Brazil has become a cautionary tale for the world's democracies | Petra Costa Read moreBut Costa’s film makes clear that Bolsonaro did not materialize from nowhere. Notwithstanding the genuine corruption that plagued Lula and Rousseff’s party – corruption which even Lula has acknowledged – the Car Wash corruption inquiry was itself corrupt. Beyond the political events which Costa’s film so powerfully covers, her Oscar nomination is itself an important development in Brazilian democracy. When asked on Monday about the Oscar nomination for The Edge of Democracy, Bolsonaro denounced the film as “fiction” and leftist propaganda. When a reporter asked where he had viewed the film, Bolsonaro acknowledged that he has never seen it, saying he had “no time” to watch films of this sort.

Source: The Guardian January 23, 2020 11:18 UTC