The love story of two neo-fascists | Bolsonaro …

From Brasilia

More than love, it’s frenzy. Jair Bolsonaro whispered “I love you” in Donald Trump’s ear in New York to the gaze of diplomats and advisers from both governments during an interval at the 2019 United Nations Assembly in New York.

This gesture sums up the new Brazilian foreign policy and the type of alliance established by Bolsonaro with his colleague, of whom he declared himself a “fan” last Thursday when he reiterated that he supported him in the elections on Tuesday against Joe Biden .

“What Bolsonaro Trump feels is a passion,” says American geographer and social scientist Brian Mier, in this dialogue with Page 12.

Diplomatic and military sources have expressed concern about the scenario that awaits Brasilia in the event that Democrat Joe Biden wins, the Folha and Estado de São Paulo newspapers published on Monday. The president may be “more isolated than he already is,” Estado wrote.

By exaggerating proselytizing for the Republican Party candidate, Bolsonaro has become fully involved in Trumpism and apparently does not have a Plan B, the conservative press claims.

“If Trump loses, Bolsonaro will also suffer a defeat that will exhaust him a lot,” said Brian Mier, who chronicles on progressive television 247.

The hypothesis of the reverse of the American elections could also have repercussions internally since the occupant of the Planalto palace presents himself at his most extreme slap as a native version of his senior partner.

“Bolsonaro is an emulation of Trump (…), Trump convinced him to use chloroquine against the coronavirus and Bolsonaro spread it in Brazil,” says Mier.

“If we look at the ideological level, Trump takes far-right positions out of opportunism, to please his constituents, unlike Bolsonaro, who is a neo-fascist who has always defended dictatorship. Bolsonaro is even worse than Trump.”

With the nod from the Brazilian government, far-right groups were flying American flags and living for Trump in various pro-coup acts called in Brasilia months ago and did so again this Sunday in São Paulo during a demonstration against the Chinese vaccine, or “Vachina”.

The attacks on the drug Coronavac, by the Chinese laboratory Sinovac, and the resistance to accept the fifth generation technology from the Huawei firm, are part of the arsenal launched by Brasilia against Beijing, in agreement with the American government which in less than A month sent Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien to visit. Brazilian officials’ conversations with Pompeo have been classified as secret and cannot be made public until 2035.

PROGRESSORS WITH BIDEN

In the opposition camp in Bolsonaro, the progressive and left referents have positioned themselves, in part, on the side of Joe Biden. Not because he is credited with advanced positions in foreign policy, but because a Democratic Party government will hardly maintain a link with Bolsonaro as fluid as that cultivated by Trump.

Brian Mier explains that there is no sympathy from the left of the Democratic Party towards the retired army captain, especially for his environmental policies, towards the LGBT community and in terms of human rights. From the Democratic establishment, including Biden, Trump’s godson is not endorsed either, but it is unlikely that if the party returns to the White House, frankly disruptive positions with Brasilia will be taken.

During one of the televised debates with Trump, Biden warned that he could apply economic sanctions in Brazil if that didn’t stop the devastation of the Amazon. A native of the forest, Alessandra Korap, of the Munduruku ethnic group, received the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for Human Rights presented in a virtual ceremony in which the presence of the former secretary of State John Kerry, a man of weight, has been announced. on Biden’s campaign team. Signs not to be underestimated,

Celso Amorim, chancellor during the two terms of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, says that a victory for Biden will be “very important for Brazil”, which he compares with the election of Jimmy Carter in the American elections of 1976, under the dictatorship of General Ernesto Geisel. In 1977, during the first year of her husband’s reign, First Lady Rosalynn Carter traveled to Brasilia where she requested information on the deaths and political prisoners, sparking outrage that Geisel recalled.

In 1978, Carter himself landed in Brazil where, in addition to speaking with the authorities, he met calmly with the Archbishop of São Paulo, Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns, who informed him of the violations. human rights,

São Paulo-based Mier agrees with Amorim regarding support for Biden, “for Brazil, a Democratic victory is not the same as a Republican victory.” “You can’t be nihilistic, you can’t vote white this Tuesday, despite the small differences between Biden and Trump, Biden is better for the Brazilian people.”

Mier mentions that with Biden in the White House, Bolsonaro will lose an important ally in his re-election campaign in 2022, and predicts that Democrats will back a classic non-fascist right-wing candidate, “surely the Brazilian Social Democratic Party with those who have had a very good relationship for years ”.

He maintains that Biden is sensitive to human rights and that in 2014, the then US Vice President gave President Dilma Rousseff a file containing declassified documents intended for the Truth Commission. dictatorship. However, two years later, Biden himself returned to Brasilia to recognize Michel Temer, anointed president after the coup that overthrew Rousseff.

“Biden is no more a friend of the Brazilian and Latin American left than Trump. The difference is that within the Democratic Party there is a left wing and a bunch of congressmen responding to it, and that are forces that generate pressure. On the other hand, in the Party. Republican there is no progressive group “, compares.