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The Pressure Against Bolsonaro Continues in Brazil
By: Raphael Tsavkko Garcia
August 5, 2021

https://www.latinorebels.com/2021/08/05 ... arobrazil/

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(Latino Rebels) Brazil ended the month of July with more than 550,000 people dead from the pandemic amid signs of weakening of the government, which still maneuvers in every possible way to survive the pressure from the streets.

For the first time since he was elected, polls show a majority of public opinion in favor of impeaching the far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, who recently met with German Neo-Nazi MP Beatrix von Storch in Brasília. von Storch is the granddaughter of Hitler’s finance minister —Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk— and one of the more visible leaders of the right-wing AfD party. The meeting was condemned by progressive Jewish organizations.

Anti-Bolsonaro pressure is pilling up. On July 24, the third wave of demonstrations had millions in the streets all over the country and also in several cities all over the world. And in addition to popular pressure, the Attorney General’s Office asked the Supreme Court earlier this month for permission to open an investigation against the president to find out what role he played in the crisis involving the overpriced purchase of the Covaxin vaccine.

Documents used by Precisa —which mediated the negotiation between the Brazilian government and the Indian manufacturer of the Covaxin vaccine, Bharat Biotech— were fraudulent, leading the Indian laboratory to cancel its partnership with the Brazilian company and put more pressure on the government.

Soon Minister Rosa Weber was opening an investigation and the Federal Police began to investigate whether Bolsonaro had committed a crime. The deadline for completion of the investigation is 90 days with the possibility of an extension. And the president is not the only one being investigated—the former Health Minister, Eduardo Pazuello, was accused by the Federal Public Ministry of causing 122 million reais in damages to the public treasury through mismanagement during the pandemic.
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Brazil's QuintoAndar Real Estate Platform Raises Additional $120 Million, Now Valued at $5.1 Billion
by Mary Ann Azevedo
August 20, 2021

https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/20/sao-p ... d-at-5-1b/

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(TechCrunch) Less than three months after announcing a $300 million Series E, Brazilian proptech QuintoAndar has raised an additional $120 million.

New investors Greenoaks Capital and China’s Tencent co-led the round, which included participation from some existing backers as well. São Paulo-based QuintoAndar is now valued at $5.1 billion, up from $4 billion at the time of its last raise in late May. With the extension, the startup has now raised more than $700 million since its 2013 inception. Ribbit Capital led the first tranche of its Series E.

QuintoAndar describes itself as an “end-to-end solution for long-term rentals” that, among other things, connects potential tenants to landlords and vice versa. Last year, it also expanded into connecting home buyers to sellers. Its long-term plan is to ​​evolve into a one-stop real estate shop that also offers mortgage, title insurance and escrow services.

To that end, earlier this month, the startup acquired Atta Franchising, a 7-year-old São Paulo-based independent real estate mortgage broker. Specifically, acquiring Atta is designed to speed up its ability to offer mortgage services to its users. QuintoAndar also plans to explore the possibility of offering a product to perform standalone transactions outside of its marketplace in partnership with other brokers, according to CEO and co-founder Gabriel Braga.

This year, QuintoAndar expanded operations into 14 new cities in Brazil. Eventually, QuintoAndar plans to enter the Mexican market as its first expansion outside of its home country, but it has not yet set a date for that step. Today, the company has more than 120,000 rentals under management and about 10,000 new rentals per month. Its rental platform is live in 40 cities across Brazil, while its home-buying marketplace is live in four (São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte and Porto Alegre) and seeing more than 10,000 sales in annualized terms.
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Bolsonaro is stoking a Capitol riot-style insurrection in Brazil that could happen as early as Tuesday, more than 20 ex-world leaders warn

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  • Jair Bolsonaro has been encouraging protests against Brazil's supreme court and constitution.
  • His supporters are planning mass marches around the country on Tuesday.
  • Former world leaders warned that Bolsonaro is backing a coup akin to the Capitol riot.
Brazil's far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, is backing a coup in his country apparently modeled on the January 6 storming of the US Capitol, a group of former world leaders have warned.

Bolsonaro supporters have carried out a number of protests against Brazil's s congress and supreme court in recent weeks, and are planning fresh new ones across the country on Tuesday.

Bolsonaro has long criticized Brazil's constitution, saying it is "communist" and that it limits presidents' powers. More recently, he has attacked the Supreme Court after it greenlit an investigation into his unsubstantiated claim that Brazil's electronic voting system is vulnerable to fraud.

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Brazil's Bolsonaro: Only God will remove me from power

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Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro struck a defiant note on the country's independence day on Tuesday.

He told tens of thousands of his supporters who had gathered in the city of São Paulo that only God would remove him from power.

He also launched fresh attacks on Congress and the Supreme Court, institutions he says are persecuting him and his political allies.

The court recently approved several investigations into Mr Bolsonaro.

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The rallies he convened for independence day were seen as an attempt to demonstrate he can still draw huge crowds of supporters after recent polls had him trailing his left-wing rival Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva by nine percentage points.

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I'd like to say that I'm brazilian and the majority of the population IS NOT against Bolsonaro. As some may have seen these past few days, there were millions of people on the streets showing support for the nation (07 of september was our independence day) and the government. Luis Inácio da Silva (Lula) is a notoriously corrupt ex-president with mountains of proof against him. I believe it's madness for anyone to picture Bolsonaro as a devil and neglect how much more evil the alternative is.
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I'd also like to add that the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) is formed of individuals who did not earn their way into their role, but were appointed. They are also a extremely narcissistic and power hungry group who DON'T have the good of the country in their hearts and minds.
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And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future
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The media and the common people are completely detached in Brazil; it feels like they are creating news for no one, as no one trusts a single thing of what they are saying anymore.

One of the reasons might be that there are only heavy-sided newslets in Brazil at the moment (think Fox vs CNN), so basically instead of news you get an analysis of what has happened and what you need to think about it.

Quite sad state of afairs.
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I suppose if one does not trust the Brazilian courts or media reports concerning Brazil, the following story can be dismissed as some sort of fake or highly biased news. For somebody living outside of Brazil with no recent contact with immigrants from that country, such media reports are all that we can go on. I am including social media in ”media reports.”

Fifty Years Later, Finally Justice for Brazil's Indigenous Krenak People
by Shanna Hanbury
October 3, 2021

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021 ... nak-people

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(Common Dreams) Half a century after Indigenous elder Jacó Krenak and dozens of fellow natives were bound and forcibly taken to concentration camps run by Brazil’s military dictatorship, a federal court has ordered the government to apologize and deliver reparations to the Krenak people.

Judge Anna Cristina Rocha Gonçalves charged the federal government, the Minas Gerais state government and the country’s Indigenous affairs agency, Funai, for the crimes committed against the Krenak people in southeastern Minas Gerais during the dictatorship that ran from 1964 to 1985. She ordered the federal government to organize an official ceremony for a public apology with national coverage.

“Justice, however slow, is being served,” Indigenous chief Geovani Krenak, a grandson of Jacó Krenak, told Mongabay in a phone interview. “The spirit of our assassinated warriors, like my grandfather, welcomes this decision.”

Speaking the Krenak language, drinking alcohol, having sexual relations, loitering, breaking curfew, leaving the village without prior permission, and resisting occupation by farmers on their land were banned by military officials at the time, according to reports and witness accounts. Arbitrary confinement, torture and beatings were commonplace punishments. Many Krenak died at the camps, though the exact numbers are still unknown.
The ruling, issued Sept. 13, also ordered Funai to conclude the demarcation process of the Sete Salões Indigenous Reserve, along with a series of measures to rehabilitate the Krenak language and culture.
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Fear and Hunger Under Bolsonaro
by Raphael Tsavkko Garcia
October 5, 2021

https://www.latinorebels.com/author/raphaelg/

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(Latino Rebels) Behind the persistent coup attempts by President Jair Bolsonaro lies the hunger that has hit millions of Brazilians.

With more than 14 million unemployed and inflation reaching 10 percent, desperate Brazilians are even looking for food scraps and discarded animal carcasses, typically used to produce pet food or soap, to survive and feed their families.

Data shows that 116 million Brazilians live without full and permanent access to food and of these, 19 million go hungry on a daily basis. This sad reality ends up being left aside, hidden but also exacerbated by the political crisis ravaging the country.

In a country that has been crisis-driven since at least 2015, when the impeachment of former President Dilma Rousseff began, the latest scandal involves Prevent Senior, a healthcare company that owns several hospitals, and whose management is accused of conducting tests on patients and forcing doctors to offer drugs without proven efficacy in one of the country’s biggest medical scandals.

Founded in 1997 by two brothers, Eduardo and Fernando Parrillo, the company quickly became one of the leaders in the healthcare sector with a focus on offering health plans for the elderly at bargain prices.
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