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Source: The Guardian

Nov 08, 2009

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Brazilian government starts investigation into how radio comedian impersonated president Luiz Inácio da Silva in Rio interview

When Brazil's notoriously interview-shy president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, offered journalists from Angolan state radio an exclusive telephone chat, they should probably have smelled a rat.

When Lula appeared on air claiming to be speaking live and direct from one of Rio's most notorious slums, they might also have wondered what was going on.

And when the rattle of machine-gun fire began pounding down the phone line, they should surely have realised something was wrong. They didn't.

Instead the Brazilian government was yesterday starting a formal investigation after a Sao Paulo radio comedian pretending to be the leftist leader took to the airwaves across Africa in a supposed attempt to improve Rio's overseas reputation.

Talking to Angolan National Radio, the impostor claimed to be speaking "direct" from a Rio favela that is at the centre of a drug turf war that has left dozens dead.

"Everything they have invented is nonsense," the sati

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