From January 2019, XNUMX in Brazil there is a change of register. After the victory in the November elections, the new president Jair Bolsonaro officially takes office. And already during the ceremony a change of course is expected: the Workers' Party will not be present in protest against the detention of former president Lula, but above all the so-called red dictatorships of South America have not been invited, the various Morales, Maduro, to leave room for the very welcome Benjamin Netanyahu, Viktor Orban, Mike Pompeo to take the place of Donald Trump and to the minister Gian Marco Centinaio, of the League, to represent "the friend" Salvini. Precisely that Salvini who, in full harmony with the right-wing populist wave that swept Brazil after 14 years of a "red" presidency, thanked Bolsonaro for having unblocked the Battisti affair and officially opened the manhunt. However, a manhunt that has so far produced few results, given that the Italian terrorist refugee in Brazil has not yet been caught and it is said that he may have already escaped to another country, perhaps Evo Morales' Bolivia.
The Bolsonaro revolution is about to change the historical balance. Brazil has over 200 million inhabitants and is the leading economy in South America: in foreign policy the new president will be fully aligned with Trump and the European right-wing, in absolute discontinuity with the golden years of the green-gold country, when growth double digits and when Lula, a former trade unionist, he had been concerned with solving the problem of poverty and illiteracy in many areas of the country. That part of Brazil, mainly the north-east, which remained poorer, did not turn its back on the PT and voted for Fernando Haddad. However, not all the white electorate thought so, the upper class of the big cities but also the lower middle class and entrepreneurs, including the agricultural ones who are the majority in Brazil and who much prefer the privatizations announced by Bolsonaro to the statist policy of his predecessor. And who, like most Brazilians, couldn't wait to leave behind the judicial scandals of Lava Jato, the green-and-gold clean hands. One of the protagonists of that maxi trial, Judge Sergio Moro, was even appointed Minister of Justice. A move that leaves room for some suspicion, but he accepted and the majority of the country is with him and with Bolsonaro.
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Bolsonaro also and above all won on the issue of security, one of the national emergencies: nostalgic for the military dictatorship that held the country hostage until the XNUMXs (he himself is a former army captain), his presidency will be marked by "remilitarization", given that as many as 8 ministers come from the barracks. Not only his deputy, General Hamilton Mourao, but also the ministers of defense, technology and energy and various undersecretaries, as well as a platoon of ex-policemen and firefighters within Congress. It is no coincidence that one of the first measures of the new executive, vigorously relaunched in recent days, will be to reduce the procedures for carrying firearms to a minimum. Bolsonaro wants to ensure that any Brazilian citizen, if he has no criminal record, can legitimately possess a weapon to defend himself. A Salvini-style measure that aims, against all evidence, to reduce the (very high) rates of violence in the country by encouraging individual defense. Nothing more dangerous, as data and statistics amply demonstrate, but the Brazilians like it that way.
