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1308: Lula, lawfare and antidemocracy in Brazil / Brian Mier

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4.9937 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Live from São Paulo, journalist Brian Mier reports on Lula da Silva's legal victory, pandemic politics and antidemocracy in Brazil.

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0:00.0

You're a trouble, a rock I know.

0:02.0

Oh, I've got my trouble.

0:04.0

Anarchy, is this your thing?

0:08.0

Wow, that was a good segue. This This is hell is hell.

0:35.0

And it sounded like hell.

0:37.0

And it sounded like hell.

0:44.0

Wow, the music's way high.

0:47.0

You sounded like you were having a horrible experience over there before the show, Alex, what was going on? I'm trying to figure what an error overflow is.

0:55.0

That does not sound good.

0:57.0

No, not if we want the show to be recording.

1:00.0

Also when I went to Google this morning to go to Google Docs and print out my script for

1:06.7

this morning, it said I could not connect to the internet and that Google was not a site that

1:11.7

could be found.

1:13.0

So things were starting off spectacularly.

1:16.0

After a week off, manufacturing descent since 1996,

1:20.0

this is hell.

1:22.0

Now, knowing you you you probably know all about Brazil's Supreme Court

1:27.5

overturning the results of the lavajato anti-corruption operation in essence

1:31.6

ruling that the anti corruption effort was in itself

1:35.1

corrupt but I am telling you the vast majority of your family friends neighbors

1:41.8

coworkers have no clue that the US across presidential

1:46.3

administrations, both Democratic and Republican, gave bipartisan support to

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