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On the Sunday of Bolsonaro’s uprising in Brasilia, many middle and high-ranking officials in Lula da Silva’s new government they were in their homes, preparing family meals with no other worriescommented in confidence to this envoy.

They celebrated the PT leader finally taking office on 1 January and, contrary to all fears, there had been no accidents despite previous fears about the furies of Bolsonaro and their coup militants who had even prepared a explosive attack which deactivated the police.

Three hundred thousand people thronged that day in the perform two ministriesin the political nerve center of the city and celebrated throughout the day totally normal.

Lula had walked no sniper fear in the legendary black Rolls Royce with his wife and vice president. had arrived moment of relaxation after a busy week.

“Invite your in-laws and some friends. I was cooking, away from the news. A friend came and he told me that he had passed through the Planalto area, I saw many people and few policemenbut I didn’t listen carefully,” he says clarion an official who is not sure of the safe zone.

But he recounts that day with some guilt for the need that everyone had to disconnect and free yourself from pressure.

“We Were Unaware”

“We were all like that. Even when I started to feel things could get complicated, I called some ministers and other officials, and they said Heyyy! He how are you?!, Come home and we’ll have a drink and something to eat”.

“We were oblivious,” he explained. And she added that there had been previous information that something was being put together, with calls across the networks, “but it was one more, another of these fools but not much importance has been given to it. The camps in front of the barracks were disarming, all that seemed to have vanished. Somehow we let our guard down.”

During lunch, the friend who had observed with some amazement what was happening in the square was present all the time attached to his cell phone. Gradually, I was extracting information that I read about networks, they said so more and more people camethat there was no repression, recalls the official.

things got worse

At first it was a bit annoying, at the table they didn’t want to hear it, but then it became clear things were getting worse and Sunday was no longer the quiet day they had imagined. That’s when the story official picked up the phone and started calling his colleagues and He also found a lot of disbelief on the other side.

Part of that tranquility and remoteness had other antecedents, even well-justified ones. During the elections, in the first round last October, the truckers’ union, radically aligned with Bolsonaro, had threatened to picket in the avenues of the capital and its suburbs.

They supported the then president’s slogans that the elections were rigged, a version without evidence, but which became the motto of the riots and calls for a coup. If the results were very severe against the ruling party, These protests would multiply.

But the Esplanade area was closed and would remain so to avoid accidents by order of justice. The governor of Brasilia, Ibaneis Rocha, had received multiplied pressure from Bolsonaro’s chief justice, Anderson Torres, to clear the area to allow trucks to enter.

Rocha, they tell this envoy, told him that “in no way would he give that permission”. The other rudely warned him that the Army would then do it. “Good, Bring in the army, do what you want.” replied the president. But the army didn’t come.

Rocha seemed like a factor of safety and trust. But now the governor has been temporarily removed, initially for three months, by order of the Supreme Court, on suspicion of having done the opposite serious gesture October.

That was, allow anti-Petist protests on the apparent assumption or promise that would be made that he would be alone a quiet ride

What’s worse, Rocha joined his cabinet as head of district safety at the same time Anderson Torres who pressured him and who is now in the United States, in the same city as his former boss Bolsonaro and if he returns he will go to prison accused of criminal conspiracy.

But it happens that Bolsonarismo it is the majority in Brasilia and the governor, with those reckless gestures, made his greedy electoral calculations without measuring the risks.

In his defense, the president claims he “sabotaged” his security system. And he said in a surprising judicial presentation that the very information he received that day pointed to it “everything proceeded absolutely calm and peaceful”. Sunday lunch with the family.

Brasilia. Special delivery

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