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For many years, Payday Report has consistently covered Brasil and its autoworker union leader turned President, Lula. Meanwhile, most American publications, even many publications on the left, ignore what many consider to be the largest democracy left standing in the Americas.
Now, we need your donations and help to draw American attention to Trump’s attempt to orchestrate a coup in Brasil.
Payday Report just published a bombshell piece, “Trump Interferes in Brazilian Presidential Election By Labeling Brazilian Groups ‘Terrorists’"
The piece outlines how Trump is beginning to interfere already in the Brazilian presidential election set for this October between Lula and Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of former fascist Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro. The Trump Administration has even sent Dennis Beattie, a controversial white nationalist Trump aide, to meet with former President Jair Bolsonaro, who’s serving 27 years in prison for attempting to assassinate Lula and overthrow the 2022 presidential election results.
Bolsonaro's son Flavio is running against Lula and polls show that the race is tight. Trump’s team is working in conjunction with the Bolsonaros to target Lula.
Brazilian trade unionists are going to have a very tough fight on their hands and many of them are complaining that Americans aren’t doing enough to get their back. So, we need your help to tell this story and mobilize support among American trade unionists for Brazilian democracy.
At a time when many outlets don’t have enough budget to deploy reporters on the ground in Latin America, Payday coincidentally has a reporter with decades of experience in Brasil. More than 20 years ago, I attended college at PUC-Rio de Janeiro and travel once or twice a year to Rio where I stay with my old host family to save money when reporting from Brasil.
I am fluent in Portuguese and have extensive experience covering both the Brazilian labor movement and Lula on the ground in Brasil. My reporting was recognized when I got invited by Lula’s staff to go inside the Oval Office to cover Lula’s state visit with Biden in 2023.
For years, I have been covering how the Rio Police Chief and a Brazilian Congressman were convicted for the assassination of socialist Rio de Janeiro City Councilwoman Marielle Franco in 2018. It was a tremendous victory for Brasil, which in the past year, also convicted former President Jair Bolsonaro of attempting to assassinate Lula.
Marielle Franco and I studied sociology together at PUC-Rio in the middle of the 2000s, and I’ve tracked the story closely while most North American media outlets ignored it. For the past four years, I have been filming Marielle Vive, a documentary on the fight for justice for Marielle Franco.
Now, we need to prepare to cover Brazilian presidential elections once again.
At the same time, we also intend to cover the American labor movement. Our strength as a publication comes from our ability to find solidarity both locally and globally.
The corporate media is not going to tell this story about Brazilian-American solidarity, which is why we need your support.
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