Lula repeals Jair Bolsonaro’s laws, including a decree extending licenses for mining to be exploited on tribal land. (Photo: Twitter @adonaitechvzla)
The cables say that former Brazilian President Jair Messias Bolsonaro was greeted like a rock star upon his arrival at the airport in the city of Orlando, Florida, accompanied by 31 elements protecting his safety, although video of it and testimonies from local acquaintances gave them assumes that the elements present there are already ancient, some of them known, worm elements of the Latin American nations where the Left rules today.
Jair, who did not attend Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s inauguration, said he won the elections fraudulently and urged his supporters to keep up all kinds of opposition to any official action counter to the “cause”. .
This new trip by Bolsonaro quickly became one of the most talked about topics among Brazilians, where many accused him of “fleeing” the country to avoid possible legal problems once his term ends and he loses his special privileges, since, among other things investigates things for spreading false information.
The General Secretariat of the Presidency authorized the relocation of a delegation of officials abroad to “provide security and personal assistance to future former President of the Republic, Jair Messias Bolsonaro” on an international trip to “Miami, USA.” the first by January 30, 2023”, as officially published.
For the analyst Geomar de Souza from the political consultancy Dharma, it is an “attempt to continue to deny reality, to delegitimize the next government”. “A president walking through the presidential sash conveys the idea that the election is over and enables the country to be pacified. With his absence, it’s like Bolsonaro telling his supporters that he refuses to accept the result,” he said.
In Florida, he will meet up with his usual relatives and visit places he considers his fiefdom, like that medical school in 2020 where he raved against Cuban doctors.
The ex-president maintains the same attitude as Donald Trump of not recognizing his opponent’s victory and creating belligerence around him.
Not long ago, intellectual and political scientist Noam Chomsky described Trump as the most murderous North American president in the United States, largely for stopping treatment for COVID-19, which is exactly what Bolsonaro was doing in Brazil and causing the most deaths in Latin America, globally surpassed only by the United States.
During his most recent visit to Florida, Jair met with Trump at his private residence at Club Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, and the meeting focused on Venezuela. The Brazilian had just withdrawn his diplomats from Caracas, just as another visitor to the Donald, Iván Duque, had done.
The Brazilian had another appointment where Venezuela was a key point: a meeting with Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, two of the biggest anti-Maduro activists in Florida and within the Republican Party.
CORRECT ANSWER
But the former Brazilian president was forced to sip a cup of Acibar when President Lula ordered the resumption of diplomatic ties with Venezuela.
Lula wasted no time in issuing more decrees that undid Bolsonaro’s policies.
Within hours of taking office, he slammed civilian acquisitions of guns and permits for rifle clubs to open pending new regulations, reducing the number of guns a citizen could have in his home from six to three.
Another decree concerns the extension of the fuel tax cut, which Bolsonaro had planned as an elective measure only until December 31.
As announced during the campaign and reiterated in his inaugural address, Lula facilitated the payment of R$600 in social assistance to poor families, which will again be called the Bolsa Família, as it was in his first term.
The support, which he received under a constitutional amendment he was able to approve with Congressional approval before taking office, includes a salary of $120 (plus $30 per child) for each worker with no registered income. The decrees had not been made public, but they were announced by the presidential press as soon as the reform of the structure of government was ordered, also by decree, bringing the number of ministries to 37.
In the group of decrees expressing the new economic direction, Lula removed the Petrobras oil company from the privatization package announced by his predecessor. The logistics of Correaos and the Brazilian Communication Company (EBC), the public media network, were also dropped from the sales plan.
In education, a regulation allowing special schools only for students with disabilities and another dealing with community participation in the discussion and development of public policies were repealed. He had anticipated everything in his first speech, in which the leader promised to “respond to the hopes of a suffering people”.
Another of the urgent measures signed was the re-establishment of the Amazon Fund, an international donation box commanded by Norway and Germany, despised by the Bolsonaro government and aimed at the productive development of Amazon communities.
On the first day of his third term, alongside the inauguration of the cabinet, Lula signed the regulations removing the hundred-year-old secret decrees Bolsonaro issued on various issues, including his vaccination book and visits to the Palace of Plan Alto and the Palacio de la Alborada ( official seat).
TO PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT
In his first official speech, he promised to end illegal deforestation in the Amazon and protect indigenous peoples.
“We cannot admit that (the Amazon) is a lawless country, we will not tolerate the environmental destruction that has caused so much damage to our country,” the Labor Party leader said in a statement before Congress, in Brazil .
Lula, 77, explained that Brazil “can be on the global frontline” and that to do so it will embark on “an appropriate energy transition” aimed at “eliminating greenhouse gas emissions.”
“Brazil does not need to deforest to increase its agricultural frontier,” he insisted, at odds with the four-year tenure of former President Jair Bolsonaro, a defender of mineral and timber exploitation in indigenous reserves, which sparked deforestation and fires in Brazil’s largest tropical forest on earth .
Lula emphasized that Brazilians could live “without cutting down” trees or “without invading the biomes”, but at the same time said that they would promote the regularization of land for its sustainable productive use.
He also stood up in defense of the indigenous peoples who had been abandoned by the previous government.
“No one knows the forests better than those who were here from time immemorial,” and said he will resume demarcation of indigenous lands paralyzed during the four-year tenure of Bolsonaro, leader of Brazil’s far-right.
“Each demarcated land is a new environmental area (…) We will end all injustices against indigenous peoples,” he said.
