Koch-funded fellowships trained the leaders of Brazil’s right-wing protest movement

Evidence

Founder Fábio Ostermann had learned a thing or two from pro-capitalist comrades in the United States, at free-market seminars in 2008 at the Cato Institute and the Foundation for Economic Education, and as a “Koch Summer Fellow” at a program paid for by the billionaire Koch brothers. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 417

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A major Brazilian protest movement organized as consensus-based and leaderless by design — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 149; A US-funded think tank network spread free-market ideology into Brazil’s protests. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 417; Well-funded right-wing groups borrowed leftist protest aesthetics for funded political goals — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 553

Broader Connections

• A US-funded think tank network spread free-market ideology into Brazil’s protests. #expands (0.88) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 417
• A major Brazilian protest movement organized as consensus-based and leaderless by design #complicates (0.86) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 149
• Well-funded right-wing groups borrowed leftist protest aesthetics for funded political goals #corroborates (0.78) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 553