Read excerpts from my column this Friday:
No one else has a right to doubt that the Armed Forces sectors, along with President Jair Bolsonaro, are determined to prevent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from taking office if he wins the October elections. Just act like it’s normal! Let’s call everything by name while there’s still time. They want to impose a protected democracy on us, where the generals act like the corporal and soldiers of a rowdy captain. It’s not even a jeep. Should we be sure of the information that CIA director-general William Burns made it clear to Bolsonaro and his aides in July last year that disrupting order here was unacceptable to the United States and urged him not to question the electoral system? In its place. There is evidence that the class has detected a real risk of confusion, as American intelligence often does not send messages with this content.
A month later, on August 5, 2021, Bolsonaro received a visit from Joe Biden’s special adviser, Jake Sullivan. He was accompanied by Juan Gonzalez and Ricardo Zúñiga, senior officials of the Western Hemisphere National Security Council. So what did the coup’s genius guide do? He told the trio that he was firmly convinced that Donald Trump was the victim of a scam. And it attacked electronic voting machines. In other words, it casts doubt on Biden’s legitimacy and the local election system. A day after the visit, the American Embassy in Brazil stated, “With regard to the Brazilian elections, the delegation expressed great confidence in the Brazilian institutions’ ability to hold a fair election in 2022. It also underlined the importance of maintaining confidence in the electoral process, which has a long history of legitimacy in Brazil. drew,” he said. You can imagine how the conversation went.
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source: Noticias
