American Interference in the Brazilian Election

The US uses a series of proxies to influence foreign elections. The main proxy is the National Endowment for Democracy, NED, which receives $100 million in taxpayer dollars. The NED et al coordinates all of it’s activities with the State Department. The NED has a series of shell organizations to target specific ideological groups, social classes, and countries. The shell organization used to support center-left parties is the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, the NDI.

The US is using these to influence the Brazilian election. The NED has published pieces on its website which call Bolsonaro a threat to democracy and the rule of law. Foreign Policy Magazine, the mouthpiece of the State Department, has also published similar attacks on Bolsonaro. The NDI published a piece on its website declaring that Haddad was a champion of anti-corruption and “social justice” while condemning Bolsonaro.

Clearly the US prefers Haddad to Bolsonaro. How deep does this clandestine support go?

Anti-Bolsonaro NED articles.
https://www.demdigest.org/brazil-the-next-democracy-to-fall-in-populist-wave/
https://web.archive.org/web/20181007054703/https://www.demdigest.org/brazil-the-next-democracy-to-fall-in-populist-wave/
https://www.demdigest.org/does-populism-really-threaten-democracy/
https://web.archive.org/web/20181007054736/https://www.demdigest.org/does-populism-really-threaten-democracy/
Anti-Bolsonaro article in the US State Department’s semi-official magazine.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/10/05/bolsonaros-model-its-goebbels-fascism-nazism-brazil-latin-america-populism-argentina-venezuela/
http://archive.fo/PwLzg

Pro-Haddad and Anti-Bolsonaro NDI article.
https://www.demworks.org/making-democracy-popular-corruption-populism-brazil
http://archive.fo/Uthsp