Vaccination began late on January 17 despite the resistance of Bolsonaro, who decided not to be vaccinated and charged all year round against sanitary measures and in favor of ineffective remedies such as hydroxychloroquine, while the health system of the states collapsed despite the quarantines dictated by governors.
2021 will be the year with the most deaths in Brazil’s history, even more than in the War of the Triple Alliance, surpassed only by indigenous genocide and three centuries of slavery.
For this reason, the pandemic and its consequences generated in Bolsonaro an anti-vaccine reaction that the rest of the population did not follow: even the extreme right went to vaccinate and the president’s own attempts to reduce credibility to the Chinese CoronaVac vaccine, the first to be applied in the country at the initiative of the Government of São Paulo, in an almost separatist dynamic of the states against the National Executive Power.
Bolsonaro, an open denier, was also indicted by a Senate commission that spent seven months in an unprecedented investigation of 11 crimes, including crimes against humanity whose charges will be brought to the Prosecutor’s Office of the international criminal court in The Hague.
Finally, when the inflation crisis exploded and his privatization and neoliberal agenda made water with the increase in tariffs and fuels, and the elimination of subsidies, the president found that from the sidewalk in front of him appeared the stainless metallurgical extornero Lula, politically resurrected with a 20-point lead in the polls and sustained by the shortcomings of a model based on meritocracy and, in the president’s words, ‘how hard it is to be a boss.’
Able to form its majority in Congress, Bolsonaro made an agreement with the old policy that shielded him from more than a hundred requests for impeachment for various crimes, most of them related to their omissions in the face of the pandemic and the killing caused by the virus.
But that image of Trump from the tropics has been losing breath since the Supreme Federal Court annulled, first for jurisdictional reasons, all the convictions against former president Lula in Operation Lava Jato, who had detained him for 580 days by order of the former judge Sergio Moro, which forced him to withdraw his presidential candidacy in 2018, an election that Bolsonaro won.
Today, the 76-year-old former president, contrary to what the financial market and the mainstream media that embraced Moro’s candidacy and Bolsonaro’s economic agenda assumed, made a soccer feint and instead of radicalizing he began to dialogue with conservatives, moderate centrists and anti-colsonaristas who had even voted for the removal of his successor, Dilma Rousseff.
It is partly due to the rejection caused by the self-coup that he tried unsuccessfully on September 7 when he told hundreds of thousands on Avenida Paulista in São Paulo that he was not going to comply with the sentences of the supreme judge. Alexandre de Moraes, which is investigating him and his allies for attacking democracy.
As after three days he fell back, even his most extremist followers have been disappointed and this electorate, which with the appearance of Moro is splitting the extreme right in two, does nothing but increase Lula’s chances, perhaps with an unprecedented electoral alliance of the old moderate right.
But, as if that wasn’t enough, Bolsonaro faces a rampant economic crisis with entire families living on the São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro viaducts in search of food scraps.
According to private studies, half of the population, about 110 million inhabitants, suffers from some type of food insecurity, while 19 million are directly hungry, that is, they do not know if they are going to eat today or tomorrow. Bolsonaro, in this context, eliminated the Bolsa Familia plan that had been the banner of the Workers’ Party and installed a confusing program that millions still cannot access due to bureaucratic problems.
Source From: Ambito
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