Mark Weisbrot

Today, for the first time, with Dr.

Mark Weisbrot, a senior economist, co-founder and co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C., and a good friend of Jeffrey Sachs,

who

was so kind to introduce us to each other.

And thank you for your time.

We'll have you again and see what happens in this election.

Mark Weisbrot, thank you so much for your time today.

Thank you.

Code Pink, $210,000 anonymously through the fund.

The Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund has also funded organizations that receive donations through the Benjamin Fund, such as the Center for Economic and Policy Research, the CEPR, home to Mark Weisbrot, who I think is probably the world's worst economist.

What do you think of the significance of these links?

I think what it shows is how much this network or how many different areas they cover, right? The fact that they fund so many different types of organizations like the People's Forum, which is obviously a space for activists, right? But it's also a place where they hold a lot of meetings.

But if you look at the website, I mean, I was looking through the website yesterday.

They removed the team, but basically it's Medea Benjamin.

You also have Mark Weisbrot on the advisory team, many academics who are sympathetic to the Cuban government.

And then if you look at the different organizations that comprise the alliance, it's many of the same organizations that we talk about.

The U.S. consulate in Sao Paulo convened anti-Lula influencers, and consular services were abruptly suspended two days before the election.

Latin America expert Mark Weisbrot told Tassi that Trump made clear Brazilians would face punishments if they didn't elect Bolsonaro.

Snyder notes that in the last seven Latin American presidential elections since early 2025, right-wing candidates have won, and President Trump has publicly boasted about the role he played in several of them.

Those are today's highlights.

The outlet noted, Messias stated in a social media post that foreign meddling cannot be tolerated and that the report represented an important alert for Brazilian sovereignty.

Mark Weisbrot, co-founder, co-director of the U.S.-based Center of Economic and Policy Research, called the Trump administration interference another U.S. regime operation, pointing to the aggressive tariffs Trump imposed on Brazilian goods last year and the U.S. Department attempt to send two top officials cast doubt on the fairness and integrity of the country's electoral system.

In other words, if Bolsonaro had won, They would be out there saying, oh, there's something wrong with the election system.

But remember, there's still another election in three weeks between Bolsonaro and Lula.

Now, Senators Gene Shaheen, Peter Welch and Tim Kaine have written to Marco Rubio, charging that U.S. officials have waged, quote, a campaign of interference and destabilization in Brazil.

Economist Mark Weisbrot said it's flat out illegal under the charter of the Organization of American States, which we signed.

We spent years outraged that Russia meddled in our elections.

Now our own government stands accused of doing it with Russia to the biggest democracy in Latin America.