Opening a photo of Lula, the Wall Street Journal, the main newspaper of conservative Rupert Murdoch, says in an editorial that Brazil “is facing a test of democracy” and that “the almost universal denunciation of rioters”, by politicians of all stripes, “is a welcome sign of democratic resilience”.
The main presenter of Fox News, also Murdoch, Tucker Carlson (above), supported the “protestors” (protestors), speaking of “election rigged” and that they “know that their democracy has been hijacked, perhaps forever”. They acted out of “frustration” and “anger”.
“But there’s not much they can do,” he continues. “Lula may be a criminal, in fact he is, but he has full support from both the Biden government and the Chinese government.” Carlson rejects the comparison with the invasion of the Capitol, saying that the problem is that Lula “eliminated civil liberties”.
EXPORTING HATE
As for Joe Scarborough, from the pro-democratic MSNBC, “after 240 years exporting democracy from this country, Jeffersonian democracy to the world, now, through Trump, we have people who support fascism, electoral denialism, hatred of the courts. that’s what people in Brazil picked up”.
BAD EXAMPLE
In China, the Global Times, linked to Renmin Ribao (Diário do Povo), of the PC, also published an editorial, “United States must reflect deeply on riots in Brazil”, questioning the American inspiration of Bolsonaristas.
It says that Biden and the Democrats are now looking to “politically use” the episode to attack Trump and the Republicans, for internal partisan interests. “But for the rest of the world the emergence of ‘Capitol riots’ is because something is wrong with the political system, in the US as a whole.”
It concludes that “much of the phenomenon of political polarization and the chaos it causes comes from the US”. That “what manifests itself is inevitably polarization, which has set a bad example for the world”, as seen in Brazil.
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