From Anhangabaú to Ribeirão Preto, a country surrounded by “myth” and “do the L”.
Three hundred kilometers separated the worlds of Lula and Jair Bolsonaro on this May 1st.
Surrounded by thousands of workers, the president was speaking in São Paulo’s Anhangabaú Valley, promising to take care of app workers, usually drivers and delivery workers, and charging the high interest rates imposed by the Central Bank. The event was called by the union headquarters on the occasion of Labor Day. On the agenda: salary, labor law, unemployment.
Meanwhile, arm in arm with the governor of São Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas, Bolsonaro climbed into a farm machine to listen to the cries of the farmers in Ribeirão Preto, in the interior of the state. “Myth! Myth! Myth!” cried the Bolsonarists gathered at the country’s largest agri-food fair, Agrishow.
The former president, who has not yet come to terms with the defeat, defines Lula as a “citizen who stays in the Palace”. In an unofficial speech, as the opening of the fair was cancelled, Bolsonaro insisted on attacking one of the main measures of the PT government last week: the demarcation of six indigenous territories.
“You should know that there are 400 requests for the delimitation of indigenous lands and at least 3,500 from quilombolas. And that guy said he would do his best to satisfy the wishes of the communities. If 10% is satisfied, where will our agro go?” ? I ask God that this doesn’t happen,” Bolsonaro told Ribeirão Preto.
“We can no longer live in a country where the interest rate does not control inflation. In fact, it controls unemployment in that country, because it is responsible for part of the situation we live in today,” Lula told Anhangabaú.
The Bolsonarist discourse brings nothing new to his strategy of electing great enemies to snatch away his allies. On the indigenous question, with this speech, Jair Bolsonaro shows why he let the Yanomami live _ and die _ in petition to poverty. Indigenous people and the quilombolas, the original peoples, are obstacles, according to him, to agribusiness. He thinks the same way about the mines and, for this reason, he has allowed the miners to occupy the indigenous lands. The rest is history.
It is curious to see that a high-tech agricultural fair still lives on the pure juice of political backwardness. The lack of concern for indigenous peoples and the environment has prevented Brazilian agribusiness from taking off on the world market. They know.
The world has changed and good practices and corporate values have been in constant demand from governments, partners and consumers. Agrishow isn’t a dozen landowners sitting on their porches with their guns. It is an event that moved R$ 11.3 billion in business last year.
According to Bolsonaro, it is a market that can walk on its own if the politician “does not interfere”. A delayed speech and no mention of the millions of workers who put this billion-dollar piece of equipment to work, in the middle of Labor Day, is what shows just how tight the country is.
You can yell “myth” all you want. Reality will not change. It is useless to call Lula “that boy”, “ex prisoner” or “citizen who lives in the Palazzo”. By the way, this last expression connotes that the president has usurped power. It’s not the case. He was elected by the majority, even in the face of maneuvers that have appeared to prevent his constituents from voting.
You may be a billionaire, but agribusiness depends on the government. Agrishow was wrong to disinvite the Minister of Agriculture, who was right not to participate in the event. In fact, given today’s weather, it would be booed. Luckily for him he did not go.
Source: Terra
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