I'm not familiar with politics in Brazil but aren't the last guy that run the country some called him Brazil's Trump? From what I'm hear that guy is worst than the current guy which is from my perspective seems moderate. Any Brazilian care to clarify objectively?
Yes. Bolsonaro. The Trump from the Tropics as they call him.
The guy planned a violent coup and failed. He couldn't get the all military branches to back him, just one. There's plenty of evidence and a long list of crimes.
He knows he's going to jail and with him the dreams of the extreme right.
To me all of this sounds like the dying scream of a cornered beast.
I'm not quoting anyone. You can independently check all facts on the links I provided. They're not opinion pieces. They're just facts. There was an attempt to bomb an airport to create chaos. There were people blocking roads and camping on military bases asking for a coup. There was an invasion to the congress and to the SJ building by people asking for a military coup. There are confessions from military generals that Bolsonaro approached them to back his coup attempt. These are all facts available in plain sight for anyone to see.
>>> There was an invasion to the congress and to the SJ building by people asking for a military coup.
> Vandalism is not the same as a coup attempt.
Even the jailed people in the coup attempt confessed that their intent there was trying to prevent the elected president to govern, several of them were very vocal supporting a military dictatorship.
>>> There are confessions from military generals that Bolsonaro approached them to back his coup attempt.
> Lie. He approached them about declaring emergency state. This is a constitutional measure. Dilma did the same thing, by the way.
You are the one lying. Some people involved, like Tenent Mauro Cid and the army commander Marco Antônio Freire Gomes, delated Bolsonaro and confirmed the coup attempt.
What does this have to do with anything the former president did?
> Even the jailed people in the coup attempt confessed that their intent there was trying to prevent the elected president to govern
Really? How? With Brazilian flags and bibles?
> several of them were very vocal supporting a military dictatorship.
Vocal support of something does not make one guilty of a coup. There are many vocal supporters of a communist dictatorship in Brazil. Should they go to jail?
> Tenent Mauro Cid and the army commander Marco Antônio Freire Gomes, delated Bolsonaro and confirmed the coup attempt.
Didn't the supreme court recently say plea bargains were an instrument of torture in the 21st century? ;)
Mauro Cid also said in leaked conversations that he was forced talk about things he didn't know about and that the Supreme Court already has a sentence ready, before the end of the investigations. Multiple justices have given interviews about their conclusions before the judgement. Who is going to investigate this?
This whole thing is farce sustained by corrupt courts, corrupt media and bought out rubber stamp media.
> Is camping and asking for a thing a crime? What is the crime?
Article 286 - Inciting, publicly, the commission of a crime:
Penalty - imprisonment, from three to six months, or a fine.
Sole Paragraph. The same penalty applies to anyone who publicly incites animosity between the Armed Forces or between them and the constitutional powers, civil institutions, or society. (Included by Law No. 14,197, of 2021)
The current president is quite left wing, at least by US standards. He was also president before. Then was charged with corruption. Then the chargers were annulled. I don't think you are going to get particularly unbiased answers about him from a predominately US website.
The last guy certainly is brazilian trump. I wouldn't call him worse than this literal world touring champagne socialist though. Brazilian trump said a lot of profoundly stupid things but I think he did alright managing the economy despite the pandemic and russian war. Current guy is spending money like there's no tomorrow and basically undid any and all progress last guy made out of spite.
He's lying. Lula is corrupt? Of course he is. Just as corrupt as anyone that came before and after him. But he's far from being the biggest criminal. He's the first president in BR history to really narrow the gap of social inequality.
That's why the extreme right hates him and persecuted him until he was illegally jailed. He was so popular that they were afraid that he would be able to install a communist government in Brazil.
But Lula is just a populist. He's center left and friends with all big bankers. He's far from a communist. But he's no angel.
