They are on the street every weekend. For the past two months, and the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic, Brazilian "containment" protesters have been pounding the streets continuously. On Saturday May 9 again, as the country passed the bar of 10,000 fatal victims of the Covid-19, there were several dozen on the place of the Three Powers of Brasilia, draped in banners auriverdes (green and gold, the colors of the Brazilian flag), mocking the "fake virus" and claiming their unconditional support for President Jair Bolsonaro, assumed "coronasceptic".
These protesters are a minority, of course. But a noisy minority, media, ultra-present on social networks, able to mobilize in all major cities, hundreds and sometimes more. Sunday, May 3: a large "march" on the capital brought together several thousand people, cheering Jair Bolsonaro in front of the Planalto palace. A real coup, celebrated by the demonstrators as a "New independence of Brazil".
Their priority: the revival of the economy and the reopening of businesses, closed by a majority of the 27 governors of the country. "We are talking about the coronavirus deaths, but who is talking about the bosses who commit suicide because their business went bankrupt? is indignant Ronaldo Cunha, 39, driver VTC and demonstrator in Campo Grande (State of Rio). The governors don't want to let anyone work. It's absurd: how will I pay my taxes? ! They condemn us to death! ", he plague.
"We have to defend it"
"Bolsonaro is threatened today, we must defend him! ", continues by telephone Ronaldo Magalhães, 38, activist of the Activist Patriot group in Niteroi (near Rio de Janeiro). According to him, a real coup d'etat would threaten the president. “Since the first day of his mandate, there has been a plan to remove him. Representatives of the old politics take advantage of the epidemic to carry it out and take back power ”, he thinks he knows.
In the line of sight of the demonstrators, there is the left "Communist", mainstream media "Garbage cans", but also the judges " gangsters " of the Federal Supreme Court, and, above all, these right wing policies, former supporters of the president and past in the opposition. Thus the former Minister of Justice Sergio Moro, treaty of "Judas" by the crowds, or the governor of São Paulo, João Doria, nicknamed "Dictadoria", made up as a North Korean dictator and adorned with Adolf Hitler's mustache …
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