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September 21, 2018

Noam Chomsky Visits Brazil's Former President Lula in Prison
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in news from Brazil, the world renowned dissident and linguist Noam
Chomsky met with Brazil's imprisoned former president Luiz Inácio Lula
da Silva on Thursday. This comes a week after Lula officially pulled out
of next month's presidential race. Lula has been jailed since April.
Speaking outside the prison after his visit, Noam Chomsky condemned the
right-wing media in Brazil.

Noam Chomsky: "We had just had the great privilege of spending an hour
with Lula, and one of the points that he emphasized was that during his
entire tenure in office, there was just a constant flood of attacks from
all the media, constantly. A thousand attacks from every direction,
which of course, confuses and undermines public opinion. So the answer
to your question is, something is needed to counter the concentrated
power of right-wing media, which particularly in Latin America, just
overwhelms everything."



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