trumpworld Gets a Red-Carpet Welcome in Bolsonaro’s Brazil
Is Brazil About to Face a Military Coup? Brian Mier on Brazil’s March Towards Fascism
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“In many ways, Brazil’s movement is actually far more advanced than we are in the United States,” Bannon tells Bloomberg. He views Brazil as being among a handful of countries where Trumpist political forces could herald a global revival of right-wing nationalism—an outcome he’s actively promoting. “In 2016, the Brexit win in June was inextricably linked to Trump’s upset victory in November,” he says. “Bolsonaro’s heavyweight title fight against Lula next October,” as well as the showdown in France between President Emmanuel Macron and his far-right challenger, Marine Le Pen, “will set the stage for the American midterm elections,” Bannon says. Many U.S. political experts expect Republicans to retake the House of Representatives in November 2022.
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Brazilian Authorities Question Jason Miller After CPAC Event In Brasilia
Brazilian Authorities Question Jason Miller After CPAC Event In Brasilia
Reports from Brazilian media have suggested that prosecutors in the country have eyed the younger Bolsonaro’s planning for the 2022 election in the country, including his ties to former Trump campaign chair Steve Bannon.
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