Not surprisingly, Jair Bolsonaro used his speech at the opening of the UN General Assembly this Tuesday morning (20) to stage a posh rally for Brazilian voters. He abandoned the more radical tone of his other three appearances at the event, but painted a parallel reality, not lies.
As in the case of Bolsonaro, the speech of a president who is seen as a pariah never gets much attention from the world. In these cases, the rostrum of the General Assembly serves to give the politician a foothold in the domestic public opinion of his country, as the eye of the press is at the moment.
This time around, however, his attendance became even more irrelevant, as U.S. President Joe Biden, who historically spoke just after Brazil, changed his attendance to fourth—which helped drain the audience.
Bolsonaro began with a lie when he said that “the government spared no effort to save lives and protect jobs” during the pandemic, ignoring that Pfizer took too long to purchase the vaccines it offers, struggles with social distancing, and downplays human life. . . .
To take just one of dozens of examples, at a rally in São Simão (GO) in March 2021, he mocked his family and friends who fell ill: “No more freshness, mimimi?”. It was unfortunately anthological for him to imitate people who were out of breath due to Covid-19.
While saying Brazil is protecting the Amazon and suggesting that Brazilian and international media lied when reporting on the destruction of the region, data from Imazon last week showed that between January and August of this year, 7,943 square kilometers of forest were cut, the most in the last 15 years. great destruction.
One of the forces driving this destruction right now is certainly the fear of his allies that with the president leaving government, environmental control will be strengthened again, the law will be re-enforced and the herd will stop passing.
In an event like the General Assembly, Bolsonaro is seen as a global environmental villain for promoting deforestation and fires in the Amazon. After all, the cloudy satellite photos of the institution and the images of the corpses of journalists and activists killed while protecting the forest don’t lie.
Jair said “systemic corruption” was “destroyed” in the country and that the person responsible for past scandals [referindo-se a Lula] convicted in three cases. The president used the term “systemic” instead of “punctual” to try to immunize himself from criticism, but this discussion does not fit here. After all, pastors bribing gold to gain access to the Ministry of Education and colonels bribed to close contracts at the Ministry of Health to purchase vaccines against Covid-19 don’t understand semantics.
Not to mention that he made this statement amid a scandal uncovered by UOL that showed he and his clan bought 51 properties using cash.
He said inflation has come down. Depends on what inflation we’re talking about. IBGE announced that Brazil suffered 0.36% deflation in August, but foodstuffs continued to rise by 0.24%. There was deflation in July but food was 1.3% more expensive. For example, longevity milk has dropped 1.78% in the last month, but is still accumulating as high as 60.81% in the last 12 months. So much so that it has become a luxury item for many families, replacing whey or water.
It is precisely this persistence of high food inflation that frightens voters who earn up to two minimum wages away from the president.
He also stated that he issued emergency aid to protect the income of families, and reported that 68 million families benefited. In fact, the National Congress has guaranteed that in 2020 the amount will be R$600. If it were up to the government, R$200 would have been paid. Even so, it suspended aid between December 31, 2020, and the start of 2020. April 2021 to try to push workers back onto the streets. At that time, deaths had risen to 4,000 per day.
Bolsonaro told colleagues at the UN that he is investing in science and technology, even as it cuts university and research grant income and leaves graduate and doctoral students desperate.
He pretended to be an advocate for freedom of speech and said he denies religious persecution, but focuses the issue on Christians, ignoring what is happening on Brazilian soil.
“I would like to announce here that Brazil has opened its doors to welcome Catholic priests and nuns who have suffered the brutal persecution of the dictatorial regime in Nicaragua. Brazil denies religious persecution anywhere in the world,” he said. But he didn’t have to go this far. In Brazil, people of African origin were persecuted by evangelical religious sects in Brazil without a single word of consolation from the president. Maybe because he has the support of this group.
Michelle Bolsonaro herself spent time trying to convince her that she “likes women” to use a phrase—which she quotes as an example of volunteer work, by the way. She repeated that she endorsed 70 legal norms in favor of women.
But an IPEC study (19) released this Monday notes that despite the first lady’s efforts to soften her husband’s image, Lula’s advantage within this group rose from 19 to 23 points between September 5 and yesterday. 50% to 27%.
“We fight violence against women with the utmost meticulousness,” said the president, who was accused of being misogynistic for attacks on women journalists during his tenure. She took the opportunity to criticize what she called “gender ideology” and the right to abortion.
And, of course, he described the September 7 election mega-rallies as “the largest civic demonstration in the country’s history”, even though he missed the Independence Bicentennial to advocate for the “removal” of dissidents from public life. It is worth remembering that hours after the rallies, a Bolsonarista killed a PT member after a political debate at Confresa (MT).
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