From Rio de Janeiro
Brazil still under the impact of murder of the indigenous Bruno Pereira and the British journalist Dom Phillips.
The Federal Police insists that there was no previously combined murder, and that the murderers acted on their own. It does not explain, however, why there are already three prisoners and five other suspects under investigation.
That is to say: if there eight people directly involved or suspicious, was the murder of the two not the work of a gang, of organized crime and encouraged by the government in the Amazon?
The far right president Jair Bolsonaro He traveled that weekend to Manaus, capital of the state of Amazonas, where the crime took place. He made no mention of the double murder that shook Brazil and much of the planet.
He participated in a meeting between evangelists and a motorcycle ride, in full – and illegal – electoral campaign with an eye on the October elections, when, according to polls and polls, he will be duly massacred at the polls.
The distance between the increasingly furious president and with convincing signs of serious psychological imbalance and what is happening in the country is only deepening every day.
It is now known, among other things, that FUNAI – the National Indian Foundation – has today, thanks to those three and a half years of Bolsonaro’s presidency, the same number of officials it had back in 2008.
But this is not by far the only setback experienced by Brazil under the presidency of the most abject and absurd president in history.
The truth is that Brazil regressed in the economy, in the welfare of the population, in education and in the environment, exhibiting indicators that go back up to 30 years.
Recession, pandemic and the destruction of public policies they were accentuated mainly in the last two years, reinforcing this indelible process of social backwardness in Brazil.
Hunger, for example, it reaches just over 33 million Brazilians, 14 million more than just over a year ago. They are like ten times Uruguay or Cuba going hungry.
It is the same number that was registered in 1992. In 2014, Brazil left the UN Hunger Map. Now, under Bolsonaro, it’s back. The family basket costs more than the minimum wage. And formal workers who earn the minimum amount to 38% of the total.
Currently, the Gross Domestic Product is comparable to that of 2013. The production of so-called “durable goods”, which range from automobiles to household appliances, is the same as it was 18 years ago.
The school dropout of children between five and nine years old is the same as in 2012, after advances in the years prior to the arrival of Bolsonaro. And among those who study, the learning of mathematics returned to the levels of 2007, and that of Portuguese, to 2011.
In the Amazon, the number of felled trees has never been as great as it is now. If in 2012 there were just over 4,500 square kilometers, in 2021 we will reach more than thirteen thousand.
Since 2003 Brazil did not live inflation rates as grandiose as they are now.
The most dramatic of all this is knowing that there will be people, and many, who will vote for that filthy beast called Jair Messias Bolsonaro in October.
More than masochists, they will be accomplices.
