BRAZIL ON THE RAZOR´S EDGE
The fight for sovereignty under imperialist and fascist attack
The victory of President Lula in 2022 put a brake on the fascist crescendo in Brazil. But the government faces enormous challenges to keep up to its campaign promises. There are combined pressures from the financial market and the business elites, which are intertwined with and dependent on international financial capital. The increased size and strength of agribusiness, with fascist ideas and the power of local landlords, is also linked to extremist factions of the military. In the cities, the alt-right recruits followers from the ranks of precarious of labor.
Despite all that, there have been some victories. For the first time in history, four-star generals were brought to justice because of their role in the defeated coup d`etat of January 8, 2023. Ex-president Bolsonaro, the head of the coup, faces charges for the attempt to violently destroy democracy. Lula continues to stand up for a multipolar world, defending peace, and being a voice against the genocide in Palestine. As the current president of the BRICS, he is committed to strengthen Latin America unity. Yet, it is uncertain how Brazil will react to Trump’s actions against the country.
Eleonora de Lucena and Rodolfo Lucena, journalists for almost 50 years, both worked in the underground and popular press against the dictatorship in Brazil as well as in the mainstream media. From 2000 to 2010, Eleonora was the head of the newsroom of Folha de São Paulo – at the time, the largest circulation and most influence newspaper in the country. Rodolfo was the information technology editor at Folha for more than 15 years.
Today, they both run Tutaméia, a news web channel based on live interviews that has almost 80,000 followers. Presidents Lula and Dilma, Noam Chomsky, Vijay Prashad, Juan Carlos Monedero, and Adolfo Pérez Esquivel are some of the people interviewed by Tutaméia, as well as Palestinian writer Atef Abu Saif, ex-guerrilla Peruvian leader Héctor Béjar, Aleida Guevara, and Filipino thinker Walden Bello, not to mention political leaders, intellectuals, and artists from Brazil.
Rodolfo, a marathon runner, and Eleonora have taken running as a political, educational, and agit-prop tool, creating projects like Marathoning with the MST, working with the landless movement, and a series of runs called Corrida fora Temer, done during the period that Dilma was illegally ousted from the presidency in a lawfare coup d´etat. They have been married for 46 years and have two daughters.
TUTAMÉIA CHANNEL :::: https://www.youtube.com/@
TUTAMÉIA WEB SITE ::: https://tutameia.jor.br/
