In the US, coverage of the act for democracy focused on the Associated Press and Reuters agencies, with almost the same title, “Manifestos aim to contain threats from Bolsonaro”. Per Washington Post and others, the AP mobilized three correspondents and describes:
“Brazilians crowded the USP Law School to hear a manifesto denouncing the brutal military dictatorship. That was in 1977. 45 years later, thousands gathered there to read two documents inspired by the ‘Letter to Brazilians’. Both defend the democratic institutions and the voting system, which the far-right president Jair Bolsonaro repeatedly attacks.”
In the French headline release, already with the cover below earlier in the evening, “Democracy is at stake”. On the website, “Facing Lula, is Bolsonaro ready to break the polls?”. The text opens saying that the crowd at the college was singing “Democracy is ours!”.
The newspaper also publishes the editorial “In Brazil, a high-risk election”, stating that “since Trump we have known that our democracies are not immune to a coup or madness” and that Bolsonaro, a “far-right populist”, can use the 7 September for “a show of military force”. Lula “wants to be a unifier where the current president has done everything to divide”.
In the English headline The Guardian, “Citizens’ Manifesto declares that Brazilian democracy faces ‘immense danger'”. In the text, he notes that, in addition to São Paulo, “simultaneous readings took place in cities across the country, including Rio, as well as in foreign universities, such as King’s College”, London.
In Latin America, the initial attention to the act for democracy was greater in vehicles on the left, such as the Argentine Página/12 or the Mexican La Jornada, the latter with the statement “Protest in Brazil ‘in defense of democracy’ shortly before the elections”.
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Already financial vehicles such as the American Bloomberg, with the title “Bolsonaro erases Lula’s leadership in Brazil’s most populous state” (above), turned to his reaction in the intention to vote “after a flurry of measures to alleviate economic difficulties”.
