UN human rights committee asks Brazil to let Lula run in election

[Judi Lynn]

1. The US would support the right side if Trump hadn't withdrawn the US from the Human Rights Council.

U.S. withdraws from U.N. Human Rights Council
Tracy Wilkinson
By TRACY WILKINSON
JUN 19, 2018 | 5:00 PM
| WASHINGTON

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pol-un-humanrights-20180619-story.html


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Lula is the most beloved President in Brazilian history, and the most successful. Supporters have been demonstration continuously since the pro-dictatorship hard right began its public campaign trying to find a way to keep him out of the coming election election. They have battled for decades against any and all attempts to raise the standard of living for all Brazilian people, to bring the masses of deeply disadvantaged, desperately poor people out of their hopeless struggle.

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Brazil’s leftists march for Lula candidacy
Published 2 days ago on 15 August 2018



Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's supporters walk during the Free Lula March in Brasilia, Brazil, August 14, 2018. — Reuters


BRASILIA, Aug 15 — Supporters of former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva marched on Brasilia yesterday to support his attempt to take part in presidential elections, despite serving a prison sentence for corruption.

The New York Times published an article by Lula yesterday in which he branded his sentence — which has been confirmed by an appeals court after a trial — as “the latest phase in a slow-motion coup” against Brazil’s left.

The “extreme right wing is seeking to knock me out of the race,” Lula wrote.

More:
https://www.malaymail.com/s/1662569/brazils-leftists-march-for-lula-candidacy



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Here is the creature the hard right fascist element is trying to thrust into the Brazilian Presidency:

Trump of the tropics: the 'dangerous' candidate leading Brazil's presidential race
Jair Bolsonaro has openly cheered dictatorship and publicly insulted women. Now he’s deploying Trump-like tactics in his race for the presidency

Tom Phillips in Boa Vista
Thu 19 Apr 2018 05.00 EDT

Jair Bolsonaro’s disciples had packed the arrivals hall of this far-flung Amazonian airport, united by their contempt for the left and an unbreakable determination to score a selfie with the man they call “the Legend”.

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Many would question that last claim, for Bolsonaro – who has been described as “the most misogynistic, hateful elected official in the democratic world” and possibly the most repulsive politician on earth – is not known as a fan of the ballot-box.

Since the Pinochet-praising former paratrooper entered politics three decades ago, he has repeatedly called for a return to the kind of military rule Brazil endured until 1985. “I am in favour of a dictatorship,” he boasted during the first of seven terms as a congressman.

Such incendiary remarks were long dismissed as the ravings of a irreverent and irrelevant extremist – as were his equally inflammatory attacks on women, black people, gay people, foreigners and indigenous communities, for which he was last week charged by Brazil’s attorney general with inciting hate speech.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/19/jair-bolsonaro-brazil-presidential-candidate-trump-parallels