Folha interviews a gangster to energize the far-right base.

By Moisés Mendes, for 247

Folha has now decided, without any pretense, that it can help resurrect Bolsonaro with the help of an international criminal.

The headline displayed on the front page of the newspaper today is an affront to journalism, democracy, justice, and readers.

Folha is hiding the news about the Lava Jato extortion scheme in Curitiba, but prominently features the interview with Steve Bannon, the guru of global fascism.

The day before the announced return of the Orlando camper, the newspaper runs a headline against Lula about the government's attempt to contain fake news, and immediately below presents the interview with the gangster.

It's as if, amidst the corpses of those killed by Nazism, a supposedly liberal newspaper gave space to Joseph Goebbels to speak about Hitler's theories, cruelties, and lies.

Folha gave Bannon space to praise Trump and Bolsonaro, announce that Eduardo is his father's successor, and once again attack the election won by Lula.

Folha knows that the American is a criminal treated as a global bandit. And it knows that he has always been in the service of the Brazilian far right.

But he conducted the criminal interview so that Bannon could announce that Bolsonaro will have a triumphant return.

The scheduled interview is an offense to the TSE (Superior Electoral Court), especially Minister Alexandre de Moraes, and all those who resisted the attempted coup.

Folha shows that the war against Lula is unscrupulous. Bannon should not have been interviewed at any time.

No neo-Nazi preacher can have a platform in newspapers or any decent space. And even less so now.

Folha is turning to Bannon to have Bolsonaro's return officially announced by the head of the scheme that supports him.

Bannon is not a far-right politician. He is the big gangster, the paid thinker of the fascist structure, and the animator of those who spread hatred, coups, and lies.

The interview is the missing piece in the war that the mainstream press has declared on Lula since before his inauguration. Bannon seals the deal on the media corporations' offensive against Lula.

They are resurrecting Bolsonaro because he is still the only chance to confront Lula.

Bannon is part of the same group that tries to undermine the government in its first months and already includes land grabbers, bankers, illegal miners, militiamen, Faria Lima, Roberto Campos Neto, Arthur Lira, the Marinhos, the Frias, and all the other corrupt politicians still free and unpunished.

Folha gave space to the spokesperson for death and showed its claws with a commissioned interview designed to awaken the base of Bolsonarism.

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