He was born poor in Northeastern Brazil in a home with dirt floors. Imagine if you could combine, say, Obama and Mahatma Gandhi. He’s not just a political figure in Brazil. See, people here have no doubt that Lula is innocent. And they locked Lula up because they knew that without a doubt at 3pm today he would have been sworn in as president.” “I want to cry,” she says, “because we believe that everything that’s happening is a coup. She wears red, the color of the Workers’ Party. She’s from Brasilia, where she teaches geography and history in prisons. She traveled a full 23 hours by bus for today’s rally. They float high into the air – A symbol of their hope that Lula will soon be free, and of their commitment to not give up. As Bolsonaro takes office in Brasilia, Lula’s supporters are holding their own ceremony outside the Curitiba federal prison, calling for his release.Īt the moment Bolsonaro is sworn in, they release hundreds of red balloons. That’s what people here say about Lula’s conviction, that it was just a political attack and a means of keeping him from returning to power. And, depending on who you talk to, he is either on a crusade to rid the country of corruption, or working to tank the left through biased lawsuits with scant evidence. He is one of the country’s highest-profile judges. But the country’s top electoral court barred him from running due to a controversial corruption conviction. Former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been in prison here for eight months.Īccording to all the polls, Lula had been on track to win the 2018 presidential election – If he had been allowed in the race. It’s a day of mourning for many on the political left.īut in Southern Brazil, hundreds have descended on an unlikely residential neighborhood in the outskirts of the city of Curitiba. He also names more former military officials to his cabinet than any other president since the dictatorship. He abolishes the labor ministry, dissolves the Ministry of Environment into the Ministry of Agriculture, and appoints an Evangelical pastor to head the newly renamed Ministry of Women, Human Rights, and Family. Within 24 hours, Bolsonaro would completely reorganize the Brazilian government.
“Great inauguration speech - The USA is with you!” he writes. US president Donald Trump congratulates him over twitter. We cannot let wicked ideologies divide Brazilians,” he says, “ideologies that destroy our values and traditions, destroy our families, the foundation of our society,” It’s a nod to the culture war that he has used to catapult himself to power. “Free themselves from inverted values, big government, and the politically correct. “Today is the day that the people begin to free themselves from socialism,” Bolsonaro says after being sworn in. They wear Bolsonaro t-shirts and wave Brazilian flags. Turnout is lower than expected, but he’s still greeted by over 100,000 supporters. He’s wearing a dark suit and tie, and he’s in the back of a black antique convertible Rolls-Royce. The country’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro, rides into the ceremony through the streets of Brasilia. Michael Fox: January 1st, 2019: Inauguration Day. This podcast is produced in partnership between The Real News Network and NACLA. Hosted by Latin America-based journalist Michael Fox. We’ll visit the birthplace of Brazilian Nazism, evangelical churches, and Indigenous villages in the Amazon. Over these six episodes we look at Bolsonaro’s far-right government that has set the country ablaze, and how the United States helped him do it. This is Brazil on Fire, a podcast about Brazil’s descent toward fascism under President Jair Bolsonaro. In this episode, we look at the fight to free former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from prison, the corruption investigation that jailed him, the role of the United States, and what it all means ahead of the 2022 election, as Lula again leads in the polls. But that opponent was jailed on supposed corruption charges by a biased judge, six months out from the election, and blocked from running. For most of that electoral season, someone else was ahead in the polls.
The election of president Jair Bolsonaro was never a foregone conclusion.
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