Information could not be more embarrassing and offensive to national sovereignty. According to Bloomberg, Jair Bolsonaro asked Joe Biden for help in defeating PT Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. So far, without gaining a majority of the electorate, the Brazilian president has decided to appeal to the Great Northern Empire. This is from balacobaco!
The Bloomberg news was confirmed by journalist Jamil Chad. Itamaraty sources speak, frankly, offline. Perhaps the most humiliating moment in the relations of a sovereign Brazil with another country. Suppose there is a history of utter submission to those who do their best. Let’s remember.
The 1964 coup was carried out by the Brazilians with a proven US rearguard. No activation needed. Countless interests, including Cold War paranoia, aligned the US government against the impeached João Goulart. Lava Jato – and there’s nothing conspiratorial about it, just a fact – was in many ways under the coordination of American laws and interests. From the direct action of the FBI to the sanctions imposed on Petrobras in the US, the operation served the interests of the Department of Justice (DOJ) in that country and destroyed our own legal system. Prosecutors met directly with US officials, without the intervention of the Brazilian government – not even the Office of the Attorney General.
Therefore, a foreign government has already exchanged figures with the general, destructive forces operating here. After all, the putschists were destructive, weren’t they? They wanted to remove the President and tear up the Constitution. And they did. To the extent that Lava Jato ignored its legal boundaries and began to act on a very specific understanding of what justice was, it was devastating in many ways.
But as I recall, we live in an absolutely unprecedented situation. Never before in this country’s history has a president, in full office, asked another head of state to intervene directly in the upcoming election to defeat an opposition candidate that, according to Bloomberg, Bolsonaro has demoted as an alleged anti-American. areas of interest..
Clearly aligned with the US and still steeped in Cold War anti-communism, the Armed Forces – which is no longer guiding the US military – have always tried to appear a little more autonomous, right? And this “autonomy” has even been expressed in bad times in the past, such as the Brazil-Germany nuclear deal (1975), which the US disliked. The coming to power of Jimmy Carter two years later strained relations even more due to his policy of advocating for human rights. The dictatorship here always liked to look autonomous!
In other words: at a time when Brazilians slavishly surrendered to the guidance of another state or simply offered to be servants to their interests, the heroes of subjugation were themselves agents of subversion. They tried to overthrow a popularly elected government in 1964. And they did. In Lava Jato, it has been proven that they organize outside the law for overtly political purposes.
This is where Bolsonaro’s originality lies. Asking another country to help you defeat an internal enemy is something that has never been done here before. Because that would mean overthrowing your own government; this corresponds to placing himself in the presidency of the president as an agent of foreign interests; this amounts to transferring some of its sovereignty to another nation; this corresponds to presenting yourself as a third-party intervener. After all, Bolsonaro could argue that Lula would pose a risk to US interests, according to Bloomberg.
Note: Brazil is experiencing its worst moment in decades of diplomatic relations with the United States. After all, Bolsonaro was a notorious supporter of Donald Trump’s re-election and stuck to his speech where he was defeated for fraud. And Lula would be danger…
Surprised by the approach, Biden and his aides strayed from the prose, according to the agency, and the American would repeat what he said in the open part of the speech, saying he trusts Brazil’s electoral system. The truth is, Bolsonaro had already questioned the electoral system and even rode on a motorcycle on American soil, interviewed a putschist character, installed Supreme Court ministers, repeated threats… and had never been verified before.
The Brazilian far right continues to spread the lie that NGOs and organizations defending forests and indigenous peoples around the world want to internationalize the Amazon. This is bullshit. The research work of Dom Phillips and Bruno Araújo Pereira actually demonstrates a particular form of internationalization: that produced by drug trafficking.
This means that Amazon’s so-called “nationalist advocates”, attacking NGOs’ alleged ambitions for internationalization, are good at generating ideological rhetoric – after all, they accuse the organizations of being left-wing – but do very poorly. In fact, the region is more unprotected than it seems. And this is not the fault of NGOs. The lack of protection is the result of the unwilling marriage of criminals with the incompetence of those accused by the Brazilian State of defending the forest.
It is well known that Bolsonaro’s coup propaganda defiles active and reserve military personnel. There is the Minister of Defense who treats TSE as a subordinate entity. I wonder how honored soldiers felt when they saw their commander-in-chief asking the president of a foreign country to help him beat his opponent in an election process.
Bottom line: Bolsonaro keeps saying he doesn’t believe in error-prone research or electronic voting machines, but they don’t.
Apparently he’s lying: he believes both and went to Biden for help.
An unprecedented humiliation for Brazil.
Note: Maybe Bolsonaro confuses 2022 Brazil with the 1965 Dominican Republic and counts on the eventual invasion of the American marines should Lula win the election. Or before? It was one of the greatest embarrassments in American history. But look, in the second year of the coup here, Castello Branco sent 4,000 men to the coup country: between May 1965 and May 1966. Four died. After the intervention was extinguished in September of that year, they returned to Brazil and were dismissed with a banana as a gift.
source: Noticias
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