As a Brazilian dwelling in Argentina, Luciana Taddeo says she spends ever-extra attempt rebutting ever-crazier rumors

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- As a Brazilian journalist living in Argentina, Luciana Taddeo says she spends ever-extra attempt rebutting ever-crazier rumors.

There were claims that Argentina's presidential palace were invaded, that human beings needed to go away keys of their automobiles' ignitions so the authorities may want to use them at any time, that the authorities had abolished the right to inherit properties.

a lot of those rumors had been fanned by the presidential election in neighboring Brazil, where incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro has turned Argentina - already a sour football rival - into a kind of political boogeyman, a warning of the horrors his nation could face if it elects leftist former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

On Wednesday, Bolsonaro's campaign commenced its nightly advert slot on national television with a blast at Argentina's left-leaning leaders, who have been friendly along with his election rival.

"In Argentina, the leftist candidate that Lula supports additionally promised barbeque and beer for everyone," said a voice as photos showed people complaining of growing poverty and soaring inflation under center-left President Alberto Fernández.

Bolsonaro and his allies had long used some other leftist neighbor - disaster-wracked Venezuela - as a cautionary story, but shifted to Argentina after Fernández defeated center-proper President Mauricio Macri - whom Bolsonaro favored - in 2019.

"Venezuela was a ways away and Brazilians didn't apprehend it very a good deal; it turned into a whole other universe," said Paulo Pereira, 38, coordinator of da Silva's marketing campaign in Argentina."

at the same time as critics focus on Argentina's continual excessive inflation and import controls, its consistent with capita earnings nonetheless outstrips Brazil's, by global bank measures as a minimum, and each have highly low poverty charges by using worldwide requirements. Brazil's murder charge is roughly four times higher than Argentina's.