"During this extremely important Brazilian election, The Economist's coverage has ...

2026-09-25 18:05:35 UTC

"During this extremely important Brazilian election, The Economist's coverage has been, to be polite, quite off the mark. And it's relevant b/c Brazilian neolib media makes headlines out of it, trying to bestow foreign credibility on their own right-wing biases.

Economist bad takes include false equivalencies btwn Flávio/Lula, downplaying serious threat of foreign intervention by US & Israel, and endorsement of a right-wing provocateur partially responsible for institutional crisis caused by Dilma's impeachment in 2016, who loves Milei, wants to Make Brazil Bukele Again, and invest in a nuclear weapons program while cutting social spending." - Andrew Fishman, president & co-founder, Intercept Brasil

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