Brazil is on the verge of a coup
Israeli surveillance tech companies🤝Right-wing Latin American governments
This shit happened in Mexico too, the corrupt PRI ghouls bought Israeli software to spy on journalists and ecologists and hunt them down easier. And then, unsurprisingly, the tech ended up on drug cartels’ hands, pretty much to be used for the same evil purposes, if not worse.
A coup against Jair? I thought he was super far right? Who would replace him?
No, actually the opposite. This year we have elections and since his election in 2018 he has been trying to delegitimize the voting system. He constantly claims that it is being manipulated by the “comunists” for him to lose against Lula in the end of the year. (Lula is far from being a communist btw). Not only that but there are constant people in his goverment (and also people from the military) threatening a coup.
The army recently announced that they will “help” in the results appuration by having a parallel vote counting besides the oficial one.
Lula right now is leading the polls and he might even win in the first round but it doesnt matter because the Bolsonaristas hhave also been trying to delegitimize polls too.
If Lula wins and the army claim it was frauded, they could act claiming they are “protecting” the Brazilian democracy (the same BS they pulled last time)
I’m a bit confused, does the military/higher-ups have a different perspective on ruling Brazil than Bolsonaro does? I know they both dislike Lula, but what if Bolsonaro wins? Will the military challenge him?
They don’t have different perspectives, but they would like to get rid of him. The military has been occupying important postions since Michel Temer’s goverment, it didn’t start with Bolsonaro.
Temer rose to power after a impeachment on president Dilma from the Workers Party (PT) and quickly implemented several anti-democratic and neoliberal reforms that fucked everyone up.
This coup against PT was being planned for a long time with full support of the bourgeoisie, imperialistic forces and the army, but the idea was for someone a little more “contained” to rise to power. Like someone from PSDB, the main opposition party to PT during its governments.
Unfortunately, things got out of hand and Bolsonaro quickly rose in power through controversies. For exemple, he defended the military dictatorship in 64 and during Dilma’s impeachment, he dedicated his vote to the general that tortured her during that time. Not to mention the misoginist/LGBTphobic/racist comments.
He presented himself as the only one capable of having a real chance in defeating Lula in 2018 and this is why the bourgeoisie, army and the media supported him. His vice, Hamilton Mourão, is a general.
But Bolsonaro is dumb as fuck and simply cant shut the fuck up, so he is always involved in polemics, there are also several corruption scandals poping up and that genius is blocking and terminating every investigation (not sus at all). So the media and the army would rather have a more well behaved liberal to run the country instead of a walking mass.
Tldr; If Bolsonaro wins, the military won’t challenge him because he isnt the one in charge. The army is, and Bolsonaro knows that. The second he challenges the army he is gone and his vice would rise to power.
Yea that makes sense actually, Bolsonaro is super childish in a lot of ways
I’m not familiar with it but I get the impression that there are fascist elements in the military looking to help Bolsonaro if he loses.
Exactly
No way they don’t pull some BS in Brazil here soon.
