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  Terence Hill

  'Leaks prove Lula conspiracy victim in Brazil'
  Lula's lawyers vow to take 'politically-motivated' case to UN to annul prison sentence, investigate conspiring officials.
  Lula's lawyers said they would take the ''politically-motivated'' case to the UN Committee of Human Rights in a bid to annul Lula’s prison sentence and launch an investigation on the role of public officials involved in the leaked conversations.
  Lula was leading the opinion polls in the run up to the 2018 election.
  Both Lula and Rousseff have called what has been going on in Brazil since 2016 impeachment a coup against elected leaders.
  https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/leaks-prove-lula-conspiracy-victim-in-brazil-/1560775#

  Aug 21st, 2019 - 11:16 am - Link - Report abuse -1
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  Little J

  If the comments made by the Fernandez/Fernandez candidates in respect of freeing Lula - entirely a Brazilian matter - were made in respect of situations arising in Argentina, the inmediate reaction would be “outsde intervention in our local problems is totally unacceptable”. I would therefore strongly suggest that this same line of thought be followed by F&F if they don't want to hear reactions from other countries on their ways of proceding, on whatever matters these may be.

  Aug 21st, 2019 - 12:28 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
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  Enrique Massot

  Lula was jailed simply to get the most popular candidate out of the way, opening the door to the electoral triumph of extremist Jair Bolsonaro as Brazil president.
  
  Is encouraging that soon to become Argentina president Alberto Fernandez and VP Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner both are heading international pressure required to get Lula out of prison, especially after illegal maneuvers of former judge Sergio Moro to secure Lula's conviction were revealed -- maneuvers for which Bolsonaro rewarded Moro with his appointment as justice minister.

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  Terence Hill

  The Dark Side of the Investigation Meant to Clean Up Brazil
  “For decades, we had this clear narrative that in the 1980s, we transitioned from dictatorship to democracy, and made a clean break with that past,” Matias Spektor, a professor of international relations at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas university in São Paulo, told me. “Lava Jato revealed just how imperfect this transition was, that at the heart of our democracy, corrupt practices endemic to authoritarian regimes are still very pervasive—and now, the tragic irony of it all is we learn that a very small group of activist bureaucratic entrepreneurs [such as Moro and chief prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol] themselves used features of this dirty system to propel themselves into politics.”
  “Scandals that involve judges are even more dangerous to democracies than scandals that involve other institutional actors, since the judiciary only derives its legitimacy from the claim to neutrality,” Donatella della Porta, a professor of political science at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, Italy, and expert on corruption and anti-corruption campaigns, told me.
  She said investigative journalism had raised awareness in some cases -- but that the other way these battles have been fought, with a mobilized judiciary leading the charge, usually has serious consequences.
  “They divide public opinion, and politicians defend themselves by saying the judiciary has been politicized,” she said. “In Italy, this accusation was inaccurate, but in Brazil, it's been proved to be true.”
  https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/08/anti-corruption-crusades-paved-way-bolsonaro/596449/

  Aug 21st, 2019 - 10:09 pm - Link - Report abuse -1
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