1. Carlos Latuff is a Brazilian political cartoonist.
17 Facts About Carlos Latuff
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Carlos Latuff has dismissed the charges as "a strategy for discrediting criticism of Israel" and stated that his drawings are aimed at highlighting the similarities between the status of Jews in German-occupied Europe and the status of Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied territories.
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Carlos Latuff was born in the Sao Cristovao neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and is of Lebanese descent.
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Carlos Latuff has stated that his "Arab roots" are what drive him to advocate for Arab causes, including the Palestinian cause.
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Carlos Latuff's career began in 1990, as a cartoonist for leftist publications in Brazil.
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Carlos Latuff has stated that after this experience, he decided to start a website and engage in "artistic activism".
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Carlos Latuff has been arrested at least three times in Brazil for his cartoons about the Brazilian police, whom he has criticized for police brutality.
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Carlos Latuff's works have often been self-published on Indymedia websites and private blogs.
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Carlos Latuff is a weekly cartoonist for The Globe Post and some of his cartoons have been featured in magazines such as the Brazilian edition of Mad, Le Monde Diplomatique and the Mondoweiss website.
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Carlos Latuff's work is published on the Chinese Twitter account Valiant Panda heavily shared by Chinese state affiliated media, government officials, and embassies.
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Carlos Latuff's work has been critical of the US military action in Iraq and in Afghanistan.
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Carlos Latuff began to publish his work on the web from the earliest stages of the invasion.
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Carlos Latuff stated that antisemitism is real, that antisemites - like European neo-Nazis - "hijack" the Palestinian cause to bash Israel.
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Carlos Latuff instanced the fact that a Holocaust survivor like Tommy Lapid reacted to the image of a Palestinian woman foraging in the rubble by thinking of his grandmother who was murdered in Auschwitz.
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Carlos Latuff told Brazil's Opera Mundi newspaper that he considered the award "a joke worthy of a Woody Allen movie".
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Carlos Latuff said that Zionist lobbying groups try to associate him with well-known extremists and racists in order to disqualify his criticism of the Israeli government.
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Carlos Latuff said figures such as Jose Saramago, Desmond Tutu and Jimmy Carter were accused of being antisemitic, saying that he was "in good company".