BRASIL ON THE RAZOR´S EDGE – The fight for sovereignty under imperialist and fascist attack
The victory of president Lula in 2022 put a break on the fascist crescendo in Brasil 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, both of them very intertwined and dependent on the international financial capital. The increased size and strength of the agribusiness busts fascist ideas and the power of local landlord –also linked to extremist factions of the military. In the cities, the alt-right feasters on the precarization of labor to recruit followers. Despite all that, the government and the institutions not only hold their fort against the attacks but have some victories. For the first time in history, four four-star generals are brought to the bench of Justice because of their role in the Jan 8th 2023 defeated coup d`etat. 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 voicing against the genocide in Palestine. As the current president of the Brics, he says to be committed to strength the ties of Latin America. It is uncertain how Brasil will react to Trump’s actions against the country.
ELEONORA DE LUCENA and RODOLFO LUCENA are journalists for almost 50 years. They both worked in the underground press and popular press against the dictatorship in Brasil as well as in the mainstream media. From 2000 to 2010, ELEONORA was the head of the news room 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, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel are some of the people interviewed by TUTAMÉIA, as well as Palestinian writer Atef Abu Saif, ex-guerrilla leader Hector Bejar, Aleida Guevara and Phillipine thinker Walden Bello, not mention political leaders, intellectuals and artists from Brasil.
RODOLFO is a marathon runner and, with ELEONORA they 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 law-fare 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/
