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Breaking Predatory Brazil Narratives from the Imperialist North / Brian Mier

This Is Hell!

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The La Vaggato Operation Car Wash Investigation

The Times wrote dozens of articles about the La Vaggato Operation Car Wash investigation in which was done in partnership with the U.S. Department of Justice as it published in an article in 2016 and then never mentioned again. The wiretapped a stand in President Dilma Rousseff speaking to Lula the week before her impeachment and then edited the conversation to make Dilma Roussef look as bad as possible. That's illegal in Brazil. You can't wiretap the president and leak it to the press. New York Times never criticized that. Then there's another episode where they wiretapped Lula's defense lawyers law offices which had 28 lawyers working in it, most of which had nothing to

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