Ione Wells
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364 appearances
21 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 17 Aug
Ione Wells’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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very important for us to be here to support him because he always champions causes that benefit us, like the minimum wage, tax issues,
President Lula came out onto the stage at this football stadium in the industrial city of Sao Bernardo de Campo, which is just outside of Sao Paulo, to black and white images of him here in 1979 and in the 80s, where he as a union leader led strikes demanding better wages and conditions for workers.
There were thousands of supporters here in the crowd cheering him on and much of his speech.
Not only referenced workers and his support of them uh over the years, but also sovereignty, the fact that he will not let anyone interfere in Brazilian affairs.
And I think that is undoubtedly uh a reference to his strong criticism of the United States, the tariffs that the US has imposed on Brazil, but also the US's designation of Brazilian gangs as terrorist organizations.
President Lula has been pretty clear that he
He fears the US is going to try and interfere in Brazilian elections and Brazilian affairs more generally, something he accuses his main rival Flavio Bolsonaro of encouraging.
Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of the former right wing president Jair Bolsonaro, also launched his campaign today on Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro.
He is certainly campaigning very heavily on a campaign platform saying
That he will tackle crime, that he will build mega prisons in Brazil, and yes, that he will also work much more closely with the government of the United States.
He was in Washington lobbying the United States to designate Brazilian gangs as terrorist organizations earlier this year, something which President Lula has been heavily critical about.
It is interesting that for a domestic presidential election, this issue of sovereignty, this issue
President Lula himself came out onto the stage with a huge Brazilian flag, something that for many years was a symbol, if displayed out some outside someone's home, that they were a supporter of Jaya Bolsonaro.
Now he is certainly trying to reclaim that image of patriotism, of sovereignty, as part of his left wing campaign in this election.
We understand that these were two senior State Department officials who have been identified as Riley M. Barnes, an assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labour, and another man called Samuel Sampson, a deputy assistant secretary in the same department.
Now, they were essentially meant to be visiting Brazil at the end of July for what they described as a visit to look at both election integrity, but also freedom of expression, freedom of religion.
It's understood they were seeking meetings with some of the electoral authorities, but also with Flavio Bolsonaro, the right-wing candidate in the presidential election.
The concern of the Brazilian government, run by President Lula da Silva, who will be challenging Flavio Bolsonaro in the election...
is that just earlier in July, Flavio Bolsonaro had addressed a group of foreign diplomats and essentially at one moment cast doubt on the integrity of Brazil's electoral system, comparing the machines to those used in Venezuela, which is false.
They aren't of the same
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