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/\ I dunno, just sounds like the same tactics pulled here by the right-wing liberals. "We lost so the election must be fraudulent." "Look at how corrupt and brutal the police are towards protestors now that we're the ones protesting!." "When we win you are woke babies for protesting, when you win we are fighting for our freedom by protesting!" "Our freedom of speech to advocate for status quo is under threat! We're being censored for asking for more corporate control!"

Something just doesn't add up about any of it...
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Lula Aims to Create New Federal Police Unit to Curb Environmental Crimes in Brazil
by Kenny Stancil
December 1, 2022

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(Common Dreams) The administration of leftist Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wants to establish a new Federal Police unit focused on deterring environmental crimes, Reuters reported Wednesday.

The news outlet cited Sen.-elect Flavio Dino, who is widely considered a top candidate to be Lula's next justice minister and currently runs the transition team's task force aimed at reducing violent crime, restricting gun ownership, and protecting the Amazon rainforest, roughly 60% of which is located in Brazil.

In an interview with Reuters, Dino said that "there is now a specific complexity of environmental crimes, in which there is, a kind of combo of crimes in the Amazon," referring to the interconnected nature of illegal deforestation, drug trafficking, money laundering, and gang violence. "We no longer have isolated environmental crimes."

"You have this sophistication and there is a transnationality, because it involves other countries in the Amazon," Dino continued. "So the idea is a specialized unit for greater efficiency and greater articulation with neighboring countries."

While environmental crimes are currently addressed by the Federal Police's organized crime department, Dino said that creating a new unit would be a "practical proposal, which shows a sense of priority for this environmental issue."
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Bolsonaro Contests Brazil Election Loss, Wants Votes Voided
by David Biller and Carla Bridi
November 23, 2022

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BRASILIA, Brazil (AP via Latino Rebels) — More than three weeks after losing a reelection bid, President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday blamed a software bug and demanded the electoral authority annul votes cast on most of Brazil’s electronic voting machines, though independent experts say the bug doesn’t affect the reliability of results.

Such an action would leave Bolsonaro with 51 percent of the remaining valid votes—and a reelection victory, Marcelo de Bessa, the lawyer who filed the 33-page request on behalf of the president and his Liberal Party, told reporters.

The electoral authority has already declared victory for Bolsonaro’s nemesis, leftist former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and even many of the president’s allies have accepted the results. Protesters in cities across the country have steadfastly refused to do the same, particularly with Bolsonaro declining to concede.

Liberal Party leader Valdemar Costa and an auditor hired by the party told reporters in Brasilia that their evaluation found all machines dating from before 2020 —nearly 280,000 of them, or about 59 percent of the total used in the October 30 runoff— lacked individual identification numbers in internal logs.

Neither explained how that might have affected election results, but said they were asking the electoral authority to invalidate all votes cast on those machines.
Read more here: https://www.latinorebels.com/2022/11/2 ... election/
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Brazil’s Lula Picks Amazon Defender for Environment Minister
December 29, 2022

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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) —Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced Thursday that Amazon activist Marina Silva will be the country's next minister of environment. The announcement indicates the new administration will prioritize cracking down on illegal deforestation even if it means running afoul of powerful agribusiness interests.

Both attended the recent U.N. climate conference in Egypt, where Lula promised cheering crowds “zero deforestation” in the Amazon, the world's largest rainforest and a key to fighting climate change, by 2030. “There will be no climate security if the Amazon isn't protected,” he said.

Silva told the news network Globo TV shortly after the announcement that the name of the ministry she will lead will be changed to the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change.

Many agribusiness players and associated lawmakers resent Silva. That stems from her time as environment minister during most of Lula's prior presidency, from 2003 to 2010.

Lula also named Sonia Guajajara, an Indigenous woman, as Brazil’s first minister of Indigenous peoples, and Carlos Fávaro, a soybean producer, as agriculture minister.
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Jair Bolsonaro Leaves Brazil for Florida Ahead of Lula’s Inauguration
by Camilo Rocha
December 30, 2022

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(CNN) São Paulo, Brazil — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro left Brazil for the United States on Friday, according to CNN Brasil, two days before the inauguration of his successor, President-elect Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva.

Bolsonaro took off from Brasília’s air base in a Brazilian Air Force plane. He was accompanied by advisers and first lady Michelle Bolsonaro, CNN Brasil reported.

“I’m on a flight, I’ll be back soon,” Bolsonaro told CNN Brasi

His decision to leave comes as Brazil’s government issued an ordinance on Friday authorizing five civil servants to accompany “future ex-president” Bolsonaro to Miami, Florida, between January 1 and 30, 2023.

While it is unclear when Bolsonaro plans to return, his trip to the US may break with Brazilian convention of outgoing leaders being present at their successors’ inauguration ceremony. Lula da Silva is due to be inaugurated on Sunday.
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Lula sworn in as president to lead polarized Brazil
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By DIANE JEANTET and CARLA BRIDI 6 minutes ago

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been sworn in as president in the capital, Brasilia, assuming office for the third time after thwarting outgoing incumbent Jair Bolsonaro’s reelection bid.

Lula was president from 2003-2010, and his return to power marks the culmination of a political comeback that is both thrilling supporters and enraging opponents in a fiercely polarized nation.

His presidency is unlikely to be similar to his previous two mandates, coming after the tightest presidential race in more than three decades in Brazil and resistance to his taking office by some of his opponents.

The leftist defeated far-right Bolsonaro in the Oct. 30 vote by less than 2 percentage points. For months, Bolsonaro had sown doubts about the reliability of Brazil’s electronic vote and his loyal supporters were loath to accept the loss.

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The tranquility of taking the lead of country knowing that every single opposition you have is serving jail time or being prosecuted plus either banned or suspended from social networks. The only exceptions that aren't on the jail-list are the ones that fled the country to the US. :lol:

I will update this forum in the next 4 years on how "good" another communist-like leader is going to be for a Latam country like Brazil (like we don't really know what's going to happen to the economy).
And, as always, bye bye.
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R8Z wrote: Mon Jan 02, 2023 1:12 am The tranquility of taking the lead of country knowing that every single opposition you have is serving jail time or being prosecuted plus either banned or suspended from social networks. The only exceptions that aren't on the jail-list are the ones that fled the country to the US. :lol:

I will update this forum in the next 4 years on how "good" another communist-like leader is going to be for a Latam country like Brazil (like we don't really know what's going to happen to the economy).
If a “communist” was in power there wouldn’t even be bourgeois elections. You don’t know what that word means or are deliberately misusing it.
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^^^Perhaps one of you would care to offer a definition of the word "communist." Personally, I would actually offer two. One for "communist" and the other for "Communist." The definitions would be radically different from each other. In this case, the capitalization of just one letter makes a huge difference. What I came here to post.


Brazil: Lula Swears In Cabinet Members, Inks First Decrees
by Pedro Rafael Vilela
January 3, 2022

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(Eurasia Review) President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Sunday (Jan. 1) swore in 37 cabinet members and signed the first acts of the new administration. At the ceremony, held at the Planalto presidential palace, 13 documents were inked, among which decrees and provisional measures.

The first measure brings a new structure to the president’s cabinet. Another makes it possible to keep the allowance under income transfer program Bolsa Família at a monthly BRL 600 per person, plus BRL 150 per child aged up to six. A major campaign promise made by the president, the move was only feasible after Congress passed a bill excluding the welfare program from the cap on public spending.

Lula also signed a measure that maintains the exemption of federal taxes on fuels, in addition to a decree on weapons. According to the new president’s office, this is the beginning of a revamp in Brazil’s arms control policy. Lula also inked an order granting the Office of the Comptroller-General 30 days to reconsider the undue secrecy imposed on public administration matters.

In the environmental arena, a number of decrees were signed, including documents that reinstate efforts to fight deforestation and illegal mining in the Amazon, and another that restores the Amazon Fund, with BRL 3 billion in international donations to combat environmental crime.

Other acts signed by Lula on his first day in office direct ministers to have government-run companies such as oil giant Petrobras, national post office company Correios, and public broadcasting organization EBC removed from privatization plans. Another stipulates that his secretariat should draft proposals to recreate a program to support collectors of recyclable materials.
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Bolsonaro supporters storm Brazilian Congress

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Supporters of Brazilian far-right ex-President Jair Bolsonaro have stormed Congress in the capital.

The dramatic scenes came a week after left-wing veteran Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's inauguration.

Supporters of Mr Bolsonaro - who refuse to accept that he lost the election - broke through barriers and entered the building in Brasília.

Police used tear gas but failed to repel the demonstrators, some of which smashed windows.

It is unclear if they are still in the building.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-64204860
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