March and coup threat to the Supreme Court

From Brasilia

In Brazil there is less democracy. Tens of thousands of supporters of the extreme right mobilized this Tuesday, Independence Day, to attend the coup events called by Jair Bolsonaro in Brasilia and São Paulo. They were important mobilizations although far from summoning the up to two million people promised by the ruler.

“We cannot accept more political pressure in our Brazil, or the head of that (Judicial) Branch does not frame his own or that Branch may suffer what we do not want”, threatened the captain president. He was addressing the head of the Supreme, Luiz Fux, demanding that he box up the rebellious judges, that is to say, independent ones.

The Workers’ Party, social movements, trade unions and the Catholic Church performed mobilizations for the impeachment of Bolsonaro and in defense of democracy in São Paulo, Brasilia and one hundred and fifty other cities (See separate note).

Army Truck

At half past ten in the morning, boarded an army truck with speakers, Bolsonaro delivered a short speech designed primarily to intimidate the Supreme Federal Court. In the same truck was General Walter Souza Braga Netto, Minister of Defense, located within the most Bolsonarist wing of a military party loyal to the government and the authoritarian regime, although he would be crossed by some internal differences such as that expressed by the vice president, Hamilton Mourao.

General Mourao (did not get on the truck in the center of Brasilia) expresses the same neo-fascist convictions as the head of state, from whom he is distinguished by a sober style and his dialogue with economic and political groups disenchanted with the head of state obsessed with generating one crisis after another, and attacking the Powers of the Republic.

From the plain, on the avenue Explanada de los Ministerios, thousands of government stalwarts asked to end the “dictatorship of the toga”, by the closure of the Supreme Court and / or the invasion of the courthouse located about three hundred meters from where it was performed the act. By midmorning the temperature in Brasilia had risen to 30 degrees Celsius with a humidity typical of the Sahara desert, 13 percent.

Dry oven

In that open-air dry furnace, the speaker’s thrusts against justice, but especially against democracy, seemed to be more hurtful. The public protected themselves with white umbrellas or Brazilian flags from the aggressive sun, although not enough to appease the euphoria expressed by the shouts: “myth, myth.” A good number of people with 50 years of age or more were observed, to a large extent arrivals from other provinces such as Goias and Mato Grosso do Sul, whose ranchers financed the transfer of hundreds of groups to the capital. The Esplanade of Ministries crosses a part of the city in a west-east direction culminating in the palaces of the Presidency and the Supreme, one in front of the other.

Bolsonaro chose to hit the Supreme Court, urging disobedience of its rulings. As a preferential target, within the Supreme Court, he chose Judge Alessandro de Moraes whom he attacked in the morning in Brasilia and in the afternoon in São Paulo, where the president climbed to another huge car parked near the Trianon-Masp park, an island of dense semi-forest vegetation in the middle of New York’s Avenida Paulista. There he was accompanied by Captain Tarsicio Gomes de Freitas, Minister of Infrastructure.

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“It is not possible to admit that a single man disturbs our freedom. Alexandre de Moraes ceases to be a scoundrel,” Bolsonaro shot. “Alexandre de Moraes ceases to oppress the people, to censor (…) that all political prisoners be released. “
Strictly speaking, those arrested are not political prisoners but rather suspected of promoting the coup d’état and inciting the murder of magistrates.

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Crimes

Bolsonaro’s bitterness with that magistrate goes on horseback from the campaign to initiate a court that has distanced itself from the executive. Moraes became a person especially non grata since he included the president in an investigation into a “criminal organization” that spreads fake news from the “cabinet of hatred”, which would work in the Planalto Palace itself.

If that cause succeeds, it could expose the pacts between the president and the disinformation industry and send to prison Carlos Bolsonaro, one of the sons of the president in charge of the government’s disinformation strategy and, before the dirty electoral campaign of 2018.

The Bosonaro would have committed several common crimes since they came to power in 2019, in addition to others perpetrated when the family set up a network of diversion and money laundering that allowed them accumulate an equity that is not consistent with your declared income and buy more than ten real estate and land for cash.

Through social networks, Moraes, emphasizing institutionalism, responded to Bolsonaro. “On this September 7 we commemorate our independence, which guaranteed our freedom and which is only strengthened with absolute respect for democracy.”

Patriotism

In San Pablo Bolsonaro, the patriotic sentiment in tune with Independence Day touched quite a bit. “This is the awakening of a nation, I have the certainty that we will be great there forward (when) we will place Brazil in a prominent place in the world,” he proclaimed at almost four thirty in the afternoon. Pretending to be the victim of persecution, he affirmed that he will not give in to pressure. “I want to tell those who want to see me ineligible, there in Brasilia, that only God can get me out of there (Planalto).” “I want to tell the scoundrels that I will never go to prison,” he reinforced in another challenge to justice.

This Tuesday’s attacks against democracy, in front of tens of thousands of followers, have possibly been the most serious carried out by the authoritarian leader since his arrival at the Planalto and will surely lead to responses in the next few days from the opposition and the Supreme Court.

The former PT presidential union, Fernando Haddad, He argued that the statements of this September 7 of the former military are more than enough to open an impeachment process.

Assault on the Capitol

The president and his sons, members of the Bolsonaro Clan, imagine themselves as the tropical mirror of the Trump family. In the first week of last January the deputy and presidential son, Eduardo Bolsonaro, went to the White House to introduce her newborn daughter to Ivanka Trump (Donald’s daughter), with whom she took a family photo. During his time in Washington, Bolsonaro Jr. held meetings with activists linked to the assault on the Capitol, about which he spoke positively on social networks.

This weekend The deputy organized an international extreme right summit in Brasilia, which was attended by another of Trump’s sons, and in which there were more or less explicit comments about the attack on the Capitol. This Monday night Bolsonaro junior joined a group of seditious Brazilians who violated the security cordon established in the center of Brasilia and advanced towards the courthouse threatening to invade it and claiming a coup.

It is possible that the deputy wants to be the one to follow in the footsteps of the Washinngton coup plotters in Brasilia. The threat against the headquarters of the Supreme Court did not materialize on September 7, but it still stands.

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