{"id":188605,"date":"2018-10-30T21:03:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T01:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=188605"},"modified":"2018-10-30T21:03:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T01:03:51","slug":"what-will-it-be-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/world\/latin-america\/what-will-it-be-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"What will it be, Brazil?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like to believe that reality has a fiction structure. It\u2019s not an intellectual tranquilizer, it\u2019s an aesthetic recourse. Thus, for example, I allow myself to think of a country as a theater, its history as a novel or its landscapes as stage sets. If the nations are dramas, then there is no doubt that this Sunday will be a chapter always cited in Brazil\u2019s national biography.<\/span><\/p>\n

In free and democratic elections \u2013 except for Lula\u2019s proscription, a minor detail \u2013 the Latin American giant elected a candidate who wears, according to his taste and pleasure, the clothes of the bad guy.<\/span><\/p>\n

It will take us a long time to understand how, when and why and by whom the ultra-right character of Jair Bolsonaro, of the Liberal Social Party (PSL), was created and polished. Therefore, with the modesty of the immediacy, I share photos that allow us to understand a new tragedy of the Latin American loss of direction.<\/span><\/p>\n

On voting day in Rio de Janeiro it was not easy to find a group of voters for Fernando Haddad, candidate of the Workers Party (PT). Attacks, paralysis because of fear and pessimism in the horizon are some of the causes. And even more in this city, the laboratory where what now reigns on a national level was created. It should be remembered that Bolsonaro\u2019s political career was born in the cidade maravilhosa \u2013 68 percent of the city\u2019s citizens voted -, governed today by Marcelo Crivella, the cousin of Edir Macedo, lord and master of the evangelical empire of the Universal Church of the Reign of God; the same city where the military have already been governing since early this year, when its intervention \u201cin the security\u201d of the state was decreed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Followers of a candidate who wears, according to his taste and pleasure, the clothes of the bad guy. Photo: Nicol\u00e1s Cabrera.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here, in Rio de Janeiro, the antechamber of the national event, it seems easier to find a person disenchanted with the samba than a red gathering of the Workers Party. However, walking along the cobbled-stoned streets smelling of fair, there is Sergio. He flutters a Haddad flag, wears a T-shirt of singer-songwriter Emicida and shows off a sticker of \u201cele nao.\u201d I ask him and he answers while he adjusts his cineclub glasses, those that have a bigger frame than lenses.<\/span><\/p>\n

Friend, everything is sheer madness. How can there be people who vote for a guy who vindicates the dictatorship, defends torture? Haddad is at the front, a university professor, I know that the PT has done a lot of shitty things, a lot, but compared to that fascist? It\u2019s necessary to have faith, we\u2019re going to revert this, the Brazilian people has to wake up and remember everything that Lula achieved and everything we can lose with Bolsonaro.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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On voting day in Rio de Janeiro it wasn\u2019t easy to find a group of pro-Fernando Haddad voters. Photo: Nicol\u00e1s Cabrera.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sergio the friend incarnates the noble voluntarism and strategic shortsightedness the left has had during the entire campaign. Anchored in the nostalgia of a past, they have forgotten the dissatisfaction of the present and the hope for the future. A double sin in a country of times without a yesterday. In Brazil, with sights set only on the future, the rear-view mirrors aren\u2019t even good to drive.<\/span><\/p>\n

The left also confused the voter with the candidate. Representativeness is not mimesis. Bolsonaro is fascist, but not necessarily all those who voted for him. This comparison only insults the person who hopefully will be persuaded. Some still repeat that the \u201cbolsominion\u201d are all men, white, rich and anabolic addicts. They run the great risk of not making a difference between hamlet and world.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition, there\u2019s the \u201cele n\u00e3o\u201d sticker. During the first round it made sense: saying no to the undesirable. In the balloting it was useless: subtracting from the others is not the same as adding to one\u2019s own. Finally, that intellectual miserableness of the Latin American left; that vice that is like the Andes, from Argentina\u2019s Patagonia to Colombia\u2019s Caribbean.<\/span><\/p>\n

El pa\u00eds del capit\u00e1n<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n