The use of the expression “traitors of the homeland” by Lula, during a national speech, Light the warning about the advance of authoritarian rhetoric in the country. Speech resembles strategies adopted by Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, where criticism of the government began to be treated as crimes, making room for persecution, censorship and political repression.
There, this kind of speech served to justify arrests of opponents, closing the free press and even the creation of an official channel for anonymous reports. In Brazil, decisions that restrict freedom of expression, such as those imposed on Jair Bolsonaro, also generate concern among jurists and politicians. Subject for columnist Claudio Humberto.
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