Short
notices about the new Brazilian coup
Τhe
Pulitzer winner [photographer Mauricio Lima] contrasted the “very
high level professionals in journalism here” – those gathered at
the ceremony in New York – with the media outlets in Brazil openly
inciting street protests and agitating for the exit of the elected
president. To underscore the point, he held up a sign that read
“Golpe: Nunca Mais” – “Coup: Never Again” – with the “o”
in “Golpe” replaced by the logo of Globo, Brazil’s largest and
most influential media outlet that spent 20 years cheering the 1964
coup and military dictatorship that followed, and which has spent the
last year flagrantly using its multiple media properties to
propagandize in favor of Dilma’s impeachment.
Brazil’s
media has completely lost control of the narrative internationally,
but also increasingly within Brazil. Their sleazy plan to install as
president the corruption-tainted, deeply unpopular, oligarch-serving
Vice President Michel Temer – who just this week, in a
indescribably Orwellian manner, called proposals for “new
elections” a “coup” – is becoming untenable.
Prominent,
universally respected international figures are becoming increasingly
vocal about the dangerous assault on democracy; the latest is the
Argentine Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, who won the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize
for his courageous work against his country’s military dictatorship
and this week said during a visit to Brazil: “It’s very clear
that what’s being mounted here is a concealed coup d’état, which
we call a bloodless coup,” adding: “It would be a serious
setback for the continent. I’m a survivor from the days of the
[military] dictatorship [in Argentina]. To strengthen democratic
institutions cost us a great deal. And here they’re under attack.”
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