In the war against the Amazon, Bolsonaro lost and won Brazil | Opinion

Similarly, teasing on social networks regarding the comparison between Macron's wife, Brigitte, already older, and young Michelle, the Bolsonaro couple, were a boomerang. The same goes for the bad jokes of the vice president, General Morao, who mentioned the tremors that sometimes affect Merkel. All of these attitudes have served the world above all to verify that Brazil, which possessed not only immense natural wealth, but also human resources, deserved somebody more worthy of being ruled.

The attitude of Bolsonaro and his government during this episode of the Amazon, which shook the world, also allowed to expose the dramatic absence of a foreign policy to the height of circumstances, which has always been considered one of the successes of Brazilian politics, whether right or left-handed.

Just watch the headlines of major international newspapers these days to verify the universal condemnation of Bolsonaro's lawsuits and positions on the Amazon. In the badysis of these newspapers, which create world opinion, it is very clear that the distinction made abroad between the iconoclastic positions of the Brazilian leader in the Amazon and the resistance position of the Brazilians.

It is clear internationally that it is President Bolsonaro and not the Brazilians who would prefer to see the Amazon become a pasture for livestock, a soybean crop or open-air tunnels to extract minerals, the big dream capitalists.

Just as Bolsonaro would like to see the aboriginal peoples expelled from these lands that were still his and have the right to live there. At the same time, in the abundant global information on the conflict between the far-right government and the largest and largest fires in the Amazon, the distinction between the president's positions and what the Brazilians deserve would be Be resolved to solve your problems

French President Macron told French President Macron: "As I have great friendship and respect for the Brazilian people, I hope that is what honors all Brazilians and those who have decided to settle in this country. that they have a president who behaves fast. "

In fact, those who come out of this war are, in fact, the Brazilians and their struggle for the defense of the Amazon, who continue to arouse the sympathy of the world. And that is what matters most now, since presidents and governments have pbaded, and the Brazilians will continue to be seen, with esteem and affection, as statesmen capable of defending their species and their wealth.

Someone might say that Bolsonaro cares little for the opinion of foreign leaders. What they serve is the votes of his fans, still minor, who seem particularly willing to please. We forget that the world today has changed and that sometimes the international rejection of a leader can be as dangerous or more dangerous than that of his own countrymen.

Exasperated nationalisms, dreams of walls and barriers to avoid being contaminated from the outside are becoming more and more obsolete. Despite the totalitarian temptations and the resurgence of the new patriotism that globalization has destroyed, today it is easier to win or lose a presidential election outside the country.

Today, for example, it is increasingly clear that former Brazilian President Lula da Silva owed his two elections and those of his student Dilma, as much or more than his internal consensus, to the consensus unquestionable and to the applause he enjoyed on the international scene. Applause that he is still in prison today and that, if I'm not mistaken, it will still be essential that he recovers his freedom.

In Bolsonaro, they should explain that their survival in power today depends not only on Brazilians, but also on their image abroad. Forgetting or neglecting such a consensus could be fatal. Or is it already?