Lula's denunciation of the 2016 coup has angered Merval Pereira, from Globo, who cites the book 1984.
The president corrected historical truth by saying that former president Dilma Rousseff was the victim of a coup d'état.
247 - Journalist Merval Pereira, who supported the coup against former President Dilma Rousseff—a coup that aimed to eliminate labor rights and transfer Brazilian oil revenues to minority shareholders of Petrobras, among other aspects of the neoliberal shock—was outraged by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's decision to rectify historical truth during an event in Uruguay.
"As if official statements from the PT (Workers' Party) claiming that then-President Dilma Rousseff was removed from office by a coup—which could be attributed to one of the many radical PT factions—weren't enough, President Lula gave his official endorsement to such an absurdity, stating it in the presence of the President of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, and the former President of Bolivia, Evo Morales," wrote the journalist, who was one of the pillars of the coup in the press.
"How is it possible that a government that intends to end fake news and combat misinformation would itself start trying to transform lies into truth?" questioned Merval, who intended for his own lies to be transformed into truth.
Next, Merval cites the book 1984 to criticize President Lula's defense of historical truth. "In George Orwell's novel '1984,' the protagonist works for the Ministry of Truth, responsible for historical revisionism. He rewrites newspaper articles from the past, destroys unrevised documents, so as not to leave proof that the government is lying. In addition to trying to push through a false version of the impeachment, a series of legislative measures are being proposed to ensure that the official truth prevails, such as removing content considered harmful by the government from social media, even before judicial intervention," states the journalist linked to the coup.
The truth, however, is this: Dilma suffered a coup d'état, and this is the origin of the Brazilian tragedy.
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