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b'Brazil has a new president-elect.

Former President Luiz In\\xe1cio Lula da Silva won the Brazilian presidency on October 30th. He defeated far-right president Jair Bolsonaro by just over 2 million votes. Tens of thousands of Lula supporters descended on Sao Paulo\\u2019s Paulista Avenue for huge celebrations. Brazil on Fire host Michael Fox was there and he takes us to the streets.

But Bolsonaro supporters were also mobilizing. They shut down highways and called for the military to intervene.

In this second update to Brazil on Fire, we look at Lula\\u2019s victory, Bolsonaro\\u2019s disinformation campaign that is keeping Bolsonaro\\u2019s supporters in the streets, Bolsonaro\\u2019s ties to Donald Trump\\u2019s former White House strategist Steve Bannon, and how Bannon is trying to spread a fake news fraud narrative to bolster Bolsonaro and divide Brazil, like the United States after Trump\\u2019s 2020 defeat. We hear from UFSC International Relations professor Camila Feix Vidal about the shared tactics of the international far-right and University of Virginia Media Studies professor David Nemer about Bolsonaro\'s unprecedented use of fake news and disinformation in the election.

This is Brazil on Fire, a podcast about Brazil\\u2019s descent toward fascism under President Jair Bolsonaro. We look at Bolsonaro\\u2019s far-right government that has set the country ablaze, and how the United States helped him do it. We visit the birthplace of Brazilian Nazism, evangelical churches, and Indigenous villages in the Amazon.

Hosted by Latin America-based journalist Michael Fox.

This podcast is produced in partnership between The Real News Network and NACLA.

Edited by Heather Gies.

Sound design by Gustavo T\\xfcrck.

Theme music by Monte Perdido

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