Brazil
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Brazil’s economic and political rollercoaster
31 October 2022 - by Michael Roberts
The latest polls put Workers Party leader Lula de Silva ahead in the two-horse race with incumbent right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro in today’s final round of the presidential election in Brazil. If Lula wins, it will be a dramatic comeback (...) -
The G7 prepares a divide-and-conquer trap, as BRICS countries spall, fall and try to reconstitute
24 June 2022 - by Patrick Bond
On Friday June 24, a hasty one-day virtual summit of the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa will occur, hosted by Xi Jinping. The date is important because on Monday June 26, two of the three intrinsically pro-Western leaders from the bloc – (...) -
Latest IMF controversy unveils biased policies and a Harvard economist’s skewed views
12 January 2022 - by Patrick Bond
“It is more fun to be Santa than Scrooge.” The catchy phrase was deployed for data manipulation on behalf of multinational corporations and nearly lost her managing directorship because her statistical fraud was to China’s benefit, angering the (...) -
30 years of CADTM
(Video) Fattorelli : “The solution will come from grassroots, conscious, mobilized and united”
19 October 2020 - by Maria Lucia Fattorelli
Message from Maria Lucia Fattorelli (founder and spokesperson of the Citizen Debt Audit in Brazil, member of CADTM) for the 30th anniversary of CADTM. -
Brazil: from Lula to Bolsonaro
14 January 2020 - by Eric Toussaint
After experiencing a whole year with a far-right president as head of state in Brazil, namely Jair Bolsonaro, we have to try and understand the steps that led to this situation. I arrived in Sao Paulo, the financial and economic capital of (...) -
President Lula’s “realpolitik” and the “alterglobalisation” movement
13 January 2020 - by Eric Toussaint, Frédéric Lévêque
An interview with Eric Toussaint of the CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of the Third World Debt) by Frédéric Lévêque, in Geneva, in the context of the “Illegal G8” counter-summit, following his meeting on 2 June 2003 with President Lula of Brazil (...) -
“Any Third World government which takes the decision to carry on refunding the external debt is opting for the road to ruin”
13 January 2020 - by Eric Toussaint, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
“Any Third World government which takes the decision to carry on refunding the external debt is opting for the road to ruin.” These were the words in 1991 of Luis Inacio “Lula” da Silva, at that time, president of the Brazilian PT, (Partido dos (...) -
Climate change and imperialism: what connects the Amazon fires and the EU-Mercosur agreement?
2 October 2019 - by Aleksandar Matković
From the crisis to the Mercosur agreement There have been many discussions on the next global crisis (including Adam Tooze and Ann Pettifor, and the Marxist economists Michael Roberts and John Smith), and I’ve also written and talked about it (...) -
Brazil: 55 years after the overthrow of democratically elected president Joao Goulart, the new far-right President, Jair Bolsonaro has announced a celebration of the 1964 military coup
26 March 2019 - by Eric Toussaint
Brazil: 55 years after the army staged a coup on 31 March 1964 and overthrew President Joao Goulart, the new far-right President, Jair Bolsonaro has announced a celebration of this sad event. There can be no doubt about the active support (...) -
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Brumadinho – International Articulation of People Affected by Vale statement
30 January 2019 - by International Articulation of People Affected by Vale
We have received the news of another tragedy instigated by Vale mining company with profound indignation. This afternoon (January 25, 2019) two tailings dams located in the Corrego de Feijao community, in Brumadinho, metropolitan region of Belo (...) -
#NotHim, not now, not ever Statement on the election of Jair Bolsonaro
31 October 2018 - by Attac Europe
To all those movements, activists and marginalised communities in Brazil who have woken up this morning to the nightmare of a Bolsonaro presidency, we send our solidarity and support. No kind of electoral mandate makes it acceptable or (...) -
Land-grabbing and the Financialization of Agricultural Land
28 May 2018 - by Mary N. Taylor
On the occasion of the publication of the report Transnational Corporations and Land speculation in Brazil by Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos (Network for Social Justice and Human Rights), Mary Taylor of LeftEast spoke with Fábio Pitta, (...) -
Imperialism and Dependency: Similarities and Differences with the Marini era
8 May 2018 - by Claudio Katz, Richard Fidler
The main theorist of dependency anticipated trends of neoliberal globalization. He analyzed productive globalization, the centrality of exploitation and the relative weight of surplus value transfers. But the employment crisis exceeds what was (...) -
The World Social Forum is dead! Long live the World Social Forum?
26 March 2018 - by Francine Mestrum
This was my conclusion, but it did not last for long, just the first days of the Forum. Today, I am not that sure anymore. Maybe we are stuck with the old apolitical forum and with a powerless International Council. What does this mean for the (...) -
Brazil : murder of Marielle Franco
For our dead, not a minute of silence, but rather a whole life of struggle!
17 March 2018 - by World March of Women
The World March of Women expresses its sadness and deep indignation at the murder of Marielle Franco, a feminist militant and city councillor of PSOL - Partido Socialismo e Liberdade in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She was shot dead (...) -
Brazil: the debt dilemma
16 November 2017 - by Michael Roberts
Brazil faces a presidential election in October 2018. This will offer a new benchmark for which way Brazilian politics and the economy will go. Will a coalition of pro-big business parties and a president win or will a coalition led by the (...) -
How TIAA Funds Environmental Disaster in Latin America
6 February 2017 - by Linda Farthing
Pension fund giant TIAA is investing its clients’ funds in farmland and agribusinesses tied to environmental and human rights abuses in Latin America. If you are in U.S. academic, research, medical, or cultural fields, your assets are likely (...) -
Part 4 of the interview “History of the CADTM’s anti-debt Policies”
From Dashed Hopes to Success in Ecuador: the examples of South Africa, Brazil, Paraguay and Ecuador
25 August 2016 - by Eric Toussaint, Benjamin Lemoine
Interview with Eric Toussaint, spokesperson and co-founder of the international network of the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM). Interview by Benjamin Lemoine. This interview presents the genealogy of the anti-debt (...) -
World March of Women Against the Coup in Brazil
19 May 2016 - by World March of Women
The entire world is currently watching the murder of democracy and justice in Brazil with rage and sadness. On 17th April the impeachment voting against Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff was live broadcasted from the Parliament.. Using (...) -
A spectre on the World Cup
4 June 2014 - by Sushovan Dhar
For a country plagued by a prolonged social and economic crisis, what is a better chance to lift its image than an international sporting event? Indeed, the FIFA World Cup offers the crisis-plagued Brazilian government an opportunity to showcase (...) -
International Meeting of MMM discusses the history of feminism in Latin America
3 September 2013 - by World March of Women
Day 1 of the 9th International Meeting of the World March of Women saw 124 international delegates and observers from 49 countries being joined by 1500 members of the Brazilian march for the first of three days of “feminist political training”. (...) -
João Pedro Stédile of the MST: ’We are in the midst of an ideological battle’
1 July 2013 - by Nilton Viana
João Pedro Stédile Interviewed by Brasil de Fato Brasil de Fato — It is time for the government to ally itself with the people or pay the price in the future. This is one of the evaluations of João Pedro Stedile, national coordinator of the (...) -
Debt cancellation ?
The supposed brazillian « forgiveness » of debts of African countries
18 juin 2013 - par Rodrigo Vieira de Ávila
On May 25, 2013, has been widely reported that Brazil will “forgive” or renegotiate a debt of $ 900 million dollars of 12 African countries (Congo-Brazzaville, Tanzania, Zambia, Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, (...) -
Brazil’s ‘debt cancellation’ for Africa leaves more questions than it answers
17 June 2013 - by Konstantinos Todoulos
On 25 May Brazil announced the “cancellation or restructuring of up to $900 million of debt owed by 12 African countries though the details remain extremely unclear, including what this may actually be worth to African countries, and crucially (...) -
Parliamentary Inquiry Commission (CPI) of the Public Debt in Brazil: main achievements so far
10 April 2010 - by Maria Lucia Fattorelli, Rodrigo Vieira de Ávila, Auditoria Cidadã da Dívida
Brazil currently spends 36% of its federal budget on interest and repayments of its external and domestic debt, while social areas such as health receive less than 5%, and education less than 3%. This is also a reality in several countries of (...)
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