Hello, everyone. Today we're talking about Brazil. Today I'm joined by a Brazil-based journalist

who is one of the best English language reporters and what's been going on in Brazil. He's also

lived in Brazil for a really long time, unlike a lot of these parachute journalists who will

show up for

like a few days or a few weeks maybe to report on something that's happening. We're speaking with

Brian Meir today, and Brian is the co-editor of a great website, Brazil Wire, an independent website

focused on Brazil and what's actually going on on the ground.

Brazil wire is really an indispensable source, and they're friends of us at the Gray's On.

They do awesome work here. You can see I have it up on the screen. That is, it's Brazil spelled

like the Portuguese way with an S, not the Yankee way with the Z.

And he just reported from this protest that was happening.

And that's what we're going to talk about today on September 7th.

And this is, you can see Brian's report at Brazil Wire, September 7th, the view from

Brasilia, the capital. And for people who don't know,

the far-right government of Jarbo-Sanaro and Brazil has been in threatening the very fragile

democracy that there is in the country. Of course, Brazil for decades from the 60s to the 80s

had a fascistic military dictatorship backed by the

United States. And it has since had a democracy that's very fragile. And people, of course,

know that the most popular president in Brazil's history, Lula da Silva, from the left-wing workers

party, he governed. And then his successor, Doma

Rousseff from the workers' party, was overthrown in a kind of soft coup that Brian and his

colleagues at the Brazil Wire have done the best job out of anyone I know in documenting the

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