On the 2nd day the trial begins. He is guilty.
If he had been successful, his opponents would not be in a mansion paid for the waiting for trial: they would have already perished in the basements under torture. Its anklets would be the strings of the Arara stick.
But the trial is not just about Brazilian democracy, much less about the maneuvers of presidential candidates in 2026.
Since Trump has declared war on Brazil because of the trial, the world has noted that we are an important battlefield in the international struggle for democracy.
The British magazine published an article about the title “What Brazil can teach to”. The text shows how Brazil dealt much better with Bolsonaro than the United States with Trump. He concludes: “At least for now, the role of democratic adult of the hemisphere migrated south.”
Trump also seems to agree with: believes Jair’s trial has implications for his own authoritarian movement. This is why Brazil suffers a commercial embargo and was punished with the.
If the Supreme Court and the American Congress have 10% of the Brazilian courage, Trump will not be able to implement the dictatorship he wants in the United States.
Why did Brazil occupy this central place in the global struggle for democracy?
It makes more sense than it seems: Brazil is developed enough to have a reasonable judiciary, but underdeveloped enough to have a recent memory of living under authoritarianism.
This memory, by the way, was constantly reactivated by the pockets themselves, with idolatry to the brilliant Ustra torturer, the recurring compliments to the military dictatorship, Pinochet and Stroessner, the threats of again AI-5, offenses to torture victims.
Since Jair came from this political lineage of scammer military, his threats to democracy were more evident: Jair Bolsonaro was a more “old school” scammer than Trump in his first term, which made him more recognizable as a threat to democracy.
International media, by the way, should research the opinion of Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of Jair and current Xodó of the Trump State Department, on January 6.
In a 2021 interview, Eduardo said that if the invaders of the Capitol were more organized, they would have killed “the police and the congressmen they hate so much.” He added, already thinking about what his father would do: “On the day when the right is 10% from the left, we will have a civil war in all Western countries.”
In Trump’s first term, it was wrong to call Bolsonaro “Trump Tropical”: Jair was much more fascist than Donald, at least until January 6th. Now, in the second term, the US President seems willing to become a “Jair from the North,” dismantling American democracy with alarming speed.
The ministers who will judge Jair should be aware of what they are doing: in addition to punishing those who threatened Brazilian democracy, they will give a message to candidates for dictator around the world. Democracy needs to prove that it takes longer to tighten the trigger, but it has a better target than fascism.
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