THE NEW YORKER: SOB TEMER, CAOS NO BRASIL PROMETE NOVAS EXPLOSÕES
"As coisas não vão bem no Brasil", escreve na revista The New Yorker desta semana o prestigiado jornalista e escritor John Lee Anderson; depois de historiar a crise dos dois últimos anos no Brasil, destacando os casos de corrupção, a Lava Jato e o impeachment de Dilma Rousseff, ele fala dos confrontos violentos nos presídios e da crise de segurança e diz que "Temer e seus aliados se movem rapidamente para desfazer o legado de 13 anos do PT, em cujos governos o país tornou-se um dos maiores exportadores de commodities no auge do boom da China (...). A maioria desses ganhos está agora em risco, com Temer instituindo medidas de austeridade e um congelamento de 20 anos em todos os gastos públicos. Com a situação social em ruínas, o Brasil tem todos os ingredientes para enfrentar novas explosões"
247 - "As coisas não vão bem no Brasil", escreve na revista The New Yorker desta semana o prestigiado jornalista e escritor John Lee Anderson.
Depois de historiar a crise dos dois últimos anos no Brasil, destacando os casos de corrupção, a Lava Jato e o impeachment da ex-presidente Dilma Rousseff, ele fala dos confrontos violentos nos presídios e da crise de segurança, especialmente no Espírito Santo. E assim resume o que se passa no País depois da posse de Michel Temer."Temer e seus aliados se movem rapidamente para desfazer o legado de 13 anos do PT, sob Rousseff e seu antecessor Lula, em cujos governos o país tornou-se um dos maiores exportadores de commodities no auge do boom da China. O Brasil tornou-se membro dos Brics e um player global, enquanto em casa um programa popular, Bolsa Família, ergueu 40 milhões da pobreza", escreve.
"A maioria desses ganhos está agora em risco, com Temer instituindo medidas de austeridade e um congelamento de 20 anos em todos os gastos públicos. Com a situação social em ruínas, o Brasil tem todos os ingredientes para enfrentar novas explosões", completa o jornalista.
Confira aqui o artigo em inglês no site da New Yorker.
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NEWS DESK
CHAOS IN BRAZIL: MORE TO COME?
By Jon Lee Anderson
February 10, 2017
Brazil’s
social and economic tensions are giving way to eruptions of
violence, like a spate of murders in the Vitória area after a
police strike.PHOTOGRAPH BY DIEGO HERCULANO / AP
Things
are not well in Brazil. The country’s social and economic
tensions are rising and seem increasingly prone to erupt into
violence. For the past six days, for instance, there has been a
frenzy of looting, mugging, rioting, and murder in and around
Vitória, which anchors a metropolitan area of about two
million and is the capital of the state of Espírito Santo, north
of Rio de Janeiro. The reason for the mayhem is the absence of
police officers, after Espírito Santo’s force went
on strike last Saturday to demand that its pay be doubled.
The police union has said that its members have not received raises
in four years. Family members of the officers have joined the
strike by creating human barricades around the state’s police
stations.
The
effects were fairly immediate: by Tuesday, there had been fifty-two
murders, and by Thursday the body count had reportedly climbed to
more than a hundred. (In January, just four murders were recorded
in the Vitória area.) The federal government has sent in twelve
hundred Army troops as well as a special police task force, but
they have not yet halted the chaos—and the police have not yet
gone back to work. The country is on edge, and there are fears that
a similar police strike could occur in Rio, where hundreds of
officers protested government budgets in the run-up to the Olympics
last year.
Even
with police on the job, and at the best of times, the rule of law
is a relative concept in Brazil. The country has dramatic economic
imbalances and suffers from extremely high rates of violent crime.
Brazil’s police officers are frequently corrupt and violent
themselves. In many parts of the country, the police operate
unofficial paramilitary gangs that carry out executions and make
money from organized crime. The country’s homicide rate, of about
twenty-five per hundred thousand, is among
the highest in the world. (By contrast, the United States’
rate is about four per hundred thousand.)
In
the past two years, Brazil’s endemic problems have been
exacerbated by the country’s deepest recession since the
nineteen-thirties, caused by a precipitous drop in global commodity
prices. The situation came to a head after a judicial inquiry
revealed that government officials had engaged in a massive
corruption scheme involving the state-owned oil company, Petrobras,
as well as private corporations, notably the construction giant
Odebrecht. The ongoing inquiry, dubbed Lava Jato, or Car Wash, has
led to the arrest of numerous officials, including Eduardo da
Cunha, the president of Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies. Meanwhile,
impeachment proceedings in Brazil’s parliament led, last summer,
to the removal of President Dilma Rousseff, the replacement of her
left-of-center Workers’ Party government with political
right-wingers, and the installment of a caretaker President, Michel
Temer, who has also been accused of corruption.
Upon
taking office, Temer and his allies moved quickly to undo the
legacy of thirteen years of Workers’ Party rule, by Rousseff and
her predecessor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who oversaw the
country’s halcyon years as a top oil-and-commodities exporter at
the height of China’s spending boom. Brazil became a bric nation
and a global player while, at home, a popular program, Bolsa
Família, lifted some forty million Brazilians out of extreme
poverty. Most of those gains are now at risk, with Temer’s
government instituting austerity measures and a twenty-year
freeze on all social spending.
With
its social cradle crumbling, Brazil has all of the ingredients for
more explosions to come. Last month, rival gangs temporarily took
over several prisons and fought one another, resulting in grisly
massacres in which at least a hundred people were killed. Some were
executed in isis-style
decapitations, while others had their hearts cut out. There were at
least two mass breakouts in which more than ninety inmates escaped;
on January 25th, the BBC reported that
about forty were still on the lam. In a modern twist on such events
that is becoming depressingly familiar, prisoners took photos and
videos of themselves as they carried out their atrocities. Escaped
prisoners also posted videos of themselves as fugitives on the run.
The
devil-may-care posturing by Brazilian criminals suggests a
disturbing degree of impunity that, in the end, is the common
thread linking all of Brazil’s current crises. As for the
situation in Espírito Santo, Brazil’s Army chief, General
Eduardo Dias da Costa Villas Bôas, said on Thursday that he would
reinforce the troops there with paratroopers, armored vehicles, and
military aircraft. “The mission will be accomplished,” he
tweeted. Despite this triumphalist assurance, there is almost
certainly more unravelling to come.
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