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This article was posted at another site by amazing earlier DU poster, E.F., where I saw it, and had to share:
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
BRIAN MIER
Both the US and British governments supported the rise of Brazils far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. A high-ranking British Treasury officialallegedly future Prime Minister Liz Trusshad secret meetings with the future president in 2018 to discuss free trade, free markets and post-Brexit opportunities (BrasilWire, 3/25/20).
The US Department of Justice was a crucial partner in the Lava Jato (Car Wash) investigation, which resulted in the prosecution and jailing of Brazils left-leaning former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The politically motivated legal campaign against Lula served to prevent his participation in the 2018 presidential election, in what Gaspard Estrada calls the biggest judicial scandal in Brazilian history.
Because of this history, and because Brazil is a hard country to explain concisely, I was weary to learn that the British and US state-affiliated media outlets BBC and PBS had co-released a documentary about Jair Bolsonaro only a few weeks before this years Brazilian presidential election (10/230/22). It didnt fail to disappoint.
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Rise of the Bolsonaros was released on August 28 on PBS, and is airing as a three-part series in Britain on BBC2. It tells the story of Brazils far-right president through the words of people like Steve Bannon, Bolsonaros son Flavio, journalists, and current or former allies of the president, including a far-right lawmaker who is merely introduced as an anti-corruption crusader.
More:
https://fair.org/home/pbs-and-bbc-team-up-to-misinform-about-brazils-bolsonaro/
To see Rise of the Bolsonaros:
https://www.pbs.org/video/rise-of-the-bolsonaros-kvsybw/
mia
(8,356 posts)The fact that US and British state-affiliated media outlets would promote misleading narratives less than a month before the most complicated Brazilian presidential election in modern history is another sad example of the long tradition of Western media facilitating imperialist meddling in Latin American elections.
https://fair.org/home/pbs-and-bbc-team-up-to-misinform-about-brazils-bolsonaro/