Tag: Jair Bolsonaro

Western Media Rehabilitate Brazil’s Criminal Ex-Justice Minister for Presidential Run

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Western Media Rehabilitate Brazil’s Criminal Ex-Justice Minister for Presidential Run | Brasil Wire

Western corporate media apparently saw no irony in the allegations made by the former judge, who played an instrumental role in an “anti-corruption” witch hunt aimed at illegally jailing former President Luis Ignacio “Lula” da Silva and destroying his left-wing Workers’ Party.

Rather, they fawningly described Moro as an “anti-corruption crusader” (BBC, 4/25/20), “celebrity justice minister” (Guardian, 4/24/20) and “a figure who for many represented a new, better Brazil” (Washington Post, 4/24/20), cheering the “tantalizing” prospect of a 2022 presidential bid (Bloomberg, 5/6/20).

The U.S. Has Venezuela in Its Crosshairs

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)
Vijay Prashad, Independent Media Institute, January 17, 2019.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro addresses international observers at the presidential palace in Caracas. (AP)

Last Thursday—on January 10—Nicolas Maduro was sworn in for his second term as president of Venezuela. “I tell the people,” Maduro said, “this presidential sash is yours. The power of this sash is yours. It does not belong to the oligarchy or to imperialism. It belongs to the sovereign people of Venezuela.”

These two terms—oligarchy and imperialism—define the problems faced by Maduro’s new government.

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