The smell of burning and destruction permeated our skin. No long bath took away that agony. We were out of air and nothing seemed to be over. No pain, no uprooting, no long dark night.
While gun ownership was legitimized, lies and threats became political tools. With each new code published in the dungeons of the Official Gazette, the decree laws and the decree laws, democracy, the rule of law and the republic were eroded.
Everyone who has survived four years of barbarism comes transformed in 2023 after the worst government in our democratic history. Tension seemed to be building up to the last moment in the distribution of vaccines, the counting of votes, or the preparations for inauguration. “Can we make it?” His sentence resonated with silence and fear in the hearts of many.
Will Brazil change and the problems end in 2023? No, far from it. We have no illusion. It will be a tough year full of challenges. Nothing is guaranteed.
But the beginning is the most important action, said Plato. All over Brazil tonight, the party has nothing to do with the earth’s rotation—yes it’s round—or how many times the wandering wanderer has traveled around the sun.
As Ferreira Roses wrote, the new year does not begin in heaven or on earth, it begins in the heart. It begins as a hope for a better life.
So the party is to be able to breathe again and make plans with a chair held captive by love.
For many, in the eagerness to start something new, part of the party has already begun with a coward taking off and landing on the fool. It’s no coincidence that impatience turns into hugs, sambas, and parties. The greatest legacy of Bolsonarism was not the overthrow of the state. But normalize distrust, hatred and violence.
For decades, New Year’s in the US has been the saddest and most dramatic day on the calendar for millions of people. Beginning in January, slave owners made new contracts, lent and sold people. In the darkness of the farm huts, families spent their last nights hugging each other, praying that mothers and children would not be separated forever, and their love story would not end, in these new contracts that will come into effect on January 1. .
Today, we have the chance to experience perhaps the opposite feeling: the feeling of reunion. If there is anything more powerful about hope than the pain, it is the idea that the best moments of our lives have not yet happened.
We do not have the right to look only to the future. To the 700,000 brothers, fathers and mothers who have passed away, our greatest respect will not be to erect a monument. But to build a just society. Build a new democracy that can guarantee dignity and the right to make dreams come true.
We cannot and will not accept the new government to re-establish what was before 2019. We need a new, daring, bold and transformative social consensus.
But at least tonight is the time to let the soul sing again, to reciprocate the tears of happiness, the sincere smiles of the children with our hugs that translate the word “we did it”.
And scream at the sound of midnight?
?Happy New Democracy!
source: Noticias
Mark Jones is a world traveler and journalist for News Rebeat. With a curious mind and a love of adventure, Mark brings a unique perspective to the latest global events and provides in-depth and thought-provoking coverage of the world at large.