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Ivana Bentes

Professor and researcher at the School of Communication of UFRJ, Digital Culture Hub of ECO/UFRJ, Free Media Forum

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What the Brazilian judiciary is doing, the level of arbitrariness in the coercion of President Lula, the level of construction and direction of reality and psychological and emotional manipulation of facts by the media (suspicions, criminalizations, inductions, omissions), the construction of a tribunal of reputations is, incredibly, a mirror of what they have done to the poor in Brazil for the past 500 years!

Political bullying against Lula will go down in history.

What the Brazilian judiciary is doing, the level of arbitrariness in the coercion of President Lula, the level of construction and direction of reality and psychological and emotional manipulation of facts by the media (suspicions, criminalizations, inductions, omissions), the construction of a tribunal of reputations is, incredibly, a mirror of what they have done to the poor in Brazil for the past 500 years!

There won't be a shopping mall.

The same weapons and brutality used in the streets in 2013 against protesters are now being used to bombard minors and children from the outskirts of the city who "don't know their place."