After 11-years Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges gets to rub Bolsonaro’s face in it
This clip of a Brazilian reporter having her moment after 11 years is a feel-good masterpiece. Manuela Borges told Bolsonaro, to his face, that he’d face criminal prosecution, and finally, she gets to report he will.
It must be deeply satisfying for Manuela Borges to witness Jair Bolsonaro land behind bars, an outcome that once seemed impossible amid his bluster and impunity. Borges, who risked professional backlash and personal threats to report on Bolsonaro’s abuses, lies, and authoritarian impulses, now gets the rare vindication most journalists only dream of: seeing the subject of her hard-hitting investigations face real-world consequences. For every time she was shouted down by loyalists or dismissed by editors wary of confronting power, Bolsonaro’s incarceration is a resounding confirmation that truth can still outlast propaganda and that persistence, even in the face of a cult of personality, pays off.