On Sunday, January 8, 2023, a week after the inauguration of Brazil's fresh president Luiza Inácio Luli da Silva, respective 1000 supporters of erstwhile president Jair Bolsonaro occupied the buildings of Congress, ultimate Court and the seat of the president in the Square of the 3 Authorities in the capital of the country of Brasília.
The buildings during the storm were almost deserted and L. I. Lula da Silva was at that time in the state of São Paulo. The buildings were demolished and the works of art contained therein. After 3 hours, safety forces restored order. any 300 demonstrators were arrested and another 1,200 nomadic in front of the Armed Forces office building the following day. According to unconfirmed information, on the night of 8 January, however, the army was to prevent the Military Police Department of the national territory from breaking up the Bolsonar camp, creating a barrier around it, including 3 armored cars. According to the Minister of Communications Paula Pimenta During the riots, weapons were besides stolen from warehouses liable for the safety of government buildings of the organization safety Office headed by a general presently appointed by J. Bolsonaro at remainder Marco Edson Gonçalves Dias.
Policy response
I. Lula da Silva, Minister of Justice Flávio Dino and Minister-Secretary for organization Relations Alexandre Padilha They announced an investigation and held the guilty organization liable for organizing and participating in the riots. The president issued with São Paulo a decree requiring the government to reconstruct order in the national District. national territory politician Ibaneis Rocha (suspended in activities for 90 days) dismissed from his post of safety in Anderson Torres' capital. All roadblocks set up by Bolsonarians in different locations of the country were to be removed and all their Twitter, Tik-Toku, Instagram and Facebook profiles were to be blocked.
The president of Brazil was supported by the president of the home of Deputies of the Brazilian legislature Arthur Lira (Working Party); Vice-President of the Chamber of Deputies Luciano Bivar (central-right Brazil Union); president of the legislature and national legislature Rodrigo Pacheco In a joint message by the President, the national ultimate Court, the ultimate Electoral Court, the ultimate Court of Justice, the Chief Labour Court, the ultimate Military Court besides supported the following.
Participants in the riots were condemned by representatives of the Workers organization (Port. Partido de Trabalhadores, PT), Ciro Gomes from the Democratic Workers' organization (portal of Partido Democrático Trabalhist, PDT), the Brazilian Democratic Movement (portal of Movimento Democrático Brasileiro, MDB), the Sustainable improvement Network (portal of Rede Sustentabilidade, RED), the organization of Brazilian Socialemocracy (portal of Partido de Social Democracy Brasileira, PSDB), the centrist Avante. The riot besides condemned many supporters of J. Bolsonaro: Gustavo Gayer, Carlo Portinho and Cláudio Cathro from the Liberal organization (port. Partido Liberal, PL), Tarcisiode Freitas and Hamilton Mourão from Republicans (port. Republicanos), Sérgio Moro from the Union of Brazil (UNIÃO), Romeu Zema from the fresh organization (Port. Partido Novo, NOVO). Instead, an Evangelical minister supported the demonstrators Silas Malafaia.
President Jair Bolsonaro himself fled to Orlando, Florida, USA 2 days before the end of his term, where he is inactive here today. J. Bolsonaro, who had previously encouraged his supporters to show with suggestions that electronic votes cast in the October 30 elections could be falsified, supported the right to democratic demonstrations, but condemned the assault of public buildings. His boy Flavio Bolsonaro denied the president's relation with the riot authors. They were besides denied by the ex-president himself.
External actor reaction
Riots in the Brazilian capital were condemned by all regional leaders; Venezuelan president Nicolás MaduroPresident of Cuba Miguel Díaz-CanelPresident of Bolivia Luis Arcethe president of Colombia Gustavo PetroPresident of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the Secretary for abroad Affairs of that State Marcelo Ebrard, president of Argentina Alberto Fernández and vice president of this country Cristina Férnandez de KirchnerPresident of Costa Rica Carlos Alvarado Quesada, president of Chile, president of Ecuador and Minister of abroad Affairs of that country, Minister of abroad Affairs of Peru, president and Minister of abroad Affairs of Uruguay, president of Paraguay, Prime Minister of Canada, and Secretary-General of the Washington State Organisation (OPA) policy transmission belt.
- I. Lula da Silva besides received his support from the spokesperson of the Ministry of abroad Affairs of China Wanga Wenbina, spokesperson for the president of Russia Dmitry DoggyPrime Minister of India Narendra Modi, U.S. Ambassador to Brazil, U.S. President, U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. President's National safety Advisor, and leader of the Democratic faction in the U.S. home of Representatives. The French President, the Spanish Prime Minister, the Portuguese Prime Minister and the Portuguese Minister for abroad Affairs, the UK Minister for abroad Affairs, the Italian Prime Minister and the Italian Minister for abroad Affairs, the Polish President, the EU advanced typical for abroad and safety Policy and the president of the European Parliament besides expressed support.
Solidarity with L. I. Lula da Silva was besides expressed by nonconformist politicians to the left: Jean-Luc Mélenchon from France, Jeremy Corbyn from the UK and Alexis Tsipras from Greece.
External causes of failure
As can be seen from the above calculations, the "revolution" initiated by J. Bolsonaro's supporters was devoid of any chance of success, as it was not supported by any crucial authority within or abroad. "Bolsonarians" called on the military to dismiss L. I. Luli da Silva, while as early as March 2021 it refused to support the president himself in his then conflict with the state authorities and the national ultimate Court; in protest of the President's effort to introduce a state of emergency and later of war and to dismiss the Minister of Defence, then the commanders of the army, fleet and aviation resigned, while J. Bolsonaro had to appoint reluctant officers in their place.
At least since the 1940s, erstwhile in 1943, the Brazilian Expeditcionária Brasileira (FEB) was created and in 1949, modelled at the Yankee National War College, the Higher Military School (Escola Superior de Guerra, ESG), the Armed Forces of Brazil (Port. Forças Armadas Brasileiras) are full politically and geostrategically controlled by the US. While in the period of the “first” Cold War Washington applied in practice lined up by Jeane Kirkpatrick the rule of "double standards", tolerating anti-communist dictatorships, but in the conditions of the current "New Cold War", he decidedly departed from it. The Bolsonarians could not so find support in either the Brazilian army and the Brazilian "deep state" or in Washington.
Internal Causes of Failure
The causes of the failure of the 8th January revolution lie besides in Bolsonism itself; the Brazilian right is demoliberic and the rejection of the strategy is beyond the horizon of its political imagination. Bolsonarians do not fight against demoliberalism, globalisation and capitalism, but they want to defend democracy, capitalism, Christianity and defined through them the West against the "communist dictatorship". L. I. Lula da Silva, however, was already president from 2003 to 2011, and his governments did not endanger either speculative capital – which even began to flow into Brazil at the time or the demoliberal System. L. I. Lula da Silva is not a "Brazilian Chavez" or "Brazilian Castro", but a non-threatening social democrat. The military and the U.S. have no reason to disprove it due to the fact that it does not endanger their interests.
In turn, the ideals of Bolsonarians are not corporate, authoritarian, social solidarity, a Catholic state or monarchy, nor is it any identity order, but a demoliber right. Bolsonarians are so not an alternate to the strategy in Brazil, thus not capable of overthrowing it. So their revolution must have lost, just as all their movement is doomed to failure.
Realism and Hope
From an identity point of view, Bolsonism does not represent any value. Against his background, even more interesting is the Social politician L. I. Lula da Silva, who at least in abroad policy pursues the ideas of "merdonialism", i.e. the establishment of Brazil in a polycentric world, and in interior politics, unlike Bolsonarians, is aware of the importance of environmental issues and delicate to the problems of the identity of the indigenous peoples of Brazil. However, the failed Bolsonarian coup shows that the strategy can besides be overcome by street revolution. You just request to know why you do it and what to do after the fact. And at least guarantee the neutrality of the applicable authorities inside and/or outside the state.
Ronald Lasecki
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