Bolsonaro marginalizes Brazil from the world | Opinion

From Rio de Janeiro

Bolsonaro made his world debut without Trump. And in the worst possible way. If his absurd statements were camouflaged behind Trump’s, they are now obvious.

During the first meeting, in the BRICS, Bolsonaro does not fit into a group made up of emerging countries, which initially intend to build a project of a multipolar world as an alternative to North American hegemony, because it is subordinate to the States -United. Bolsonaro’s presence was tolerated with full awareness that this is a passing government, sentiment now reinforced by the defeat of Trump.

Ignoring his situation, Bolsonaro delivered a misread military speech, as if conveying a message to a bloc of enemy leaders. He shamed Brazil by assuming that other heads of state ignore the situation in the Amazon and human rights in their country.

Not only did he disagree with other heads of state, but he also came out as someone from the outside, a folkloric, someone who doesn’t know what the world is like today let alone the role. that Brazil should play. Bolsonaro had to accept that the demand for a place for Brazil in the UN Security Council be withdrawn, in order to sign the final document, totally in contradiction with his speech.

For decades, Brazil has played a prestigious role on the international stage, which is why even Or balloon editorialized against the dismantling of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the policy of the current government, which marginalizes Brazil from the world.

At the G20 meeting, the embarrassment was even greater, if it could be worse. Bolsonaro sent a message saying time shows he is right, but he did not stay to participate in the debate, where he could be questioned and could not answer. The same reason he never accepts press conferences.

The theme of the meeting was the pandemic and the conditions to combat it in a coordinated manner. As a denarius, Bolsonaro recalled that there are also concerns in the economy –as if he were the only head of state to know that in addition to the coronavirus there is an economic crisis – so that he can signal his government’s concern with the 12 million unemployed who already existed before the pandemic. He underestimated the fight against the pandemic, as his admired loser, who now refuses to accept defeat, always has.

But itaware of the international scandal which led to the murder of an unarmed citizen in Porto Alegre by two security agents from CarrefourHe went ahead to give his version. It couldn’t be worse. He applied the scheme which lBrazil’s problems are imposed from outside by, which resulted in the worst version.

According to him, a country marked by racial discrimination has no problems of racism, but it is external enemies, annoyed by the success of a sui generis type government, who export conflicts to us.

It is a speech similar to that of the military during the days of the military dictatorship when they pointed out that the country was harassed by international communism, which one could understand in the climate of the Cold War, also aberrant. be it. It now sounds even more grotesque, with regrettable excuses, which can only be understood if one remembers that he considers trash those who protest against the brutality of the action of the security guards.

Brazil has gone from being a country of great international prestige in PT governments, with Lula projected as a great statesman, to this shame that Bolsonaro’s interventions subject the country. If there is still a diplomat of little value in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he can only hide under the table.

The only advantage of having the worst government in our history is that it is easier to value the governments that the country had before and to be able to overcome this embarrassing moment in its history with little action and little time.