The opportunity was given and it could echo more than the 7th of September. Just two weeks before the elections, Jair Bolsonaro spoke for 20 minutes at the opening of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly in front of the highest global leaders. The theme of the event, A Decisive Moment: Transforming Solutions for Interconnected Challenges, would be a beautiful ball raise for the President of the Republic to place Brazil as a fundamental part in the process of building a low carbon economy, based on the bioeconomy and more inclusive. . But Bolsonaro was not surprised. As usual, he mistook the pulpit for a platform and did what he knows: speak to his people in a narrative manipulated to aggrandize his government.
In the text read, he defended that his administration “spared no effort to save lives and preserve jobs” during Covid, despite the country registering more than 685,000 deaths and having reached an unemployment rate of 14.9% in March 2021, according to the IBGE. It also went through economic aspects. “Despite the global crisis, Brazil reaches the end of 2022 with an economy in full recovery”. It omitted, however, that it commands the 4th country with the highest inflation in the G20, according to Quantzed. But it was on the socio-environmental agenda that Bolsonaro most embarrassed the country.
He guaranteed that Brazil is less poor, despite a report by the Penssan network pointing out that 33.1 million Brazilians are hungry, 14 million more than in 2020. As for the environment, he praised that the country is “a source of international credibility ”, which caused a reaction from international organizations such as WWF-Brasil. “At the end of these four years of mandate, the legacy is of ascending curves of destruction, such as deforestation and fires, threatening the country’s climate security”, was the position of the entity. According to MapBiomas, very different from Bolsonaro’s claim that two-thirds of the country is still native forest, coverage today is 66%.
But none of this ritual seemed to really interest Bolsonaro. What he really wanted was the post-event. Unceremoniously, he left his role as head of state for a barbecue. In the Brazilian house Fogo de Chão, fawned over by four ministers, the head of the Special Secretariat for Strategic Affairs, the president of the Chamber and Pastor Silas Malafaia, gathered dozens of supporters. He took pictures, made video and preened himself in the role of supposed celebrity. Instead of being among the world leaders, he preferred his cheerleading. But to understand Bolsonaro’s soul, it’s worth reading Caetano Veloso’s lyrics: “It’s just that Narciso thinks what isn’t a mirror is ugly”.
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