Filmmaker Victor Fraga has documented the manner the corporate media in Brazil undermined the democratic course of by falsely attacking the left and paving the manner for the far proper. Much the similar course of may be seen in the UK.
The UK premiere of Fraga’s documentary, The Coup d´État Factory, takes place on Sunday 29 May at the BFI in London.
Video transcript
My first characteristic The Coup d’Etat Factory is a documentary about faux information and media bias in Brazil, drawing pertinent parallels to the remainder of Latin America and the UK.
We’ve seen the large media almost destroy Brazilian democracy. The media in Brazil has a historical past of mendacity and manipulating, and for a hundred years it has been staging coup d’etats.
In 2016 it staged a parliamentary coup d’etat. In 2018. It performed a pivotal function in the political imprisonment of Lula, paving the manner for the election of Bolsonaro. Lula is the hottest president in the historical past of Brazil, and he was set to win the elections in the first spherical in 2018. The media weren’t very pleased with a left-wing authorities that had gained 4 consecutive elections, thereby they helped to stage a very cautious Lawfare marketing campaign.
What is a lawfare marketing campaign? A Lawfare marketing campaign is while you weaponise the justice system is while you body somebody for wrongdoing, for crimes which they didn’t commit. So they put Lula in jail they usually elected Bolsonaro which is one in every of the most reactionary heads of state in the world. He’s a neo fascist president, somebody who brazenly advocates torture, dictatorship, who is who is very vocal and overtly racist, misogynistic, homophobic. So all of the worst qualities you’ll be able to consider.
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So the media created this monster by destroying the democratic establishments in Brazil, by poisoning the inhabitants in opposition to the left, by always repeating the C phrase, corruption corruption, corruption, corruption, and due to this fact convincing those that the left-wing, significantly the Worker’s Party of Brazil, is a felony organisation and creating a literal tradition of hate. Brazil received to a level the place you couldn’t put on pink on the streets. You could be thought of a communist. This could sound excessive, it is correct, and the media is liable for creating that tradition of hate.
That media bias we’re speaking about is not confined to Brazil by any means.
We have seen parallels in different components of Latin America, which is one thing my movie discusses as nicely, and now we have seen very pertinent parallels in the UK, significantly the manner the media portrayed Jeremy Corbyn as an extremist, as a far-left chief with Russian inclination, somebody who was anti-patriotic and so forth. Sadly what’s occurring in Brazil is not unique, is not confined to what we like to assume as the growing world.
So the movie in the end raises a lot of questions on media stability. What ought to we actually implement media balanced laws, or may that backfire? I imply, ah, the media are actually, actually intrinsically in opposition to the left. And what can we do so as to cease historical past from repeating itself? We’ve seen coup d’etats in Brazil and in just about each Latin American nation in the previous hundred years, at all times enthusiastically supported by the media who is nearly invariably owned by billionaires, and in addition with the tacit assist from the United States.
We should assist impartial media akin to The Canary, as a result of these are the voices that aren’t regurgitating what the institution and what billionaires have to say.
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