“The
country is still alive, despite the illusionists, the venders of hate
and coup-mongers on duty,” wrote former Brazilian President Dilma
Rousseff.
Former
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has criticized The Mechanism, a
Netflix television series depicting the country's infamous Car Wash
investigations. Rousseff claims the series, which premiered last
week, is “distorting reality” and dissimenating lies about
her, as well as her predecessor, Luiz Inacio 'Lula' da Silva.
“The
country is still alive, despite the illusionists, the vendors of hate
and coup-mongers on duty,” Rousseff wrote in a statement on her
official website. “Now, the 2016 pro-coup narrative gets fresh
new colors, a distorted version of history with typical shades of the
country's latent fascism.”
“The
Netflix series, 'The Mechanism,' is deceptive and disingenuous. The
director (Jose Padilha) invents facts. He doesn't reproduce fake
news. He, himself, has become the creater of fake news.”
Rousseff
noted that the series reproduces the same false narratives propagated
by “Brazilian (mainstream) media in order to assassinate
reputations.”
The
former leftist president also said the series falsely uses the
character representing Lula to say “stem the bleeding.”
The phrase, a reference meaning to halt the Operation Car Wash
corruption investigations, was, in fact, by former Planning Minister
Romero Juca, who is the president of President Michel Temer's
Brazilian Democratic Movement party.
Secretly
recorded while under threat of being investigated for corruption,
Juca told Sergio Machado, the former president of Transpetro, that a
“change” in the federal government (led by Rousseff before
her impeachment in 2016) would result in a pact that would “stem
the bleeding.”
Dilma
was impeached in a highly disputed senate vote charged with
misogynystic ferver. Some have called it a “soft coup,” which saw
the rise of senate-imposed President Temer and his administration,
many of whom have been implicated in the Car Wash corruption
investigations.
Promoted
as being a series “loosely inspired by true events,” the
eight-part TV program portrays events involving the Car Wash
investigations, one of the largest corruption scandals in Brazil's
history, which has seen dozens of high-ranking business tycoons and
politicians jailed, according to the BBC.
Padilha
is also director of the award-winning “Elite Squad” and “Elite
Squad 2.”
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