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Judi Lynn

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Sun Sep 25, 2022, 02:58 AM Sep 2022

PBS and BBC Team Up to Misinform About Brazil's Bolsonaro

Last edited Sun Sep 25, 2022, 03:38 AM - Edit history (2)

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 Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. A high-ranking British Treasury official—allegedly future Prime Minister Liz Truss—had 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 Brazil’s 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 year’s Brazilian presidential election (10/2–30/22). It didn’t 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 Brazil’s far-right president through the words of people like Steve Bannon, Bolsonaro’s 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/

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PBS and BBC Team Up to Misinform About Brazil's Bolsonaro (Original Post) Judi Lynn Sep 2022 OP
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mia

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1. Bannon gives the last word
Sun Sep 25, 2022, 03:31 AM
Sep 2022
its lack of objectivity to rest once and for all, with the narrator saying, “The fate of Brazil is in the hands of its people,” followed by a 40-second pep talk by Steve Bannon—giving the last word on the upcoming Brazilian election to one of the main advocates for overturning the last US election.

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.


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