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Dec 6, 2024 | 
brasildefato.com.br | Caroline Oliveira |Ana Rocha
A man shot dead in front of an Oxxo store and a man thrown from the top of a bridge once again call into question the training of military police officers in the state of São Paulo. From January to December 3 this year, 712 people were killed by military police officers in the state of São Paulo, according to data from the Public Prosecutor's Office.
This figure is 54.8% higher than that recorded for the whole of 2023, when 460 people were killed.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
brasildefato.com.br | Caroline Oliveira
Last year, Brazil reached the lowest levels of poverty and extreme poverty since 2012, when the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE, in Portuguese) began the historical series. The information comes from the Synthesis of Social Indicators 2024 survey, released on Wednesday (4).
The data shows that 8.7 million people were lifted out of poverty in one year, and the poverty rate dropped from 31.6% to 27.4% of the total Brazilian population.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
brasildefato.com.br | Caroline Oliveira
Brazilian Federal Police revealed a detailed coup plan found with an aide of a important member of the Bolsonaro´s administration General Braga Netto. The manuscript, found on Colonel Flávio Botelho Peregrino's desk, ends with the phrase, "Lula doesn't ascend the presidential inauguration ramp", meaning that the then ellected president would be prevented to taking over the nation´s top job.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
brasildefato.com.br | Caroline Oliveira |Ana Rocha
Audio recordings obtained by the Federal Police and published by the press show that high-ranking military officers were prepared, after the second round of the 2022 presidential elections, to start a civil war to prevent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Workers’ Party) from taking office and to keep former president Jair Bolsonaro (Liberal Party) in power.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
brasildefato.com.br | Caroline Oliveira |Ana Rocha
On Tuesday morning (24), President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Workers’ Party) advocated reform of the United Nations (UN) in New York, United States. Lula was applauded by heads of state and members of delegations from foreign countries when he said that “there is no gender balance in the exercise of the highest functions [of the UN].
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
brasildefato.com.br | Caroline Oliveira |Ana Rocha
Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has fined the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, BRL 5 million a day (almost US$ 1 million) for circumventing court orders to keep on operating in Brazil.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
tercerainformacion.es | Caroline Oliveira
Caroline Oliveira / Brasil de Fato • Internacional • El gobierno federal necesita enviar la propuesta fiscal a los parlamentarios en menos de 90 días. Este año, el Congreso brasileño deberá centrarse en la segunda etapa de la reforma fiscal, que cambiará la recaudación y pago del impuesto sobre la renta. También se esperan cambios en materia de tributación de beneficios, dividendos y patrimonios.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
peoplesdispatch.org | Caroline Oliveira
The wife of journalist and activist Julian Assange, Stella Assange, has expressed concern about her husband’s trip from the United Kingdom to the Northern Mariana Islands, a territory of the United States, between June 24 and June 26. Julian was released on June 24 from the maximum security prison where he had been held for more than five years in London, and flew to the place where the hearing will take place. The journalist should then be released to his country of origin, Australia.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
popularresistance.org | Nara Lacerda |Caroline Oliveira
Above photo: Caroline Oliveira/Brasil de Fato. Thousands took to the streets in São Paulo on Saturday to protest the bill in the Chamber of Deputies that equates abortion to homicide. On Saturday, June 15, a demonstration against the bill that criminalizes legal abortion, dubbed the “Child Pregnancy Bill”, was held on Paulista Avenue in the city of São Paulo. The protesters walked down Augusta Street towards downtown São Paulo.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
peoplesdispatch.org | Nara Lacerda |Caroline Oliveira
On Saturday, June 15, a demonstration against the bill that criminalizes legal abortion, dubbed the “Child Pregnancy Bill”, was held on Paulista Avenue in the city of São Paulo. The protesters walked down Augusta Street towards downtown São Paulo. Bill Number 1904/2024 punishes those who provide abortions, as well as the woman receiving the abortion, with the same sentence applied in homicide cases—even for abortion procedures allowed by Brazil’s legislation.
