A Love Story: Lula & Organized Crime

This post will highlight the evidence linking Lula to the crime organized throughout his political career

Jun 19, 2025

Intro: 2 Influential Brazilian Citizen Journalists In the U.S. Under Political Asylum

19 February 2025 - Podcaster Louder with Crowder interviewed both Allan dos Santos and Paulo Figueiredo, both are Brazilian and currently have political asylum in the U.S. for the last 5 and 11 years, respectively.

This interview provides a great perspective on what is happening in Brazil and the sordid relationship between Brazil and the U.S. (duration: 34m), including the funding of Moraes by USAID (read that again)…

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The Brazilian Justice believes Allan has been living on an expired tourist visa, overstaying his maximum allowed stay, and the Brazilian Supreme Court canceled his Brazilian passport. [link - the linked post is in Brazilian Portuguese and is protected by Brazilian copyright laws, which forbid translations into other languages; now - do you REALLY need to be told anything more about the Brazilian government censorship?]

Since December 2022, despite having the highest number of followers in Brazil on all platforms as well as being the grandson of the 30th President of the Republic of Brazil, João Figueiredo, Paulo is a CJ (Citizen Journalist) targeted by the Brazilian Supreme Court, which labeled his opinions as a "danger to democracy".

ICYMI - Whenever any politician is “defending” their country as a democracy, they are avoiding the real nature of their government on purpose. Brazil is a federal presidential constitutional republic, which is based on a representative democracy. Democracy is mob rule: 50%+1, meaning as soon as ONE person changes their stance or vote, everything changes just as quickly.
NOT a very stable form of government so who would want it?

The Brazil Supreme Court, that is - Moraes, decided to

block Paulo’s social media accounts in Brazil
freeze all his financial assets
impose a fine each time he spoke about topics considered "anti-democratic"
order the cancellation of his passport as well

In reality, both Allan and Paulo are under U.S. political asylum - and both are the reason Moraes’s temper tantrum has resulted in Rumble being blocked in Brazil… unless you have a VPN.

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Influential Brazilian Politician Self-Exiled to Italy

2 June 2025 - Congresswoman Carla Zambelli announced that she has left Brazil after being sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Federal Supreme Court (STF); following the recommendation of exiled journalist Allan dos Santos, who has been living in Florida since 2020 in self-exile.

She will remain exiled in Italy, where she has citizenship as well.

It feels strange to give up what has always been my place — the place the people entrusted to me (…) But deep down I know that my voice will echo even louder...

He [Allan] said…

“Carla, do you have any real hope that Brazil,
in the coming weeks or months,
will return to being the democracy we once knew?”

Besides once having lived and worked in Brazil, all 3 have one thing in common - the disdain and ire of both Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Alexandre de Moraes, justice of the Supreme Federal Court.

4-June-2025 - Minister Alexandre de Moraes of the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF) ordered the preventive arrest of federal deputy Carla Zambelli (PL-SP), after she announced her departure from Brazil and a leave of absence from her mandate.

The decision grants a request filed by the Office of the Prosecutor General (PGR).

In addition to the preventive arrest, the Prosecutor’s Office also requested that the congresswoman’s name be added to Interpol’s red notice list and that her passport be suspended.

The Prosecutor General, Paulo Gonet, further requested the seizure of her assets, funds, bank accounts, credit cards, and parliamentary allowance.

Moraes granted the PGR’s request and also ordered the blocking of the congresswoman’s social media accounts and those of 2 family members (her mother, Rita, and her son, João), under a daily fine of R$100,000 (US$17,900) to the platforms in case of noncompliance, and a R$8,950 fine for posts even from 3rd-party accounts that “reiterate the criminal conduct.”

“After her conviction, and fleeing the jurisdiction of her guilt, the defendant declared that she intends to persist in her criminal conduct, in an attempt to discredit Brazilian institutions and attack the very Democratic Rule of Law, which fully justifies the decree of her preventive detention,” Moraes added in the ruling.

Zambelli confirmed to close contacts that she had already anticipated Moraes’s actions regarding financial blocks and had previously converted her assets into cryptocurrencies distributed across various wallets, potentially kept safe in Italy, a country where she holds citizenship.

There is also the possibility that she is being protected by supporters of Lega Nord, a right-wing, federalist, populist and conservative political party in Italy.

5-June-2025 - Interpol has added federal deputy Carla Zambelli (PL-SP) to its Red Notice list at the request of Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre de Moraes

As a result, the congresswoman is now being sought by police forces in the 196 member countries of the organization.

During the past 2 years, Interpol has denied 2 requests to include government opponents of President Lula on the list.

With a Red Notice, Interpol asks police authorities worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest the listed individuals while awaiting extradition, surrender, or similar legal action.

The agency clarifies that the list does not equate to an international arrest warrant.

Individuals on the list are wanted by the requesting member country or by an international court. Interpol member states have the discretion to apply their own laws when deciding whether to detain someone.

The Love Story Between Lula & Organized Crime

The original exclusive report. published on January 02, 2023, was written by David Ágape and Leandro Souza in ‘A Investagação’; translation by Garrett O’Brien. The original report is also available in the Wayback Machine and the web archive, both in Portuguese. At the moment of publishing this post, I am not aware of any English translation of this pot.

A note about the Brazilian Portuguese language that affects the translation of this post: the language is heavy in metaphors as well as it does not have a standardized structure. An attempt had been made to do so, but they couldn’t agree on what should be standardized or what that standardization should look like. The results in the local lingo vary greatly. Think of the USA having American English, British, Australian English, and others, in nearly every location you visit. Yeah, that… My friends in the State of Belo Horizonte have no problem understanding me while my friends in the State of São Paulo need my wife to ‘translate’. There is a lax approach to tenses as well, only adding to the calamity of learning this language.

Another factor you need to know about is the Brazilian government: you are automatically considered guilty should anyone levy charges on you first, it is up to you to defend your innocence. This also means if no report is filed, you are not guilty of anything. This may explain why the whole country is very laid back and passive about everyday life matters - time means nothing unless going to a soccer game or BBQ, yes means maybe, and no means maybe. Let’s get on with the translated post…

After the announcement of the outcome of the 2nd round of the 2022 presidential elections, in which the candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) was declared victorious after receiving 50.90% of the valid votes, while his opponent, Jair Messias Bolsonaro (PL), who sought re-election, received 49.10%, a party mood erupted in the prisons of the whole country.

Reports made by prison officials, carried out anonymously because they fear reprisals, narrate a "World Cup final" and party atmosphere among the prisoners.

Already in the 1st round of voting the predilection of criminals by the PT candidate translated into numbers: according to a survey done by the site The Antagonist, if elections took place among provisional prisoners who could participate in the electoral process, Lula could have been elected in the 1st round.

In sections intended for the vote of prisoners, Lula had 80.59% of valid votes, against 15.79% of Bolsonaro.

Data similar to 2018, in which in the second round, Fernando Haddad (PT) won in prisons with 82.4% of the votes, according to a survey by the newspaper O Globo.

This love affair of the left wing is reciprocal and is repeated exhaustively.

On August 7, 2015, Cynara Menezes, journalist, and editor of the site Socialista Morena, commented (archive) on a social network…

RJ police segregate young black people on their way to the beach because the bourgeoisie of the south zone had its 'celularzinho' stolen.

The photograph showed a group of young men, without shirts, being searched by police next to a bus, but it did not indicate the context of the police approach.

Leonardo Sakamoto, a columnist for the UOL (a Brazilian web content, products, and services company), on June 16, 2012, argued that showing off in front of poverty should be a crime under the Penal Code.

For Sakamoto, if everyone lived a simpler life, without a "car or watch", they would not have to fear a violent city like São Paulo.

There is also a classic episodic case that the philosopher and writer Márcia Tiburi, former candidate for the government of Rio de Janeiro, who in an interview with TV Brasil in 2015, claimed to be favorable to the assault because she saw it as a logical question.

There is also the passionate defense of crime made by the activist of the black movement and former columnist of the newspaper Folha de São Paulo, Anderson França, who in his profile on Facebook, proposed a kind of broad front uniting the leftist militancy and the Red Command…

Think with me that: PM arranges for crime [sic], but hits militant. Imagine the day when militancy close with crime, JUST THINK [sic], the strength of the steel of the boy [sic], the disposition of the protester [sic]. CVRL and left together [sic].
In fact, right?
History already tells.
I close beautifully on this front.
BEAUTIFUL [sic].

In 2018, France exiled itself to Europe after alleged threats to its life received from the internet.

Not only considered figures of the intelligentsia defended actions of criminals.

There are also several statements, even more absurd, made by left-wing politicians.

This is the case of Benedita da Silva, then a member of parliament for the PT (Lula’s political part translated as Worker’s Party, think Socialism), who in her speech to the Chamber of Deputies in February 2014 defended criminals justifying that these only practiced "small thefts" - promptly countered by Jair Bolsonaro, also deputy at the time, suggesting that Benedita "adopt the criminals" he defended.

Following the line of trying to normalize theft, the MP TalíriaPetrone (PSOL-RJ), proposed last year, Bill PL 4540/2021to amend Article 155 of the Criminal Code to create the categories of "robbery by necessity" and "petty theft", gaining prominence in the media.

What did not gain prominence, however, was the figure of "starvation theft", an already existing legal neutrino, dealing exactly with exceptional cases as proposed by the PL of the deputy.

In 2017, former president Lula minimized the theft of cell phones and attributed the incidence of homicides in Pernambuco to poverty…

It is something that is closely linked.
That is, the citizen had access to a material asset, a house, a job, and suddenly the guy loses everything.
Then, it becomes an industry of stealing cell phones.
Why does he steal cell phone?
To sell, to earn a little money.
I think this violence that is in Pernambuco is caused by hopelessness.

Not by chance, a day after being released from prison on November 12, 2019, during his first public appearance, Lula came back and spoke about the theft of cell phones…

I can’t see any younger than 14, 15 years old being robbed and raped, murdered, by the police, sometimes innocent or sometimes because he stole a cell phone.

… not making a single mention of the thousands of victims who have had their phones stolen, often resulting in fatal consequences.

In 2016, the last year of President Dilma Rousseff’s (PT) term, more than 62,000 homicides occurred in Brazil.

According to experts, this tragic number, which exceeded the number of natural tragedies, such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and wars - like that of Syria, which had 60,000 deaths in 2016, according to the NGO Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, was not reached by chance: the PT and the left not only have various links with organized crime but also encourages it, directly or indirectly.

Bandidolatry

According to Diego Pessi, prosecutor of the Public Ministry of Rio Grande do Sul, co-author of the book "Bandidolatria e Democídio", (2018, SV Editora, 240 pp.) this behavior that rewards criminals with blessings and ignores the suffering of victims, known as "bandidolatria" (worship of a bandit), is due to an outbreak of "anti-civilization", the result of a "false and hypocritical humanism".

For him, this moral relativism and this disbelief in the need and effectiveness of punishment, are in the genesis of hegemonic doctrines in public security in Brazil.

Data source: IPEA (1980-2019) and Valor Econômico (2020-2021)

In 2017, according to the official data of the Mortality Information System of the Ministry of Health (SIM/MS), there were about 65,600 homicides, a historical record since 1980 - equivalent to a rate of 31.6 deaths for every 100,000 inhabitants (see graph). Already in 2018, there was a 10.8% reduction in the number of intentional violent deaths, 14.2% in crimes against property, and 20.2% in cargo thefts.

Pessi, analyzing the drastic change in homicide numbers in the country, suggested some measures implemented by the Brazilian state and its federative entities that can explain the fall in the index:

operations to guarantee law and order
isolation of the leaders of the First Capital Command (PCC) in federal prisons
increasing the confiscation of assets from criminal factions; record of drug seizures
improvement of the control of penitentiaries
intensification of the work of the Special Action Groups to combat organized crime
Operation of the Integrated Force to Combat Organized Crime and assistance from the National Security Force, contributed to the reduction of intentional violent deaths.

Pessi also suggests that there is an impact of the pandemic in these indexes but, according to him, there is a reasonable consensus among serious scholars that reducing crime necessarily presupposes initiatives that increase the effort required for the perpetration of crime (proactive policing, surveillance, and self-defense ability) and also the risks for the offender - highlighting the importance of certainty of punishment.

He also highlights the relevance of reducing the reward for crime - because criminals act under the logic of cost/ benefit, as well as that of risk situations for the victim.

For Roberto Motta, public safety expert, consultant and activist, writer of the book "The Construction of Evil" (2022, Avis Rara, 224 pp.), the destruction of Brazilian public safety was produced over the years by leftist PT intelligence on fronts such as culture - with the occupation of all means of entertainment and the mainstream media to create the idea that the police is corrupt and oppressive, that the criminal is a poor, poor, and that in Brazil it is too much, that the war against drugs has already been lost.

For him, the same discourse is disseminated within the public and private education system, throughout the training of the individual, who ends up assimilating these ideas without realizing it.

Motta also highlights the creation of ever-increasing restrictions on the performance of the police and the rigging of military police academies for ideological indoctrination.

According to Motta, this militancy "bandidolatra" may have acted as an "incentive" to crime, because it would create an environment of incentive for the criminal.

According to him, the Brazilian bandit knows that his chance of ever being arrested or punished is small, that the punishment is light and there are a large number of tricks to accuse the police and get away.

Moreover, he knows that the penalty will be small and that it has the ideological shield of society.

"The Brazilian bandit sees television, reads newspapers, watches soap operas like all of us. He knows that being outlawed today in Brazil is not only a good business, but it’s glamorous, it’s charming and it gets the support of a lot of politicians," says Motta.

According to Motta, the union between the left and crime culminated in the phenomenon of the emergence of criminal factions: in the prison of Ilha Grande, in 1979, in Rio de Janeiro, the Red Command was born, when left-wing political prisoners came into contact with ordinary prisoners and taught them organizing tactics such as bank robberies and kidnappings.

"The symbiosis between the extreme left and organized crime is strategic and operational, I don’t say ideological, because criminals in their vast majority have no ideology. That is why we do not have in Brazil the equivalent of a FARC, because the Brazilian criminals have contempt for ideology, as well as the great leftist ideologues, their business is power", he concludes.

Lula and the FARC

During a debate held in the Insper, in São Paulo, the entrepreneur Diniz, of Carrefour, declared not to be concerned with the Proposed Amendment to the Constitution (PEC 32/2022) of the Transition, approved by the Senate on the day before, allowing Lula to exceed the ceiling and spend 168 billion reais in the next 2 years.

Diniz also said he hopes the country will grow by 3% in 2023.

Previously, in an article published in his opinion column on the website Power 360, on October 31, the day after the vote of the second round of the 2022 elections, Diniz stated that “Lulapoderia” (Lula could, or in the present tense, Lula can) made a good government for the Brasile that the first task of the PT should be to assume a position of "peacemaker" to unite again the Brazilians.

Apparently, Diniz forgot that in 1998, Lula interceded for the release of the militants who were arrested for his own kidnapping, which occurred in 1989.

In addition, during the police investigation, it was discovered that the kidnappers of Diniz had links with communist guerrillas, such as the Chilean Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR), which had as a fundraising strategy the kidnapping of big businessmen from Latin America - practice taught in the "Urban Guerrilla Minim-year", published in 1969 by Carlos Marighella, terrorist recently romanticized in the homonymous film, of 2021, directed by Wagner Moura and starring Seu Jorge.

Not enough, in the captivity of Diniz, in the neighborhood of Jabaquara, in the southern zone of SP, where he remained for six days, were found by the police, as well as weapons and ammunition, campaign materials from PT and Lula, including stickers, t-shirts, and flags.

According to the journalist Leonardo Coutinho, writer of the book "Hugo Chávez, o Espectro" (2018, Editora Vestígio, 240 pp.) - which in a series of tweets [here, here, and here - X provides a translation link when you display each update individually] explored the connection between PT and narco- guerrillas, before withdrawing from the platform for censorship - Lula made several other interventions in favor of guerrillas: Father Francisco Antonio Cadena Collazos, known as "Oliverio Medina" or "Cura Camilo" representative of the FARC in Brazil, was wanted in Colombia for various crimes, as kidnappings, terrorist attacks and attacks that resulted in the death of almost a hundred people; was arrested in Brazil in August 2005.

While the Colombians were asking for the criminal’s extradition, Lula granted him political asylum status. The condition remained after the decision of the STF, preventing Camilo from being extradited to Colombia.

According to the report "Lazos explosivos", published in March 2005, in Revista Veja, secret documents of the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (ABIN) revealed that during a meeting between leftists in solidarity with the FARC, held in April 2002, Cura Camilo announced that his guerrilla organization would make a donation of 5 million dollars to the PT candidates' election campaign - news received with applause by the audience.

A similar case occurred with the former Italian leftist militant Cesare Battisti, who lived in Brazil for more than ten years and became the target of a long extradition process on account of convictions for four murders, committed between 1977 and 1979 in Italy.

Arrested in 2007, Battisti received political refugee status from the then Minister of Justice, Tarso Genro. In December 2010, in his last action as President, Lula guaranteed the Italian’s permanence in Brazil by saying that this was a "matter of national sovereignty" - Italy pushed for extradition and even threatened to boycott sporting events held in Brazil.

The decision was referendated the following year by the STF, putting Battisti in freedom.

Only in December 2018, during the government of Michel Temer, was signed the decree of extradition of Battisti, a day after the arrest order issued by the STF Minister Luiz Fux.

Cuban boxers Erislandy Lara and Guillermo Rigondeaux did not have the same luck in 2009: during the Pan American Games in Rio, after fleeing the Cuban delegation, they were arrested and deported to Cuba, the "island prison of Fidel". According to Coutinho, after acting as an extension of the arms of the Cuban dictatorship, the Lula government said that it "erred" in its decision.

In addition to the episodes of aid to FARC guerrillas led by the former president, the São Paulo Forum, an association founded by Lula and Fidel Castro in 1990, has links with another terrorist organization: Hezbollah, based in Lebanon.

While in government, the same PT that issued a note protesting the death of General Soleimani after a US airstrike on Baghdad airport in Iraq was openly against designating Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.

Hezbollah was one of the armed tentacles commanded by Soleimani.

Already in 2012, Hezbollah’s foreign secretary, Ammar al-Mousawi, was in Cuba for an event of the São Paulo Forum.

The left-wing guerrilla teacher of the PCC Lula’s intercession in favor of guerrilla members did not stop there. In 2004, the PT also interfered in favor of another hijacker, the Chilean Mauricio Hernández Norambuena, a militant of the Frente Patriótica Manoel Rodrigues (FPMR) who, two years earlier, kidnapped the publicist Washington Olivetto.

In his country, the Chilean had already been sentenced twice to life imprisonment for the murder of a senator and kidnapping.

According to Leonardo Coutinho, the Supreme Federal Court (STF) authorized the extradition of Norambuena, but Lula vetoed it because he did not believe that the Chileans would replace the life sentence with a maximum of 30 years in Brazil. For Coutinho, although legally well-supported, the decision required an unusual effort.

Norambuena played a key role in the evolution of the First Command of the Capital (PCC): he was a cellmate of Marcos Willians Herbas Camacho, the Marcola, a bank robber known for being one of the biggest leaders within the PCC, a title he denies.

"The exchange coincides with the leap that the prison gang made to what it is today. It was the marriage of the armed left with organized crime", wrote Coutinho.

According to the journalist, published in May 2019 at Estado da Arte, just one month after the union of Marcola and Norambuena on March 7, 2002, the PCC attempted its first terrorist attack in São Paulo.

A car loaded with 40 kilos of explosives-type powergel (emulsion) was parked in front of the Barra Funda Forum, where 5,000 people worked and another 7,000 frequented daily. The attack was only not carried out due to a failure in the device.

Election Sabotage In Favor of the PT

According to Coutinho, the PCC’s objective was to create terror and destabilize the electoral process that was underway: interceptions made by police of telephone conversations between members of the PCC - content only revealed to the public four years later, through cell phones inserted irregularly inside the prisons, revealed the issuance of orders for the PCC to act in order to intervene in the election for governor in the State of São Paulo.

Thus, from inside the prison, PCC leaders determined a series of incidents that led to the discredit of Governor Geraldo Alckmin (PSDB), who was seeking re-election.

Also according to the audio, one of the leaders of the group sent orders for all relatives of the prisoners to vote for the left-wing candidate chosen and determined by them.

And, to ensure greater voter turnout on the day of voting, it was determined that no family would visit on that day so that they could vote for the candidate belonging to the Workers' Party (PT), chosen by the faction.

According to Coutinho, the effort seems to have been rewarded, and former guerrilla José Genoino (PT) - who was later sentenced to 6 years in prison for involvement in the Mensalão scandal - managed to reach the 2nd round of the 2002 election, for the government of São Paulo.

During this campaign, the PCC even planned a bomb attack on the building of the stock exchange in São Paulo, but the action was broken up after telephone tapping was intercepted by police.

In the election year of 2006, it was speculated that the then president Lula would not be able to reelect himself because of accusations and investigations by Mensalão.

At this time, the PCC returned to attack: instead of using the tactic of carrying out a major attack, as previously planned, the faction chose to carry out a series of actions that became the largest wave of violence promoted by the criminal organization.

In just nine days, the PCC made 293 attacks, ranging from exploding police districts, and residential buildings and burning buses; bringing chaos to the largest city in Latin America, leaving 564 dead and 110 wounded.

The attacks only ended after a secret negotiation between the Government of São Paulo - which had been assumed by Cláudio Lembo (PSDB) after Alckmin moved away to compete for the presidency - and the faction.

Full information and terms of such an agreement were never disclosed to the general public, but after Marcola received in prison a commission made up of high-level members of the government of São Paulo, the criminal issued an order for his followers to cease the wave of terror in the capital.

With this, Marcola got what he always wanted: the voice of the state having direct interlocution with the PCC.

In 2015, a report from the newspaper "The State" brought the statement of delegate Luiz Ramos Cavalcanti, under a judicial process that investigated lawyers allegedly linked to organized crime, stating that the São Paulo government did agree with the criminal faction to end attacks against police in 2006.

He would have participated in this meeting, which took place inside the maximum security prison of President Bernardes.

The then-state secretary of public security, Alexandre de Moraes, denied any negotiation by the government with criminals.

In the same year, Alexandre de Moraes found himself again involved in connections with the PCC, but on the "other side of the line": for years he was an attorney at Transcooper, a former van cooperative, cited in 2014 in an investigation by the São Paulo Public Prosecutor’s Office (MPSP), which investigated the possible involvement of two of its partners in a PCC money laundering scheme.

In the same year, the São Paulo Civil Police reported an alleged link between Transcooper and a PCC trafficker.

It was reported by the press that the then-secretary defended the cooperative in 123 cases.

Despite the evidence, Moraes said in a note that…

"… there was no provision of legal services - neither by the secretary nor by other partners - to people cited in possible involvement with organized crime in 2014. The contract, he said, referred strictly to the legal entity of the cooperative".

Accusations that Moraes would have links with the faction were intensively used by his political opponents for years: after his appointment to the Supreme Federal Court (STF), on Saturday in the Senate, the PT led strong pressure for the current minister not to get into office and even published on the website of its news agency a text associating the then Justice Minister Michel Temer with the PCC, something that was only recently deleted from his site.

Bolsonaristas have also made this association over the years, such as Roberto Jefferson, national president of the PTB, who was sentenced to pay R$50,000 compensation to Moraes for calling him "Xandão do PCC".

More Coincidences

In August 2019, the Federal Police launched an operation to investigate and dismantle the PCC’s financial core that operated from inside prisons in Paraná, São Paulo, and Mato Grosso do Sul.

In the PF reports, there was a telephone tap catching Alexsandro Pereira, known as "Elias" or "Came", complaining about the performance of Sergio Moro, then Minister of Justice, who determined the transfer of the leaders of the criminal faction, imprisoned in the Penitentiary of President Venceslau, inside São Paulo.

According to the PF transcript, Elias says:

"The guys are so early in the man’s term. Already messing directly with the dome, brother. So, if the guy started messing with who was on the front line, the guys have come in talking what? 'With nois no longer has dialogue, no, brother. This Live there, this guy is a bitch, brother. He started to delay when it was up to the PT. To see, the PT had dialogue with chippy nois, bro, because... situation that can not even be talked to the walk here by phone, brother".

The disclosure of the clip had a negative impact on the PT, which subsequently released a letter of protest claiming that this was one more "of so many other schemes forged against the party".

Still according to the note, who should explain himself to justice would be Moro for having "mounted a judicial farce against former president Lula with lying and without evidence".

Amid all the controversy and speculation about the link between PT and PCC, several notes of repudiation from PCC appeared denying relations with PT, obviously with humorous intent.

Interestingly, the mainstream media, in the figure of their check agencies, rushed to deny these apocryphal texts and did not show much interest in investigating what was relevant in the episode to discover the real extent of the cabulous dialogue revealed by the PF.

Alckmin also had an episode, at least unusual, involving the PCC.

In August 2018, a video of his televised presidential campaign aired a message alluding to the criminal faction: the play featured a slum alley and, in the background, a wall painted with the flag of Brazil with "1533" in place of the motto "Order and Progress".

The number is used by the PCC as a reference to the faction’s acronym according to the position in which the letters appear in the alphabet: "P" is the 15th and "C" is the 3rd.

Although the video was directly distributed via WhatsApp by its staff, the campaign of Alckmin released an official note denying the episode and accusing the "liars on duty" of using "an unofficial version of the clip, which leaked on the Internet, and edited to insert images in allusion to organized crime".

Subsequently, the Alckmin team released a new version of the clip, virtually identical to the first one, using only an eight-second editing trick to change the framing and hide the reference to PCC.

Love Conquers the Differences

Although crime was reduced in São Paulo during the terms of Geraldo Alckmin, it was precisely during this period that the PCC flourished in the state and spread its branches throughout the country.

Although Alckmin stated in December 2017, when he took over the presidency of the PSDB, that Lula, wanting to return to power, wanted to "go back to the scene of the crime", five years later, the now ex-toucan, announced that he would be vice in the plate with Lula.

This was only carried out thanks to the release of Lula from prison after his convictions in Operation Car Wash were annulled by the STF, which also allowed him to run for election as if he had a clean record.

Already during the election of 2022, on the day of the first round of voting, minister Alexandre de Moraes, acting as president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), censored reports and publications in social networks about an alleged support of Marcola to Lula.

The criminal would have said:

"If you put one side of the other, Lula is better than him [Bolsonaro] for us";

"Everyone knows that Lula is a thief. You have to get out even this broken in there [Bolsonaro]. He and his children";

and

"Bolsonaro is a partner in politics, in the militia. The guy has no future. Lula is also without a future, but between the two, you can not even compare one with the other"

The censorship that hit the sites O Antagonista, Jornal da Cidade On-Line, radio Panamericana S.A., linked to the group Jovem Pan, and Terra Brasil Notícias, also included mentions to the case of Celso Daniel, ex-Prefect of Santo André, found dead on January 18, 2002, in Juquitiba, in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo, two days after being kidnapped.

One of the hypotheses for the crime is that Daniel would have discovered diversions within the supposed scheme (which he commanded to make cash for PT) of bribes and ailments to bus entrepreneurs from the city of Santo André.

This system would have served as a "pilot test" for the Mensalão and the Petrolão, according to an investigation by journalist Silvio Navarro who in his book Celso Daniel: Politics, corruption, and death at the heart of the PT (2016, Record, 238 pp.) politics and the economy, and offers a detailed insight into how these factors contributed to Daniel’s murder.

Senator Mara Gabrilli (PSDB-SP) is the daughter of one of the victims of the scheme and was vice in the plate of Simone Tebet (MDB), who supported Lula in the second round. In the decision, Alexandre de Moraes also determined the payment of a fine of R$100,000 reais in case of non-compliance and a fine of R$15,000 in case of re-sharing of the same content.

Last Monday (12), Lula was awarded the title of president of Brazil.

After conducting the president-elect and vice to the plenary of the TSE, at the request of Minister Moraes, Benedito Gonçalves, Minister of the TSE, addressed the president of the Court and whispered in his ear: "Mission given is mission accomplished", which was captured by the microphones during the official broadcast and that can be heard (at 29 minutes and 20 seconds) on the official channel of the Electoral Justice.

Gonçalves had already starred in another controversial episode involving Lula: during the inauguration party of Minister Alexandre de Moraes as President of the TSE, Lula and Gonçalves exchange effusive greetings, with right pat on the back of Lula on the Minister’s face. The video became viral after Benito Gonçalves accepted a request from the PT and prohibited Bolsonaro from using images of the September Seventh in his campaign.

To celebrate graduation - and complete the mockery that was the entire electoral process of 2022 -, a party was held at the residence of lawyer Antônio Carlos de Almeida Castro, the Kakay in Brasilia.

Organized by the future first lady, Rosângela da Silva, Janja, the event was watered with wine, beer, and sparkling wine, as well as several options of main dishes such as cod and filet mignon, and packed by samba and pagoda.

Alexandre de Moraes and other ministers of the STF attended the party, as well as other members of the Judiciary and parliamentarians, who have already been or are being investigated by the PF and the STF for corruption, such as Renan Calheiros (MDB-AL), Fernando Haddad (Fazenda), Eduardo Braga (MDB-AL), Aloizio Mercadante (BNDES), and Lula himself.

According to the report of guests of the party, Janja said a short but heated speech:

"I want to express my immense gratitude to two people present here, for everything they did for democracy: ministers Ricardo Lewandowski and Alexandre de Moraes".

The Final Act

In 2017, Lula was sentenced to nine years and six months in prison in a lawsuit involving the purchase and renovation of a triplex in São Paulo by the contractor OAS, in exchange for favors at Petrobras.

The conviction was upheld in 2018 by the Federal Regional Court of 4th Region (TRF4) and the sentence was increased for passive corruption and money laundering.

In April 2018, the STF rejected his habeas corpus request and judge Sergio Moro ordered his arrest.

Lula was imprisoned for one year and 7 months in Curitiba because of a conviction in Operation Car Wash.

After almost 7 years rejecting appeals from the defense and confirming the competence of TRF4 in the case of the triplex - in addition to the inquiries of the site of Atibaia and the donations to the Lula Institute, the STF changes its understanding in April 2021, declares the incompetence of the Federal Justice of Paraná, quashes the criminal actions, determines that the process be restarted in the first instance and judged by the Federal Justice of the Federal District.

Lula, then 75 years old, was not only released and considered clean sheet - and therefore able to run in the elections of 2022, but also had the prescribed processes due to his age, leaving him free of all crimes for which he had been tried and convicted in the Lava Jato processes.

Thus, on this Sunday (1), Lula climbed for the third time the ramp of the Planalto Palace to assume the Presidency of the Republic, 2,000 days after his conviction in Lava Jato.

Eight people from civil society, responsible for handing over the presidential banner, accompanied Lula as he walked to the podium.

During the speech, Lula said that no one cares about a country that is permanently on war footing.

And this would be the same intention of the Supreme Court, as revealed by UOL columnist Carolina Brigido: "With Lula’s victory, ministers rebuild bridges between the Planalto Palace and the STF.

With Bolsonaro defeated, the expectation is of a more favorable climate to resume the institutional ties between the powers and rebuild the credibility of the judiciary".

Marcola is in the Federal Penitentiary of Porto Velho, capital of Rondônia, a maximum security unit to which he was transferred in early March and where he continues serving his sentence.

For now…

\ end of the translation of The Love Story Between Lula & Organized Crime

The following are events that are widely accredited to the Lula administration's permission to exist or his blessings to occur…

Update on the Tri- Border Area

ICYMI - in the late 1960’s Hezbollah established a financial operation in Paraguay that spread to include Argentina and Brazil in 1999.

06 June 2025 - Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Itamaraty) acted to remove from a security cooperation agreement on the Tri-Border Area any mention linking terrorism to organized crime groups such as Comando Vermelho (CV) and the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC).

The negotiation involved Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay

A document shows that the Ministry raised concerns with the Ministry of Justice regarding sections of the preliminary draft.

The official communication reveals that

… there are substantive aspects of the text that deserve reconsideration with the other parties involved, particularly the references to the ‘convergence’ between transnational organized crime and terrorism.

Without detailing the specific issues identified, Itamaraty highlighted 2 particular points.

In the final version of the agreement, both of those references were removed.

Email exchanges reveal that Argentina had suggested at least 1 of the inclusions.

The Federal Police's Counterterrorism Division had supported maintaining those references.

The Foreign Ministry stressed that “links between terrorism and transnational organized crime cannot be treated as automatic or universal,” as they are distinct phenomena subject to different legal frameworks.

“In this sense, under Brazilian law, it is not appropriate to classify criminal organizations as terrorist groups,” the Ministry stated.

UPDATE: 8 YEARS Jail term for comic over his jokes, Brazil's Leo Lins 'is being treated like a drug trafficker'

A Brazilian comedian has been jailed for 8 years and 3 months for making offensive jokes in a stand-up special.

A federal court in São Paulo said Leo Lins’s work contributed to ‘the spread of verbal violence in society and promotion of intolerance’.

The Brazilian government brought the case, saying the comedian’s material targetted black people, the obese, elderly people, those living with HIV, LGBT people, evangelicals, Indigenous communities, people from the impoverished northeast of Brazil, Jews, and people with disabilities.

His lawyers criticised the ruling, saying in a statement:

‘This is a sad chapter for freedom of expression in Brasil. Watching a comedian receive the same punishment as someone convicted of drug trafficking, corruption, or even murder, all because of jokes told on stage, is deeply troubling.’

Judge Barbara de Lima Iseppi ruled that ‘dignity’ trumped the right to free speech, saying:

‘The place of humour is not a lawless land. In the event of a conflict between the fundamental precept of freedom of expression and the principles of human dignity and legal equality, the latter must prevail.’

Lins – who has performed Portuguese-language shows in Leicester Square Theatre and Top Secret Comedy Club in London – was also fined around £40,000 for moral damages.

Two years ago, a court ordered Lins, now 42, to remove the offending special – Perturbador (or ‘Distruptor’) – from YouTube, but not before being viewed more than 3 million times.

At the time Lins said the move ‘set a dangerous precedent for comedy and art in general’.

UPDATE: The Biden State Department Integrated Country Strategy Report on Brazil, April 2024

Something you need to know about the term, capacity-building, which is used by the Biden State Department to camouflage their actions.

What is capacity-building?

It is a deliberate government strategy of pumping a web of instrumentalized nonprofits

Here's how "capacity-building" works…

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In doing the research for this piece,
I found USAID documents that explicitly plotted to get the Brazilian government
to pass censorship laws… – Mike Benz

Why has the US seemed to have turned into a kritocracy?
Enter, stage left:
USAID's Judicial Reform Projects.

••• “Rule of Law is a way of saying that you’re ruled not by a president or a king or a monarch or an oligarchy—we’re ruled by the law. The law rules all…So that means whoever controls the law actually rules all.”

– Mike Benz
@MikeBenzCyber, X.com

EXCLUSIVE: Mike Benz Exposes CIA & the Global Censorship Machine

USAID's "World Justice Program" Descended On Brazil's Courts Ahead Of 2022 Election

The extent of government censorship in Brazil is absolutely, criminally, insane…

Lastly…

A translation of a document recently published updating much of all this…

O Papel do Governo dos Estados Unidos no Complexo Industrial da Censura no Brasil (The Role of the US Government in the Censorship Industrial Complex in Brasil)

Published by Civilization Works, Founder and President Michael Shellenberger

Michael Shellenberger is the Founder-President of Environmental Progress, a Time Magazine "Hero of the Environment," Green Book Award winner, Dao Journalism Prize Winner, and CBR Chair of Politics, Censorship, and Free Speech at the University of Austin.

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