domingo, 24 de maio de 2020

BRAZIL: A JAIR BOLSONARO AND THE EX SERGIO MORO


BRAZIL: A JAIR BOLSONARO AND THE EX SERGIO MORO


 Presidente Jair Bolsonaro e então ministro Sergio Moro no Palácio do Planalto, em Brasília - Adriano Machado
President of the Brazil and Sergio Moro in Planalto Place
Image by Adriano Machado (UOL)


Sergio Moro left the government shooting not for republican reasons, but because he was betrayed. He accepted to be Bolsonaro's minister because he saw himself as bigger than the president - and in fact he was, in popularity and acceptance among the middle class, who kept himself minimally away from psychopathy. Moro, with the idea of ​​a vacancy in the STF and the guarantee of independence in the ministry, took the whole group from Curitiba.

It was short-lived and collected defeats. His main project, the dangerous 'anti-crime package', was severed, with the approval of Bolsonaro, who sanctioned the post of judge of guarantees - under public protests by Moro - and took Coaf, where Moro and his attorneys used to have a friend for illegal spying on other people's accounts. He wanted his government, parallel; Bolsonaro paid with what is expected: treason.

In testimony to the Federal Police, the ex-hero spent eight hours in the building and ordered pizza. It generated expectation of a winning sentence, said that a video would confirm everything. The press cooked expectations. And the video doesn't confirm much. In fact, the sequence of phrases spoken by Bolosnaro during the meeting takes him off the ropes for the time being. We know that Jair did want to control the PF in Rio to protect his son Flávio, but that is not at all given in the video shocked by Celso de Mello until yesterday.

Moro's promises were further rekindled by the press-friendly portion. Moro speaks, publish yourself. It’s like that, you know. But the mountain gave birth to a rat. In fact, while publicly slapping his former minister, Bolsonaro uses the episode to reenergize the base. Aside from the usual scandalous phrases - who cares if he swears? - the video is gold to voters who have not yet abandoned the gang. It has demagogic defense of the people, it has bad words (of course), it has arms, it attacks the press and mayors and governors, it has a lie about freedom of expression.

There is a lot more. It is the complete plot of the extremist plan to destroy what remains of the country. We shout in the living room, send indignant audios to our friends, but we lose track of how a piece of positive propaganda is actually created within the radicalism of the flat earth. They have already made carnivals in much more adverse conditions. The video is already being used on the networks, with obvious success.

Or: what do you think of phrases like that?


“And what made me, at that moment, get on board was the fight for… for freedom. I don't want to be a slave in this country. And end this crap that is Brasilia. This is a cancer of corruption, of privilege. ”

- It was said by Abraham Weintraub.

How about this one?

“They are people here in Brasília, of the three branches, who do not know what a people is.
I talk to some, I don't know what beans and rice are, I don't know what a supermarket is.
You forgot. ”

- It was said by Jair Bolsonaro.

And this one?

“Our rubber tappers are in greater numbers than we imagine in Brazil. So, everything we
went to build, we will have to see, Minister, the issue of values ​​too. The question, our
quilombos are growing and the ... and the boys are being born in the quilombos and their
values ​​are there. So, everything will have to see the issue of values. ”

- It was said by Damares Alves.

The clips are already being spread over the internet, showing that even behind closed doors “the government is with the people”. It's fake, but it works. Sergio Moro did a favor to bolsonarismo.  Anyone who thinks the ex-judge is a strategist genius needs to rethink everything.

I do not write this to reduce the importance of what was watched by Brazil late yesterday afternoon. Institutionally, this video would overthrow any president. Dilma fell for less, Collor fell for less. Bolsonaro even confessed to a kind of parallel investigation apparatus. Is a gang bugging people illegally? This is serious.

He also said that he wants to arm the civilian population for a war against other powers. It is delinquency, and it is very serious. But everything depends on the Brazilian institutions, which are dead with no date to resurrect.

We would not need this video to remove the government. There are plenty of reasons without  needing this squalid and overestimated denunciation of the resentful and waning Moro. The championship goes on, and the video can, of course, be an important piece in the dismantling of that horror - a horror that Moro was part of while it suited him, remember.

But yesterday's game was 7x1 for Jair. The images now spread across the zap are gasoline for Bolsonarism. Not even when I could help lava-jetting, was it useful for anything.




By

The Intercept Brazil
Leandro Demori
Alccy Marthins