Is Sérgio Moro a Negationist? Operation “Lava Jato”, Updatism Transparency and Negation of Politics

Abstract

This article develops the hypothesis that Sergio Moro's narrative at the head of Operation “Lava Jato” was built around the modalities of negationism, revisionism and negation. The denial of the politics is the assumption from which investigations should move. This narrative was produced between 2004 and 2020 by a “depoliticized” and moralizing force coming from the judicial bodies and disseminated by the mainstream press. Parallel to the Italian operation “Mani Pulite”, Moro and his acolytes admitted a form of intervention in political events marked by the idea that the operation was not only legal-investigative but a political movement capable of producing a diagnosis, an agenda and even a “revolution” in the country. The event allowed Jair Bolsonaro to rise to the center of the political system, incor-porating negationism and denial of politics from the general scenario.