The newspaper Folha de S.Paulo states that Brazilian Justice Minister Sérgio Moro omitted money received for giving a lecture in his accountability when he was a judge; Minister stated that the registration was made later; hashtag #MoroSonegador (meaning "Moro evader") gains momentum on Twitter

In yet another article based on alleged messages from members of the Lava Jato task force from The Intercept Brasil, the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo states that Moro omitted a paid account at the time he was a federal judge.

According to the newspaper, judges have a period of one month to inform their participation in the events and must record the date, subject, place, and entity they organized. Based on the messages, the report points to a talk Moro would not have recorded in his accountability. The minister told Folha that the omission of the event 'may have occurred by pure lapse'. In a Tweet, Moro also states that the registration was made later, in 2017.

Industrial production in Brazil falls 0.6% in June 2019 and has a second negative month in a row

Brazilian industry fell by 0.6% in June 2019, following a decrease of 0.1% in May 2019. The loss of pace in the sector reflects the reduction in production in 17 out of 26 activities and in all major economic categories of goods. intermediary, consumer, and capital markets.

The Brazilian industrial sector accounted for 25% of GDP in 1985. Now represents about 13%.

According to the website O Cafezinho, for the Institute for Industrial Development Studies (IEDI), between 1980 and 2017, the Brazilian manufacturing industry grew by only 24%, while the world industry grew by 204% and the world excluding China increased by 135%. The United States grew at the same pace as the world outside China. Most developing countries grew above the world economy and most developed countries below. The Chinese case is unique because China has increased the size of its industrial park by more than 40 times. South Korea has increased 17 times, Indonesia and India 12 times, Malaysia and Ireland 11 times.

To Ha-Joon Chang, professor of economics at Cambridge University, "Brazil is experiencing one of the largest deindustrializations in the history of economics."

The participation of industry in the Brazilian GDP has been falling since 1986. It is deeply necessary for Brazil to grow again, to combat poverty again and to stop deindustrialization.

The government needs to re-engage in an industrial policy aimed, for example, at the Oil and Gas industries, the health industrial complex, the agribusiness industry (creating a favorable scenario for the emergence of industries of agricultural supplements, fertilizers, etc.), integrating the Brazilian industry with the whole of international trade.

Government forces suppress a group of 180 Kinikinaus Indians protesting for demarcation of land in Aquidauana, Mato Grosso do Sul, in Brazil

A group of Kinikinawa Indians occupied a farm in the Aquidauana region today, August 2, 2019. Military Police (MP) were called in and used rubber bullets against the Indians. Many Indians were injured. Funai follows the situation.

Opposition Senator Humberto Costa said, "Police were tough on cracking down on the 180 Kinikinaus Indians who protested in favor of demarcating the land." According to Costa, "Under @jairbolsonaro, Funai refuses to say that there was conflict. The victims, many of them children, know what happened."

Em Aquidauana, no Mato Grosso do Sul, a polícia foi dura na repressão a 180 índios Kinikinaus que protestavam em favor da demarcação de terras. Sob @jairbolsonaro, a Funai se recusa a falar que houve conflito. As vítimas, muitas delas crianças, sabem o que houve. pic.twitter.com/68luC57oIQ

— Humberto Costa (@senadorhumberto) August 2, 2019

According to information from the website O Pantaneiro, the natives arrived at the site at dawn, claiming that they owned the land. The group asked the ranch owner and his wife to leave immediately.

Majority of Brazilians is against president Jair Bolsonaro's proposal to release mineral exploration in Brazil Indigenous areas

A survey by the Datafolha Institute points out that 86% of the Brazilian population disagrees with President Jair Bolsonaro's plan to open mineral exploration in Indigenous areas.

According to Datafolha, the survey was conducted between June 4 and 6, with 2,088 interviews distributed in 168 municipalities in all regions of the country. The margin of error is plus or minus two percentage points with a confidence level of 95%.

For environmentalists, the president's bill, which aims to release regulation of indigenous land mining, if approved, will increase the number of illegal mines on indigenous land.

A report released in late 2018 by the Amazon Georeferenced Socioenvironmental Information Network (Raisg) identified illegal mining sites in 18 indigenous reserve areas in Brazil.

For the indigenous leader, Almir Suruí, President Jair Bolsonaro's project was done without the participation of traditional populations in the discussion of the project. According to him, the project "is an environmental, social and economic setback in the country. We have not been consulted. We do not know what climate and environmental impacts this activity may have."

After cutting the basic interest rate from 6.5% to 6% per year, Selic, by Copom, the Brazilian Central Bank takes a more "dovish" stance

The Monetary Policy Committee (Copom) of the Brazilian Central Bank reduced from 6.5% to 6% per year the basic interest rate, the Selic rate. The cut aims to increase the possibility of further economic growth in Brazil.

According to bank XP, the ruling shows that the central bank has taken a more "dovish" stance, that is, more lenient about inflation.

For professor Paulo Feldmann, from USP's School of Economics, Administration, and Accounting (FEA), “average income has fallen a lot, 1.3% a year ago. If we consider that in this period there was inflation around 5%, the fall in average income is even greater, around 6%. That is, people have less income to consume.”

Feldmann believes that reducing to Selic is not enough. For him, "the Brazilian Central Bank should act by forcing a reduction in interest rates for loans to both individuals and companies. It is very illusory to think that now that Selic has fallen to 6% Brazil will grow."

According to IBGE, unemployment in Brazil falls 0.7% in the quarter ending in June of 2019, average worker income decreased, and the number of informal workers increased

According to data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the unemployment rate in the country was 12% in the quarter ending June 2019. Now, the total number of unemployed Brazilians is 12.8 million. The index fell 0.7% compared to the quarter between January and March and fell 0.4% compared to the same period last year. On the other hand, the number of self-employed workers hit a record of the historical series, which began in 2012, and reached 24.1 million. The number rose 1.6% from the previous quarter and 5% from the same period of 2018. Therefore, informality in Brazil remains very high by world standards.

The figure released by IBGE indicates that the number of discouraged and underutilized Brazilians has been attenuating the number of unemployed, which serves to mask the reality. If we add to this group the self-employed workers and those still receiving unemployment insurance even with this small increase in the number of employees in Brazil, the scenario remains practically stagnant.

The usual average income of the Brazilian population fell in the same period, reaching R$ 2,290, 1.3% less than in the previous quarter and without significant variation with the same period last year.

In the quarter ending June, Brazil had more than 28 million unemployed people and approximately 5 million despondent people, that is, those workers who gave up looking for work and therefore left unemployment statistics.

Hashtag #ImpeachmentDeBolsonaro gains momentum on Twitter after countless nonsense statements from Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro

In recent days, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has shocked Brazilian and world public opinion with countless absurd statements.

Among the many absurdities of recent weeks, the Brazilian president said that Inpe, a world-renowned Brazilian scientific research institute, was at the service of international NGOs and lying about deforestation in the Amazon. Inpe director Ricardo Magnus Osorio Galvao said that the president's statements represented "behavior that does not respect the dignity and liturgy of the presidency".  Galvão also said that the president behaved "as if in a pub", making jokes like a "14-year-old boy that is not for a president to make". 

Then, at an official meeting, the president was recorded referring biased to the Northeastern people when he called the governors of the region "de Paraíba", a pejorative way to refer to that population. 

On the same day, the president said he "loved the Northeast" of Brazil, but what remained was a great unease of the governors of the region with the absurd statement. The population also responded with numerous demonstrations on the internet criticizing the president's speech.

He then threatened journalist Glenn Greenwald by implying that Greenwald had committed a crime for spreading messages captured by a hacker. Bolsonaro said the journalist was a "trickster" for marrying a Brazilian and threatened to arrest him. Bolsonaro's statement has been rebutted by countless organizations and political leaders, including House Speaker Rodrigo Maia, who recorded a video supporting Greenwald.

Following this, President Jair Bolsonaro has inhumanly cast doubt on the torture suffered by journalist Miriam Leitão, who was imprisoned during the military dictatorship in Brazil. Bolsonaro also said that Leitão had been a member of the guerrilla who fought against the dictatorship. Miriam was not a guerrilla member, and her torture occurred when she was only 19 years old. She was arrested pregnant by the military regime, taken to the headquarters of the 38th Army Infantry Battalion in Vitória, Espírito Santo, locked naked in a room, where a live snake was also placed to threaten her.

Then, last Monday, Bolsonaro cruelly made fun of the pain of Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) President Felipe Santa Cruz, whose father, Fernando Santa Cruz, was arrested in 1974 by the military dictatorship. Felipe then was just 2 years old and never saw his father again. The Brazilian president said that if Felipe wanted to know what had really happened to his father, he Bolsonaro would tell.

According to President Bolsonaro, Felipe's father was killed by the guerrillas themselves, a fact that does not correspond with the historical records. There is even a death certificate issued by the Brazilian government, indicating that Felipe's father was killed by the Brazilian state.

This sequence of absurd claims eventually led to the creation of the hashtag #ImpeachmentDeBolsonaro (Bolsonaro impeachment) and has also been the target of much criticism.

For jurist Miguel Reale Jr., one of the authors of the impeachment request of former President Dilma Rousseff (PT), President Jair Bolsonaro lives a "hallucinatory process" that puts Brazilian democracy at risk.

The murder of Indigenous leader Emyra Wajãpi by prospectors exposes the danger of President Bolsonaro's support for mining legalization in the Amazon region

Chief Emyra Wajãpi, 68, was killed in 25 of July, in Amapá by prospectors, who later invaded the village, the Indigenous said.

Asked about what happened, President Jair Bolsonaro once again stated that he intends to legalize mining in the country, which includes the liberation of the activity in Indigenous lands. He also said there was no strong evidence that Chief Emyra Wajãpi had been murdered.

However, according to Funai, the Regional Coordination of the National Indian Foundation in Amapá forwarded to the presidency of the body on Saturday in a memorandum reporting on a possible attack on the Waiãpi Indigenous Land, and media reports said it was an invasion of prospectors.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, charged yesterday (July 29) an investigation into the death of Chief Emyra Wajãpi, leader of the Wajãpi ethnic group, whose body was found inside a river in a demarcated area in Amapá.

Experts warn that legalizing mining in Indigenous reserves advocated by the president is risky, as it could put Indigenous populations and the environment at risk. In Brazil, mercury mining contaminates river waters, creating a huge prejudice for the environment. And the contact between prospectors and Indigenous people is marked by a lot of violence.

Cost of living in Brazil: IGP-M slows in July, a rising dollar and financial market betting massively on Selic interest rate cut

According to the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), the General Price Index - Market (IGP-M) decelerated to 0.40% in July after showing a high of 0.80% in June. With the July result, the IGP-M accumulated high of 4.79% in the year and 6.39% in 12 months.

Meanwhile, the Brazilian financial market is betting heavily on the 0.50% cut in the economy's base interest rate, the Selic, which is currently at 6.50%.

Some more cautious analysts believe that the Brazilian Central Bank, at the next Copom meeting to be held tomorrow, July 31, should cut Selic by only 0.25%, leaving the annual interest rate at 6.25% per year in Brazil.

The dollar price in Brazil closed again high yesterday, July 29. The US currency ended the day at 0.29% appreciation, selling at R$ 3.7830.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is a "case of interdiction", says jurist Miguel Reale Jr.

Miguel Reale Jr., the lawyer who, in 2015, was responsible for Dilma Rousseff's impeachment request, today strongly criticized President Jair Bolsonaro in an interview with Guaíba radio station in Porto Alegre.

For him, Bolsonaro "is no longer a case of impeachment, it is a case of interdiction". Reale Jr. believes the current president has put the country in "a frame of insanity". That is why the country should ban the current president.

Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro says he knows how the father of the President of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) was murdered during the Military Dictatorship and the Brazilian public responds by creating the hashtag #AgoraFalaBolsonaro

President Jair Bolsonaro has cowardly attacked Brazilian Bar Association president Felipe Santa Cruz, saying he could "tell the truth" about how his father disappeared during the military dictatorship (1964-1985).

"One day, if the president of the OAB wants to know how his father disappeared during the military period, I tell him. He won't want to hear the truth," said the Brazilian president.

Felipe was only two years old when his father, Fernando Augusto de Santa Cruz Oliveira, a member of the Popular Action Group (AP), an organization opposed to the military regime in Brazil, was arrested by the government in 1974 and was never seen again. Fernando's body was never found.

The president's speech provoked a wave of protests from the most varied members of Brazilian civil society and the country's politics. São Paulo governor João Dória, who supported Bolsonaro during the presidential campaign in 2018, said the statement was "unacceptable".

Amnesty International's executive director, Jurema Werneck, repudiated this afternoon about the statement by President Jair Bolsonaro regarding the death of Fernando Augusto Santa Cruz de Oliveira, one of the missing politicians during the military dictatorship in Brazil. Fernando was the father of the current president of the Brazilian Bar Association, Felipe Santa Cruz.

The OAB itself issued a note of repudiation of Bolsonaro's statement about the entity's president's father.

The hashtag #AgoraFalaBolsonaro (Speak now Bolsonaro) is filled with messages stating that if the president knows what happened during the military dictatorship he has a statesman obligation to explain what happened to Fernando. Then, after the immense repercussion of the president's terrible speech, Bolsonaro ended by claiming that Fernando was killed by leftist militants. 

However, an Air Force Report on the case of Fernando's death belies Bolsonaro. Thus, the president's phrase goes down in history as one of the most shameful moments of the Brazilian executive power.

There is even a death certificate for Fernando Augusto de Santa Cruz Oliveira. The document was issued by the Special Commission on Political Dead and Missing Persons, published to the Ministry of Women and Human Rights on a federal government website that Bolsonaro runs. Bolsonaro's speech, besides being abject, is also a liar.