LULA AND THE BRAZILIAN WATCHDOG MEDIA

With more than 60% of the votes, Lula wins the Presidential elections in Brazil.

As you know, the independent media has been very persistent covering corruption scandals linked directly to the President´s party but the candidate of the left was able to survive and now has been re-elected.

My impression is that this is going to be a short happy-victory-time as many of these scandals will not go away.

The media in Brazil has a very important mission in the next few months: to act as a powerful watchdog.

Lula has been a moderate leader but at the end of the day he was unable to control the corruption inside its party, and between his closest assistants.

Folha de S.Paulo, O Estado de S.Paulo, O Globo, Zero Hora, Veja and many other first class Brazilian media are going to have a great time.

You always perform better when you become a real watchdog.