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<h1 class="reader-title">Bolsonaro Has Destroyed Brazil in 400
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By Eric Nepomuceno on February 11, 2020</div>
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<p>Right-wing extremist Jair Bolsonaro has just
served his first 400 days as President of the
largest, most populous and economically powerful
nation in Latin America, Brazil.<span
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<p>It has turned out to be enough time to impose a
regression that reaches all, absolutely all,
aspects of my country. There is not a single
sector, a single segment, which has not been
reached by his devastating fury.</p>
<p>Public education is destroyed at all
levels—including those that do not depend on the
federal government—, environment shows
unprecedented destruction, the public heritage
is being auctioned off at ridiculous prices and
in disgraceful conditions, the foreign policy
built up over many decades has undergone an
unprecedented turnaround, even taking into
account the military dictatorship between
1964-1985, whose existence Bolsonaro denies.</p>
<p>The space that had been consolidated for at
least twenty-five years now ceases to exist,
devastated by shameful displays of unlimited
vassalage at the feet of Washington and turning
a back on what had been built for decades.</p>
<p>The social programs created over the last 30
years, even before Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
became president, are silently and relentlessly
being emptied.</p>
<p>Acting in the name of ‘de-ideologizing’ the
government, Bolsonaro and company have imposed a
radical ultra-right-wing ideology, which
encompasses all sectors of the daily life,
including the imposition of a fundamentalist
neoliberalism on the economy at the hands of
Paulo Guedes, Minister of Economy.</p>
<p>One of his phrases reflects exactly his
thinking, ‘If it were up to me, I would
privatize even the Alvorada Palace’, in
reference to the presidential residence.</p>
<p>By the way, the model dreamed by Guedes, former
official of Chile’s dictator Augusto Pinochet
installed by Bolsonaro in the Ministry of
Economy, is the same one that sunk Argentina in
the swamp inherited by Alberto Fernandez and at
the same time led to the social explosion that
has kept right-wing Sebastian Piñera cornered in
a paralyzed Chile for more than three months.</p>
<p>The government of Bolsonaro weaves self-praise
by mentioning the creation of some 640,000 jobs
in 2019. They forget to mention that those
positions are in conditions far inferior to
those once enjoyed by the more than 11 million
Brazilians who now have no jobs at all, and the
other 34 million who are underemployed or only
finding precarious and intermittent work.</p>
<p>As he approaches the first month of his second
year as president, Bolsonaro gives ample proof
that he intends to concentrate his fire on one
of the targets he detests the most; the rights
of Brazil’s indigenous peoples. And the attack,
which promises to be relentless, has been in
preparations for a long time.</p>
<p>Internal documents of FUNAI, the National
Indian Foundation, which under Bolsonaro went on
to be led by a police inspector, indicate the
unveiling of a “Trotskyist line anthropology”,
an “orthodox Marxism” and a “communist threat”
in the occupations, by native peoples, of areas
that have already been determined to be
demarcated after exhaustive examinations by
Justice, but which the government disregards
with impunity.</p>
<p>This is to say that while he sends to Congress
a bill indicating that preservation areas should
be dedicated to agriculture – including
agrochemicals – or livestock, totally absent
from the original cultures, Bolsonaro wants to
free up mining, which contaminates rivers and
streams with the mercury used for it.</p>
<p>In any case, it must be recognized that the
right-wing extremist does nothing but pretend to
legalize all the illegalities that he encourages
since he deposited himself in the presidential
chair. What remains to be proved, or at least
calculated, is what of the country will be left
after Bolsonaro and company succeed in imposing
their devastating fury.</p>
<p>The basic mission of the Brazilian right-wing
extremist is to give final combat to a communism
that he detects, hiding everywhere even in his
fridge every time he looks for cold water, and
that makes him sleep very few hours every night,
and always with a gun on his bedside table. An
obsession that leads him to see anyone who does
not coincide with his delusional ideas as an
enemy that must be brought down at any price.
That makes his government prevent officials from
the FUNAI, the entity in charge of protecting
the culture and life of the indigenous people,
from visiting areas to give them staple foods.
He describes environmentalists as ‘those guys
who live in apartments, drinking whiskey and
smoking cigarettes, while defending the distant
environment’.</p>
<p>Never, ever, not even in the dire times of a
dictatorship whose existence he denies, has my
country been so violated, so destroyed. Never.</p>
<p>Source: <a
href="https://www.pagina12.com.ar/246796-bolsonaro-destrozo-brasil-en-400-dias">Pagina
12</a>, translation Resumenlatino Americano.
North America bureau</p>
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