Approaching the elections, Jair Bolsonaro, current president of Brazil and candidate for his re -election, multiplies attacks to shake the political stability and the democratic institutions of the country. These attacks are, like the president himself, in the long tradition of the extreme right Brazilian, but also in the new dynamic of the world’s far right.
It has been decades that Bolsonaro attacks democratic institutions and praises the civil-military dictatorship (1964-1985) and its torturers. Since the start of the current campaign, he has been redoubled in efforts to criticize and discredit the Brazilian electoral system, whose reliability is internationally recognized. Here we find the same work of undermining the credibility of the electoral system as at recent events that occurred elsewhere in the world, as in the United States, during the Capitole assault by extremist groups.
In Brazil, the links between the extreme right and the anti -democratic movements do not date from yesterday. Bolsonaro takes over an old system of political beliefs and values that defends an extremely authoritarian and hierarchical vision of society. A system that uses conspiracy theories to persecute and punish political adversaries (which the president “execrates”, according to the term which he employs himself). Let us recall here the fundamental role of slavery and racism in the formation of the national identity of Brazil.
the “tribute” to Goebbels
Historically, the fascist movement of Açao Integlista Brasileira (AIB), “Brazilian integral action”) [1932-1937] and its “green shirts” constituted the first mass political expression of the extreme right Brazilian. AIB was also the largest and most structured fascist organization outside the European continent. Bolsonaro’s political and cultural melting and cultural and cultural and fascist ideology – for example in anti -communist speeches. But the campaign of Bolsonaro and its most devoted supports also makes daily references to the motto “God, homeland, family” so dear to Brazilian integralism.
Among the other references to fascism and authoritarian regimes of the first half of the 20th e century, let us quote mentions of Francoist Spain, the use of slogans of fascist Italy and even The praise of National Socialist Germany, such as the “tribute” paid by Roberto Alvim, then Secretary of State for Culture, to Joseph Goebbels.
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