An unprecedented popular mobilization in Brazil defeated the anti-national, anti-people, anti-democratic, and criminal forces that sought to seize the State. What the Brazilian experience can contribute to the global political discussion is the subject of this analysis by journalists Rodolfo Lucena and Eleonora de Lucena, editors of TUTAMÉIA.
Eleonora de Lucena and Rodolfo Lucena, journalists for 50 years, both worked in the underground and popular press against the dictatorship in Brazil as well as in the mainstream media. From 2000 to 2010, Eleonora was the head of the newsroom of Folha de São Paulo – at the time, the largest circulation and most influential newspaper in the country. Rodolfo was the information technology editor at Folha for more than 15 years.
Today, they both run Tutaméia, a news web channel based on live interviews that has more than 100,000 followers. Presidents Lula and Dilma, Noam Chomsky, Vijay Prashad, Juan Carlos Monedero, and Adolfo Pérez Esquivel are some of the people interviewed by Tutaméia, as well as Palestinian writer Atef Abu Saif, ex-guerrilla Peruvian leader Héctor Béjar, Aleida Guevara, and Filipino thinker Walden Bello, not to mention political leaders, intellectuals, and artists from Brazil.
Rodolfo, a marathon runner, and Eleonora have taken running as a political, educational, and agit-prop tool, creating projects like Marathoning with the MST, working with the landless movement, and a series of runs called Corrida fora Temer, done during the period that Dilma was illegally ousted from the presidency in a lawfare coup d´etat. They have been married for 47 years and have two daughters.
