Confused days in chaotic Brazil | Opinion

From Rio de Janeiro. These are particularly crazy days in a country plunged into utter chaos.

Last Friday, and by an overwhelming advantage – 364 votes to 130 and three abstentions – the Chamber of Deputies confirmed the imprisonment of one of his peers, Daniel Silveira, determined by the plenary session of the Supreme Federal Court. And who is Silveira? A former Rio de Janeiro military police, who in eight years of force has endured countless arrests, prisons and reprimands, but who has come to be known as one of the most perfect examples of ultra-radical supporters far-right Jair Bolsonaro.

The prison was due to a 20-minute video posted on social media, with Silveira threatened members of the Brazilian Supreme Court of Justice, calling for the return of dictatorship and addressing the judges of the Federal Supreme Court, among other delicacies, such as “you are the cream of the dung”.

That same Friday, it was a month with the average daily deaths from the coronavirus exceeding one thousand.

That: there were days when one death per minute was recorded, compared to the total and absolute inactivity of the active general of the army, Eduardo Pazuello, and all military personnel he has deployed to positions previously held by doctors, researchers and scientists, in the Ministry of Health.

And more: that same Friday, Jair Bolsonaro officially announced that he would replace the ultra-liberal economist Roberto Castello Branco as president of the state-owned company Petrobras.

Of the government of the illegitimate Michel Temer, who replaced Dilma Rousseff, dismissed following an institutional coup, Petrobras was gradually dismantled.

Under Bolsonaro and Castello Branco, the process accelerated.

Why then delete it? Because the company followed the parameter determined by international fuel prices, which angered truckers, one of the strongholds of support for Bolsonaro.

And who will replace the ultra-liberal Castello Branco? Well, sure, a retired general, Joaquim Silva and Luna, who until now chaired the Brazilian-Paraguayan binational Itaipu, of electric power.

What does he know about an oil company? The same as I know about the intimate life of Lady Gaga.

Two things are working side by side, and ever closer, through these chaotic times in Brazil: the destruction of everything that has been conquered since the return of democracy in 1985, after 21 years of military dictatorship, and the The growing militarization of the government elected in 2018, led by an unruly lieutenant who only achieved the rank of captain when he was forcibly removed, as is the norm in the country.

At that time also, we knew that censorship was returning, with the Special Secretariat for Culture, dependent on the Ministry of Tourism, rejecting the release of resources for projects considered left-wing, with a call for the sale of school books prevent words like “democratization” in its content, and with the non-release of previously approved resources for audiovisual production.

We learned that the national public education budget fell to 2010 levels, which 71 percent of natives – who, in theory, would belong to the preferential vaccination group – were not vaccinated, that a presidential decree authorized the purchase of arms and ammunition: each citizen can acquire up to 60 weapons and five thousand ammunition per year.

The extreme right Jair Bolsonaro (Photo) continues his pilgrimage throughout the country, with the obsession to be re-elected in 2022.

The economy is down unemployment reaches around 14 million Brazilians, the country has returned to the world hunger map it wasr Lula da Silva, the pandemic is unleashed and growing uncontrollably, the country’s image is melting like a lollipop in the sun, but there is no way to stop the genocidal hand.

I appeal here to the Argentinian health authorities and to the President Alberto Fernandez and the President of the Senate, Cristina Kirchner: Let me fly to Buenos Aires and settle in with my partner in the apartment that we have had in Palermo Viejo for a long time. We can no longer take what we are going through here.

If that is not possible, ask a friend to come and have dinner at Guido, have a drink el Pinot, to eat the Cortaderas. And then tell me.