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If there’s one thing that the CIA really, really loves, it’s the democratic process in our rules-based order.
The CIA director William Burns urged Jair Bolsonaro to stop questioning his country’s voting system, it has been claimed, amid growing fears the Brazilian president might refuse to accept defeat in this year’s election.
Polls suggest Bolsonaro, a far-right populist famed for his adulation of Donald Trump, will struggle to secure a second term when about 150 million Brazilians head to the polls in October to choose their next leader.
Bolsonaro’s leftist rival, the former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is currently in pole position, and will formally announce his candidacy at a convention in São Paulo this weekend.
The possibility of a Lula victory appears to have spooked Bolsonaro, who has ratcheted up his anti-democratic rhetoric in recent weeks, reviving baseless doubts over the reliability of Brazil’s electronic voting system.
So I guess the thing now is that election fraud is literally impossible?
What about Belarus? Remember when they claimed that was fraud, without any evidence, despite the fact Lukashenko had won by like a huge margin?
I just don’t even understand what people are expected to think about this.
Such claims – part of a long-running Bolsonaro campaign to delegitimize the electoral process for political gain – have alarmed both Bolsonaro’s opponents and members of the international community.
On Thursday, Reuters claimed that last year the CIA chief had told top Bolsonaro officials their president should stop casting doubt on Brazil’s voting system during an “intimate” private encounter in the capital, Brasília.
So the CIA has some kind of right to dictate internal politics in Brazil?
Who knew?
When the meeting took place, in July last year, Bolsonaro hinted Burns’s visit was partly motivated by US concern over the political situation in neighbouring countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile. However, Reuters claimed Burns had voiced concern over the situation in Brazil, telling two of Bolsonaro’s closest allies that “the democratic process was sacred, and that Bolsonaro should not be talking in that way” about the election.
Sacred.
The democratic process.
It’s a holy religious ritual.
Thus sayeth CIA.
“Burns was making it clear that elections were not an issue that they should mess with,” one anonymous source told Reuters, insisting the comments had not constituted a lecture.
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Some dismiss Bolsonaro’s attacks on Brazil’s voting system as meaningless bluster designed to fire-up his support base. During a recent visit to north-east Brazil, Bolsonaro elliptically told supporters they could be certain “the votes will be counted” and hinted they should buy themselves guns declaring: “An armed population will never be enslaved”.
But there are clear signs of concern within the Brazilian establishment that, like Trump in November 2020, Bolsonaro might refuse to concede defeat with unpredictable consequences.
Maybe Brazil should oppose being run by the CIA?
Ignore the 20th century tone of the headline, & focus on 2 things instead:
1) Yes, Washington is worried about Bolsonaro subverting October’s election
2) They are reluctant to say so publicly, for fear of making things worse. So leaking messages instead https://t.co/VHf8MBtkoU
— Brian Winter (@BrazilBrian) May 5, 2022
Maybe Bolsonaro should just cancel the election?
CIA threats are more than enough evidence that the CIA is planning on interfering in the election in order to depose Bolsonaro, and that is clearly enough of a reason to cancel the election.
