The na military operation took just a few hours to be absorbed by Brazilians and converted into internal political fuel.
Data from Palver’s monitoring of more than 100,000 public WhatsApp groups shows that, since the early hours of Saturday (3), thousands of messages have circulated about the episode, with an estimated reach of more than 1 million people in the sample.
In just a few hours, what was an international fact began to function as a central argument in domestic political disputes.
The dominant reaction was one of celebration. Messages favorable to American intervention concentrated the largest volume and spread faster than other readings. On average, the forwarding rate for these messages was 120%.
The tone was emotional, triumphalist and aggressive. This performance was associated with formats ready for viralization, such as long standardized texts, videos and links, designed for cascading and large-scale repetition.
A few hours later, the focus began to shift. Venezuela began to function as a mirror of Brazilian politics. Maduro was associated with , and the operation was transformed into a symbol of promise or internal threat.
Explicit calls for impeachment, punishments for Supreme Court ministers and institutional disruption began to circulate more frequently. An external conflict was converted into a direct tool for domestic political mobilization.
On Saturday afternoon, critical readings of the operation began to emerge. Messages began to point out strategic interests of the United States, with emphasis on Venezuelan oil, and to compare the episode to previous interventions such as in Iraq and Libya.
These messages had much lower forwarding rates. The forwarding rate for these messages was 30%.
On the other hand, these readings were more present in organic debates and direct discussions within the groups. Instead of circulating through packaged content, they manifested themselves as responses, counterpoints and arguments in the flow of conversations.
On a smaller scale, conspiracy theories are growing that connect the episode to supposed global agreements between great powers.
In these messages, the operation in Venezuela was presented as part of an informal reorganization of the international system, in which the United States, Russia and China would be sharing zones of influence.
Venezuela would appear as an area under American control, while Ukraine would be accepted as a Russian sphere and Taiwan under Chinese management. Multilateral organizations such as the UN appear as irrelevant or as silent accomplices to this arrangement, indicating the collapse of international rules.
In this context, narratives began to circulate, timidly but consistently, arguing that Brazil should develop its own nuclear weapons as a way of guaranteeing sovereignty, under the premise that international law had ceased to be valid and that only nuclear deterrence would guarantee protection in a world ruled by force.
The impact of this process goes beyond Venezuela. He reveals how the Brazilian information environment absorbs external crises and transforms them into shortcuts for internal disputes. Force became normalized as an acceptable instrument of conflict resolution.
The debate about legality, sovereignty and institutional limits gained centrality, and politics enters the logic of radicalism, in which people bet on all or nothing and trust less in institutional mediation processes.
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