Brazil Is Engulfed by Ruling Class Corruption — and a Dangerous Subversion of Democracy

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THE MULTIPLE, REMARKABLE crises subsuming Brazilare nowgarnering substantial Western media attention. That’s understandable given that Brazilis the world’s fifthmost populous country and eighth-largest economy; its second-largest city, Rio de Janeiro,is the host of this year’s Summer Olympics. But much of this Western media coverage mimics the propaganda coming from Brazil’s homogenized, oligarch-owned, anti-democracy media outlets an...