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Mr President,
Few international leaders imagined in January 2019 that the destruction you will wreak in Brazil would be this deep, perverse and painful. But curiously, they already knew that they shouldn’t be sharing the table next to him. That month, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, you were to have lunch with the hosts, who invited all leaders present to a closed meeting.
When two of these world leaders realized that you were also invited, one of them agreed that they would do anything to find a place far from you. Even if it has to change the nameplate with the names that the protocol offers to the guests. “God forbid, I won’t sit next to him,” one of them admitted.
Once inside, the two discovered that they weren’t the only ones thinking about it, and as in a game, some of the world’s top amused for fear of having to dine with them.
You ran into Tony Blair in one of the hallways in Davos that same day. Not knowing what to do, she accepted a photograph next to her. But as soon as it was published, the former British prime minister’s advice had to make a statement in the face of embarrassment and criticism.
Hours later, you were to be interviewed by a major American newspaper. The veteran journalist was shocked by the bullshit he heard as he left the meeting.
Years later, at another summit, I overheard a conversation between Angela Merkel and a group of European leaders. In discussing a proposal, the German group warned that “Brazilians will have problems” with such an idea to be submitted for consideration by the international community. However, it was joked by another head of government that “Brazilians have a bigger problem”. Everyone laughed.
I’ll tell you a secret here: they were talking about you.
Nobody told me. I saw with my own eyes that you didn’t even know who the leaders were on your side at the G20 in Rome in 2021. And they insisted on turning their backs. Ask Olaf Scholz.
Nobody told me. I saw how foreign ambassadors at the UN mocked the resolutions you sent to Brazilian diplomats.
Nobody told me. At the height of the pandemic, I saw how the WHO summit called you “crazy”.
Nobody told me. I’ve seen how Brazilian diplomats seek medical leave, leave or go to unimportant countries so as not to serve the destruction you promote.
With the highest Palestinian leadership, a prominent figure in Ramallah once declared that he could never have imagined that a country with so much sympathy in the world could go through such a profound transformation.
Through mobile messaging services, foreign ministers write to me, mocking you and hoping your tenure comes to an end.
You are clearly being treated as “irresponsible” and “neofascist” in the European Parliament. In the US Senate, his name is synonymous with a threat to democracy.
In France, the government has ordered to make it as difficult as possible for its representatives to access channels of dialogue with one of the largest economies in Europe.
You and your supporters might think that diplomacy goes to cocktail parties and photo ops with important people. But it’s not like that. It is an instrument of foreign policy, public policy and social development. To destroy this weapon is to harm the poorest of the population, not the rich.
The last big embarrassment you were promoted to was using a state funeral to campaign to surprise everyone. However, this was not the only case. You rehearsed a wrong joke with the late Shinzo Abe. The room was quiet for a few seconds. Until the Japanese decided to laugh politically. And everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
You were despised by the great democracies, accepted only by the people who were forced to cover their noses to achieve some strategic goals with Brazil.
Yes, Brazil counts in the world. And that’s why this Sunday’s election counts as well.
I am writing this letter to you with a message you have already heard from the CIA and foreign governments: Respect the survey results.
There is no other alternative. You’re being mocked, you only have the — self-interested — support of leaders of the far right, authoritarian governments, or those who simply want Western democracy to weaken.
If you choose to contest the voting, the ballot box, the TSE and the Brazilian electoral system, you will throw Brazil into one of its most dangerous moments and deepen the country’s isolation from the world. For most of the world you are a jester. But he’s a dangerous clown.
You armed thousands of people with lies and bullets in three years. You have broken bridges and created hostilities with some of our main trading partners. There is international consensus that you are part of one of the aberrations of the 21st century and a reflection of the moral collapse of our generation.
History will not spare you. This is already a fact. But if the option is a coup, we will have an even more tragic page and global certainty that the future has once again been postponed for Brazil.
Some of your decisions can never be repaired. How to bring back the thousands of Brazilians killed by the criminal management of the epidemic? How to restore the isolation of indigenous people who saw their land stolen?
Now, by bombing the elections, you are also undermining the public’s trust in a system in Latin America that many died to establish: democracy.
Don’t you dare. We are many and will not accept. The world that despises him will not accept it either.
long live democracy
jamil
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