“I have three alternatives: prison, death or victory. And I take this opportunity to tell these bastards that I will never go to prison! Brazil above all! God above all!”
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Looks like a series.
In one of those dystopias that start with the vociferations of a half-prophet without qualms, continue in violent repressions and end in bloody revolution.
Intrigues where all the fears of the western free world are concentrated.
With this detail that this is not fiction but an extract from one of the many speeches by Jair Bolsonaro, President of the Federative Republic of Brazil since October 28, 2018.
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universal prayer
A harangue that ends with a crudely diverted universal prayer:
“Our Father who art in heaven.
Deliver us from the media, from the left and from the Supreme Court.
Amen!
Amen!
Amen!"
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Certainly the documentary dedicated to him this evening on France 5 in
Le monde opposite
wants to hit hard.
All the more so since it was this Sunday that the Brazilian parliamentary elections took place, the very ones which saw the dazzling breakthrough of the man and his social-liberal party four years ago.
But it sets the tone and immediately invites the viewer to ask themselves this question: How could such an individual have managed to climb the highest steps of power and lead, in the 21st century, such a supposedly enlightened country? than Brazil?
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Co-signed by Ingrid Piponiot and Lætitia Rossi,
Jair Bolsonaro, another Brazil
does not seek to provide a precise answer.
Rare great investigation carried out on the man, from his arrival in South America to his presidency, passing through his engagement in the army, in the midst of a dictatorship, or the genius with which he knew how to make the most of religious fervor and the national passion for football of the Brazilian people or the emergence of social networks, the film also paints the portrait of a fragmented country, whose social fracture is beyond comparison with those of Western countries.
At war with the media
A country in which he has knowingly exacerbated racism, homophobia, religious indoctrination, the fight against abortion, the questioning of the notion of violence against women or gender equality, going so far as to modify the textbooks and to encourage the denunciation of teachers whose remarks could be considered inappropriate.
Political interference is everywhere.
Evangelical pastors occupy ministries as important as the family or education.
However, Brazil is an officially secular country… Jair Bolsonaro, at war against the media, never grants interviews, promoting himself, advised by his sons, on all social networks.
The film, punctuated by some of its most beautiful projections, of those to which even Donald Trump does not
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Some, his relatives, praise him.
The others, journalists, sociologists, political scientists, castigate him, pointing out, for example, his responsibility for the non-management of a health crisis whose toll today stands at 686,000 dead.
Also pointing to his casualness in the face of the tripling of the rate of deforestation of indigenous lands, mainly Amazonian.
Or his repeated attacks, in front of jubilant crowds, against his opponents, particularly women, or minorities.
A history of politics through excess, provocation, vulgarity, buzz and the use of social networks.
The film is uplifting.
Populist, ultra-conservative, ultra-liberal and radicalist, Bolsonaro is not afraid of anything or anyone.
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