I get his (mild) attacks on Bolsonaro make him look better, but he’s not done any actual fucking reforms. At all. All he did during his first government was create some means tested welfare programs and keep public funding going, all while not combatting the bourgeoisie’s interests. Which in turn, left ample time for fascism to grow, he even funded some of the exponents of it like Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus (evangelical cult that is much like US prosperity gospel). Not to mention shooting incarceration rates sky high by kicking off the war on drugs by law in 2006 and invading Haiti on behalf of the UN in 2004
His ministries are all commanded by neolibs, and even far right União Brasil in communications and tourism.
His main deed as of this year has been pushing new fiscal policy for the government which will deepen the already horrible one that was put in by Temer. It even has penalties for “overspending” like forbidding the government from creating new public jobs and such!
Fucking interest in loans is the actual highest in the world at 13.25%! (~9% per year accounting for inflation)
Just because a government doesn’t outright support the public sanctions on Cuba, China and the DPRK it doesn’t make it a fucking ally, hell, many European countries do the same and I don’t see y’all praising it.
Lula is not moving Brazil any, and I mean any, closer to liberation. This job is up for the communists, nominally the Brazilian Communist Party (which is at the moment undergoing a split due to a complacent and persecutory petit-bourgeois central committee that doesn’t want to oppose Lula but that’s beside the point)
Every time I see Lula praise here one of my neurons explodes with anger
Edit FYI: I am actually organized in the youth of the Brazilian Communist Party. If y’all want any more info just ask (ofc nothing confidential)
I am not Brazilian but I am quite skeptical of Lula myself. He thinks he can rapidly increase agricultural production without any deforestation. He wants his cake and to eat it too if you ask me.
Also he is basically militarizing the forest. Armed federal agents are carrying out operations on Indigenous lands, ostensibly to “help” Tribes against squatter and artison miners, but with no indication of respect for sovereignty. It makes me wildly nervous. They have their justifications and that is all they need. They don’t couch it in genocidal rhetoric but what is the difference at the end at of the day? I’m not sure there is a government on earth I trust to stop the tribe killings.
Especially when everyone either must worship the market or is directly threatened by it.
I tell you what though, I usually keep it to myself because there might be some international benifit to his policy but honestly there is a lot of bleak shit that signals to me it’s all very status quo. I can’t help but ask what kind of word this will build.
That’s actually pretty possible since the already deforestated land in Brazil is not fully cultivated and is mostly improductive.
The problem is that our laws see indigenous peoples as citizens, not independent. Of course, the ideal is to give them total autonomy and guarantee that autonomy through armaments, but we live far from the ideal. If it weren’t for recent military operations, the Yanomami people could suffer total genocide at the hands of the miners.
It is not nearly that simple. Some of the Yanomami are miners themselves but the paternal narative does not mention this just as there is no mention of free prior informed consent. This is how it plays out all over the world. Environmentalism and rights based approaches are used to destroy sovereignty and facilitate land grabs with paternalistic justifications. “Oops we destroyed your family and culture! How terrible! I guess you must submit to capitalist market relations, oh well, now get to mining gold for corporations for subsistence wages and enjoy having zero control over your life and watching the forest die. It’s your right!”
If you have some source about it I will appreciate to read it, I never read anything about that.
Yes that’s is true, but that’s not the case now and that’s not even the biggest problem with NGOs that the indigenous people have nowadays, it’s by far the missionary neo-petencostal ones. We had a president who did not limit himself to ignoring the original peoples, like the previous ones, but who openly encouraged the invasion of their lands by miners. The consequences were very serious and most of the Yanomami people were in a deplorable state of health and nutrition. If the new government had not intervened, I repeat: the result would have been complete genocide, because the illegal miners not only contaminate the rivers and the soil, but also expel the indigenous people from their lands, kidnapping women and children to exploit them. , cut the lines of access of the indigenous people to food and health and destroy the villages. The government did not simply expel the miners and destroy their machines, it also provided continued humanitarian aid to indigenous peoples. To repeat myself, the ideal would be to guarantee the total autonomy of the indigenous people, including for self-defense, by arming them. But we are not at that stage at all, and I think the government actually acted well inside it’s owns limitations.