35 Burst results for "Lula"
The Trish Regan Show
Are We Now a Banana Republic?
"This is the kind of stuff that happens in these banana republics. And I don't mean to pick on Brazil. So if anyone's from Brazil, I apologize in advance, but let's face it in Brazil, like everyone goes to jail. It's in the government. I mean, think about Lula, he went to Dale. Of course, now he's president again, go figure Dilma Rousseff didn't she go to jail as well. This is not the United States of America. I don't love the story. I don't even like to say the words stormy Daniels, but they're alleging, of course, that he paid her off in this kind of hush hush money scheme. And that therefore is illegal. And then he lied about it, and maybe used campaign funds, et cetera, et cetera. This is Alvin Bragg, who's alleging all this. He is the liberal prosecutor. There are the DA in New York City whose campaign actually was funded to the tune of a $1 million by a liberal group called color of change, political action group, which actually is in part funded by George Soros. So there's a lot of blue money here behind this. And the Democrats wanted this, right? They haven't given up. They think that this motivates their base, but I get news for them. You know what this is going to do? This is actually going to help Donald Trump immensely. Immensely, because no one wants to see a former president. I'm sorry. You know what? When I see the video of Joe Biden falling on the stairs of Air Force One, I don't like it. I actually cringe, I don't like Joe Biden's policies as you well know. I don't think he's a very good president, but the last thing I want to see is him falling on the stairs over and over again. I don't like that because you know what that to me reflects on our country.
Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"lula" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"<Speech_Female> And <Speech_Female> we hope that <Speech_Female> Lula and his team <Speech_Female> will <Speech_Female> put their <Speech_Female> promises into action <Speech_Female> and urgently <Speech_Female> take <Speech_Female> action to evict the <Speech_Female> illegal gold miners <Speech_Female> and to send in <Speech_Female> enough health <Speech_Female> teams the <Speech_Female> health teams that are <Speech_Female> required to <Speech_Female> look after <Speech_Female> the amami and <Speech_Female> to prosecute those <Speech_Female> who have profited <Speech_Female> from the illegal <Speech_Female> invasions of these <Speech_Female> territories. And dismantle <Speech_Female> the criminal <Speech_Female> gangs, <Speech_Female> clean up the supply <Speech_Female> chains as well. <Speech_Female> And <Speech_Female> do the same for <Speech_Female> all indigenous territories <Speech_Female> across Brazil, <Speech_Female> especially those home <Speech_Female> to uncontacted <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Male> tribes. <Speech_Male> How big a task <Speech_Male> is that going <Speech_Male> to be, though, in terms <Speech_Male> of evicting these <Speech_Male> people and breaking <Speech_Male> up those supply <Speech_Male> chains. This is going to <Speech_Male> be a <Speech_Male> significant police <Speech_Male> and possibly <Speech_Male> military operation, <Speech_Male> isn't it? <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Female> Yes, indeed. <Speech_Female> It is a big <Speech_Female> task <Speech_Female> and of course it <Speech_Female> will require <Speech_Female> several government <Speech_Female> institutions <Speech_Female> to work. <Speech_Female> Cohesively, <Speech_Female> it <Speech_Female> requires <Speech_Female> funai, the indigenous affairs <Speech_Female> department, <Speech_Female> it requires <Speech_Female> the police, <Speech_Female> the <Speech_Female> ministry of the <Speech_Female> environment, <Speech_Female> it is a big task <Speech_Female> it requires a lot of <Speech_Female> political will <Speech_Female> and a <SpeakerChange> lot of resources. <Speech_Female> However, <Speech_Female> we know it's <Speech_Female> possible. It's <Speech_Female> been done before, <Speech_Female> and it must be done <Speech_Female> again, and that's not <Speech_Female> asking too much. It's <Speech_Female> just asking for <Speech_Female> the Brazilian <Speech_Female> constitution to be <Speech_Female> upheld international <Speech_Female> law <SpeakerChange> as well. <Speech_Female> And <Silence> Lula <Speech_Female> and his team have <Speech_Female> made very good <Speech_Female> signs <Speech_Female> of wanting <Speech_Female> to do <Speech_Female> the right thing <Speech_Female> for indigenous peoples, <Speech_Female> including the yanomami. <Speech_Female> At the <Speech_Female> same time, there <Speech_Female> were lots of anti <Speech_Female> indigenous Congress <Speech_Female> people who have been elected <Speech_Female> who <Speech_Female> are fiercely <Speech_Female> against any such <Speech_Female> moves and who will try <Speech_Female> to block them. <Speech_Female> So indeed, as you <Speech_Female> say, it's not necessarily <Speech_Female> an <Speech_Female> easy ride, but <Speech_Female> a very necessary <Speech_Female> one. <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Male> Sarah shankar at <Speech_Male> survival international, <Speech_Male> thanks very much for <Speech_Male> joining us here on <Speech_Male> the foreign desk. That's <Speech_Male> it for this episode <Speech_Male> of the foreign desk. <Speech_Male> We'll be back next week <Speech_Male> and look out for the foreign <Speech_Male> disk explain it <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> available every Wednesday. <Speech_Male> <Advertisement> The foreign desk <Speech_Male> was produced by MSL <Speech_Male> and Christie o'grady, <Speech_Male> Christie also produces <Speech_Male> the foreign
Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"lula" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"This is the foreign desk on monocle 24, joining me here in the studio to take a longer look at the challenge facing president Lula is doctor Christopher sabatini, senior research fellow for Latin America at chatham House here in London and joining us from New York is Cecilia tornaghi, managing editor of America's quarterly and senior director for policy at the Americas society and council of the Americas. Cecilia first of all, let's go back to those extraordinary scenes in Brasília earlier in January. Do we have a clear understanding now of how serious the riot was and who or what was behind it. Well, who and what is still there are several hints of a lot of military people, different ranks, the police, but also external powers. But there's nothing proven so far. So the investigations are ongoing. There were several businesses that were supporting those campers that had been since the election outside the army quarters that were sort of like the head of the Hydra that started the process on January 8th. So there's a lot of evidence of individuals involved to hear and there. But there's also a lot of evidence surging every day there's one more element showing that this has been orchestrated for a long time. So there has been evidence that on December 12th there was sort of like a dress rehearsal of some sort of riots in Brazil, the day that Lula got his diploma as president. So that was December 12th that day there were riots, burning buses in Brasília and that was tamed down after the inauguration, which was
Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"lula" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"It's not that Brazil had a very sharp turn to the left. Of course, a few things here and there, you know, he was redistributing money a little bit more, but for business people, it was excellent years, Brazil is growing so much. He's very much a capitalist at heart. People shouldn't think it's hard left against hard right. That's definitely not the story here. This is my own personal unified field theory of everything that all the world's current populist struggles are when you boil away everything else. Essentially, a struggle between the city and the country. It will become like that, and that's very sad to see Andrew, because it wasn't like that at all, actually. Especially I'm talking since our red democratization. But I can see this developing it, and I can see honestly, the United States influenced Brazil more than ever the way they do politics there. It is such a shame, because as I said, it wasn't like that. As I said, the Brazilian football kit, I mean, literally if you were a communist or fascist, you could wear it and cheer for Brazil in a very relaxed manner, but it is changing and we have to wait and see. I mean, Bolsonaro also his political power, I think, diminished quite a lot. I mean, it was quite embarrassing that he traveled to Orlando. He was not even there in Brazil supporting his own people that decided to invade the Congress in a way. So I'm not sure how strong he would be in the next elections. But I wonder if there will be someone else besides Bolsonaro that will represent this quite hard right that we have in Brazil. They didn't disappear. I mean, he almost won the election indeed. Not everyone would invade the Congress, I would say from his supporters I have to add that. But you know, it is a remarkable power still to have 48% of a massive country like Brazil. We are going to be talking later in the show about the challenges and opportunities facing Lula as he returns to the presidency. But I want to go back to when he left the presidency the first time with extraordinary approval ratings for any point in somebody's presidency never mind two terms into it. What was his secret? Why did Brazilians appreciate what he'd done? Well, you're right. I mean, he left power, I believe it was 87% of approval. I mean, we'll never see this number ever again. In my opinion. You know, it's very simple, Andrew. Of course, people say that when he was elected in 2002, there was a commodities boon in Latin America. That's why we grew so much. Sure, I mean, that's definitely one of the reasons why he did well. But we should not forget Brazil's actually a very poor country even in the 90s. I mean, we started to get better in the 90s, but there were a lot of hunger even in Brazil. You know, it was quite devastating to see anything with Lula did with social programs like botha familia. Brazil never had a really strong social program like we have in Europe, for example. It completely changed people's lives, you know? In the poorest parts of Brazil and those people and I think that's why they still voted for Lula this year in high numbers. And again, of course it wasn't perfect. There were corruption scandals. The homicide levels in Brazil are crazy. And they're still very high. I mean, they're one of the highest in the world. But I think that's why he left with 87 percent of approval. So what's your read then on why he wanted the job back? Because it was 20 years ago that he was first elected. He is now 20 years older. I mean, he's old by any definition. He's been extremely ill. What do you think's driving him now?
Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"lula" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"When Lewis and asio Lula da Silva, known universally as Lula, was first elected president of Brazil in 2002, it was a great plucky underdog story. Lula, who has a boy sold peanuts on the streets of São Paulo and had little formal schooling who worked his way up through Brazil's trade union movement and who had lost three previous presidential elections had claimed the big prize at last. And he made the most of it. Lula won reelection in 2006 and left office in 2010 only due to term limits, boasting a commendable record in reducing Brazil's poverty and consequently astonishing approval ratings. On New Year's Day, Lula was sworn in for his third term, but the Brazil that elected him and only just last October has changed a great deal and so has he. The country is more divided and more rancorous, a fury most picturesquely demonstrated by immense riots in Brasília earlier this month. And Lula is obviously older. He's 77 and since his first stint in the palacio del varada has endured both treatment for cancer and 580 days in prison on corruption charges later annulled. Can Lula do it again. What ideas does he have about Brazil at home or abroad that he didn't have 20 years ago? And where does he even start? This is the foreign desk. Lula's trying to weed out some of the supporters of Bolsonaro, but we have to recognize too that it did take the federal military to come in and quell the protests. What we saw in Brasília was the breaching of that divide between civilian politics and certainly the state police, military police, but also the military as well. And so I don't want to sound too alarmist, but clearly that wall has been breached into a certain extent. It's not that Bolsonaro is hard right in Louis hard left. As you know, he is very much a pragmatic, and that's why he was a successful president for his two terms. Of course, a few things here and there, you know, he was redistributing money a little bit more, but for business people, it was excellent years Brazil's growing so much. He's
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Brazil Sets Up Repressive Censorship Regime After January 8 Protests
"In the aftermath of January 6th, 2021, a vast censorship regime descended across social media in the United States. And now it looks like in the aftermath of January 8th, January 8th being the day in which protesters in Brazil took over the court, the parliament, the palace, the president's palace, and now we're seeing kind of the same thing. We're seeing recriminations, we're seeing, we've already seen a bunch of arrests, I believe, about a thousand people, probably more by now. But what's really troubling is now a senior judge in Brazil. This is Alexandra de morais. It's apparently become the point man for censorship, not only in Brazil, but also for Brazilian commentary across the world. And what this means is that this judge, the single guy, has taken it upon himself to ban critics of the Lula regime, defenders of the Bolsonaro, claims, and also opposition members who were themselves elected and have huge followings and also huge social media followings in their own right. Now Glenn greenwald, the journalist who has actually been kind of a friendly toward Lula. In fact, his reporting and the reporting at his former publication, the intercept was instrumental in Lula being able to defeat corruption charges, which is what cleared the way for Lula to run again, but Glenn greenwald is very angry. He goes the censorship regime in Brazil is growing rapidly virtually daily now. He goes, this is not confined to Brazil, and he goes, the censorship regime implemented in Brazil makes the U.S. and EU look like bastions of liberty.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
The Left Blames Brazil Uprising on Lack of Social Media Censorship
"When the uprisings began in Brazil take over of the parliament and the court, a number of the federal government buildings, there were immediate comparisons in the U.S. media to January 6th. And when I saw those, I was like, here it comes in no time. You're going to see the U.S. media called for a similar response. In Brazil to what the Biden administration did after January 6th, which is not only the rounding up, the expulsion of the protesters, the going after them. But also demands for a new regime of intensified censorship, shutting down of political opponents, and sure enough, that is happening in Brazil now. Lula da Silva, the new president, hasn't gotten on board with it, but he's, I think, figuring out how he should respond. But here is an article in The Washington Post. Again, this is just so predictable. You could almost write this article. You could almost have artificial intelligence right these kinds of articles. At this point. But here it is, how social media helped drive mayhem in Brazil. And what do they do? They kind of go through Brazilian social media and they point out that there were posts where people said, oh, come to the capitol and they were criticisms made on social media of Alexandra de morais, who's by and large the judge that has been protecting Lula da Silva. In fact, this judge himself seems to have censorship powers in Brazil. He's been shutting down prominent right-wing figures in Brazilian politics, preventing them from being able to post preventing them from being able to speak in public.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
The Marxist Wave Sweeping the Globe With Frank Gaffney
"Frank, we're talking about Brazil and you said that there is a kind of a Marxist wave that you think is sweeping across not just South America and Central America, but in some degree, also washing across the United States, how do we explain or understand this? I mean, we lived through when we were somewhat younger men, the collapse of the Soviet Union, Francis fukuyama wrote his book the end of history, basically saying liberal constitutional democracy is now the kind of wave, not just of the future, but of the indefinite future history itself as kind of come to an end. Clearly, that does not seem to be the case, but how do you account for an ideology that has accumulated a record of failure upon failure upon failure, enjoying such political revival and apparent political success? Well, I should be interviewing you on this subject because you've done with your films, among other things in your books, border on this subject than anybody. I guess my take on it is this. There is no limit to the willingness of people to suspend belief based on past experience in the hope that things will be different. If they're made to sound seductive enough. And I think you're right, there's been an unbroken track record of disaster at the hands of marxists. And yet there is this endless appeal to the idea that, well, it was just bad done badly in the past, but we're going to get it right this time. And it'll be fairer for everybody. There will be equity. It will be equal outcomes. Everybody will prosper and so on. It won't happen this time any more than it has in the past, but it has been the single minded purpose of Lula da Silva personally.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Lula da Silva Slams Far-Right as Brazil Clears Protest Camps
"I'm continuing my discussion of the turmoil in Brazil. It's a little hard to say where this is going. It seems that institutionally Lula da Silva has the support of the courts, and I say that because the courts have been a very dismissive of claims of election fraud, a B have actually apparently been complicit in social media censorship in Brazil. This is the topic I want to talk about in more detail. I'll probably pick it up tomorrow. Twitter, for example, has been a major instrument of censorship for the, this is of course before the Elon Musk take over of the Bolsonaro people in Brazil. So the court is on Lula's side, but the army and the military and apparently some of the police are on Bolsonaro's side. Now the police were out in force, apparently intercepting a lot of the protesters. And of course, they did the protesters did need to be evacuated from any government buildings, but there was also the police cracking down on protesters on the street. And so guess what happened, I'm actually looking at a video of this in social media. And that is that when the police began to deploy and force on the street to dispel the crowds, the army put tanks on the street to prevent the police from removing the protesters. So all of this suggests that there's still a volatile situation in Brazil and Lula da Silva has his hands full in dealing with it. Now, Bolsonaro interestingly is in Florida. And apparently a bunch of left wing Democrats would think I'm thinking here of AOC, Ilhan Omar, Joaquin Castro. They're like, we have to extradite them. We have to send them back to Brazil. Well, first of all, Bolsonaro is not under accusation. He didn't call for these protests. In fact, as far as I can tell, he has been relatively quiet and in a sense accepting of the election outcome. I said that because what is Bolsonaro do? He basically backs up and goes to Florida.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What the Heck Is Going on in Brazil? Paulo Figueiredo Tells Us
"Joining us now is Paulo boy, I'm sorry. I can't pronounce this figure figure dough out fellow. I'm sorry, Paulo. I'm just gonna call you Apollo man. How do you pronounce your name? Paula's fine. Right pronounces pronunciation is figurative though. It's very hard. That's fine. Sorry, I Portuguese. Apollo is good enough. All right, yeah, Portuguese is not my native tongue. But I'm honored that you're with us. Let me just ask you a very simple, yet complicated, it's a simple question to state complicated answer. What the heck is going on in Brazil? Well, yeah, it's not simple at all, but it's easier for Americans to understand that for most countries, especially especially for conservatives. Because what's happened in Brazil, it has a lot of similarities to what happened in the U.S. and on January 6th. The long story short is that the Brazil, the Brazilian conservatives and the regular people in Brazil, they have been their voices have not been heard by Brazilian institutions for a long time, okay? This includes the fact that people unconvicted or they really, really meet new the conviction of former president Lula. Or corruption. And that allowed him. He was convicted multiple times of socialist now president of Brazil, and former president of Brazil. He was convicted multiple time for corruptions. And the Supreme Court of Brazil, which they were appointed by majority. I believe 9 out of 11 Jesus were appointed by the left in Brazil. And they made all the convictions that Lula had for a corruption. They made them go away based on failure on due process was not a matter of him being found innocent or not guilty. It was the fact that the due process was not fully followed, according to them.
Northwest Newsradio
"lula" Discussed on Northwest Newsradio
"Not a part of democracy. But Bolsonaro called the Trump of South America has repeatedly claimed voter fraud and encouraged a military coup after his loss. President Lula surveying the damages in his presidential offices after police cleared the protesters and secured the buildings, at least 400 people have been arrested, according to the Brazilian government. There remains a heavy police presence in Brazil's capital and president Lula vowing that all that terrorists who did this will be found in punished and President Biden calling the attacks outrageous. ABC's Martha raddatz, Hong Kong's chief executive says that he's pushing for a full resumption of travel within the Chinese mainland. Richard kimber says it follows the reopening of quarantine free cross border travel. For the first time in three years, John Lee says he wants to restore all that to full capacity as soon as possible. He's dismissing concerns over whether the scale of the COVID outbreak in China could affect Hong Kong. He says health authorities on both sides of the border are monitoring this situation and there is continued international concern about China's COVID outbreak after China relaxed its own inbound quarantine rules that's expected to spark a surge in the number of Chinese travelers heading overseas many for the first time since the start of the pandemic. And that's Richard kimber reporting. It's two 14. Traffic every ten minutes on the fours from the high performance homes traffic center. Here's Michael convery. The dark skies have definitely moved in. In fact, I'm looking at some camera shots right now down in the auburn area and we've got some pretty good sized rain might be some thunder showers moving through down in auburn down into puyallup. One 67, the valley freeway is, again, pretty crowded now south of auburn from ellingson road off and on into the Sumner area. Getting heavy rain just be real careful moving through that stretch. We're seeing similar weather conditions down into Federal Way and most of the way into Tacoma where The Rain in spots is coming down pretty heavy at the moment. I four O 5 south now we have delays starting just out of Bellevue starting right about the factoria area, off and on slowing down into the Newcastle, vicinity. It's about 16 minutes right now to get from Bellevue all the way to the I 5 merge in tukwila. Northbound I 5 get a little bunched up into downtown up towards a convention center and southbound I 5 now is slow moving across the ship canal bridge off and on up towards the off ramp for Mercer street right in downtown. Our next northwest traffic is at two 24. Our forecast now sponsored by northwest crawlspace services, rains coming in tonight, it's going to be with us until tomorrow midday, potentially, and we're going to see sunshine for most of tomorrow. Thankfully, we're
Latino Rebels Radio
"lula" Discussed on Latino Rebels Radio
"Thanks so much for having me. It's been a pleasure. There you go. That was such a brilliant explanation of what happened. What is happening in Brazil, what has happened, what might happen, so many questions, just really thankful to Mike for starting 2023 with us, he's a smart dude, and I love his insights and just the way he communicates it, gotta love a good talker. That's what makes audio so great. So listen, if you like what you heard, please rate and review us, share this podcast, tag us, Latino rebels, tag me, Julio 77, tag the Latino media collective. Special shout out to our editorial director Fernanda Santos, one of my favorite Brazilians in the world, who, edited the show, and yeah, we'll be back next week. Like we always do. We always close out with la plebe. Well, not always, but most of the time we close out with la plebe. Who you are, Latino rebels radio, we
Latino Rebels Radio
"lula" Discussed on Latino Rebels Radio
"Lulu's inauguration. You also just finished the World Cup. So it's like World Cup Pelé passes, Lulu's inauguration, and then Lula is able to go to Pelé's funeral. I mean, that was yesterday and Lula, one of his first access president was to be there. Yeah, it was Tuesday, right? It was Tuesday. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, and so, and in a way, I think there were originally talking about having his funeral earlier over the weekend. And I think they extended it to not coincide with the inauguration to not have an impact on the inauguration. So in a lot of ways, you know, obviously it was a sad moment. Pelé is so important for the country so important for Brazil, so important for soccer, it particularly at a moment, you know, like looking back at what happened this year with the World Cup, obviously what happened 8 years ago in the 7.1 laws against Germany, but also just his image, you know, and what he signifies for so many people. So it's interesting that all this has happened, but I don't see it as, I don't think we need to look deeper in terms of, oh, yeah, you don't need any big thought pieces about this. And we need to ask completely. But this whole notion of soccer and culture in Brazil and politics in Pelé and all that. That has a global transcendence. And I think your point being like, yes, any president would have done this. It's not something that is just specific to Bolsonaro. But listen, you mentioned the new challenges. You know, the sort of that the jury's still out on Lula, given also his history and sort of the history of the left in Brazil in the last 20 years. What are his challenges? What do you think his administration needs to tackle to sort of give Brazil this sense of hope that you're saying that you saw that you witnessed during the inauguration? So I'd say there are several challenges. The first is obviously Lula brought in in order to defeat Bolsonaro. He brought in this very wide coalition. Across the political spectrum, I mean, his running mate, his vice president is girard waltman, who was his arch nemesis, right? He actually ran against Lula in the 2006 presidential election. So he comes from the PSD party, which is kind of the, that was the always the right wing party who was battling against the Workers Party. So a, that is one challenge is how is Lula going to manage together with this very broad coalition across the political spectrum, keep people united, keep things moving, be able to push his political agenda. So far, and remember that Lula is the great negotiator. He's the great diplomat, obviously internationally, and that's going to be huge to see how he kind of pushes on to the international scene. He already has. In fact, he did it a month and a half before his election when he went to cop 27 and was like the rockstar at cop 27. So that's one scene as the international scene, but the other thing is nationally and how is he going to be able to negotiate across aisles and how is he going to be able to push policies that he wants to get through the most important ones? Obviously being, you know, poverty alleviation that was his bread and butter back in the 2000s. It's going to continue to be. That's what he talked about a ton recently rolling back measures and decrees during the Bolsonaro years. And that's something that he's already done just this first toy or hours in power. He had already canceled 8 different privatizations, including the state owned oil company and the mail service, and then he got rid of the hundred year confidentiality bullshit and Bolsonaro had put a bunch of things on what they call sigil, which is basically, oh, we'll just put that in its confidential and no one can touch it for the next hundred years. So Lula, you know, he got rid of that. And he is now approved, bolsa familia, so he kind of jumpstarted both of media, which is, you know, the conditional cash transfer program that he had started in his early years that was really important for poor Brazilians. It's now going to be 600 reis a month. So a little over a $100, but that's almost three times what it was during much of the years, ten, 15 years ago. So all these things that he's already pushed for, he's already marked forward. And then, of course, all the different ministries are also pushing there. We saw just the day before the Ministry of Health, the new minister of health, she said that they're going to get rid of all of the different kind of decrease enormities that were passed under Bolsonaro, which aren't in line with science or push fake news or whatever else. And so these are all really important steps. Of course, this is the moment this is the honeymoon moment, like we talked about, right? This is the exciting moment. Yeah, it's honeymoon. And so it's like, yeah, exactly. It's the first week. And so the one thing we do know up until now is that 9 amongst his 37 new cabinet seats, the Workers Party has 9 of those, so about a quarter of them, and each of the smaller parties in the coalition each have three seats themselves. So that's a way of shoring up making sure that the support. That's just the politic that usually happens in Brazilian politics. So one of those things is obviously, you know, how is that governing coalition going to work itself? The second major challenge is obviously the economy, you know, the Brazilian real, it stayed roughly between 5 and 6 ray ice to the dollar under Bolsonaro, but it also got worse, you know, it was better than that when Bolsonaro actually came in. So that's going to be a major challenge. Well, it's coming off a pandemic and all the things that happened in the last couple of years in Brazil. Exactly. And the big battle, the big challenge in many, many ways, and this is the contradiction historically in Brazil is the battle kind of over the Amazon and the battle over land rights. And this is because what was really important under Bolsonaro was the big agribusiness. And in fact, what Bolsonaro did was he slowly started to gut Brazilian industries and even more so under the whole lava jato under the car wash scandal, which really tanked a bunch of big Brazilian companies because they were involved in that scandal. But what Bolsonaro did was he really focused on the agro business and really tried to focus on Niagara's to a detriment, obviously, to deforestation, indigenous communities, and of the landless workers movement and things like that. And so it's going to be an interesting to see how Bolsonaro continues to move forward. He is very clearly said that he wants to get to deforestation zero, zero deforestation, and that there's way more than enough land to be able to continue to grow the agribusiness and continue to be kind of the breadbasket for the world and not have to D forest. And so that's obviously that's where he's pushing for. He wants sustainable development for the Amazon and not just development inclusive of indigenous communities, and that includes like sustainable mining and things like that. But that's going to be a major challenge. It always has been a major challenge within kind of the left governments in Brazil. And so that it's going to be an interesting to see how things play out. And of course, the big question, like we mentioned before, is where does Bolsonaro ism stand right now? Where does Bolsonaro's people stand? Yeah, who knows what's going to happen? Like, is he going to, you know, someone else is in Florida? So listen, hey, Mike. So where can people learn more about the work that you're doing? Obviously plug the podcast and I know you've done stuff for the world. Where can they find more about you? Because as they say, you know your shit when it comes to Brazil. Well, thanks, man. And my Twitter M Fox U.S., that's my Twitter handle, Instagram, M Fox dot U.S.. That's also my web page. And Fox dot U.S. obviously, the podcast, these key, it's still key to understand kind of what went down, Hulu is and where we are now, in fact, I'm going to be working on a new update to that, which looks at Lula's inauguration, where things stand at this point. Brazil on fire, you can find it anywhere you get your podcasts. And then the world, if you look up the world and search for Michael Fox, you can find any of my stories there. I know. I love the world. I love Mark. It's a great show. So Mike Fox, thanks for being on Latino rebels, radio.
Latino Rebels Radio
"lula" Discussed on Latino Rebels Radio
"And he basically said, you know, we did really well in this election. Yada, yada, yada. And then he walked away, but he didn't accept Lula and he didn't accept the results, but he stepped aside and then his chief of staff said, okay, I'm here to Bolsonaro has authorized me to begin the transition. So it seemed like Bolsonaro. He didn't want to say that Lula had won. He didn't want to say that, yeah, it had gone through and there wasn't fraud, but he was willing to go along with it. And then he just kept his mouth shut for the next two months. Now, I think what is happening, a lot of analysts think what happened. He went and spoke with the members of the electoral Supreme Court just before he made those statements. And, you know, this is there is nothing to back this up. But I think if we look at what happened, they probably told him, listen, keep your mouth shut, go along with it, and you don't have to recognize the results. Just don't say anything. You know, and so that's pretty much what he saw. Now, he came out in the right before he fled to the fled right before he left, whatever you want to call it last Friday, but he said, whatever. And it's not like he's an exile. He's just like, I'm going to Florida. I'm just getting on a plane. I'm going to go, I'm going to Florida. I need some R and R. Fled is not the right word. I'm with you. I'm just getting on a plane to Florida. I got you. So right before he left, he did his last live. It was about an hour long, and during this live, you know, he talked about, you know, like he was sorry to a supporters here, but he actually came out and said he was trying to work behind the scenes over these last two months to stop Lula's inauguration. That was one of the things that he absolutely did. And he told his supporters, look, I'm sorry that we couldn't do more. I'm sorry, we couldn't block it. The reality Hugo is the fact that he just doesn't have, you know that he was trying to push support amongst the military. In fact, there were some reports that he actually came out and asked for support from the United States and even actually Russia to try and block Lulu's inauguration and turn the tide. So we know that he was trying to push this fraud nerve without actually coming out and saying it, of course, the person that was coming out and saying it was Steve Bannon in the United States who was trying to say that there was fraud it happened. And of course, all the people on the streets in Brazil, and that's the thing. So Bolsonaro, when he just doesn't say anything, people say, okay, what he wants us to do is turn out in the streets en masse. And if you remember that first week week and a half, they shut down lots of roads across the country. In fact, I couldn't even get to the airport. I had to take a train to get to the airport because the roads were blocked. And then after that, then they started rallying in front of military barracks. Because they believed that there is an article in the constitution, which says that if the people call for the military to rise up and take power in order to reinstall democracy, then they will. And so that's part of the context. That's why people were rallying in front of the military barracks expecting the military to rise up and support them. And the reality is, is that a, the military was very clear that, look, Bolsonaro doesn't have enough support for us to get back in. He doesn't have support internationally. I mean, that was just, you know, this may have been a very different deal if Trump had been in president instead of Biden. That's a good point, you know? Because then Trump might say, yeah, I got your back. And then the military may have said, well, if we got the U.S. is going to back us, well, then fine. But this case, they did not have that so they didn't have international support. In fact, the U.S. Senate was extremely strong in pushing back and saying, listen, we will only accept democratic results or else we're cutting off foreign aid and we're cutting off military aid to Brazil. So that's key. The military doesn't want to mess with that. And even among the elites, no one wanted to have kind of an escapade of a potential coup. So that's kind of the context. In the end, what we understand is that Bolsonaro's lawyers told him and advised him that he might want to flee to or go to the United States for a period of time, in part because right now he has presidential immunity or he did. But once he leaves power, which he just did, then he doesn't have that anymore. And there are several investigations and accusations for crimes against him. So it could be fleeing. Like, we don't even know with him. Like it could be. Exactly. It absolutely could be fling. And there were arrests, right? There were arrests by his supporters in front of barracks, right? I believe that happened. Explain those arrests. They were in front of the barracks or what happened there. Well, there actually wasn't too much of arrest. It was kind of like his people what happened is as soon as Bolsonaro left, moron, who was his vice president, who they had had had a falling out, but he came out and said, listen, Lou is the democratically elected guy. This is not going to happen. Military is not going to come out. And so finally, his supporters like got it. But it wasn't like a crazy crackdown where the police come out and we're going to arrest all these people of Bolsonaro supporters. There was a case a few days before the inauguration where the police stopped the potential bomb threat where there was a vehicle filled with gas and there was supposed to be a bomb and they also during the inauguration they also picked up somebody with a knife, but actually things were pretty, they're pretty common chill. Now, the big question is like, you know, what happens going forward with Bolsonaro supporters? And what happens with Bolsonaro? Those are things we can't answer right now. I've been talking to a lot of analysts who think that some section of at least in Congress and the legislature, some section of Bolsonaro's allies are going to join with the Lula camp or at least vote with the Lula camp and then other parts are going to remain opposition because much of Bolsonaro's allies in Congress are traditionally there's this thing called a centron in Brazil where they kind of part of this very big large middle sector who kind of jumps ship and goes with whoever is in power and they vote with those people. So at this point, a lot of Bolsonaro's allies in Congress are part of that kind of network. So the question is, are they going to do what they usually do and be part of the central throne and join Lula to some votes? Are they going to be a staunch opposition? These are questions we don't know just yet. But it's been a crazy two months and I mean the biggest concern has obviously been with the possibility for some sort of a potential coup or rise up whatever else. And thankfully we didn't see. That hasn't happened yet. That did not happen, yeah. All right, so let's make the transition because there is a Pelé connection and you actually also did an obituary for the world when that came out, but this Bolsonaro playing the Pelé legacy. I want to talk about Pelé's death in this context. And it starts to separate Pelé from Brazil and Brazilian politics and culture. Give me your impressions of Pelé's death in the context of this or just Pelé's Pelé. But then how Bolsonaro one of his last acts as president was declaring these three days of mourning. Following the passing of Pelé, you know, you were talking about how Lula's election was going to uplift black Brazilians again, how do we unpack all this? Because then, you know, this was happening Pelé dies a couple of days before the inauguration. Thoughts. I think it's more conflicted these questions are more conflicted almost internationally than in Brazil. And I say that because, you know, any Brazilian president would give days of mourning for Pelé. And so, you know, in a way, Bolsonaro was obviously trying to curl a little bit of final support before he leaves the country, but I don't get the sense that that's what people were, oh, well, he's just trying to play the Pelé card because Pelé died. It's Pelé. It's Pelé. It would have happened no matter who was in power. Yeah, yeah. That's a good point. This is and yeah, and the thing is, it's been like he is Brazil, particularly internationally. He's the great ambassador, you know? And that's why we saw when he passed, just, you know, all of these symbols of Pelé and unity, the stadiums were lit up, Cristo de Torre, the big statue in Rio is lit up. People kind of go out into the streets and they're crying or juggling the soccer ball out in front of stadiums, you know. So it's not just
Latino Rebels Radio
"lula" Discussed on Latino Rebels Radio
"Limits of this from Google media and PRX. It's Latino rebels radio. And it is 2023. And I know I took a couple of weeks off. Just because I needed the break, but shout out to Oscar Fernández, our producer at Latino rebels radio for taking over the host chair and featuring two really strong episodes from the Latino media collective, which you should also be following if you're a fan of Latino rebels radio because Oscar does produce the show, but he also hosts a great show out of Washington, D.C., so you got to follow them as well. So I want to thank Oscar for taking over. But we're back and yeah, we're going to begin 2023 by focusing on Brazil. Following the January 1st inauguration and the return of Luis Inacio Lula da Silva. I love saying his name. After his victory over right-wing president jair Bolsonaro, so the inauguration happened on January 1st and it's following Bolsonaro's continued denial of the election results and he flew and he went to Florida. So I thought I would bring in a friend of the show in Oaxaca, Mexico right now, but he was in Brazil. To introduce themselves to the show so we can talk about Brazil and bula and also about the legend of Pelé, his funeral as well. So guests of the show from Mexico City introduce yourself what you do. Michael Fox, former editor of nakla, the next report on the Americas, host of Brazil on fire, my new podcast, about everything that Bolsonaro has sunk Brazilian two over the last four years and how the U.S. helped him do it. So listen, so obviously, historic moments in Brazil, I do want to talk about Lula Bolsonaro and I also want to talk about Pelé as well because that also happened, which I still can't shake that. But anyway, let's talk about the inauguration. So how would you describe the tone of the inauguration considering Bolsonaro's refusal to take part in this peaceful transfer of power? And again, I was fooled. I wrote this piece for MSNBC kind of given this guy a shot, but I was fooled about how he's acted the last couple months. So give us the context. The tone was hopeful it was exciting. It was over the top. I just did a story for the world in which I said it was it was more like a rock concert or a party than inauguration. 200,000 people in the streets, it was packed, Lula supporters had traveled from across the country to get to Brasília for this. And it was just, it was exciting. It was amazing. I mean, people saw this as kind of a renewal of democracy. You know, like we've talked about in the past. And so it was really, really hopeful. And I think people actually almost enjoyed the fact that Bolsonaro wasn't there. And you know, I think one of the fascinating things, which was the most symbolic no doubt throughout the entire time, was in Brazilian history, every president since the end of the dictatorship has always passed the presidential sash onto the next president. Like, that's a really important piece. Probably the most important piece of this whole process. You see them walk up the presidential ramp together, and then they hand the sash on to the next president. And everybody cries. Well, in this case, since Bolsonaro wasn't there, everyone was asking themselves, what's going to happen? Who's going to do it? Who's going to pass the sash? And they had gone out and they had put together a representation, a symbolic representation of the diversity that is Brazilian society. So it was a female, from a capital family, which are basically recyclers who pick up trash in the streets black. It was a disabled activist. You had one of the top indigenous leaders in Brazil's history. This is the guy that everybody knows when you talk about indigenous leaders. It's rauni, whose chief raoni of the kayapo people, he was there a young ten year old black boy. So they all walked Lula up the ramp into the presidential palace. It was like the Brazilian people are giving the presidential sash to Louis. So his symbolically just beautiful and that kind of mark the tone for the inauguration itself, but it's also marks the tone for kind of what the incoming what people expect of the incoming Lulu administration compared to what we had under Bolsonaro. So do you feel that there's hope or with Lula coming on? Do you think that symbol was resonated in what people were talking about it when you talk about this tone? You know what I mean? Absolutely. Yeah, they're absolute hope. And that was the feeling on the streets. I mean, people crying. Yeah. And because it's the end of at least, who knows what's going to happen, you know, in the coming months and coming years with Bolsonaro, when Bolsonaro with his supporters because you know they were still protesting outside of it and rallying outside a military barracks up until just two days before the inauguration. But the whole, it runs deep because you've had four years of Bolsonaro and even before then, since the coup against Dilma Rousseff, you know, the congressional coup that knocked him out of power, and then of course Lula being jailed for 580 days on trumped up charges. So is this like, for many people, this is the return of democracy in Brazil, right? And it's the return of hope where for years they, you know, they had to battle a potential Bolsonaro that was going to not just Bolsonaro, but also the wave of white supremacy and the wave of racist hate that we saw in Brazil, and so all of this, this was kind of a lot of people talked about it as kind of a breath of fresh air where people said they could breathe for the first time. And of course, you know, I mean, huge. We now have an indigenous ministry with Sonia water Jada, one of the top indigenous leaders activists who is now heading the indigenous ministry, the head of funai, which was kind of formerly the indigenous peoples kind of agency that was there to protect indigenous peoples. That's now going to be beneath the ministry of indigenous peoples and who was the very first indigenous woman to be elected Congress. She just served over the last four years. And then, of course, there's Marina Silva, who was Lula's environment minister in his first, I think 6 years in power and she was key really instrumental in helping to cut Amazon deforestation back in the beginning of his term 20 years ago. So all of them are back and it's really exciting for indigenous peoples, exciting for black communities. We now have the sister of Maria Li Franco, who was leading the ministry of racial justice, the head of the human rights ministry is an really important black lawyer. So all of this is just, it's an about face from what we saw under Bolsonaro, extremely exciting. So talk to me about the symbolism about Bolsonaro leaving for Florida that you mentioned, his supporters still denying the election, let's talk about the Bolsonaro camp. Talk about him, they need to Florida and also what are his supporters are doing. Again, I kind of gave this guy the benefit of the doubt. Because the first couple of days, I was like, oh wait, maybe he's gonna accept this. And then he just, I guess he let the supporters dictate this and then kind of, I feel like everyone's been duped. I've been duped. But give me the Florida fleeing, give me what his supporters did and let's just talk about that for a second in the context of the inauguration. Yeah, absolutely. Well, first, actually, I'm going to go back to that point that you were talking about when it seemed like, well, what is also going to just say. And it was confusing. And here's why, for the last two months, Bolsonaro has kept his mouth shut. He hasn't said anything. Yeah. On purpose, now, it's not it was the one guy in the world who never keeps his mouth shut. It's like Trump, you know, not the one guy. Sorry, Trump and him, right? And so the fact that he just decided to not say anything for almost two months was really, really key. Now let me put a little bit of context here. So he never accepted the results. What he did was the very first time he spoke 48 hours after the election after Lula's victory, he came in,
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Bolsonaro Challenges Brazil Election He Lost to Lula
"The United States media and also the western media have kind of gone silent on Brazil following the Brazilian election. So it's almost like the media left heaved a collective sigh of relief. Oh, our man Lula da Silva socialist has beaten Bolsonaro and basically we are now looking forward to all of Latin and South America falling into the hands of the left. Which by the way is a danger as possibility. But in Brazil, the issue is not settled at all, it seems. There have been continuing massive demonstrations. Most recently a demonstration in front of the military headquarters, apparently over 2 million people. Think about that. 2 million people in Brazil make a big country, but nevertheless, this is a this is one of the largest crowds that you'll see anywhere in the world. And what are the people saying they're basically saying that this is an election that demands to be audited. So in other words, this is, in a sense, familiar territory. They're saying that there was a lot of cheating in the election, particularly in the Rio de Janeiro area, spent some discussion of whether there have been there was pre programming of the machines and apparently there's now a divide in Brazil between the Defense Department and the Supreme Court.
Latino Rebels Radio
"lula" Discussed on Latino Rebels Radio
"Out of here. I don't know what that meant to stop you guys. Then I peed on a gun no place in my house where the sun is getting busy I need a new thing that you now see in the first couple of years and on my second last minute we'll make our way to my eyes the way that my eyes I know I love you no matter sometimes I like it sometimes. And then another foot beat up. There are Latino many got nowhere in my eyes no breathing my eyes I love the soils take me by never must be the one below you like there's a night last book I lost in my 90s like I was in my mind. Sometimes. I know what I can think deep and I stuck it up a lot of you don't make up. The light it's bad for people that nobody like and those go get no sailing on it's gonna fully go spend and boo boo solo but I ain't gonna die but I ain't gonna cry it's three 5. But he doesn't ask me but. He has what I did before. Sorry lost my love something wrong. It's time to get lost my love song. The opinions expressed by the guests and contributors in this podcast are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of futuro media
The Charlie Kirk Show
Journalist Paulo Figueiredo Filho Discusses Brazil's Invalid Votes
"If it's all machine voting, why is it that there were anywhere between 5 to 6 million invalid votes? That, I mean, you see the tabulation. It's because you have the opportunity when you're voting. You can even vote blank or new. And that's when you, well, you can even vote wrong wrongly, meaning it's a number. So the two candidates have a number. Bolsonaro was 22, Lula was 13. If you type for example, 17, it's considered new. Just because there's no candidate with 17. It's going to appear on the screen. That's new. You want to confirm it, and you could confirm it. So that's new. And you have the option. There's a key that you press and it's blank. And when you do it, you press blank and the screen shows that you want to vote blank. And it means your vote will be tabulated. The reason they have that in Brazil is because voting is mandatory in Brazil. It's not optional, like in the U.S.. You have to go vote. Otherwise, you get fined. And you have to go vote, but you don't need to vote in any of the candidates so you can vote even either blank or new. So that's extraordinary. Well, don't get me started on that. Mandatory voting, which of course always favors the left. It has always been and that's why it's so in place. So the problem is, and that's very weird because it's the first time to happen. In history, the way that the data behaved was very weird, same anomalies that we had similarly as we had in the U.S. in some states, like the data Bolsonaro started. We had on the count and then Lula started getting votes out of nowhere, anyone in almost fixed rate and the data behaved and trust me. I'm an economist as well. So I'm used data. The data did behave very, really. We can't prove there was a fraud on the counting, but definitely weird.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Seriously, What's Up With Brazil? Paulo Figueiredo Filho Explains
"There is a tremendous amount of confusion. Regarding Brazil, Brazil is a great country and it's very, very, let's just say murky with what is happening. In the great country of Brazil. And with us now, as someone to help us hopefully get some clarity on this, he's a Brazilian journalist at JP news. It's Paulo, Faye rito. Hope I said that right, Paolo. Welcome to the program. Thank you, Charlie. You did it perfect. That's my last name. Thank you. Hard to get it right since the beginning. All right, well, I tried my best. So Paul, I have many questions here. And thank you for the time. First, let's just start with the most obvious what the heck is going on right now in Brazil. Oh my God. That's the longest question. So much going on. So Brazil has been under the administration of president Bolsonaro, which is a great friend of president Trump, he is considered a Trump of Latin America, very conservative, more towards a national populist view of the world. A friend of the common man come and worker. And Brazil has been doing great. We're going to have for the first time in my life we're going to have more growth than China this year and less inflation than the U.S., which I know, not the greatest year for China or the U.S., but still going to accomplishment. The country is doing very well during the reforms and all that. It went through the pandemic fairly well, all things considered. And so last Sunday, we had elections and between Bolsonaro, the current president and Lula. Lula is a socialist from the Workers Party. He was, he's been in power from 2003. He was in power from 2003 to 2000 14. And in two 1012, I'm sorry. And in 2015, his successor, a lady, was impeached for defrauding public accounts. He was also convicted three times for corruption. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court deemed all his trials invalid. And by the Supreme Court, I mean, justice appointed by him when he was present. So he got away with it.
AP News Radio
Protests rage in Brazil even as Bolsonaro appears to accept defeat
"Brazilian president jair Bolsonaro is apparent acknowledgment of his electoral defeat is not discouraging die hard supporters from staging protests I'm Ben Thomas with the latest On the streets of Rio de Janeiro Bolsonaro supporters chanted federal intervention now and armed forces save Brazil Bolsonaro has refused to congratulate president elect Luis Inacio Lula da Silva or disavow the protesters though he has said he will continue to obey the constitution and reportedly told members of the Supreme Court his election battle has come to an end The conservative leaders allies quickly recognize da Silva's victory and the military has stayed in its barracks A world leaders have swooped in to offer support for de Silva Including
AP News Radio
Who is Lula? Winner of Brazil's presidential election
"Brazil's president is still not conceding the election he lost to his leftist rival the former president I'm Ben Thomas with the latest I spoke publicly Tuesday for the first time since results of the presidential election were announced But he didn't mention those results which showed Luis senac Lula da Silva winning with 50.9% of the vote to Bolsonaro's 49.1 The tightest margin since Brazil's return to democracy in 1985 Bolsonaro did say he will follow the rules laid out in the nation's constitution And
The Charlie Kirk Show
Plato Tried to Warn Us About Democracies
"Guys read in great detail? What Plato tried to warn us about when it came the democracy? Dictatorships naturally arise out of democracies. And you're going to see that happening in Brazil with this left wing leader. The Electoral College is one of the mechanisms which helps spread power over geography. It protects the country from sectionalism, it perfects the country from the urban masses. A political movement that dominates in just one area can force its will on an entire country. The Electoral College necessitates balance. And so now Brazil is going to have this far left wing Marxist take power. So look, Bolsonaro was and is a nationalist. He was a great president. He did a really good job in Brazil. Bolsonaro was very popular. Except in one region where Lula ran up the score. And Lula is a very left wing candidate. He's going to open up the prisons and make Brazil even more dangerous. But thankfully, we're not a democracy. They say Brazil is a democracy. Now, I would love for anyone to come on this program and show me a prosperous, safe, democracy right now in America. I say, oh, France, Germany. You think Germany is a prosperous country? They might be temporarily rich, but it's just a matter of time. And by the way, Germany does not respect freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of religious conscious, they don't at all. Why would they? They're not a republic. They're a democracy. It's about whoever gets the most amount of stuff.
AP News Radio
Brazil’s brash President Bolsonaro mum after election loss
"A leftist former president has prevailed over the far right incumbent in Brazil's presidential election but there's nothing been conceded yet I'm Ben Thomas with the latest Luis sinato Lula da Silva scored a tight victory over jair Bolsonaro receiving 50.9% of the vote to the president's 49.1 while congratulations have poured into Lula from world leaders Bolsonaro has not reacted in any way After the results were announced Sunday Night Lula told supporters he'd received no call from Bolsonaro and didn't know whether the incumbent would recognize the result Bolsonaro's campaign made repeated unproven claims of possible electoral manipulation
Today, Explained
"lula" Discussed on Today, Explained
"Then came the car wash corruption scandal which then eventually landed Lula in jail. The car was corruption scandal was the biggest corruption scandal in Brazil's history in Latin America's history and possibly in the world. It was an investigation into a scheme whereby businessmen would basically pay bribes to politicians in order to win contracts, primarily at Petrobras, which is Brazil's big oil company but also with other state companies. The probe named after one of the businesses used to launder the kickbacks, shook Brazil to the core. Now this investigation rolled on for a few years and it gradually implicated more senior people senior business people and politicians and then eventually Lawler Lula was convicted in 2017. And 2019 of corruption and money laundering, his sentence was then confirmed by higher court and then he was put in jail in April, 2019. All right, so how did a guy who went to jail four and a half years ago end up running for president? So Lula actually only spent 19 months in jail in the end. He was released in November 2019 for a series of very technical reasons that I would say that most Brazilians don't actually understand. Lucy national Lula da Silva or simply Lula, left prison on Friday surrounded by hundreds of his supporters. You have no idea of the significance for me to be here with you. I, whom my whole life talked with the Brazilian people never thought that today I could be here talking with men and women who during the past 580 days were here saying good morning Lula. Good afternoon, Lula, and yelling. Then the Supreme Court ruled again, they annulled his 2017 conviction and another conviction in 2019 for corruption and money laundering, saying that the cases had been tried in the wrong jurisdiction, those cases were never retried, and the statute of limitations expired on both of them. So Lula will tell everyone that he's innocent, that's not strictly true. He was never found innocent because his cases were never retried. So it's very, very complicated, very Brazilian. And that's basically the reason that he was released from jail in 2019 and then subsequently allowed to run for election. This month. One of the candidates Bolsonaro had authoritarian tendencies. One of the candidates Lula had been to jail for corruption. I imagine that over the course of this campaign, these two men used these things against each other. Can you tell me what the campaigning was like? It was a horrible horrible campaign, a very tense campaign. It was this dramatic choice, right? Between either voting for an ex con, or voting for people who thought was going to be dictator. So it was just a horrible choice in Brazil, voting is a blatant tree, which makes it even worse. So you can't just kind of like sit at home and try and ignore the whole thing. You've actually got to go out and vote or you pay a fine. And so it was a very much a race based on identity based on insults, the debates were very ugly, a points we were even wondering if they were going to get into a physical fight. There was very little discussion of actual policy of the future of Brazil, which was a shame. The campaign was also full of fake news as we say. You know, misinformation, rumors, the most ridiculous in my head, yesterday, even yesterday was that the Supreme Court judges had released Lula from jail because Lula knew they were all pedophiles. And these are intelligent people. This was a teacher who told me this last room, you know. These are intelligent people who are normally seem reasonable human beings, and then they start telling you about why they're going to vote and it's just incredible. I kind of wonder how many people voted yesterday on reasons that weren't in fact true, which is just a disastrous for democracy, right? And a lot of this is down to
Today, Explained
"lula" Discussed on Today, Explained
"Noelle king Samantha Pearson covers Brazil for The Wall Street Journal, which means she has been glued to this election from her base in São Paulo. It was actually the closest presidential race in Brazilian history. It was a nail biting few hours while we're waiting for the votes to be counted. But eventually the winner was a lot of their silver, who was their former leftist president in Brazil. He was president from 2003 to 2010. And then he won by a very narrow margin against the incumbent president Gibraltar on the right. So he will be back in the presidency again for a third time come January 1st. So we have a Lula win and perhaps just as significantly a Bolsonaro defeat, big picture, what is this mean for Brazil? This was a historic election in many ways. It was the first time that a president is actually failed to win reelection. It's very hard not to win a reelection in Brazil. So I think it really shows how much anger there is against the current president, Bolsonaro is not actually spoken since the election result last night. And he has always, you know, for the last few months at least said that he believes that there would have been widespread fraud in the election and that he would not accept the result. There was a lot of concern and there are still some concern about how is he going to respond to this defeat and would he try and even stage a military uprising or something. So democracy, I think, was definitely is definitely at stake in the selection as well. Tell me about jair Bolsonaro, the man who lost. So jar Bolsonaro for most of his young career, he was in the army. He was an ex army captain the country was ruled by a military regime from 1964 to 1985. When the regime fell in 1985 in Brazil became a democracy, Bolsonaro entered politics as a staunch far right conservative. Eventually becoming a congressman for Rio de Janeiro. He was on the fringes of Brazilian politics. He was always very much to the right, especially on social issues less so on economic issues, but he was that crazy guy that no one no one speaks to. Bolsonaro is a right-wing ex military populist who, when in Congress, told a female colleague, I wouldn't rape you, you're not worth it, has said I would prefer my son to die in an accident than to have him be gay and loves making finger guns all the time. And then come with an economic crisis here in Brazil. Workers Party president Joe morseth was impeached in August on charges she mishandled government funds. Her former vice president Michel demer took over pledging austerity. Critics say the poor suffer the brunt of the cuts. And people were desperate, desperate for something completely different. They wanted someone who was against everything that they'd seen before. They had this opinion, which is justified that all politicians in Brazil are corrupt so they didn't want anyone from the system. They wanted an anti establishment figure. Bolsonaro's voters say they're tired of violent crime and corruption in politics, and they blame PT, the left wing Workers Party who have been in power for over a decade. Who is Bolsonaro's constituency? I mean, if it was such a close election, millions of people wanted this man to win, who were they? So I love it like Richard Brazilian's middle class Brazilians like Bolsonaro a lot of the poor support Lula. Because Lila has done a lot more and did a lot when he was president in the past to help poor families by giving social welfare, but also putting a lot of pro kids into university into college, also the urban areas, sometimes tend to vote more in favor of the cultural elite, I would say, would vote for Lawler, but then farmers would vote for Bolsonaro. So it comes to kind of down to like social groups rather than necessarily. Geographical areas, I would think. One of the social groups is evangelical Christians, right? Yeah, so that's a huge group in Brazil. It's still unclear exactly how many evangelical Christians that are in Brazil because there hasn't been a sensitive since 2010, but people researchers believe that it's probably about one in three Brazilians and now evangelical Christians. Now, that's a radical change for a country that I'm home to the biggest Catholic population still. And has had huge changes, it's brought changes socially, economically, politically. Evangelical Christians in Brazil, at least they tend to be very socially conservative. So from that point of view, they've been big supporters of Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro is actually a Catholic, but he keeps that pretty quiet. He's married to an evangelical Christian. He's friendly with all of the powerful evangelical church leaders in Brazil. Who throughout this campaign, even against electoral rules, they've been basically calling for votes within churches, you know, telling people that the only godly choices Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro lost and if he lost, it has to mean that he messed something up while he was in office. What did I mess up? Well, a few things and it depends on who you speak to, which of those things matters more. But I would say that the COVID pandemic really is a big issue. In fact, that's what we're seeing across Latin America. So incumbents are being kicked out of office, partly as a response to the COVID pandemic. Now Brazil did a pretty bad job of handling the pandemic here, you know, the death toll was so high. COVID-19 is nearly toppled the country's healthcare system. And hospitals are overwhelmed by patients and they are running out of supplies. Bolsonaro was accused of belittling the disease at the beginning at the very beginning. He said that, oh, COVID is just a little cold and why people staying at home and try to encourage people to go back to work. He was also criticized for not doing enough to bring vaccines quickly enough to Brazil. So a lot of people were angry about that. They were also angry about the economic fallout of the pandemic. That wasn't even really boss now as fault. But that doesn't really matter, you know, because you blame the person that's in charge and inflation has risen dramatically in Brazil as it has another countries unemployment peaks about 15% last year. So and that's really affected a lot of poorer families in Brazil about 33 million people now in Brazil just can't afford to eat. So the situation is critical and they blame Bolsonaro and they remember how good things were under Lula, they want to go back to that kind of the golden years of the past. And tell me about Lula, he clearly capitalized on a situation where things were not going well for the incumbent. Who is he? Lola, he came from a very poor background. He was the 7th son of illiterate farm workers. Lula began training as a metal worker at 14, he got his first job at a warehouse. In 1980 Lula established the workers party or PT. When he came to power in 2003 for the first time, he was the first person from poverty that ever become Brazil's president. And that was a radical change for Brazilians. He was extremely popular. Even if you don't like him very much in your even a video on the right, if you said to listen to him for ten minutes, I guarantee you that he will, but you're alive. Or that he will charm you in some way. He's a great speaker. He's a great negotiator. He also got lucky to be fair during his two terms in office in the 2000s. That was when there was a China commodity boom was happening and that really benefited Brazil because China is the biggest buyer of Brazilian commodities. So there's a lot of cash flowing into Brazil at that point and then all their channels a lot of that cash into social welfare programs, infrastructure which created jobs. So he really had a great time in office. Yeah, it still famous for its music and carnival. But today, Brazil is something much more nation of 200 million. It's now the world's 6th largest economy and energy giant with a booming manufacturing sector and growing middle class. He left with an approval rating of more than 80% Barack Obama at the time even said he was the most popular, politician on earth. So things were very, very good for Lula.
AP News Radio
Brazil's Lula to reclaim presidency after beating Bolsonaro
"Brazilians have delivered a slim margin of victory to leftist former president Louis and asio Lula da Silva in a divisive presidential election Proud celebrated in the streets São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro Sunday Night after voters reelected Louis initio Lula da Silva as president for a third time It's a stunning comeback for a candidate who is at one time in prison for corruption Lula support a Carina palacio told the AP the wind was not so much about supporting Lula's leftist party as a rejection of far right incumbent yair Bolsonaro This is a relief at least we won't have a genocidal militia man ruling the country Bolsonaro's campaign made repeated claims of election manipulation before the vote in a victory speech to Silva said his win was a victory for the Brazilian people This isn't a victory of mine or the Workers Party nor the parties that supported me in campaign It's the victory of a democratic movement I'm Jennifer King
The Economist: The Intelligence
"lula" Discussed on The Economist: The Intelligence
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I need to warn you about proposition 30. One company cynical scheme to grab a huge taxpayer funded subsidy. Don't be fooled. Rob thirty's being advertised. The ballot initiative, mister Newsom is opposing in that ad would tax the rich to help pay for the transition to electric vehicles. It's a seemingly odd choice for a friend of the environment. But prop 30 has proven controversial and created some strange bedfellows. Prop 30 is a ballot initiative that Californian voters are going to consider on November 8th. It raises about three and a half to $5 billion in taxes by raising the tax rate on higher nurse people earning more than $2 million a year. And that money would be used to fund the transition into electric vehicles by offering rebates to people who are purchasing EVs for charging stations and also the money would be used to help fight fires. Alexander sewage bass is our senior editor for politics, technology, and society. The state's Democratic Party and a couple of mayors have endorsed the ballot initiative. But it's really a debate that's worth watching because Gavin Newsom, California's governor, who's a Democrat, has come out in opposition to the ballot initiative. He's joined forces with the Republican Party and the teachers union and has been fiercely critical of prop 30. So why is it that a famously green state's democratic governor would be on the side of Republicans with this one? Well, it's such an interesting thing to consider because on the face of it, prop 30 seems so innocuous. Who would be against raising money to fight fires and transition to a greener economy. But in fact, it is contentious. And there are a few reasons for that. One controversy is the role that Lyft a riot hailing firm is playing. Lyft is by far prop 30s biggest backer. California has a regulation that's requiring ride hailing firms to transition to electric vehicles and by 2030 will require about 90% of vehicle miles traveled to be done in electric cars. So the criticism is that lift is trying to get taxpayers to help it go green. Don't be fooled. There's a climate initiative, but in reality, it was devised by a single corporation. People like Gavin Newsom are suggesting that this is about a corporate money grab to help use taxpayer funds to transition to electric vehicles. Put simply brought 30 is a Trojan horse that puts corporate welfare above the fiscal welfare of our entire state. Others say that prop 30 is overkill or at the very least redundant California has already allocated about $10 billion to help fund the transition into electric vehicles and there will be federal money going to this as well through the inflation reduction act. But you said the dissent also included the teacher's unit. How do they figure in? The new tax would bypass the state's general fund, which pays for education, healthcare, and other basic services in California. So it would create competition for taxpayer dollars between electric vehicles and then other essential services that California might need. So that helps explain why the teachers union is against it. The other thing that prop 30 highlights is the potential downside of direct democracy in California. The state allows it to sense to bring forward ballot initiatives if they collect enough signatures. But that can sometimes hamstring lawmakers ability to set budget priorities. If prop 30 passes, some are concerned that it could also encourage other wealthy corporations to try and game the system and bring things to a vote by citizens that would directly affect those companies financial interests. And so what do voters think of this so far? Right now, it has support from a lot of prospective voters. It would need a majority in order to pass. But it seems that governor Newsom coming out against prop 30 has killed a bit of enthusiasm for the ballot initiative. I think there's an existential question that prop 30 raises for California, which is how much it can continue to tax top earners and remain competitive versus other states that have no income tax at a time where people are increasingly willing to rethink where they want to be based. Already California has the top income tax rate of any state in America. It depends heavily on top our nurse to fund its budget. And it's green initiatives, exact costs, not just on high earners, but also on average Californians. The state has the highest petrol price in the country. California is pay about 56% more than the national average. And so I think there are two questions that properties is. One is how much the state can continue to tax highers. And then the other is to what extent it should prioritize green initiatives over other priorities for the state. But ultimately, the risk here is to drive away the high earning, let's call them cash cows on propositions like this. That's right about 35,000 people earn $2 million or more a year in California. They pay about 33% of income tax. And so continuing to retain and attract high earners is essential for California. And it may find it harder if the tax rate is so high. Already we're seeing early signs that Californians are getting fed up with high taxes in 2020, which is the most recent year we have tax data for. We saw a net outflow from California of about 260,000 taxpayers, which is up about 58% from 2019 and represents about 1% of total state income tax collections. California right now is experiencing very rosy economic time as the stock market had been climbing and had record revenues, a record budget, but losing some of the people who will fund California's budget priorities becomes an even bigger dilemma when times are more difficult. And we're going to see it with tax collections being hit because of the stock market downturn. This is an issue of great importance to California as it considers both who it wants to attract and how it will continue to maintain its spending priorities in the years ahead. But California is also defending a record of being really quite ahead of the game when it comes to green issues. It's still interesting that a democratic governor would come out against an initiative like this. There's a question about what prop 30 means to California and then there's a question about what prop 30 means to Gavin Newsom. He has come out pretty vigorously against prop 30 in part in my estimation because of his national ambitions. It's likely that he's going to run for president if Kamala Harris or Joe Biden decide to stand down. And presiding over another tax increase on higher earners would really not resonate with voters outside of California and would also be a hit to his potential donors who are high earners in California. But I do think prop 30 regardless of whether or not it passes is worth watching because of what it says. Both about very ambitious governor in the Golden State and also what it says about California's future
Latino Rebels Radio
"lula" Discussed on Latino Rebels Radio
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The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
The Final Results, or Lack Thereof, of the Brazilian Election
"I'd like to talk about the result or perhaps I should say lack of a final result in the Brazilian election. An election interestingly enough that bears real similarities with things going on in the United States. First of all, right before the election, the polls show that Lula da Silva, who is the left wing socialist candidate, was leading and was leading decisively. He had over 50% of the vote, Bolsonaro, who is the incumbent jeri Bolsonaro, was way behind with something like 36 or 37%. So this looked like it was going to be like a blowout election. And the left was kind of salivating over this because oh yeah, Bolsonaro is another Trump, he's an authoritarian. He's disgraced, Brazil on the world stage. He's expressed doubts about the COVID vaccine and so on. The results of the election come in and it's basically a tie. Now it's disturbing that it is a tie because this Lula da Silva is bad news. Not only leftist, but this is sometimes a redundant phrase corrupt, deeply corrupt, and in fact serves sometime I believe in prison for corruption scandals that Lula da Silva was in fact the prime minister earlier and was mired in corruption scandals. So in any event, not only does Bolsonaro tie, which means there's going to be a runoff election, and that alone came as a surprise to the media to the left. But a bunch of the Bolsonaro candidates, people who had been demonized by the media, also won their races. Strengthening, if you will, the conservative hold on the parliament. And so you have here one of the left wing activists is quoted in The Guardian, guardian is a good source for how the left is thinking. Maria Christina Fernández a political commentator in Brazil, she goes bowl scenario. He's becoming a political project with a beginning and middle and an end. The degree of conservatism, they have managed to insert into the Congress as something permanent and will take a very long time to reverse. So
AP News Radio
Brazil’s far-right leader Bolsonaro outperforms polls to force runoff with leftist Lula
"Brazil's election has provided the world yet another example of polls missing the mark with incumbent jair Bolsonaro considerably outperforming expectations to prove the far right wave he rode to the presidency remains a force The most trusted opinion polls had indicated leftist former president Lula da Silva was far out front and potentially even clinching a first round victory One prominent pre election poll gave to silver a 14% point lead in the end Bolsonaro surprised to the upside and came within just 5 points
AP News Radio
In this week's religion roundup, Jewish pilgrims gather in Ukraine despite the war, Brazil's president exhorts evangelicals to help keep him in office, and the Vatican imposes disciplinary sanctions on a Nobel Peace Prize-winning Bishop.
"And this week's religion roundup Jewish pilgrims gather in Ukraine despite the war Brazil's president exhorts evangelicals to help keep him in office and the Vatican imposes disciplinary sanctions on a Nobel Peace Prize winning bishop Thousands of hasidic Jewish pilgrims ignore travel warnings and flock to central Ukraine to mark the Jewish new year The pilgrims travel from Israel and other countries to the small city of Oman The burial site of a respected hasidic rabbi who died in 1810 About 23,000 pilgrims were in Uman on Sunday Brazil's president Bolsonaro waged an all out campaign to shore up the crucial evangelical vote ahead of the October 2nd elections Evangelicals helped carry him to power in 2018 and he tapped members of their churches for important ministries and for a Supreme Court nomination Influential pastors and politicians are warning their followers that the race's FrontRunner leftist former president Lula would close Christian churches The Vatican says it imposed disciplinary sanctions on Nobel Peace Prize winning bishop Carlos Bello following allegations that he sexually abused boys in East Timor in the 1990s The Vatican spokesman says the office that handles sex abuse cases received allegations concerning the bishop's behavior in 2019 and within a year had imposed sanctions AP Vatican correspondent Nicole Winfield says many questions remained about the bishop's role in the church over the past two decades After 2002 though when he retired it seems like he almost fell off the map It's as if he disappeared If he was under some kind of Vatican sanction in those years that would explain this very low profile that he had The announced sanctions include limitations on bellows movements and ministry and prohibit him from having voluntary contact with minors or contact with East Timor I'm Walter ratliff
The Economist: The Intelligence
"lula" Discussed on The Economist: The Intelligence
"Lula told me that it's unlikely that anyone running for president would promise to just get rid of the things that have already been done. So that sense of continuity will reassure investors and financial markets. But what are ordinary Brazilians concerned about in this election? When you talk to ordinary Brazilians, they're fine with the government spending lots of money on social programs. What they're concerned about is the legacy of corruption in the PT governments. Lula's own convictions for bribery charges ended up being overturned. But there was a massive corruption scandal involving his party, and I asked him whether his party owed Brazil and apology. His response was the PT is tired of apologizing. Which a lot of people see as sort of insincere because the party has never actually officially apologized. Then he went on to say that actually the corruption wouldn't have ever been revealed in the first place if it weren't for his government's policies to increase transparency and strengthen the police that Cupid take you para kaku who was a poor adolescent. And he criticized lava or car wash, the name for the anti corruption investigation. Saying that it went from an investigation intended to combat corruption to an investigation. It was just concerned with combating politics and politicians in particular him in the left. So that's a pretty typical Lula response when it comes to questions about corruption. He really hasn't done any sort of a mea culpa. He says he's not in favor of a single party staying in power. He's not in favor of a single leader staying in power and that when someone starts to think of themselves as essential for a country that something's gone wrong. What did you learn from your conversation about what a Lula government would look like for Brazil? Well, when it comes to the economy, Lula is saying a lot of the right things. He promises fiscal stability, modern solutions, for growth, like investments in technology, innovation, energy transition. That said, I think there's a lot of warranted skepticism about his economic plans. He's not talking much about reducing trade barriers, making public spending more efficient. His government's pretty unlikely to pass a sorely needed administrative reform that would link public servant pay to performance and break this kind of ratchet that means a high share of Brazil spending grows automatically with inflation. So business people are concerned, one told me that the risk is what they call here a Volga line or a chicken flight. An economy that flaps its wings and lifts off the ground and then flops, which we've seen quite a few times in the past in Brazil. That said, Bolsonaro hasn't been an outstanding liberal economic leader either. So I think while there are a lot of question marks about what Lula would mean for Brazil's economy, when it comes to other issues of global importance like the Amazon, which he has promised to protect much better than Bolsonaro has. And which Lula has a real history and good track record of protecting. And Brazil's own democracy, which we've been extremely worried about with Bolsonaro's coup mongering and rumors about fraud in the lead up to this election. I think on these issues, we can be much more hopeful about a Brazil under Lula as president, for sure. Impressive view, or
Purposeful Social Selling
"lula" Discussed on Purposeful Social Selling
"New way bosses. Welcome to another week of the podcast. I've got something pretty special for you. This is going to be a two part episode. I am unpacking the lula rich documentary. That is on amazon I was thinking about it for quite a bit. And i really thought there was some valuable lessons for all of us from the documentary. And so what i'm doing is i'm going to be breaking down. Observations and the valuable lessons for all of us. Because if you're listening to this podcast you desire to elevate this industry with me. You see that it is a good business model and it provides opportunity or mini families and so My my work. I believe my purpose is really a shifting this industry for the better and i am so delighted to work with amazing people in my academy and people have follow me on instagram. That i really feel are committed to this vision with me. So i'm going to be delivering these two episodes from that standpoint of really answering the question of how can we do better. What's our part in this. And what is our lesson in this collectively. As a whole is this isn't about one company of is about the industry and there is a valuable powerful lesson available for us so i hope you'll enjoy part one. I watched the lula rich documentary on amazon as a very from a very curious place as a coach just wanting to see what happened..
The Bobby Bones Show
"lula" Discussed on The Bobby Bones Show
"I watched i finished the lula documentary around. Whatever it's called. They sell the sweats. The skirts and at the pyramid scheme cursing leggings watched all four episodes matrimony. You're messing everything. Well i mean gets no. This is how guys talk guys like sweatpants. I'm like we'll technically leggings. Listen they saw people come. They made billions of dollars and it went from what they call a multilevel marketing scheme pyramids game. In my opinion real quick and people just got screwed up click people got. They bought all to even to get in. You had to spend thousands just to buy you know the boxes of pants to sell and you didn't even know what you're going to get them to you like oh they set this up so perfectly like just put things in a box. It's going to be like a surprise when you open it up at one point. Zero goes That's when i realized i was in a cold. They were doing all these things together. These events he's there were making more from their bonus checks from not selling things from signing people up recruiting. They were making like hundreds of thousands of dollars every few months because every person that would sign on that was another five thousand dollars and they were having like hundreds of people's day. They're not around anymore over. The two founders. Why documentary on their basically oblivious to ev. Or they're in denial. I'm not saying they're acting oblivious. They're they'll be like so. What do you have to say about this this and this and they'll be like well. We don't know what you're talking about. That's just not the culture we have it all. It is wild wild. It's only four episodes or forty five minutes each lulu row. That's what it's called..
BBC World Service
Brazil's Supreme Court Rules Judge Moro Was 'Biased' in Lula Trial
"Louise Ignacio Lula to silver of corruption four years ago was biased. Leonardo Russia has more By three votes to to Brazil's highest court concluded that judge says Yamato had violated Lula's rise in several occasions. Mr Moto had sentence Lula to more than nine years in jail for corruption in the state oil company Petrobras eyes Lola was leading most opinion polls was banned from the 2018 presidential election and spent almost two years in jail. His luck began to change when hackers intercepted compromising messages exchanged between judge model and the prosecutors in which they showed political bias and discuss the need to expedite the trial in order to put the former leader behind bars before the elections. You're listening to world news from the BBC.