BRAZIL FALLS TO THE COMMUNISTS – The most contentious election in recent Brazilian history has ended with a narrow victory for the leftist challenger and former convicted felon and political grifter Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
He has vowed through his narrow, possibly fraudulent victory, to “reconstruct the very soul of this nation,” something the DNC platform has long promised to do to America. The phrase is a dog whistle for leftist authoritarianism, aimed at destroying any institution that honors the sacredness of the individual, an ideal leftists are violently opposed to, be they Brazilian or “American.”
The top electoral authority in Brazil announced on Sunday evening that 77-year-old hardline socialist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, once convicted and sentenced to over two decades in prison for alleged corruption, had won this year’s presidential election against incumbent conservative Jair Bolsonaro.
In his first words as president-elect for a third term, Lula vowed to “reconstruct the very soul of this nation” away from the small government, pro-freedom ideals of the Bolsonaro administration.
Little more than a percentage point separated Lula, who served as president previously from 2003 to 2011, from Bolsonaro, as of 10 p.m. ET, representing about 2 million votes in a nation of 214 million people. National newspaper of record O Globodescribed the results as the closest election since 1989, when Lula narrowly lost to Fernando Collor de Mello, who was impeached and ousted from office over corruption allegations in 1992. Collor later supported the impeachment ouster of…
Paul Collier is the editor of The Freedomist newsite, our Weekday Reports, and our Monthly Publication, Freedomist Intelligence Advisor (previously McAlvany Intelligence Advisor). He has been involved in news publishing since 2003.
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