Slavery had a huge impact on religious beliefs in Brazil:

In the 2010 census, 64.6 percent of Brazilians claimed to belong to the Roman Catholic Church, but with a declining tendency over the last three decades. A growing number of Brazilians belong to one of the numerous Evangelical Churches (22.2 percent in 2010 with a rising tendency). In sum, nearly 90 percent of Brazilians claim to belong to a Christian Church. The remaining 10 percent are spread between Spiritists (2 percent), adherents to an Afro-Brazilian religion (0.3 percent), agnostics or atheists (8 percent), and members of another religion, such as Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, or Buddhism. These numbers, however, do not represent all practitioners of Spiritist or Afro-Brazilian religions since many people avoid being identified with an Afro-Brazilian tradition, despite the fact that the religions have been legalised.

So we usually think of it as a Catholic country, yet:

Chesnut estimates that half of all Brazilians have visited an Umbanda centre at least once, usually during a personal crisis and that 15–20 percent of Brazilians (app. 30 million) practise Umbanda or one of the other Afro-Brazilian religions regularly ... Especially Umbanda has the image of being a provider of physical and
spiritual healing services, which leads to the estimation that many more Brazilians attend regularly Umbanda rituals without considering themselves to be members of the religion.

Besides Umbanda and Candomblé, there's also Spiritism:

On the other side of the continuum is Spiritism, also called Kardecism. It is based on the ideas of the French schoolteacher Hyppolyte Léon Denizard Rivail (1804–1869), who published numerous books under his alias Allan Kardec, containing what he described as messages from the spirits. Shortly after their publication, his books arrived in Brazil where his teaching gained much attention. It offered those living at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century an alternative spirituality that lacked the negative connotations of the Afro-Brazilian religions. While the practice of Afro-Brazilian religions was regarded as black magic, and was legally rstricted until the 1970s (Maggie 1986), Kardecism and its numerous variations under the label espiritismo were socially and legally tolerated.

This is the background to Joao de Deus. Brazilians open to spiritual possession akin to Haitian voodoo, some of those spirit entities actually tricksters, or evil we might say.

https://www.wcaanet.org/downloads/dejalu/feb2016/Anthropos.pdf

I think you need to look for the link between 'John' and the CIA. Then there's the Portuguese connection with António Guterres of the United Nations. Inner City Press has been shouting from the rooftops about him for ages now. Then there's the Portuguese bank Banco Espírito Santo and their whole corruption history and links the City of London, the Vatican and with the Hampstead case. Don't forget the Algarve and the McCanns. And where is it that Madonna is living lately with her adopted children? Just sayin...

@septimasexta, you mention an article, but you don't have a link to one. I'll give you the 24 Hour Grace flair, so you can edit. Thanks!

histclo - https://archive.is/hLPei

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Good thread. I think it is important to understand how these families that still trade in the profane art of trafficking in illicit substances, people and guns were able to get so rich and stay so rich. Having a general understanding of the geopolitical climate of the other nations involved in the coming New World Order turnover demands such knowledge especially considering a potential dick-tater just took over in Brazil, sooner or later I have a feeling this is going to reflect on Bolosonaro in some way, someones going to start digging into his connections or if none use it heavily against the opposition.

WHAT IS THE PILGRIMS SOCIETY?

WHAT WERE THE FIRST CORPORATE NATIONS?

WHO IS THE ENFORCER?

WHO IS THE POLICY MAKER?

WHO CONTROLS BRAZIL AND GHANA?

WHAT WAS DECIDED AT THE EARTH SUMMIT?

WHO CONTROLS SUSTAINABILITY (SATAN'S ABILITY)?

WHO CREATED THE FIRST OF ITS KIND SUSTAINABLE SCHOOL IN BRAZIL?

WHO DID BILL CLINTON APPOINT TO THE PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL ON SUSTAINABILITY?

WHO IS NAMED THE BEST WORKPLACE YEAR AFTER YEAR?

WHO OWNS THE PATENT TO THE ZIKA VIRUS?

WHAT WAS ZIKA A TEST FOR?

WHO CONTROLS THE LABS?

WHO CONTROLS THE SOLUTION?

WHO BENEFITS?

WHAT ELSE HAPPENED AT RIO?

WHERE IS THE WORLD'S MOST VALUABLE RESOURCE?

WHAT IS HILLARY'S MODEL FOR COMMUNITY POLICING?

WHAT WAS THE DEAL TRUMP MADE TO ENDORSE THE REAL AGENDA OF ETERNAL ENSLAVEMENT WITH THE MARK OF THE BEAST ENFORCED BY 5G+ AI, SMART CITIES AND RESILIENT COMMUNITIES?

THEY ARE NOT STUPID, AND THEY WILL NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE IN THE BROKEN JUSTICE SYSTEM THEY CONTROL.

THEY HAVE MORE RESOURCES AND LAYERS OF CONTROL THAN ANY ONE CAN IMAGINE.

THE TRUTH IS ALL THEY FEAR.

WHAT IS THE TRUTH THEY CANNOT ALLOW THE WORLD TO KNOW?

Jesus is The Lamb. The Truth is The Lion.

Only thing worth doing relating to Brazil is nuking the hell out of it.

CONTINUED FROM ABOVE Economic Sectors

"Slavery in Brazil is strongly associated withb plantation agriculture, especially the sugar industry. Slavery became particularly important in the mining and sugar cane sectors. use the working conditions in both sectors were not conusive for free labor. The sugar industry was the most important at it was here that most of Brazil's slaves were employed. Slavery was also the mainstay in the Caribbean islands with economies centered on sugar. The Portuguese who settled Brazil needed labor if they were to develop large estates and mines in their new Brazilian colony. They turned to sugar and slavery which became central to the colonial economy. Slaves were set to the back-breaking task of digging large trenches using hoes. They then planted the cane in the trenches and used bare hands to spread manure for fertilizer. Cutting the matured can was another major effort requiring manual labor. Brazil became the world's largest producer of sugar. The sugar industry began on the Caribbean islands. The Dutch helped bring it to Brazil. Eventually the huge Brazilian estates increased production to the point that it brought down sugar prives, affected the profitability of production on the Caribbean sugar islands. Some Brazilian planters began to turmn tp coffee (1830s). This was at the time of the Great Bahia Slave Revolt (1835). It was at the very last phase of slavery in Brazil as pressure from abroad was beginning to move Brazil toward emancipation. Rubber plantations appeared in the late-19th century. By this time, Brazil had ended slavery. Native Americans, however, experienced slave-like conditions a msany of these plantations. "

Emancipation

"Brazil continued as a monarchy for several decades before a republic was finally proclaimed (1889). Brazil was a major desination of the Atlantic slave trade. Brazil justs out into the Atlantic and was thus a much shorter run for the slavers. Brazil had the largest slave population in the world, substantially larger than the United States. Pedro II was a ruler of conservative mindset. He came to see slavery, despite its economic importance to Brazil as inherently evil. Pedro began a series of measures liberating Brazilian slaves. He was posed to entirely abolish slavery. His measures against slavery met oposition from major landowners and the military, the leadership of which was drawn from the landed elite. The Emperor was on a trip to Europe when his daughter, Princess Isabel serving as regent, issued a decree abolishing slavery (May 13, 1888). This essentially did away for the last bastion of slavery, although forced labor cotinued for some time, in the Western Hemishere and ended what remained of the the African slave trade. Princess Isabella's decree is known as the Golden Law. It was widely praised in Europe. Abolishing slavery was the last major action taken by the Brazilian royal family. Brazil proved to be the last Western Hemisphere country to abolish slavery."

Impact

"Slavery has a huge impact on Brazil. It affected both the economy and the ethnic make up of the Brazilian population. The importation of such a large number of Africans into a colony with such a small number of Portuguese, profoundly affected the ethnic ballance. The level of Africam imports also meant thsat unlike North America, Africam culture was not largely wiped out and thus had a significant impsct on Brazilian culture (food, music, dance and religious practices). This is especiuallt the case in Rio and the northwast where many of the slaves were concentrated." https://histclo.com/act/work/slave/am/sa-bra.html

CONTINUED FROM ABOVE The Sugar Boom (17th century)

"The Portuguese brought sugar cane to Brazil early in the colonial period, but the sugar industry developed slowly. It was a relatively new crop to the Europeans and it was a labor-intensive crop. This proved a problem because the Native Americans the Portuguese attempted to enslave did not prove suitable. Sugar would prove central to Brazilian economy aswell as to the history of Brazilian slavery. It was sugar that made Brzilian plantations really profitable and this fueled the demand for the large numbers of slaves needed to work them. The settlers first tried to enslave the Natives to work the developing plantations. The Native Americans proved unsuitable, primarily because the died in large numbers when exposed to European diseases. As a result, the settlers began to turn to Africans. The Portuguese ha begun to trade in captive Africanas, albeit in small numbers, as they began moving south down the coast of Africa (15th century). The first Brazilian sugar plantation was operating very early in the colonial era (1518). The industry grew very rapidly. Martim Afonso de SousaThe founded the first colony(1532). One report suggests that Santa Catalina Island had some 800 operating sugar cane mills (1540). The Brazilian sugar industry boomed and the colony became Europe's main supplier of sugar. Sugar at the time did not come from the Caribbean in any quantity. Until this the Arabs had been the main supplier, but a astronomical prices making it a luxury for the nobility and wealthier merchants. Brazil changed this. With the large quanities of Brazilian sugar reaching Europe at more reasonable prices, a much larger market began to grow. And Brazil, especially the northern coast, privided virtually perfect conditions for raising sugarcane........The Portuguese became leaders in the Atlantic slave trade and the major destination was Brazil. Over a third of all the slaves tranported to the Americas were landed in Brazil, the great majority to work on the sugar plantations. "

Dutch Era (1630-54)

"The Dutch incursions into Brazil proved the greatest threat to the Portuguese. The Portuguese became involved with the Hapsburg attmpt to supress the Reformation in Germany and the related rebellion of the Dutch. A succession crisis in Portugal led to a personal union under the Habsburg rule after the War of the Portuguese Succession, Spanish King Philip II of Spain thus controlled Portugal as part of the Iberian Union (1580). This meant that Portugal and Brazil became involved in the Dutch War of Independence (1581-1648). Philip II prohibited trade with the Dutch (1581). The Dutch were at a disadvantage in land warfare with the Spanish, but their expanding naval fleet gave them the ability to strike at the colonies. The result was the Dutch–Portuguese War (1602-61). The War was waged by the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company against the Portuguese Empire.... The Dutch also attacked the Portuguese African possessions. This was an attmpt to seize control of the profitable slave trade which at the time was dominated by the Portuguese. Elmina and other Portuguese Gold Coast trade posts were taken and Luanda was put to siege. As a result, the flow of West African slaves was interupted and from this point most Brazilian slaves were imorted from southern Africa....The Dutch controlled northern Brazil for more than two decades. One impact of their presence was a boost to the sugar industry, a hugely valuable commodity at the time. The economics of sugar meant that it became the leading crop in Brazil. Dutch investors commited considerable funds. This was coordinated through the Dutch West India Company.......The greatest victor may have been the English who benefitted by the decades long war between its two main rivals in the Far East. The Dutch were ultimately forced to relinquish control of northern Brazil (1654). The principal result of the Dutch experience in Brazil was that when they were finally expelled, they brought sugar industry technology to the Caribbean. And this meant that the Portuguese in Brazil no longer dominated the sugar trade. " NOTE: Sephardic Jews who were expelled from Portugal and Spain during the Inquisition fled to Holland (Dutch) America and the Caribbean, including Jamaica. The resulting hatred of Spain and Portugal led the refugees to ally with the Dutch and English against them. The Sephardi in Holland eventually were the major investors in the Dutch West India company. Large numbers migrated to the American Dutch colony of New Holland (New York). Many also took their sugar cane plantation technology to the English controlled island of Barbados and set up sugar plantations and labor supply with the DRAX brothers.

Colonial Brazil (17th and 18th centururies)

"Colonial Brazil developed the largest slave population in the world, substantially larger than that of the United States. The Portuguese who settled Brazil needed labor to work the large estates and mines in their new Brazilian colony. They turned to slavery which became central to the colonial economy. It was particularly important in the mining and sugar cane sectors. Slavery was also the mainstay in the Caribbean islands with economies centered on sugar. Estimates suggest that about 35 percent of captured Africans involved in the Atlantic slave trade were transported to Brazil. Estimates suggest that more than 3 million Africans reached Brazil, although precise numbers do not exist. Slavery was widely practiced. Brazilians of all classes owned slaves. Slaves were not only owned by upper and middle-class Brazilians, but also by lower-class Brazilians. There were even slaves who owned other slaves. And even though Brazil had the largest slave poplation in the world, the numbers of people impacted are much larger than commonly portrayed. Brazilian sugar plantations were essentially death camps. If the demographic impact of the massive death toll at the sugar plantations are computed the numbers would be staggering. "

"One historian estimsates about 3.6 million Africans transported to Brazil. [Taunay]. He estimated that most were brough to brazil in he 18th ad 19th century: 0.1 million (16th century), 0.6 million (17th cenury), 1.3 million (18th century), and 1.6 million (19th century). The level of slave shipments during the 19th century is notable given the fact that the Royal Navy was engaged in a major campaign to end the slave trade at the time. About 40 percent of the estimated 11 million Africans transported in the Atlantic slave trade went to Brazil." https://histclo.com/act/work/slave/am/sa-bra.html

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