The return path to the left Latin America started this year with the elections of Gabriel Boric in Chili and of Gustavo Petro in Colombiaand which promises to be consolidated with an eventual triumph of Lula da Silva in BrazilIt is also a path where political tensions reached limits not seen in decades.
The news of the failed assassination of Kirchner took the region by surprise when all eyes were on Brazil, a little less than a month before the most polarized elections and with the most violent electoral campaign in its history, with its president, Jair Bolsonaro, daily feeding the ghost of fraud and the coup.
It is precisely in Brazil where political rivalry claimed a death: a leader of the Game of Workers (PT), of Lula da Silva, at the hands of a furious Bolsonarist. A very serious fact that took days to be condemned by the president who, however, did not do so forcefully.
The climate of almost visceral hatred in that country – where supporters of the ruling party have frequently attacked PT militants, even throwing chemical substances from drones – activated all the alarms of the power of attorney waiting for one Trump coup attempt in October. assault plans and coup discussed by influencers and businessmen have already been disrupted.
Alarms were also activated in the environment of former President Lula da Silva. Your life is at riskagreed security experts and the Federal police which encrypted the necessary custody at 50 troops so that the left-wing leader can continue with his acts safely. A scheme that would make any type of electoral campaign impossible.
Lula, on the other hand, chose to use bulletproof vest and ask their supporters that, contrary to the celebration that should be participating in an act of militancy in a context of democratic normalcy, do not wear PT shirts or insignia to avoid being identified. Yes, hide to survive.
That bulletproof vest unites Lula with the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, the first leftist in that country. The former guerrilla suffered death threats during his campaign, which were scorned by the right-wing government of Ivan Duke.
Gustavo Petro
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The image of Petro returning to proselytizing acts surrounded by bulletproof shields went around the world and was only a harbinger of the risks that the president would face in power.
Only in a month of government his guard was attacked with high-caliber weapons in the North of Santander while conducting a review for a visit from the president. Just six days ago, an explosive was found near a school in Ituango (Antioquia) where Gustavo Petro led the formation of a “Unified Command Post for Life”.
Just yesterday, hours before Cristina Fernández de Kirchner saved her life thanks to a bullet that did not come out, a brother of the Chilean president, Gabriel Boric, was kicked and punched a few meters from the presidential palace of The coinin the context of a protest for the constitutional plebiscite on Sunday.
The polarization in Chile, which marks the pattern of its daily life from the social outburst of 2019, it is played precisely in that vote where millions of citizens will decide whether or not to leave behind the Constitution inherited from the Pinochet dictatorship.
It will do so in the midst of one of the biggest campaigns of fake news that Latin America experienced, muddying a democratic process that, in the eyes of the world, is one of the most disruptive in contemporary politics.
It will also do so in a tense climate that faced defenders and opponents of the constitutional renewal over the weekend. Two days later, in a crude way, the leadership made that violence their own when the far-right deputy Gonzalo of the Racepunched the vice president of the lower house in the eye, Alexis Sepulvedacenter-left.
Source: Ambito
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