Favorite (Para ler e assistir a versão desse artigo e vídeo em Português, clique aqui.) THE LIFE TRAJECTORY of Brazil’s former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (“Lula”) has been extraordinary. Born into extreme poverty, Lula left the presidential office in 2010, after serving two terms, with an unprecedented 86 percent approval rating, seemingly destined to…
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Brazil is Engulfed by Ruling Class Corruption — and a Dangerous Subversion of Democracy
Favorite The multiple, remarkable crises subsuming Brazil are now garnering substantial western media attention. That’s understandable given that Brazil is the world’s fifth most populous country and eighth largest economy; its second-largest city, Rio de Janeiro, is the host of this year’s Summer Olympics. But much of this western media coverage mimics the propaganda coming from Brazil’s homogenized, oligarch-owned, anti-democracy…