Lulas Witch Trial: Who Are The TRF4?

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1546 ... January 24, 2018
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Lula’s Witch Trial: Who Are The TRF4?

Brasil Wire

Some are calling it the Coup’s endgame, others the "final battle" for Brazil’s next decade.

Former President Lula, who held office from 2003-2011 has twice the support of his nearest rival to succeed Putschist Michel Temer in the October 2018 elections.

However, on the 24th January in the southern city of Porto Alegre, he will face judgment on his appeal against a conviction which could prevent him running for office, a case which numerous critics, at home and abroad, have dismissed as baseless and without actual evidence. If his conviction is upheld he would not only be barred from the Presidency but face arrest and up to a decade in prison.

It is... now widely believed, and not only amongst his supporters, that the case against Lula is political-legal persecution, or Lawfare, and there is also ample evidence to suggest that it has the full support of North Atlantic powers and corporate interests, which are represented by lobby organizations and think tanks such as AS/COA and the Atlantic Council, and thus permeates through English-language coverage of Brazil. Newspapers such as the Guardian, New York Times and Washington Post, continue to pretend that Lula’s case is being conducted normally and fairly. This mirrors what happened in the run up to Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment, "Brazil’s institutions are working," a briefed corporate media insisted.