Brian Mier on Lula Election Victory
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
This week on CounterSpin: ABC World News Tonight told viewers what it thought they needed to know: Bolsonaro Loses Brazilian Election, Leftist Former President Wins by Narrow Margin.
The victor of Brazils consequential presidential race has an actual name; its not leftist former president
or former shoeshine boy, as the New York Times had itor even savior, as CNN suggests supporters view him. Hes a person, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as Lula, a popularly supported former president, whose program had, and has, more to do with helping poor people in Brazil than with securing the kind of extractive, profit-over-all, devil-take-the-hindmost international relationships that elite US media applaud. So just, get ready, is all were saying. For a Latin American president taking steps to protect the human lifesupporting Amazon to be presented in the press as a flawed, corrupt self-server, which maybe suggests that uplifting the poor and saving humanity might just be too expensive a proposition.
Its hard not to imagine the use that a differently focused press corps might make of Brazils change of direction. Well talk about it with Brian Mier, of Brasil Wire and TeleSurs From the South, as well as co-author/editor, with Daniel Hunt, of Year of Lead: Washington, Wall Street and the New Imperialism in Brazil.
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