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Aug 08 2025 
Notes on Brazil: Coffee, China and Tariffs, MAGA Playbook Lawfare, LAC
This is part of a series of LAC updates planned for the next week. It appears as if the US has remembered their ‘backyard’ and they are threatening even with military action. We saw the bounty put on Nicholas Maduro’s head and a day later both Mexico and Venezuela are being threatened by Marco Rubio… Continue reading
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Jul 31 2025 
Lula and Unions Respond to Trump Threats
“The political motivation behind the measures against Brazil violates national sovereignty and the historical relationship between the two countries,” says Brazil’s President Lula da Silva.
From Brian MierOn July 30, US President Donald Trump declared bilateral relations with Brazil a national emergency in order to justify raising import tariffs. In a menacing statement entitled “Addressing Threats… Continue reading
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Jul 12 2025 
Modern Chancay port is a testament to China-Peru win-win cooperation
How is the Chancay Port in Peru faring after six months of operation? Xi Jinping visited at the time of the port’s inauguration and took part in the ceremony. It was that important.
There are glimmers of change at the Southern end of South America, a clear target for meddling that we could notice specifically from… Continue reading
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Jul 09 2025 
Tariffs: Brazil
This was discussed in today’s Daily Chronicles and I copy that with Lula Da Silva’s response.
Tariffs have to do with trade and with the balance of trade, yes? Demented Donnie has turned his Tariff Letters (of which a bunch went out this morning again), into a capricious punitive stick. 50% for Brazil and there is… Continue reading
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Apr 23 2025 
The United Global South Front against the Tariff Paper Tiger
An excellent wide ranging discussion and follow-up on the Spirit of Shanghai article.
coalescence of new Primakov Triangle with all three at once under the Orange devil-storm
Yanquis about to be submerged in their own Century of Humiliation
BRICS regain focus with urgency, propelled by ASEAN and China
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Dec 22 2024 
“The UN has failed, and the BRICS will replace it”: Parliamentarians and experts discuss Brazil’s role in a multipolar world
(Note: All I can say is that it is high time. There is tone in this article that is disturbing, but it may be the reportage. That tone is What is In It for Us instead of Let’s Define What Is In It For Us and What’s In Us for BRICS. It is astounding that… Continue reading
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Nov 22 2024 
G20 knocks out G7 agendas
This G20 in Rio was all about the power of the Global South, with poverty eradication and genuine economic progress trumping the old G7 agendas of war, profit, and arm-twisting.
By Pepe Escobar at The Cradle.
The G20 summit in Rio earlier this week offered the quite intriguing spectacle of a deeply divided world, geopolitically and geoeconomically,… Continue reading
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Nov 15 2024 
How Will Trump Victory Change US-Brazil Relations?
As Bolsonaro supporters commemorate Trump’s victory, this article looks at the possible ramifications
By Brian Mier and first posted at his Substack
Throughout Brazilian history, the U.S. government and expanded state actors have frequently interfered to control, destabilize and overthrow Brazil’s leadership. Today, actors like Elon Musk, The New York Times, and Tucker Carlson are spreading false… Continue reading
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Nov 13 2024 
Xi embarks on Latin America trip to champion cooperation, multilateralism
Xi’s visit is expected to boost China’s efforts with Latin American nations to build a community with a shared future, bolster cooperation in the Asia-Pacific, and renew the world’s commitment to improving global governance for an equal and orderly multipolar world and a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization.
BEIJING, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) — Chinese President… Continue reading
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Nov 02 2024 
Lula: The dirty trick that we missed
Years ago, when Lula won the Brazilian election, we all hoped that we had a partner in the philosophy of BRICS.
We knew Bolsonaro and we understood that he was glued to the west. We thought we knew Lula, and as early warning signs appeared, we kept hoping and held on to hope. So many times… Continue reading
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Oct 28 2024 
BRICS Make History – Can They Keep the Momentum?
The Kazan Declaration is no less than a detailed diplomatic manifesto to propose real reform, moving in practice towards in-depth institutional changes and to reject Hegemony, in particular the post-WW2 Anglo-American levers of global control.
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
The not so simple twists of fate always allow certain cities to make their mark in History… Continue reading -
Oct 25 2024 
Lula, Brasil and BRICS: anatomy of a betrayal
By Quantum Bird
We have repeatedly pointed out our growing discomfort with the direction that Brazil’s foreign and domestic policies have taken under Lula’s third administration. A representative collection of our complaints can be found in the article “So that’s the cost of Lula’s freedom?”, and articles linked there. As indicated recently here, it works like… Continue reading
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Oct 24 2024 
Why Brazil opposes Venezuela’s BRICS membership
Mision Verdad
Originally published in Spanish by Mision Verdad: https://misionverdad.com/globalistan/por-que-brasil-se-opone-al-ingreso-de-venezuela-en-los-BRICS
Portuguese version available at Saker Latinoamérica: https://sakerlatam.blog/por-que-o-brasil-se-opoe-a-adesao-da-venezuela-ao-BRICS/
This Monday, October 21, it became known that Brazil opposed Venezuela’s entry into the BRICS group, in the context of the 16th Summit of the block in the city of Kazan, Russia, an event to which President Nicolás Maduro was invited… Continue reading
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Oct 21 2024
Brazil, sliding away from BRICS
With thanks to our dear friend, Quantum Bird
Performance anxiety is characterized by the continuous search for the esteem of others and is closely related to the fear of not living up to a situation or task. Typically, the anxious person projects expectations that they do not feel, or know they are not, capable of meeting… Continue reading
