Letter to Jamil Chade Bolsonaro: You owe us an explanation 12/11/2022 04h00

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Do you know who the Swiss president is?

Don’t worry. This is not a joke. Many people in Switzerland also do not know where I am writing from here. And you know why? Here institutions are more important than the leader. Democracy always wins and the rule of law is ensured.

Aldous Huxley said that while people adore figures like Caesar or Napoleon, such leaders will always appear to make these men’s lives miserable.

You are one of them, obviously hiding the distances and fate between these two names, whose place in history is guaranteed, in the cold shadow of indifference.

Your mismanagement is coming to an end. However, this does not mean that your responsibilities are over. You owe us an explanation. Many.

I must admit that I do not know exactly where to send this letter. I don’t know if it’s working or not. Or if he only holds political office, as he did for the last 30 years of his life. But I am writing to request clarification.

In recent years you have brought conspiracy theorists, torturers, charlatans and some of the most dangerous acts of the world’s far right to the Planalto Palace of a Republic and other ministries.

Some are even interested in movements that have supporters among the putschists, deniers who have been arrested elsewhere in the world, and the formations watched for representing a threat to democracy.

25 people accused of plotting a coup against the state were arrested in Germany this week.???????? But, you know, some of these right-wing extremists were sympathizers of a movement whose members you, your son Eduardo and Damares Alves, welcomed Querdenker with open arms.

You have previously received a German parliamentarian, which cannot be accepted by any democratic leader in the world. Do you know why? Heir to one of Nazism’s most powerful ministers and right-hand man to Adolf Hitler.???????? Today, he is part of a far-right party that is being watched by the German authorities for threatening democracy.

You and your henchmen were still some of the few in the democratic world who hesitated to condemn the occupation of the Capitol. You and your henchmen repeated lies about alleged US election fraud.

For months, you have declared that only God will take you as the presidency, and you have encouraged the supporters to attack anyone who thinks differently.

His blind supporters still believe in Santa Claus in front of the barracks, while his son supposedly delivers a pen drive to Qatar and invades the lodges of the world’s elite. When are you going to tell them the truth?

In a country whose initiatives registered 2,000 new guns a day between September and November alone, and in a society that opened 1,000 shooting clubs during its reign, we have the right to demand an explanation of its role from the globalized extremist network. Right.

In the 21st century, we will no longer tolerate amnesty in Brazil. You owe an explanation. But not me. For justice.

Democratic greetings,

Jamil

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