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1/ BRAZIL'S FORMER PRESIDENT LULA IS FREED FROM PRISON - not a small victory for global democracy
I am assuming you (reading this) are not Brazilian but you know something about the country, ...
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I am assuming you (reading this) are not Brazilian but you know something about the country, ...
aljazeera.com/news/2019/11/b…
2/ such as the fact that today it is ruled by a far-right fascism-sympathizer. It sounds a bit like Trump, right? Because it is. And it (Bolsonaro's presidency) is a piece of the same global political puzzle: the rise of the far-right.
3/ Regardless of one's approval of president Lula, or even whether they believe he "misbehaved with the public thing", defending Lula's release became a political filter. If you didn't defend it, it meant that you certainly didn't understand the big picture.
