The unrest came after President Lula unveiled ambitious environmental plans that threaten interest groups who rely on exploiting the Amazon
and banners falsely claiming the presidential election was fraudulent and urging the army to intervene. Their numbers dwindled and most people, including soldiers, ignore them. Strangely though, they have remained remarkably well provisioned with food supplies and marquees to shelter from rainy season storms. Sore losers are rarely so well funded.
These are the foot soldiers, who will face allegations of illegal entry, destruction of property and possibly insurrection. Now the attention will shift to the powers behind them. Even before Sunday’s riots, the president of the superior electoral court, Alexandre de Moraes, ordered an investigation into the funding and organisation of the protest camps that sprang up around the country after Lula’s victory. In November,
All eyes are now on the security forces. The army’s loyalties would seem to be with Bolsonaro. Generals played a prominent role in the last administration and Bolsonaro was a former army captain and enthusiastic supporter of Brazil’s last military dictatorship from 1964-85. That regime started with a coup and focused considerable energy on opening the Amazon to exploitation by sympathetic business groups.Brazil’s leftist president, João Goulart, was toppled in a coup in April 1964.
But the regime, while less notoriously violent than those in Argentina and Chile, was also responsible for murdering or killing hundreds of its opponents and imprisoning thousands more. Among those jailed and tortured were Brazil’s first female president, Dilma Rousseff, then a leftwing rebel. Civilian rule returned the following year and a new constitution was introduced in 1988. The following year Brazil held its first direct presidential election in nearly three decades.So far, the army – unlike sections of the military police – has ignored the coup-mongers’ entreaties.The climate crisis made Bolsonaro an international villain and Brazil a pariah, which was bad for trade.
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