First Peru, Now Brazil—‘Mirror Image’ Uprisings Unleashed in Ibero-America

Dec. 13, 2022 (EIRNS)—In recent months, a key handful of former legislators and cabinet ministers from Ibero-America have stepped forward to initiate a world citizens’ movement with the Schiller Institute, taking leadership to stop nuclear war and secure peace and development in every country on the planet. Optimism has been growing that, with Lula da Silva’s election victory in Brazil, the whole region could become active participants in the Belt and Road Initiative and the BRICS.

The British Empire responded with their stock in trade: chaos, violence, and uprisings. The ideologies of the revolts may differ from country to country, but the intent of the guiding hand behind them—to make the region ungovernable—is the same. Take the cases of Peru and Brazil in the last week.

In Peru, mass protests and violent rampages (including seizing control of one airport, blocking highways, etc.) by “leftists,” radical indigenists, and drug-linked Sendero Luminoso networks began last week after the Peruvian Congress (with military backing) removed President Pedro Castillo from office—when Castillo had attempted to disband the Congress. The protesters are demanding that the arrested Castillo be restored to power, and that a Constituent Assembly be convened to draft a new Constitution. Five people have been killed in the protests, so far, and the crisis situation is worsening.

In Brazil, radical “right-wing” supporters of outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro launched violent attacks in the capital, Brasilia, on Monday night, Dec. 12, torching seven cars and a big city bus and attempting to storm a federal police station. The riot was supposedly to protest the official certification earlier in the day of Lula’s victory over Bolsonaro in the presidential election, and the arrest of a leader of Bolsonaro’s movement. The hardcore right-terrorist faction of the movement is demanding that the military step in and block “the communist Lula” from assuming the Presidency. A security official in Brasilia reported that the rioters deployed from one of the Bolsonaro supporters’ encampments in front of military bases in Brasilia, O Estadão de S. Paulo reported.

The Steve Bannon-guided Bolsonaro, who remains as President until January 1, is fully part of this operation. He has refused to recognize the election results, and on Dec. 9 he told supporters outside the Presidential residence, who were raucously calling for a military coup to block Lula from assuming office: “You are the ones who decide where I go. You are the ones who decide which way the armed forces go,” according to a Reuters account. So far, Bolsonaro has said nothing about the rampage in Brasilia.

Americans take note: This London operation is also being used to whip up similar movements in the United States. On the “right” side of things, the operation turns around Steve Bannon and old Nazi networks, as EIR reports in its Dec. 9, 2022 issue on “Nazi Networks Deploy against Potential New Paradigm in Ibero-America.” The idea that Bolsonaro and the military will move to block “communist Lula” from taking office is being played up big in U.S. “conservative” networks catering to Republican opposition, such as Gateway Pundit and Slay News.