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Brazil: Caught between hope and despair
Brazil: Caught between hope and despair
July 19, 2021
Brazil’s next general election is scheduled to be held next year, on the 2nd October. Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers’ Party is leading current polls; a 7th July poll conducted by Poder Data showed a fifty-five per cent intent to vote for Lula among the Brazilian voting population, versus thirty-two per cent for the incumbent Jair Bolsonaro.
The far-right, fascist-adjacent government of Bolsonaro has governed with hateful negligence toward the workers and impoverished people of Brazil, and has committed massive violations against Indigenous peoples. Bolsonaro’s rise emboldened fascists to commit violence and intimidation against leftists, unionists, and disadvantaged groups. The Bolsonaro regime’s criminally incompetent mishandling (perhaps even mishandling is too generous a word!) of the pandemic has resulted in one of the highest death rates in the wo