Jair Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in the only debate before the elections. photo EFE
When Lula da Silva was there imprisoned on April 7, 2018 in Curitiba prison after being sentenced to 12 years for corruption against him, Brazil did not mobilize. Some people protested and others celebrated in cities like Brasilia, Sao Paulo, Rio or Fortaleza, but they were small groups.
Only a part of the militancy accompanied the former president to his cell even when the suspicions of political manipulation in the trial carried out by judge Sergio Moro and that the Supreme Court deactivated a couple of years later grew.
There are multiple reasons for this popular contempt for one of the most charismatic presidents and politicians in Brazilian history, but the tired now with the PTLula’s party.
The central engine of this reproach was the leadership of Dilma Rousseff who commanded the third consecutive period of that movement in Planalto and the scarce two years of the fourth which was to end just when the former president was taken to his cell. A controversial impeachmentThat nor did it generate epic mobilizationsoverthrew Brazil’s first female president in September 2016.
Marcelo Cantelmi
International panorama
Source: Clarin
