Rebel newspaper

Of Simone Torresani
Source: The Rebel Journal
The system has now totally failed “Bolivarian socialist” of which Venezuela is the most tragic example (the country is literally starving, prey to organized criminal groups, violent petty crime, black market, unemployment and shortage of goods in the markets, with beyond 3 millions of emigrants in recent years) it seems that South America is also veering towards a worrying right. And I say all this without basic preconceptions: I feel neither right nor left, these are now worn out labels that are stuck on this or that’ another character, party and movement. I would talk about populism but in the case of Bolosonaro I don't know if the term “populist ” is suitable. I think not, effectively. Honestly, I'm not worried about the politically incorrect phrases in the quest’ man nor by his attacks on women and his misogyny. I really don't worry about this and indeed if someone managed to make the feminists lose their temper, now unbearable and harmful, he would have my sympathies. I'm not even worried about admiration for Trump, the Philippine president Duterte and our Salvini. What worries me about Bolsonaro is his economic agenda, which is literally devastating for the environment and the very rich biodiversity of Brazil. This is about building a highway to cut the Amazon in two, a crazy project that had already been set aside in the past. He also promised a free hand to the “farmers”, to miners and announced a program to build mega power plants. Obviously traditional, not alternative energies. He says that 7,000 square kilometers deforested in a year are too few and by 2021 we should get to at least 25-30.000 km2 per year, furthermore he talks about enormous cultivations carried out with Monsanto's GMO methods where everything will be deforested. It seems like a literally crazy and suicidal agenda to me. Read More