Pepe Escobar — Kill List: Smashing the 'B' in BRICS

Pepe Escobar parses the opaque situation in Brazil.

In the process, he offers this summary of neoliberalism:

Neoliberalism may have failed, as even the IMF research wing has concluded. But its rotten corpse still encumbers the whole planet. Neoliberalism is not only an economic model; it surreptitiously takes over the juridical realm as well. In another perverse facet of shock doctrine, neoliberalism cannot prevail without a juridical framework. 

When constitutional attributions are redirected to Congress that keeps the Executive under control while generating a culture of political corruption. Politics is subordinated to economics. Companies engage in campaign financing and buy politicians to be able to influence the political powers that be.…

Where the US fits in:

And that brings us once again to The Big Picture, as we proceed in parallel with an analysis by Rafael Bautista, the head of a decolonization study group in La Paz, Bolivia. He’s one of the best and brightest in South America who’s very much alert to the fact that whatever happens in Brazil in the next few months will drive the future not only of South America but the whole Global South.

Exceptionalistan’s project for Brazil is no less than the imposition of a remixed Monroe doctrine. The main target of a planned neoliberal restoration is to cut off South America from the BRICS – as in, essentially, the Russia-China strategic partnership.…

This article is must-read in its entirety to grasp the geopolitical significance of what is happening in Latin America — and by implication also in Africa, were the US, China, and Russia are all involved also.

The Empire is on the move. Divide and conquer is still the imperial agenda.

Sputnik

Kill List: Smashing the 'B' in BRICS

Pepe Escobar