Re: Brazil
Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2021 1:00 pm
Poll Shows Lula Would Crush Bolsonaro in Presidential Election
Lula has 49% of voting intentions and Bolsonaro, 23%, according to the Ipec survey. | Photo: Twitter/@estadao
The Institute for Research and Consulting Intelligence (Ipec) surveyed more than 2,000 Brazilians about their possible vote.
The former Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, leads the polls for voting intentions in the country for the 2022 elections with an advantage of 49 percent, 26 points above Jair Bolsonaro, according to a survey released on Friday.
The survey conducted by the Institute for Research and Consulting Intelligence (Ipec), noted that the ultra-right leader, Brazil's current president, has a popularity that is declining, as only 23 percent of respondents would support him in an upcoming election.
In addition to Lula and Bolsonaro, the rest of the possible candidates do not reach double digits. For example, Ciro Gomes (PDT), would have 7 percent and João Doria (PSDB), 5 percent, while former Health Minister, Luiz Henrique Mandetta (DEM), would receive one percent.
Some 2,002 voters in 114 municipalities were consulted between June 17 and June 21. In these days the scandal of the overpriced purchase of more than 1,000 percent of the Indian vaccine Covaxin broke. In addition, Bolsonaro lost his temper in front of a journalist in Guaratiguetá.
These attitudes, together with the visit made by the Brazilian president to Rio Grande do Norte, this Thursday, where he took a child in his hands and ripped off his mask, which was described as humiliating by local media, may have influenced the results.
Brazil has exceeded 500,000 deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic and the movement demanding Bolsonaro's resignation held mass protests on May 29 and June 19 and another is planned for July 24.
Sixty-two percent of respondents said they would not vote for Bolsonaro at all, as opposed to 56 percent who said the same in the February poll. In contrast, Lula went from 44 percent rejection to 36 percent in the current poll.
Half of the survey population considered that the government is bad or very bad (previously it was less than 40 percent). On the other hand, those who consider that the government is great or good dropped from 31 percent to 23 percent.
Finally, voters who disapprove of Bolsonaro's way of governing dropped from 38 percent to 20 percent since February and the disapproval rate rose from 58 percent to 66 percent.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Pol ... -0011.html
I think there's a mistake(translator's?) in the last sentence and it should read "voters who approve of Bolsonaro's way of governing dropped from 38 percent to 20 percent since February ".
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BRASIL WIRE , JUNE 3, 2021
White House admits CIA involvement in “War on Corruption” which jailed Lula and elected Bolsonaro
In a White House ‘Background Press Call by Senior Administration Officials on the Fight Against Corruption’, a Biden administration official admitted that the CIA and other parts of the U.S. intelligence apparatus were involved in assisting the “War on Corruption” which jailed former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and elected Jair Bolsonaro.
Read the full transcript here.https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo ... orruption/
The admission will come as an embarrassment to a media who has for the most part omitted, minimised or denied U.S. involvement in anti-corruption actions across Latin America, despite it being a matter of public record for years.
In July 2017, Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco gave a speech at NATO think tank the Atlantic Council in which he bragged of the Justice Department’s informal involvement in Brazilian anti-corruption operation Lava Jato and its prosecution of former president Lula. FBI personnel involved later boasted that it had “toppled presidents“. Lava Jato prosecutor Deltan Dellagnol described Lula’s 2018 arrest which kept him out of the election he was on course to win, as “a gift from the CIA“. The judge who prosecuted Lula, Sergio Moro, became Bolsonaro’s Justice Minister, and both made an unprecedented visit to CIA headquarters in Langley within months of taking office, whilst the DOJ rewarded the Lava Jato task-force with a $682 million dollar kickback. Lava Jato’s origins can be traced back to 2008/09, where Moro and a blueprint for an operation of its type appear in State Department cables.
Moro is now under investigation for 7 counts of judicial bias, in working to help oust president Dilma Rousseff, jail candidate Lula da Silva, and elect his opponent Bolsonaro, with the assistance of the U.S. government.
The role of anti-corruption as U.S. foreign policy tool in Latin America has expanded gradually since the 1990s, and has continued through successive Democrat and Republican administrations. Lava Jato was central to the ouster of president Dilma Rousseff, and pivotal to the election of Jair Bolsonaro, which were both undeniably advantageous to the United States government and business/banking sector, which is represented in Latin America by lobby and think tank Council of the Americas.
The June 3 press call was to mark a new national security study memorandum or NSSM on “Establishing the fight against corruption as a core U.S. national security interest“, which is being renewed under the Biden administration, and held by unnamed “senior administration officials”.
The following exchange left little to the imagination.
Journalist: “As you know, anti-corruption activists periodically urge the U.S. government to use its various assets and capabilities, including the intelligence community, to expose specific cases of corruption overseas, to name and shame corrupt officials — and the arguments they make are familiar — but also include not only, you know, a deterrent to corruption, but also a possible contribution to the promotion of democracy. Does the does the memorandum — does the program include any component that connects with that?”
Senior Administration Official: “What I can say on that front is that the memorandum includes components of the intelligence community. So, the work on that front, in part, remains to be seen, but they are included — the Director of National Intelligence and Central Intelligence Agency.”
“And so we’re just going to be looking at all of the tools in our disposal to make sure that we identify corruption where it’s happening and take appropriate policy responses.”
“And I’ll take the opportunity to mention that we’re also going to be using this effort to think about what more we can do to bolster other actors that are out in the world exposing corruption and bringing it to light.”
“So, of course, the U.S. government has its own internal methods, but, largely, the way that corruption is exposed is through the work of investigative journalists and investigative NGOs.”
“The U.S. government — to my point earlier, in terms of the support we’re already providing — in some instances provides support to these actors. And we’ll be looking at what more we can do on that front as well.”
The journalist asked for clarification: “What does the word “support” mean in that context?”
Senior Administration Official: “Well, sometimes it boils down to foreign assistance. There are lines of assistance that have jumpstarted investigatory journalism organizations. What comes to my mind most immediately is OCCRP, as well as foreign assistance that goes to NGOs, ultimately, that do investigative work on anti-corruption, as well.”
Evidence of the very nature that the official describes above has been dismissed by supporters of partisan anti-corruption campaigns for years.
The official was asked by a journalist specifically about Vice President Kamala Harris’s upcoming trip to Latin America, and: “if there were any corruption measures associated with that, or any, sort of, additional push related to that?”
The unnamed official responded: “I’m not going to characterize the views of the prior administration, but I would say, to your point: The essence of the memorandum we’re going to release today is that the U.S. government is placing the anti-corruption plight at the center of its foreign policy, so we very much want to prioritize this work across the board.”
The latest admission of CIA involvement in the U.S. led “fight against corruption”, of which Operation Lava Jato (Carwash) was the high-profile centrepiece, has grave implications for Brazilian democracy, and that of wider Latin America.
Brasil Wire has been covering this subject in depth since 2015: All articles on Lawfare in Brazil and U.S. involvement in it, 2015-2021.
https://www.brasilwire.com/category/lawfare
https://www.brasilwire.com/white-house- ... orruption/
Lula has 49% of voting intentions and Bolsonaro, 23%, according to the Ipec survey. | Photo: Twitter/@estadao
The Institute for Research and Consulting Intelligence (Ipec) surveyed more than 2,000 Brazilians about their possible vote.
The former Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, leads the polls for voting intentions in the country for the 2022 elections with an advantage of 49 percent, 26 points above Jair Bolsonaro, according to a survey released on Friday.
The survey conducted by the Institute for Research and Consulting Intelligence (Ipec), noted that the ultra-right leader, Brazil's current president, has a popularity that is declining, as only 23 percent of respondents would support him in an upcoming election.
In addition to Lula and Bolsonaro, the rest of the possible candidates do not reach double digits. For example, Ciro Gomes (PDT), would have 7 percent and João Doria (PSDB), 5 percent, while former Health Minister, Luiz Henrique Mandetta (DEM), would receive one percent.
Some 2,002 voters in 114 municipalities were consulted between June 17 and June 21. In these days the scandal of the overpriced purchase of more than 1,000 percent of the Indian vaccine Covaxin broke. In addition, Bolsonaro lost his temper in front of a journalist in Guaratiguetá.
These attitudes, together with the visit made by the Brazilian president to Rio Grande do Norte, this Thursday, where he took a child in his hands and ripped off his mask, which was described as humiliating by local media, may have influenced the results.
Brazil has exceeded 500,000 deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic and the movement demanding Bolsonaro's resignation held mass protests on May 29 and June 19 and another is planned for July 24.
Sixty-two percent of respondents said they would not vote for Bolsonaro at all, as opposed to 56 percent who said the same in the February poll. In contrast, Lula went from 44 percent rejection to 36 percent in the current poll.
Half of the survey population considered that the government is bad or very bad (previously it was less than 40 percent). On the other hand, those who consider that the government is great or good dropped from 31 percent to 23 percent.
Finally, voters who disapprove of Bolsonaro's way of governing dropped from 38 percent to 20 percent since February and the disapproval rate rose from 58 percent to 66 percent.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Pol ... -0011.html
I think there's a mistake(translator's?) in the last sentence and it should read "voters who approve of Bolsonaro's way of governing dropped from 38 percent to 20 percent since February ".
****************************************
BRASIL WIRE , JUNE 3, 2021
White House admits CIA involvement in “War on Corruption” which jailed Lula and elected Bolsonaro
In a White House ‘Background Press Call by Senior Administration Officials on the Fight Against Corruption’, a Biden administration official admitted that the CIA and other parts of the U.S. intelligence apparatus were involved in assisting the “War on Corruption” which jailed former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and elected Jair Bolsonaro.
Read the full transcript here.https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo ... orruption/
The admission will come as an embarrassment to a media who has for the most part omitted, minimised or denied U.S. involvement in anti-corruption actions across Latin America, despite it being a matter of public record for years.
In July 2017, Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco gave a speech at NATO think tank the Atlantic Council in which he bragged of the Justice Department’s informal involvement in Brazilian anti-corruption operation Lava Jato and its prosecution of former president Lula. FBI personnel involved later boasted that it had “toppled presidents“. Lava Jato prosecutor Deltan Dellagnol described Lula’s 2018 arrest which kept him out of the election he was on course to win, as “a gift from the CIA“. The judge who prosecuted Lula, Sergio Moro, became Bolsonaro’s Justice Minister, and both made an unprecedented visit to CIA headquarters in Langley within months of taking office, whilst the DOJ rewarded the Lava Jato task-force with a $682 million dollar kickback. Lava Jato’s origins can be traced back to 2008/09, where Moro and a blueprint for an operation of its type appear in State Department cables.
Moro is now under investigation for 7 counts of judicial bias, in working to help oust president Dilma Rousseff, jail candidate Lula da Silva, and elect his opponent Bolsonaro, with the assistance of the U.S. government.
The role of anti-corruption as U.S. foreign policy tool in Latin America has expanded gradually since the 1990s, and has continued through successive Democrat and Republican administrations. Lava Jato was central to the ouster of president Dilma Rousseff, and pivotal to the election of Jair Bolsonaro, which were both undeniably advantageous to the United States government and business/banking sector, which is represented in Latin America by lobby and think tank Council of the Americas.
The June 3 press call was to mark a new national security study memorandum or NSSM on “Establishing the fight against corruption as a core U.S. national security interest“, which is being renewed under the Biden administration, and held by unnamed “senior administration officials”.
The following exchange left little to the imagination.
Journalist: “As you know, anti-corruption activists periodically urge the U.S. government to use its various assets and capabilities, including the intelligence community, to expose specific cases of corruption overseas, to name and shame corrupt officials — and the arguments they make are familiar — but also include not only, you know, a deterrent to corruption, but also a possible contribution to the promotion of democracy. Does the does the memorandum — does the program include any component that connects with that?”
Senior Administration Official: “What I can say on that front is that the memorandum includes components of the intelligence community. So, the work on that front, in part, remains to be seen, but they are included — the Director of National Intelligence and Central Intelligence Agency.”
“And so we’re just going to be looking at all of the tools in our disposal to make sure that we identify corruption where it’s happening and take appropriate policy responses.”
“And I’ll take the opportunity to mention that we’re also going to be using this effort to think about what more we can do to bolster other actors that are out in the world exposing corruption and bringing it to light.”
“So, of course, the U.S. government has its own internal methods, but, largely, the way that corruption is exposed is through the work of investigative journalists and investigative NGOs.”
“The U.S. government — to my point earlier, in terms of the support we’re already providing — in some instances provides support to these actors. And we’ll be looking at what more we can do on that front as well.”
The journalist asked for clarification: “What does the word “support” mean in that context?”
Senior Administration Official: “Well, sometimes it boils down to foreign assistance. There are lines of assistance that have jumpstarted investigatory journalism organizations. What comes to my mind most immediately is OCCRP, as well as foreign assistance that goes to NGOs, ultimately, that do investigative work on anti-corruption, as well.”
Evidence of the very nature that the official describes above has been dismissed by supporters of partisan anti-corruption campaigns for years.
The official was asked by a journalist specifically about Vice President Kamala Harris’s upcoming trip to Latin America, and: “if there were any corruption measures associated with that, or any, sort of, additional push related to that?”
The unnamed official responded: “I’m not going to characterize the views of the prior administration, but I would say, to your point: The essence of the memorandum we’re going to release today is that the U.S. government is placing the anti-corruption plight at the center of its foreign policy, so we very much want to prioritize this work across the board.”
The latest admission of CIA involvement in the U.S. led “fight against corruption”, of which Operation Lava Jato (Carwash) was the high-profile centrepiece, has grave implications for Brazilian democracy, and that of wider Latin America.
Brasil Wire has been covering this subject in depth since 2015: All articles on Lawfare in Brazil and U.S. involvement in it, 2015-2021.
https://www.brasilwire.com/category/lawfare
https://www.brasilwire.com/white-house- ... orruption/