Without a mask or sanitary protocol, Bolsonaro once again led a gigantic caravan of motorcycles: Brazil above all and God above all!

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, one of the most skeptical in the world about the severity of the coronavirus, He defied the pandemic again this Saturday and, ignoring local city bans, led a massive motorcycle caravan to Sao Paulo.

Bolsonaro took part in the caravan summoned by his supporters and evangelical groups and, without wearing a mask, led the gigantic parade of thousands of motorcyclists who gathered around the Anhembí Sambadrome in the capital of São Paulo.

“For freedom, for democracy and accelerate for God!”, Were the starting slogans given by Bolsonaro, who before taking part in the caravan greeted and took photos with the people who gathered on the Avenida Olavo Fontoura, in the western area of ​​the largest Brazilian city.

The so-called “Moticada Accelera para Cristo” pursued a series of motorcycle caravans sympathetic to the governor and this time also gathered the evangelical groups of the traditional March for Jesus, an event which was canceled this year due to the pandemic .

The March for Jesus has already been the largest street event in the country with 3.5 million participants, overtaking in some editions the Gay Pride Parade in Sao Paulo and the Galo da Madrugada parade in the city of Recife, the most massive in the country. Brazilian carnival.

The mobilization took place on the exact day which marks the 15th month of a pandemic which leaves nearly 17.3 million confirmed cases and 485,000 deaths associated with covid-19.

The caravan has given up crossing the city center and passing through the traditional avenue Paulista, so as not to hamper the commerce of this Saturday, when Valentine’s Day is celebrated in Brazil, and because it is an area with strong concentration of hospitals.

Therefore, the group chose to travel along peripheral avenues, take regional highways and reach the neighboring town of Jundiaí, sixty kilometers away, for a total of 160 kilometers in a caravan that ended at the obelisk. from Ibirapuera Park, still in Sao Paulo.

At one of the stops, Bolsonaro came to emulate being an orchestral regent when his supporters sang songs against Sao Paulo governor Joao Doria, a former ally and now one of his main political rivals on the right.

“We are showing strength and unity,” said Bolsonaro, who broadcast the entire trailer live on his social media.

Organized groups of motorcyclists, truckers and other drivers have always been in favor of Bolsonaro because of his constant discourse on reducing the price of compulsory insurance for vehicles, fuel and tolls and removing certain fine cameras.

In the caravan this Saturday, the militarized police, traffic control and civil guard of Sao Paulo moved 6,300 agents for the security of the event, which followed the patterns of other similar ones carried out in Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro.

During the pandemic, various acts in favor of the Government were carried out across the country, all ignoring local containment measures and health protocols, while the opposition has promoted some for specific demands, such as deaths due to racism or lethality in police actions.

However, at the end of May, left-wing parties, social organizations and trade union centers called for a demonstration across the country against Bolsonaro’s leadership in the face of the pandemic and which also demonstrated a mobilizing power on the part of the opposition.

With information from the EFE

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