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Bolsonaro coup attempt won't land him in jail
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 05/05/2025
» Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's former president and Trump clone, is facing trial for encouraging a plot that would have restored him to power after he lost the 2022 election, but it is unlikely that he will ever end up in court.
Trump heads to Italy for pope’s funeral
AFP, Published on 25/04/2025
» WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump headed to Rome on Friday for the funeral of Pope Francis, the unexpected first foreign trip of his second term in which he will face foreign leaders including Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky.
Brazil's Bolsonaro blasts election ban as 'denial of democracy'
AFP, Published on 17/03/2025
» RIO DE JANEIRO (BRAZIL) - Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro, who is accused of backing an attempted coup, told a demonstration in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday that a ban on him seeking re-election next year amounted to a "denial of democracy."
Brazil saw 79% jump in area burned by fires in 2024, says monitor
AFP, Published on 22/01/2025
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Wildfires in Brazil last year consumed a total area larger than all of Italy, a monitor reported Wednesday, as the country continues to battle blazes often set by farmers and ranchers illegally expanding their territory.
Beware of rogue presidents (this time in Korea)
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 07/01/2025
» Turning yourself from a democratically elected president into a dictator is a tricky operation, and most people who try it fail. It's called a "self-coup", from the Spanish auto-golpe, and to try it without first gaining the support of the armed forces is sheer lunacy. Yet, from time to time, an elected president tries to do exactly that.
Brazil arrests ex-defence minister over coup plot
Published on 14/12/2024
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Federal police arrested Brazil’s former defence minister Walter Souza Braga Netto on Saturday, two sources told Reuters, after he was accused in November of plotting a coup to overturn the results of the 2022 election.
How California can tear the fascists down
Oped, Published on 16/11/2024
» I walked up on a mountain in the middle of the sky
Can Brazil save the Amazon rainforest? Marina Silva is trying
Bloomberg News, Published on 09/11/2024
» WASHINGTON — When the United Nations (UN) climate conference COP29 kicks off Monday in Baku, Azerbaijan, attendees will be grappling with the re-election of former United States President Donald Trump. Countries will try to find a path forward that bypasses Trump, who is hostile to emissions-cutting policies and has vowed to pull the country back out of the Paris accord.
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest falls to lowest since 2015
Reuters, Published on 07/11/2024
» BRASILIA — Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon fell 30.6% in the 12 months through July compared to the same period a year prior, according to government data released on Wednesday -- the smallest area destroyed in the world's largest rainforest in nine years.
Brazil blocks X after Musk ignores court orders
New York Times, Published on 31/08/2024
» RIO DE JANEIRO — X, formerly known as Twitter, began to go dark across Brazil on Saturday after the South American nation's Supreme Court blocked the social network because its owner, Elon Musk, refused to comply with court orders to suspend certain accounts.