Background Briefing With Ian Masters

Then Petra Costa, a Brazilian filmmaker whose latest film is “The Edge of Democracy”, joins us in the studio to discuss how the popular Lula government and Lula’s successor in the Worker’s Party, Dilma Rousseff, were sabotaged and set up in legal coup which has led to the election of the far right firebrand Jair Bolsonaro. The film shows how easy it was for Brazil’s oligarchs to turn democracy on and off when is suited their ends, undermining Brazil’s frail democracy to divide the country and mobilize the people against their own interests.