Bolsonaro Surgery: Information and Propaganda | …

From Brasilia

Information and propaganda around a public operation. General Otavio Rego Barros, a spokesman for the government, reported shortly before 1 pm that Sunday the end of the operation at which Jair Bolsonaro was subjected to a "correct" wound hernia brought about by a stab.

On 6 September last year, a month before the elections, the candidate at the time was badaulted by a man suffering from psychiatric problems, without any serious criminal record and carrying a knife for domestic use, in accordance with to the judicial decision.

Bolsonaro stayed five hours and five minutes in the surgery room today, said Dr. Antonio Luiz Macedo, who a few days ago had predicted that the operation would not last longer. two hours.

This operation, the fourth in the last twelve months, took place at the Vila Nova Star Hospital in São Paulo, which became the center of operations of the Bolsonaro clan, formed by the patient and his three children: 39, deputy and candidate for the embbady in Washington. Eduardo Bolsonaro, Senator Flavio (linked to paramilitary militias) and Rio de Janeiro's adviser, Carlos. The latter was responsible for the dirty information campaign that gave such a good result in 2018 to his father, Social Liberal Party (PSL) candidate, who was forced to ballot to Fernando Haddad of the Workers' Party (PT). ), and sponsored by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

At the press conference held in the medical center of São Paulo's elegant southern district, it was announced that this Sunday, retired General and Vice President Hamilton Mourao would be responsible for executive power. Which was certainly not the taste of Carlos Bolsonaro who was at that time next to the ICU.

The general and the presidential disputed a war of the deaf threatening to bleed the regime. On one side, the generals with their project of power and collective interests and on the other, the Bolsonaro clan, belonging to paramilitary "militias" and to evangelical churches, among other groups. ;interest.

During the previous operation, which took place seven months ago, the Mourao-Carlos Bolsonaro duel was almost as topical as the evolution of the patient's health. Mourao was defined as a "traitor" involved in a "conspiracy" and even as a vain man who dyed his hair (this was said by the guru of the bolonarists, the writer Olavo de Carvalho).

As of Monday, Mourao may again use the window of the interim office to portray itself as the rational face of the government. In his agenda is a meeting with Chinese and Brazilian businessmen during which he will expose his opening to Beijing, while his boss counterattack.

While retired Captain Bolsonaro does not hesitate to side with Donald Trump in the Sino-US trade war, Mourao opted for "neutrality" and even met with leaders of the Chinese giant's Huawei communications technology.

It appeared that in the coming days, the Vice-President would avoid making explicit statements against the President with whom he would have signed a truce. We will have to wait to confirm this species.

In case of doubt, the president – still suspicious of his number two – will resume his work Thursday, even before he was released, and a clinic room had already been rented to hold cabinet meetings.

Each operation, one of four surgeries resulted in propaganda campaigns: the first two, in September 2018, had in the hospital an evangelical pastor praying for the life of the man chosen by God to save Brazil of communism. The photo of the hospital-friendly hospital candidate (who was no longer in the form of a revolver as he did in the acts) helped to humanize his image in order to win the votes of # 39; undecided voters right.

Within this same manipulation, it can be mentioned that the doctor Antonio Luiz Macedo forbade him to participate in all the debates with the other candidates, although he authorized him to give talks on privileged conditions to the TV Record network of neopentecostal mogul Edir Macedo.

Finally, before this Sunday's operation, Bolsonaro was in person to reveal it as part of a strategy to regain popularity that had been decrepit in just eight months of government, until it dropped to 29%. positive.

In successive statements made since last Wednesday, he mixed religious phrases with the operation of 8 September, the "patriotic" summons and the defense of "sovereignty" during the military parade on 7 September in the center of Brasilia.

The same green and yellow colors used in the proselytizing acts of 2018 were found on the shirts of dozens of people who went to the official residence, the Palacio de Alvorada, on Saturday to dismiss the president before going to San Pablo. with screams like this. "Mito", "Take care of yourself" and "Viva Brasil".

Lula's doubt

For Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the whole story of the artisbad knife that injured the candidate and ended up contaminating a rare campaign is suspected.

According to the eyes of the former president imprisoned in Curitiba over the months, a series of bademblies were revealed to deceive the voters then, already in power, to tell a parallel reality from false information. Fraud is intrinsic to bolsonarianism, he says.

In an interview with the BBC in August, Lula said: "Do you allow me the right to doubt? You see, I have my suspicions" about the attack.

The veteran politician who has disputed five elections is not alone in suspecting the existence of the stab, neither its real gravity, nor the need to prevent the candidate from going to the debates.

The Congress believes that it is desirable to know what happened during the campaign for which he created a bicameral committee of Fake News, which will have as rapporteur the opposition MP Lídice da Mata. "We are going to have a lot of work, you know how a commission starts, but you do not know how it ends.If there is a risk that this will lead to a dismissal of the president? I do not know, we have three months to investigate, so I will answer, "said Da Mata.