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Journalist, cinephile and ex-Trotskyite, Paulo Paranagua covered Latin America for “Le Monde”. Provoking the hatred of the leader of La France insoumise.
By Said Mahrane
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VShis is the story of a discreet man, cinephile and literary man who, in spite of himself, awakened “sound and fury”. Paulo Paranagua is however not on Twitter or on any social network, where this kind of thing happens. He is not a member of any party or organization; if he was, it might get him in trouble. After having tasted politics, he only looks at it from afar. His passion now is Brazilian cinema, of which he is an expert, to the point of having directed a retrospective at the Center Pompidou. So why him? For about ten years, he wrote articles on Latin America in the newspaper The worldwhich have not ceased to make react a reader, only one, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, until provoking several polemics and a recourse to…