Follow-up: Some New Information about the Bolsonaro Regime and Ties to Omaha's 88 Tactical
Seeing Red Nebraska has previously written about the neo-Nazi affinities of Omaha’s 88 Tactical, and about its strange relationship with the Bolsonaro regime in Brazil, including the fact that close friends of the Bolsonaro sons are on staff at the Nebraska shooting range.
Since that coverage was published, international activists concerned with the Bolsonaro regime and its fascist aspirations have dug more deeply into the strange network of relationships among 88 Tactical employees, the Trumps, the Bolsonaros, and the high-ranking aides and far-right propagandists who serve the two families. In this piece, our contributors simply seek to reveal connections among Eduardo Bolsonaro, his aide Julia Zanatta, her ex-boyfriend and 88 Tactical employee Tony Eduardo, the 2018 attempted assassination of Jair Bolsonaro, and far right propagandists Steve Bannon and Olavo de Carvalho, both of whom are currently under legal scrutiny by their respective governments for their roles in provoking far right insurrection.
Steve Bannon, Olavo de Carvalho, and a Bolsonaro Operative Named Julia Zanatta
Julia Zanatta is a friend and aide to politician Eduardo Bolsonaro, the son of Brazil’s president, and a follower of Olavo de Carvalho, a self-proclaimed philosopher, guru of Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and mentor of the far right in Brazil. Olavo’s agenda includes opposing immigration and generalizing all people on the left as communists. His method ranges from constant harassment of enemy forces to lawfare. Olavo has thousands of followers in his online philosophy course. Some of his students landed top jobs in Bolsonaro’s government, including former Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ernesto Araújo.
In May 2019, Zanatta lied twice to a radio journalist from her home town in South Brazil when she said that Jair Bolsonaro’s son, Eduardo Bolsonaro, had never met personally with Olavo de Carvalho before the beginning of that year. She also concealed the information that Steve Bannon visited Olavo’s house in Petersburg, Virginia, while she and Eduardo Bolsonaro frequented the same place for at least a week in January 2019. According to another guest, filmmaker Josias Teófilo, Steve Bannon was there to get updated about the political scenario in Brazil. Jair Bolsonaro had just started his term as the country’s president.
Zanatta visited Olavo with Eduardo Bolsonaro, who had actually been there before, two years earlier in January 2017, when he stopped over before going to Shot Show in Las Vegas. The Shot Show is the largest annual trade show for gun enthusiasts in the US.
Read more: https://seeingrednebraska.com/fascism/some-new-information-about-the-bolsonaro-regime-and-ties-to-omahas-88-tactical/
Earlier threads:
88 Tactical, Militarized Police, and a Looming Coup in Brazil
Nebraska Group: https://democraticunderground.com/1063923
Latin America Group: https://democraticunderground.com/110878098