The two Brazil faced

Jair Bolsonaro, president of Brazil, during a rally in Florida. Alan Santos (EFE/Palacio De Planalto)

Few doubts remain.

The Brazilian presidential elections next October will be a duel between the current far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, and the progressive former president, Lula da Silva.

At the same time they will serve to outline a new divided and confronted country like never before.

From an analysis carried out by Joelmir Tavares in the newspaper

through the numerous electoral polls that are being carried out almost every day, it is clear that today there are two countries in conflict that are reflected in the categories of voters.

Thus vanishes the myth of the Brazil of the future in which even God was Brazilian and who aspired to be the engine of Latin America.

The Brazil that is emerging from the polls, divided Solomonically, is, according to Felipe Nunes, director of the Quaest electoral polling company, a country torn not only politically but also "socially and emotionally."

Something that becomes clearer every day, analyzing the voters of the two candidates who monopolize 80% of the votes, reveals that Lula's Brazil is strongly in the majority and could decide the elections already in the first round.

Bolsonaro's Brazil is made up above all of the rich, whites, men, businessmen, evangelicals and the Armed Forces.

And Lula's Brazil, on the contrary, is made up of the poorest, blacks, those who suffer from hunger, the unemployed, women, young people and Catholics.

They are two Brazils today in conflict that seem irreconcilable not politically but socially.

It is not that the Brazil that announces its vote for Lula is the democratic Brazil and that of Bolsonaro the fascist, since in both there are common populist traits such as attacks on the media or certain economic convergences.

To simplify, Brazil is divided between the satisfied and the outcasts of society.

And if it is true that Bolsonarist Brazil is authoritarian and even pro-coup, it is also true that the poorest and most marginalized electorate that votes for Lula and is in the majority does not do so much to defend the values ​​of democracy, which affects them little. in their hard life as outcasts.

They vote for him because they have the echo of his previous governments in which hunger was eliminated for the first time in history and Brazil came to be admired in the world.

A humorous vignette that runs through social networks graphically reflects what the poorest feel in the face of the galloping inflation of the Government that is dragging them into misery.

In the vignette appears a barbecue equipped with meat and sausages in abundance and another in which there are only bones and chicken feet.

The first reads: "Lula barbecue" and the second "Bolsonaro barbecue."

The serious thing about this tear that divided Brazil is experiencing is that Bolsonaro's, who is that of the wealthy, flirts with the Armed Forces whom he has showered with benefits of all kinds, even the most hilarious, such as offering free viagra and artificial penises.

Bolsonaro threatens not to accept a possible defeat at the polls, which he considers easy to manipulate, despite the fact that it was there that he was elected deputy and later president.

That is why he has asked that the military be the ones to control the results of the voting, something that is unconstitutional.

This is what has led the columnist for the newspaper

, Miriam Letao, who was tortured during the dictatorship, to write that the silence of the Armed Forces in the face of Bolsonaro's daily attacks on democracy and his threats of a coup is terrifying. .

And this is the great unknown that torn Brazil is experiencing, whether the Army will know how to fulfill its mission within the margins of democracy and the Constitution, as it has done until now since the end of the military dictatorship, or whether it will allow itself to be dragged along by the dalliances of the former captain.

From all this it is deduced every day that the presidential elections have become one of the most serious moments in modern Brazil that could be dragged into a confrontation not only political and social but also fratricidal.

In his first meeting with the US president during the Summit of the Americas, Bolsonaro, an inveterate friend of Trump, humiliated himself to ask him to help him so that "Lula did not win the elections."

The gesture created fright in the parties and it has already been requested that his candidacy be invalidated.

Bolsonaro and his most faithful and fanatical followers are determined to do anything in order not to lose the elections and for the left to govern again, although this time it is a left that reaches the elections at the hands of even center-right parties.

And no matter how much the conservative forces in Congress that have adopted Bolsonaro with the idea of ​​being able to control his coup pretense do everything possible to "Christianize" him, it always ends up getting out of hand.

These same days he has returned with coup threats: “If necessary we will go to war.

I want the people by my side."

And he wants him armed.

Simple bravado or real danger of dragging the country into chaos that would compromise not only democracy but also its already battered economy and the image of a country that is losing pride in being admired in the world?

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