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This past week, a supreme court judge in Brazil restored former President Luiz Inácio ‘Lula’ da Silva’s political rights, annulling a series of corruption convictions against the left-wing icon and all but ensuring that Lula will challenge incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro in 2022. Lula’s potential presidential candidacy will still hinge on whether or not Brazilian courts elect to re-commence judicial proceedings against him, a scenario that appears unlikely given the cumbersome and slow-moving Brazilian judicial bureaucracy. (The invalidation of Lula’s newly restored eligibility to stand for political office would both require him to be convicted again and for an appeals court to uphold such a conviction).
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On Wednesday, I wrote about how corporate journalists, realizing that the public’s increasing contempt for what they do is causing people to turn away in droves, are desperately inventing new tactics to maintain their stranglehold over the dissemination of information and generate captive audiences. That is why journalists have bizarrely transformed from their traditional role as leading free expression defenders into the the most vocal
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That same motive of self-preservation is driving them to equate any criticisms of their work with “harassment,” “abuse” and “violence” so that it is not just culturally stigmatized but a banning offense, perhaps even literally criminal, to
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Brazil s former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva gestures as he speaks during a news conference in Sao Bernardo do Campo near Sao Paulo, Brazil March 10, 2021.
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On March 8, Brazilian Supreme Court judge Luiz Edson Fachin ruled to annul all of the former president Lula da Silvaâs convictions. Fachin said that the court that convicted Lula in the southern city of Curitiba did not have the legal authority to convict Brazilâs first Workersâ Party (PT) president. As such, he must be retried by a federal court in the capital city of BrasÃlia.