Globo sides with Lava Jato and celebrates Temer's arrest.
Although it supported the 2016 coup that ousted the honest President Dilma Rousseff and placed Michel Temer, corrupt for decades, in power, and supported his government's economic policies, Globo, owned by the Marinho brothers, celebrated the former president's arrest; with an editorial published in the newspaper and on its news portals, Globo signals that it is aligned with Lava Jato, in the task force's war against the Supreme Court and sectors of Congress.
247 - Although it supported the 2016 coup that ousted the honest President Dilma Rousseff and placed Michel Temer, corrupt for decades, in power, and supported his government's economic policies, Globo, owned by the Marinho brothers, celebrated the former president's arrest; with an editorial published in the newspaper and on its news portals, Globo signals that it is aligned with Lava Jato, in the task force's war against the Supreme Court and sectors of Congress.
The editorial highlights that Temer's arrest "once again puts Brazil in the spotlight in the fight against corruption, because now there are two former heads of the Federal Executive Branch detained: Lula and Temer. This doesn't always happen in a country with a democratic rule of law."
O Globo also comments on the fact that the former president was arrested in an operation that imprisoned many other people: "Just as with Cabral and Lula, Michel Temer is not an isolated target: warrants were issued for São Paulo, Rio, Porto Alegre and Brasília. One of them was for former minister Moreira Franco, who held positions in the first tier of the previous government."
The editorial concludes by reflecting on the threat posed by Lava Jato to the legal and political world: "The show of force by Lava Jato seems to be a warning to those who wish to contain the investigation into which politicians and businessmen close to power are being subjected."