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In Ñspel: The Guardian view on Lula’s comeback: good for Brazil and the world

Supporters of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, celebrate his victory. Photograph: Sopa Images/Rex/Shutterstock
S’portrz v Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Belo Horizonte, Bṛzil, seḷbret hiz vicṭri. Foṭgraf: Sopa Iṃjz/Rex/Śuṭstoc
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Ɖ Gardịn vy on Lula’z cm-bac: gd fr Bṛzil n ɖ wrld

(Transcription of an editorial published in the Guardian on 31 October 2022)

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Ɖ wns-n-fyćr left-wñ prezidnt v Bṛzil hz a ćans t rdim ɖ promis v dmocṛsi in hiz dvîdd cuntri

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Munde 31 Octobr 2022

Ɖ  rmarcbl rtrn v ɖ left-wñ poḷtiśn Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva fr a ʈrd trm az Bṛzil’z prezidnt z nt jst gd fr hiz cuntri. Hiz vicṭri ovr ɖ incumbnt rîtwñ xtrimist, Jair Bolsonaro, z olso gd fr ɖ wrld. Sins Mr Bolsonaro tc ofis in 2019, foristfîrz n dīfoṛsteśn sōrd in ɖ Aṃzn, wɖ ɖ fedṛl guvnmnt trnñ a blînd î t ilīgl logñ, mînñ, catlgrezñ n landgrabñ. Bṛzil’z renforist wnt fṛm a carbn snc t a carbnsors. F alaud t cntiny, ɖ damij t ɖ wrld’z luñz wd hv bn irivrsbl – wɖ dzastṛs ifcts on globl weɖrsistmz n fūd s’kṛti.

Lula, az h z yṇvrṣli noun, plejd t rvrs hiz prīdisesr’z poḷsiz ɖt hv wrsnd ɖ clîṃt imrjnsi. Ɖ wrld wl briɖ mor īẓli az a rzult. Bt Mr Bolsonaro onli naroli lost ɖ ilex́n. H hz, at ɖ tîm v raitñ, stl rfyzd t cnsid hiz dfit. Mr Bolsonaro, hu prezd dictetrśp n torćr, me nvr axpt ɖ ppl’z wil. Bt ɖoz hu hv s’portd him – fṛm ivanɉlists t p’liticl alîz – hv rec̣gnîzd ɖt ɖ gem z p. Hiz rluctns t g qaytli me b bcz h firz endñ p bhnd barz. Preẓdnśl iḿṇti n an oblîjñ atrnijenṛl hv hlpt śltr Mr Bolsonaro n hiz poḷtiśnsunz fṛm invstgeśnz intu loñstandñ sspiśnz v imbezlmnt n c’rupśn. Fr Mr Bolsonaro, ɖt śīld dis’pirz in Jańri.

Mr Bolsonaro wz nicnemd ɖ “Trump v ɖ tropics” – n h yzd a similr ple bc. Lîc ɖ formr YS prezidnt, Mr Bolsonaro poḷrîzd hiz dvîdd cuntri bî deṇgretñ wimin, ge ppl n mnoṛtiz. H armd hiz s’portrz bî fludñ ɖ cuntri wɖ gunz. A pandemic ɖt cild olmst 700,000 ppl hlpt pś poṿtinumbrz t ɖ hîist on record n sw him snc in ɖ poulz. Hiz ansr wz t flud ɖ infosfir wɖ fec nyz, dǒl ǎt welférpemnts n snd fedṛl hîwe p’līs t bloc rodz in pro-Lula eriaz on votñde. Bt inuf Bṛziłnz rtrnd t Lula, huz last stint in pǎr dlivrd ic̣nomic groʈ n a rdux́n v iniqoḷti.

Jeld undr ɖ prīvịs rîtwñ Temer guvnmnt fr alejd c’rupśn, Lula wz rlist n hiz cnvix́nz qośt last yir, alawñ him t run agn. Hvr, Bṛzil z a vri difṛnt cuntri fṛm ɖ wn h last prizîdd ovr. Ẃn h left ofis in 2010, Lula’z apruvl retñz wr straṭsferic. Nǎ a sîẓbl mnoṛti ʈnc ɖer wns-n-fyćr prezidnt z c’rupt. Bṛzil in 2010 wz ɖ wrld’z 7ʈ larjist icoṇmi – it hz nǎ slipt t 13ʈ. Ɖ cuntri z marct bî rîzñ déts n dīṗnñ dvîdz. Bṛzil’z modist ic̣nomic rcuṿri z unlîcli t last az ɖ wrld fesz a rseśn ɖt it w’nt iscep.

Lula’z vicṭri canot iclips ɖ fact h fesz a Congres doṃnetd bî slf-sīcñ cnsrṿtiv poḷtiśnz v ɖ Centrão (“big sntr”) – hu hv bn alaid wɖ Mr Bolsonaro. Ɖ ny prezidnt wl nīd t strîc dīlz t gt lejsleśn pást. Big strucćṛl rformz ɖt nīd ćenjz t ɖ consttyśn wl probbli b of ɖ tebl. Ʈancs t hiz invîrnmntl poḷsiz n hiz dfns v dmocṛsi, Lula cn cǎnt on ɖ s’port v ɖ wrld’z līdñ pǎrz. Prezidnt Jo Bîdn hz ofrd t criet a $20bn fund fr ɖ Aṃzn wns Bṛzil starts śowñ rzults in pṛtctñ its renforists. Undr Mr Bolsonaro, Bṛzil lost its we – n its mînd. Lula’z vicṭri śoz ɖ cuntri cn rtrn t ɖ paʈ v saṇti.

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In Ñspel: The Guardian view on Brazil’s election: Bolsonaro’s return would cost us all

Jair Bolsonaro at a campaign event in Rio de Janeiro earlier this month. ‘Even if Mr Bolsonaro is seen off this time, he may well be back.’ Photograph: António Lacerda/EPA
Jair Bolsonaro at a campen ivnt in Rio de Janeiro rlịr ɖs munʈ. ‘Īvn f Mr Bolsonaro z sìn of ɖs tîm, h me wel b bac.’ Foṭgraf: António Lacerda/YPA
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Ɖ Gardịn vy on Bṛzil’z ilex́n: Bolsonaro’z rtrn wd cost s ol

(Transcription of an editorial published in the Guardian on 27 October 2022)

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Ɖ planit canot aford a secnd trm fr ɖ faŗît prezidnt hu hz rsrjd in ɖ poulz

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Ʈrzde 27 Octobr 2022

On Súnde, Bṛziłn ilectrz wl cast ɖer vot in a tît contest ɖt wl nt onli set ɖ cors fr ɖs xtrordnṛli poḷrîzd cuntri bt olso hv a pǎrfl impact on ɖ fyćr v ɖ wrld. Hops ɖt ɖ faŗît incumbnt, Jair Bolsonaro, wd b dsîsivli rjctd in ɖ frst rnd wr daśt ẃn h férd far betr ɖn xpctd, wɖ 43% v vots, n hiz ćaḷnjr, ɖ formr prezidnt Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, fél jst śort v an ǎtrît mjoṛti wɖ 48%. Ilevnʈ-aur handǎts t ɖ purist n laviś qonttiz v disinḟmeśn hv edd Mr Bolsonaro’z rcuṿri.

Ɖ hop z ɖt hiz m’mntm z olrdi fedñ. Bt ɖ poulz vẹri, n a secnd preẓdnśl trm wd b bad nyz nt jst fr Bṛziłnz bt olso ɖ rest v s. Ɖ prîṃri denjr z clîṃt ctastṛfi. Az ɖ YN’z invîrnmnt ejnsi wornz ɖt ɖr z no creḍbl rùt t limit globl wormñ t 1.5C, dīfoṛsteśn in ɖ Aṃzn z at a hî: a carbn snc cd bcm a carbn imitr. Criminl sindic̣ts v logrz n ranćrz rês t d ɖer wrst fr fir ɖt a ny admiṇstreśn wl rein ɖm in. Mor ɖn 2bn triz hv bn fld jrñ Mr Bolsonaro’z trm in ofis. H hz olso fostrd an incrisñli denjṛs culćr fr invîrnmntl dfndrz – az xpozd bî ɖ mrdr v ɖ acṭvist Bruno Pereira n ɖ Gardịn cntribytr Dom Filips ɖs Jūn. In contrast, aṇlists sjst a vicṭri fr Lula cd si an 89% cut in renforist los.

A secnḍri – bt stl dīpli alarmñ – risc z v a frɖr intrenćmnt v antideṃcratic oʈoṛterịnizm. F Mr Bolsonaro z riilectd, h wl b imboldnd, n wl beṇfit fṛm ɖ streñʈnd rîtwñ prezns in Congres. Ɖr r firz ɖt h cd unḍmain insttyśnz n ćenj ɖ consttyśn t alǎ himslf a ʈrd trm.

F h z’nt riilectd, wl h cer? H hz spent munʈs pripẹrñ fr sć an ǎtcm. Hiz sun olrdi clemz – wɖt evidns – ɖt hiz faɖr z ɖ victim v “ɖ gretist ilectṛl frōd evr sìn”, an īṛli Trumpịn frêz. Hiz parti clemz – agn wɖt evidns – ɖt ofiślz cd simpli oltr rzults. Bcz pro-Lula rījnz r lîcli t dcler rzults lêtr, h mt atmt t clem vicṭri preṃtyrli.

Ol ɖs rezz ɖ spectr v Bṛzil’z ǒn Jańri 6 – poṣbli wɖ sm s’port fṛm elimnts v ɖ armi n s’kṛtiforsz in a cuntri ɖt xpirịnst militri dictetrśp reḷtivli rīsntli. Mni v Mr Bolsonaro’z s’portrz hv md it clir ɖt ɖe wl nt rec̣gnîz a dfit at ɖ poulz. Gun ǒnrśp hz dubld ʈancs t hiz rīlaxeśn v lwz. Last Súnde, wn v hiz p’liticl alîz atact p’līs wɖ handgṛnedz n a rîfl az ɖe traid t arest him.

T Lula’z s’portrz, ɖ formr śūśîn bô n tredyńnist z ɖ ćampịn v ɖ pur, az wel az a līdr hu rezd ɖ cuntri’z steṭs inṭnaśṇli. Uɖrz not ɖt it wz īzịr fr him t būst spendñ az ɖ beṇfiśri v ɖ cmodtizbūm. Hiz Wrcrz’ Parti wz rîf wɖ c’rupśn, ẃć sw him jeld tù; h wz onli ebl t stand ẃn ɖ ćarjz agnst him wr qośt last yir. Yt Mr Bolsonaro z diśñ ǎt biłnz fṛm a guvnmntfund wɖ miniml oṿsît, n ɖr r plenti v qsćnz ovr hiz ǒn faṃli’z fînansz.

Ɖs lcs, az wn poulñ xprt pts it, lîc a claś v tū Brazils, in ẃć ɖ vot splits clirli on clas, rês, jndr n rlijs lînz. Īvn f Mr Bolsonaro z sìn of ɖs tîm, h me wel b bac. Yt hiz xtrimizm hz hlpt enśur ɖt Lula hz pld tgɖr a cnvinsñ multiparti alayns, includñ figrz fṛm ɖ rît. Ɖe rec̣gnîz ẃt z at stec. Ɖ rest v s mst hop ɖt inuf v ɖer cmpatrịts d.

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In Ñspel: ‘Lula represents hope’: Brazil presidential frontrunner takes his message into Rio’s favelas

A Lula supporter leads the celebrations during a campaign rally in Belford Roxo, Rio de Janeiro State. The presidential contender has promised to change Brazil for the better. Photograph: Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images
A Lula s’portr līdz ɖ seḷbreśnz jrñ a campenrali in Belford Roxo, Rio de Janeiro Stet. Ɖ preẓdnśl cntndr hz promist t ćenj Bṛzil fr ɖ betr. Foṭgraf: Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Iṃjz
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‘Lula repriznts hop’: Bṛzil preẓdnśl fruntrunr tecs hiz mesij intu Rio’z fvelaz

(Transcription of an article published in the Guardian on 13 October 2022)

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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva proṃsz t gv faŗît rîvl Jair Bolsonaro a ‘ʈraśñ’ in tîtr-ɖn-xpctd preẓdnśl rês

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Tom Filips n Melissa Cannabrava in Rio de Janeiro, Ʈrzde 13 Octobr 2022

Ʈǎzndz v fveḷrezidnts n acṭvists hv hit ɖ strīts v Rio t vôs ɖer s’port fr Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, ɖ leftist fruntrunr t bcm Bṛzil’z nxt prezidnt.

Adresñ a sī v s’portrz in wn v Rio’z larjist fvelaz, ɖ Complexo do Alemão, Lula vaud t gv hiz faŗît rîvl Jair Bolsonaro “a ʈraśñ” ẃn Sǎʈ America’z bigist dmocṛsi holdz ɖ secnd rǎnd v its preẓdnśl ilex́n at ɖ end v Octobr.

“W’r gwñ t win ɖz ilex́nz,” pṛclemd ɖ 76-yir-old xprezidnt hu fél jst śort v an ǎtrît vicṭri ovr Bolsonaro in ɖ frst rǎnd 10 dez ago.

Lula, hu rouz fṛm rṛl poṿti t bcm Bṛzil’z frst wrcñ-clas prezidnt in 2002, sd h wz dtrmind t rtrn t pǎr “t pruv t ɖ ilīts hu hv guvnd sins 1500 ɖt wns agn a metlwrcr wl fix ɖs cuntri”.

“Ɖ onli rīzn I’m runñ fr prezidnt wns agn z mî b’lif ɖt w cn ćenj ʈñz,” Lula tld acṭvists jrñ an asmbli at ɖ hedqortrz v Voz das Comunidades, ɖ fvela nyzgrūp ɖt orġnîzd hiz rer vizit. “I promis y ɖt ɖs cuntri z gwñ t ćenj – n it’s gwñ t ćenj fr ɖ betr.”

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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva greets supporters during a campaign rally in Belford Roxo, Rio de Janeiro. Photograph: Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva grīts s’portrz jrñ a campen rali in Belford Roxo, Rio de Janeiro. Foṭgraf: Carl de Souza/AFP/Geti Iṃjz
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Rezidnts fṛm mor ɖn 30 fvelaz hd floct t ɖ Complexo do Alemão on Wnzde mornñ t ćampịn a poḷtiśn ɖe hop cn end Bolsonaro’z tymultẏs for-yir rên, jrñ ẃć Covid cild nirli 700,000 ppl n miłnz wr plunjd intu poṿti.

“Lula setñ ft in ɖ fvela z an act v rzistns. It śoz ɖt w’r nt alon – ɖt ɖr’z hop,” sd Douglas Viana, a 30-yir-old acṭvist fṛm anɖr sprōlñ wrcñ-clas cḿṇti, ɖ Complexo da Maré. “Ɖs z a historic momnt fr ɖ cuntri. W’v nvr sìn enʈñ on ɖs scel,” Viana add.Rene Silva, ɖ fǎndr v ɖ Voz das Comunidades, vôst opṭmizm ɖt sośl ćenj wz arnd ɖ cornr undr Lula, hu yzd hiz tū-trm prezidnsi t hlp miłnz iscep poṿti n entr hayr edyceśn wɖ ɖ prosīdz v a rījnl cmodtizbūm.

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A supporter of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva flashes the letter L for ‘Lula’ during a campaign rally in the Complexo do Alemao favela. Photograph: Silvia Izquierdo/AP
A s’portr v Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva flaśz ɖ letr L fr ‘Lula’ jrñ a campen rali in ɖ Complexo d Alemao fvela. Foṭgraf: Silvia Izquierdo/AP
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“Lula repriznts hop – hop v les hungr n les iniqoḷti. W’v tecn so mni steps bcwdz jrñ Bolsonaro’z for yirz in pǎr – n it wl tec a loñ tîm t rībild ol v ɖs,” sd Silva, 27.

Anielle Franco, a campenr huz poḷtiśnsistr Marielle Franco wz asaṣnetd in 2018, sd ś hopt a Lula vicṭri mt hlp s’kr justis fr hr mrdrd siblñ.“Lula simḅlîzz ɖ rtrn v ɖ humbl, ɖ pur, ɖ blac n ɖ norʈ-īstners fṛm ɖ fvela t ɖ prezidnsi – evrʈñ ɖt w d’nt hv undr ɖs guvnmnt,” Franco sd.

Lula wún ɖ ilex́n’z frst rǎnd in ɖ rījn arnd Alemão, a vast swīp v redbric hǎzñ in norʈ Rio wɖ tnz v ʈǎzndz v rezidnts, az wel az in uɖr mejr fvelaz sć az Rocinha n Maré.

Bt ɖ leftist lost in Rio stet az a hol, wɖ Bolsonaro winñ 51% v ɖ vot t Lula’z 40.7%, n Lula hz stept p hiz campenñ hir ahd v ɖ 30 Octobr śo-dǎn wɖ ɖ faŗît incumbnt.

Carlos Lupi, a Lebr parti līdr hu z hlpñ run Lula’z secnd-rǎnd campen, sd Wnzde’z ivnt wz dzînd t rêz awernis in ɖ fvelaz abt ɖ rjnt nīd fr p’liticl ćenj.

“Ɖs z ɖ guvnmnt v hetrid, v angr – n w mst dfit it,” Lupi sd az ɖ crǎdz strīmd dǎn wn v Alemão’z mn arṭriz wɖ banrz dnǎnsñ ɖ hungrcrîsis blîtñ Bṛzil’z pur. “W nīd t wec ɖs cḿṇti p t ɖ harm ɖs guvnmnt z cōzñ it.”

Nt ol loclz wr cnvinst, wɖ mni īvanjelicl fveḷrezidnts rmenñ loyl t Bolsonaro, huz alîz hv fōlsli akzd Lula v plotñ t cloz ćrćz.

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Lula rose from rural poverty to become Brazil’s first working-class president in 2002. Photograph: Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images
Lula rouz fṛm rṛl poṿti t bcm Bṛzil’z frst wrcñ-clas prezidnt in 2002. Foṭgraf: Carl de Souza/AFP/Geti Iṃjz
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Valmir da Silva, a 51-yir-old drîvr, cem t ɖ Alemão rali cariyñ a tǎl fīćrñ Bolsonaro’z imij n hiz naśṇlist slogn: “Bṛzil abv evrʈñ, God abv ol.”

“H hz dn mor in tū yirz ɖn Lula dd in et,” Silva sd v ɖ rît-wñ radicl. “Lula z’nt inṭrestd in ɖ pur. Ol h ʈncs abt z steyñ in pǎr.”Silva insistd ɖ ʈroñ v Lula s’portrz arnd him dd’nt repriznt ɖ wrcñ-clas eria ẃr h wz born n rezd. “Ɖ fvela’z dvîdd,” h sd.

Bt az ɖ yuñ fvellīdrz adrest Lula, ɖe wr ynîtd in ɖer pli fr betr hlʈcer n edyceśn – n an end t ɖ guvnmnt nglect n p’līsvayḷns ɖt clemz hundṛdz v mostli blac lîvz ć yir. “W r tîrd v dayñ,” locl acṭvist Alan Brum tld Lula.

Buba Aguiar, an acṭvist fṛm a cḿṇti cōld Acari, tld ɖ formr prezidnt ɖ onli we v oṿcmñ Bolsonaro n hiz faŗît muvmnt wz t jôn forsz wɖ ɖ vôsz v ɖ fvela, ẃr abt 20% v Rio’z sitiznz liv.

“Ɖr’z no we ɖt w cn stop oʈoṛterịnizm or stop Bolsonarismo, wɖt ɖ līdrz hu r hir tde,” Aguiar sd. “It’s onli wɖ ǎr hlp ɖt w’l b ebl t gt Bṛzil bac on trac.”

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Fṛm Đ Gardịn: The Guardian view on Brazil’s election: never mind the voters – Bolsonaro plans to win

‘The danger is that Jair Bolsonaro regards the actual vote as something of an irrelevance.’ Photograph: Wagner Meier/Getty Images
‘Ɖ denjr z ɖt Jair Bolsonaro rgardz ɖ acćl vot az smʈñ v an ireḷvns.’ Foṭgraf: Wagner Meier/Geti Iṃjz
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Ɖ Gardịn vy on Bṛzil’z ilex́n: nvr mînd ɖ votrz – Bolsonaro planz t win

(Transcription of an editorial published in the Guardian on 13 September 2022)

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Ɖ stecs cd hardli b hayr az ilex́nde aproćz. Lula’z dfit wd b dzastṛs fr dmocṛsi n ɖ planit

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Tyzde, 13 Sptmbr 2022

For yirz ago, mni Bṛziłnz rgardd ɖ prospect v a vicṭri fr ɖ far-rît preẓdnśl canddet Jair Bolsonaro frst wɖ incṛdyḷti n ɖen – rîtli – wɖ horr. Az ɖ 2 Octobr ilex́n aproćz, ɖ fir ɖt h wl rmen in pǎr z gretr stl. H hz pruvd a reclis n incompitnt līdr n rmenz a menis t dmocṛsi n ɖ planit – egñ on ɖoz dstroyñ ɖ Aṃzn renforist, hu r cuṛntli rīduḅlñ ɖer eḟts at ɖ prospect v luzñ ɖer ćampịn. Hiz mn rîvl, ɖ formr prezidnt Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, z mor ɖn 15 psntijpônts ahd in ɖ lêtist mejr poul. Ɖ denjr z ɖt Mr Bolsonaro rgardz ɖ acćl vot az smʈñ v an ireḷvns. Arnd a miłn sitiznz – includñ līdñ figrz fṛm biznis, poḷtics, sayns n ɖ arts – hv sînd a maṇfsto wornñ ɖt dmocṛsi fesz “imns denjr”.

Mr Bolsonaro hz abrupli cut fyltaxz, snt munʈli caś trnsfŕz t pur faṃliz n z wuwñ īvanjelicl ćrćz dvotidli agn, ẃl smirñ hiz isnṣ́li pragmatic leftist rîvl – hu wz jeld fr c’rupśn bt ɖen sw hiz cnvix́nz qośt – az a crezd îdịlog.

Bt ẃl dubl-dijit infleśn n hî unimplômnt me hv pīct, a vicṭri at ɖ poulz fr Mr Bolsonaro lcs unlîcli. Hiz last-minit handǎts r vyd sinicli. Bṛzil lost 684,000 lîvz t Covid-19 az ɖ prezidnt moct mascs n vaxīnz n dsmist ɖ ʈret. Hiz faṃli’z fînansz r undr rnyd scrūṭni aftr a Bṛziłn nyzgrūp clemd ɖt h n clos reḷtivz bòt 107 proṗtiz ovr ʈri decedz – peyñ fr at līst 51 v ɖm in caś. Opziśn z yṇfayñ, wɖ ɖ formr invîrnmntministr n preẓdnśl canddet Mrīna Silva raliyñ bhnd Lula.

Mr Bolsonaro, stabd a munʈ bfr 2018’z ilex́n, śd nǒ ɖ cost v p’liticl vayḷns betr ɖn enwn, yt cntinyz t yz agresiv reṭric n spred hetrid: “Bai yr gunz! It’s in ɖ Bîbl!” h tld s’portrz last munʈ. Ʈancs t hiz rīlaxeśn v lwz, ɖ numbr v fîrarmz in prîṿt handz hz dubld t 2m. Ɖ last tū munʈs hv sìn ɖ cilñz v a locl ofiśl fr Lula’z Wrcrz’ Parti n v anɖr v its bacrz bî s’portrz v Mr Bolsonaro, hu hv olso atact uɖr raliz n ʈretnd poḷtiśnz wɖ gunz.

Oponnts fir nt onli priilex́n vayḷns bt olso a Trump-stîl bid t hañ on t pǎr in dfayns v ɖ ilectṛt. Sgnificnt progres hz bn md in tac̣lñ disinḟmeśn in ɖ cuntri. Bt miłnz v dîhard s’portrz r lîcli t si a dfit onli az evidns ɖt ɖe hv bn ćītd. Fest wɖ ɖ prospect nt onli v luzñ, bt ptnṣ́li v jel, ɖ prezidnt hz olrdi clemd ɖt ɖ votñsistm z unrilaybl. H hz prīvịsli dclerd ɖt hiz fyćr holdz onli prizn, deʈ or vicṭri – n hz tld s’portrz: “Ɖ armi z on ǎr sîd.”

Ɖ clem z ispeṣ́li ćilñ gvn Bṛzil’z reḷtivli rīsnt hisṭri v militri dictetrśp. Ɖo fy axpt hiz swīpñ asrśn, ɖr z riyl cnsrn ɖt h cd fînd sgnificnt s’port wɖn ɖ armd forsz. A clir, ǎtrît vicṭri fr Lula, îdiyli in ɖ frst rǎnd bt mor lîcli in a runof, z ɖ bst rzult fr Bṛziłn dmocṛsi n ɖ planit. Uɖr cuntriz mst mc it clir ɖt ɖe wl nt toḷret eni atmt bî Mr Bolsonaro t ćīt, bŭli or menis hiz we t a secnd trm.

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Fṛm Đ Gardịn: ‘They twist the message’: Brazilian writer faces ire of Bolsonaro backers

Julián Fuks says the message in his article has been distorted and that he used the word ‘terrorist’ in a figurative sense. Photograph: Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images
Julián Fuks sz ɖ mesij in hiz articl hz bn dstortd n ɖt h yzd ɖ wrd ‘terrist’ in a fiğṛtiv sns. Foṭgraf: Roberto Ricciuti/Geti Iṃjz
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‘Ɖe twist ɖ mesij’: Bṛziłn raitr fesz îr v Bolsonaro bacrz

(Transcription of an article published in the Guardian on 6 September 2022)

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Julián Fuks rsivz deʈ̓rets ovr coḷm cōlñ fr ‘terrist’ t rīrait Bṛzil’z hisṭri

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Andru Dǎni, Tyzde 6 Sptmbr 2022

Ɖe cd b elimnts in a teṛfayñ novl: ɖ pytrid hart v a loñ-ded emprr, a contṛvrśl nyzpepr coḷm bî a prîz-winñ oʈr, n onlîn atacs bî ɖ sunz v a far-rît prezidnt.

In Bṛzil, ɖo, ɖ storilînz r ol tù riyl, ispeṣ́li fr ɖ noṿlist Julián Fuks.

H wz haṛst, snt antiṣmitic abys n rsivd deʈ̓rets last wīc aftr pubḷśñ a ʈinli dsgîzd p’lemic agnst Bṛzil’z xtrimist prezidnt, Jair Bolsonaro.

Ɖ coḷm wz tîtld “Wontd, a terrist ceṗbl v a sutl act ɖt trnsformz hisṭri”, bt ɖ articl md clir ɖ sumnz wz mnt in a fiğṛtiv sns.

Publiśt a wīc bfr Bṛzil seḷbrets ɖ 200ʈ aṇvrsri v its indipndns fṛm Porćgl – a seḷbreśn ɖt includz ɖ prizrvd hart v Bṛzil’z frst indipndnt rūlr, ɖ Porćgīz rījnt Dom Pedro I – Fuks sd a “terrist” wz rqîrd t rīrait Bṛziłn hisṭri.

“Nt wn v ɖoz vayḷnt wnz, abṣlutli nt an intolṛnt, brūtiś wn, nvr wn v ɖoz hu z bludi n cōrs,” h rout on ɖ UOL websait, wn v Bṛzil’z bigist. “Smbdi hu wl mc ɖ cuntri recnsîl itslf t its past, nt in its harś n unmrsifl sîd, bt in its vast hisṭri v strugl n rzistns.”

Ɖ sutltiz wr ignord bî Bṛzil’z faŗît, huz wel-ôld propganḍmśīn cranct intu ax́n.

Bolsonaro’z sun, Seṇtr Flávio Bolsonaro, rītwītd ɖ pìs wɖ ɖ coment: “Ɖ left ʈreṭnñ dmocṛsi, fr riyl.”

Hiz bruɖr Carlos – btwn ɖm ɖe hv 4.6 miłn folowrz – olso śerd it onlîn. On Insṭgram, Bolsonaro’z formr culćrministr Mario Frias sd: “UOL coḷmnist crîz ǎt fr terrizm agnst ɖ prezidnt.”

Ɖ cntrovsi wz recgnîzbl fr Fuks, ɖ oʈr v et bcs, ɖ frst v ẃć, Rzistns, wún Bṛzil’z prestijs Jabuti prîz in 2016.

Dez aftr Bolsonaro wz ilectd, h wornd in a presịnt Gardịn articl v “a dstopia tecñ śep in mî cuntri”.

Ɖ 40-yir-old huncrd dǎn in São Paulo in ɖ dez aftr ɖ abys startd bt hz sins hit bac.

“I yzd ɖ wrd terrist in a fiğṛtiv sns,” h sd, “n startñ wɖ ɖ oṗnñlîn I afrmd ɖt ɖ pṛpozl wz agnst ol cndz v vayḷns, trukḷns, brūtaḷti n cōrsnis.”

“Bt I unḍesṭmetd hǎ dsonist ɖ faŗît wd b,” h tld ɖ Gardịn. “I ń I cd b criṭsîzd n I ń it wz pṛvoc̣tiv bt I nvr imajind ɖ’d dstort it n lai abt it qt so mć. Ɖe dd’nt īvn trî t unḍstand, ɖe sòt t twist ɖ mesij n trnsform it intu smʈñ it wz’nt.”

Ɖoz tactics r grimli fmiłr t uɖr raitrz hu hv fest ɖ îr v Bolsonaro n hiz ac̣lîts. A Senit invstgeśn sd guvnmnt’fiślz ofn coorḍnet onlîn atacs fṛm ẃt z noun az “ɖ Ofis v Het.”

Poḷtiśnz, publiśrz n litrri figrz cndemd ɖ ofnsiv, wɖ Porćgl’z José Saramago Fǎndeśn cōlñ on locl oʈoṛtiz t “gaṛnti [Fuks’z] n hiz faṃli’z sefti n invstget ɖ oṛjin v ɖ atacs”.

Ɖ afer z ptiklrli alarmñ az it cmz jst a munʈ bfr ɖ frst-rnd v votñ in a preẓdnśl ilex́n ɖt pits Bolsonaro agnst hiz neṃsis, ɖ formr prezidnt Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Lula līdz in most poulz, bt Bolsonaro hz hintd h wl nt gv p pǎr f bìtn at ɖ baḷtbox.

Bʈ sîdz hv upt ɖer reṭric in rīsnt wīcs, n Bolsonaro’z s’portrz hv atact Lula’z raliz wɖ crūd dvîsz cntenñ fīsīz n yrin.

Aftr a Wrcrz’-parti membr wz śot ded bî a Bolsonaro bacr in Jlî, Lula tc t wẹrñ a bŭlit-prūf vst on campenstops.

Bolsonaro’z nxt big rali z scejld fr Copacabana bīć on 7 Sptmbr n it z ɖt Indipndns De ivnt ɖt promtd Fuks t rait hiz coḷm.

Ɖ seḷbreśnz hv bn gvn an xtra frīsõ ɖs yir bî ɖ rtrn v Dom Pedro’z formalḍhîd-prizrvd hart.

Aftr h daid in 1834, Dom Pedro’z bodi rmend in Bṛzil bt hiz hart wz tecn t Porto. It wz floun t Bṛziła in a goldn ŕn last wīc, ẃr it wz grītd wɖ militri onrz.

Fuks’z pìs z dsmisiv v ɖ ʈiytr arnd ɖ “rotn hart” tur n śon a criticl lît on Bṛzil’z latr-de probḷmz.

Ɖ terrist rqîrd, h rout, śd b “smbdi hu nz hǎ t brñ a sūṭbl end t ɖ hart v a slf-pṛclemd emprr, in ordr t rstor t ɖ ppl ɖer ǒn hart, red n alîv”.

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Fṛm Đ Obzrvr │ ‘Carnival is politics’: revellers bring anti-Bolsonaro sentiment to Rio’s streets

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Revellers enjoy the passage of performers on Olympic Boulevard in Rio in their first carnival since Covid. Photograph: Jose Lucena/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock
Revlrz injô ɖ pasij v pformrz on Olimpic Būḷvard in Rio in ɖer frst carnivl sins Covid. Foṭgraf: Jose Lucena/ZUMA Preswîr/REX/Śuṭstoc

‘Carnivl z poḷtics’: revlrz brñ anti-Bolsonaro sntimnt t Rio’z strīts

(Transcription of an article published in the Observer on Sunday 24 April 2022)

Wɖ ilex́nz les ɖn six munʈs awe, mni si fstivl az a ćans t vnt ɖer angr at faŗît prezidnt

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Tom Filips in Rio de Janeiro, Súnde 24 Epril 2022

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Az ɖ sún rouz ovr Rio’z breʈtecñ granit n qorts lanscep, José Leonardo da Silva set of fṛm hom drest az a 6ft 2in box v Viagra.

Hiz desṭneśn: a bīć-sîdstrīt parti cōld ɖ Cozmic Trumpits ẃr hundṛdz v haf-cloɖd revlrz hd gaɖrd t seḷbret ɖer frst carnivl sins Covid. Hiz mesij: ɖt ɖ scandl involvñ ɖ prćis v tnz v ʈǎzndz v irectîl-dsfuñśn tablits bî Prezidnt Jair Bolsonaro’z dfnsmiṇstri wz an intolṛbl afrunt.

“Carnivl z poḷtics tù,” sd Silva, a 43-yir-old sîcoḷjist fṛm Bṛzil’z hlʈsrvis, az h priperd t spend ɖ de dnǎnsñ Bolsonaro’z “cmplitli fasist” guvnmnt bî dsgîzñ himslf az a pacit v 50mg imṗtnspilz.

Silva wz nt ɖ onli wn wɖ poḷtics on hiz mînd ɖs wīc az bac̣neła gript Rio’z strīts fr ɖ frst tîm sins Febrri 2020.

Wɖ a bruzñ ilectṛl batl fr Bṛzil’z soul les ɖn six munʈs awe, mni sw carnivl az a ćans t vnt ɖer splīn at Bṛzil’z faŗît prezidnt, hu rtenz a f’rośsli loyl s’portbes bt z rpydietd bî mor ɖn haf v votrz.

Lǎd crîz v “Bolsonaro ǎt!” iruptd at Rio’z Samḅdrom on Frîde nît az ɖ siti’z top samḅscūlz hld ɖer frst pṛseśnz sins ɖ c’roṇvîṛs pandemic bgan. Ɖ prezidnt’s sun, Seṇtr Flávio Bolsonaro, wz stōct n tōntd bî angri revlrz ẃl trayñ t woć ɖ p’redz ẃl a banr dmandñ hiz faɖr’z rmuvl wz unfrld fṛm wn v ɖ standz.

Spectetrz in wn v ɖ Samḅdrom’z xclūsiv “lux̣́riboxz” śǎtd insults abt Bolsonaro’z mn preẓdnśl rîvl, ɖ formr leftist prezidnt Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Bt on ɖ wrcñclas teṛsz n at ɖ roumñ strītpartiz noun az blocos ɖr wz s’port fr Lula.

“I fīl hopfl bcz I b’liv dmocṛsi mst privel ovr oʈoṛterịnizm – n ɖr’z onli wn canddet hu cn aćiv ɖs n it’s Lula,” sd Angelo Morse, 43, hu wouc p at 4.30am on Ʈrzde t jôn a bloco cōld Ẃt a Luvli Wetḷnd.

Morse, an edycetr hu clemd t b a distnt reḷtiv v ɖ Norʈ Americn invntr Saḿl FB Morse, cem t carnivl wẹrñ an aḷgetrcostym dzînd t pṛtst at Bolsonaro’z hanḍlñ v a Covid ǎtbrec ẃć hz left mor ɖn 660,000 Bṛziłnz ded.

“Prezidnt Bolsonaro z a mōrón n sd ɖt f y got vax̣netd y’d trn intu an aḷgetr,” h sd bî we v xpḷneśn az ɖ sqer arnd him fild wɖ inībrietd partigowrz drest az pîṛts, devlz, nunz, sūṗhiroz, sìcrīćrz n, in wn ces, a botl v Hînz Yelo Musṭd. Wn carid a portrit śowñ Bolsonaro spywñ a rivr v grīn suij.

On a nirbî lōn, ɖ art d’rectr Maria Estephania spouc dspondntli abt ɖ sośl, culćṛl n ic̣nomic dclîn ś b’livd hd pleid ǎt sins Bolsonaro’z śoc 2018 ilex́nvicṭri.

“W fuct ǎrslvz” bî ilectñ Bolsonaro, Estephania, 34, sd wɖ a sai, az ś tc a brec fṛm partiyñ at Liqid Luvz, a bloco inspîrd bî ɖ wrc v ɖ sośioḷjist Zygmunt Bauman.

Estephania’z ǎtfit – a scarlit cep plastrd wɖ sticrz pṛmotñ Lula n Marcelo Freixo, a leftist alî ś hops wl b ilectd Rio’z nxt guvnr – îdnṭfaid an oltrṇtiv fyćr. “It’s an ilex́nyir n w nīd t ri’frm ǎr valyz, ẃć ber no rleśn t ɖoz v ɖ p’liticl grūp ẃć cuṛntli holdz pǎr,” Estephania sd. “Ǎr valyz hv abṣlutli nʈñ t d wɖ Bolsonaro.”

Nt evrbdi wontd t tōc poḷtics az carnivl rtrnd aftr a tū-yir Covid hieṭs.

At a bloco ǎtsd Rio’z Ḿziym v Tmoro, Eduardo Faria, a portli motrbîc curịr in a trqôz tūtu, bizid himslf filñ a pīnis-śept wōtrpistl wɖ minṛlwōtr. “I’m jst hir t hv fun! No poḷtics plīz!” ɖ 39-yir-old gigld. “It’s carnivl!”

Farɖr wst in Vila Mimoza, Rio’z red-lît district, anɖr rōc̣s pṛseśn wz abt t bgin, léd bî sxwrcrz n samḅḿziśnz. Ɖ most moḍstli drest partigowr wz Everson Almeida, a formr semiṇrist wẹrñ ɖ blac caṣc h yzd bfr dićñ planz t jôn ɖ prīsthd. A sticr bnʈ hiz clericl colr dclerd: “Bolsonaro ǎt!”

“H’z a sor on ǎr ssayti,” sd Almeida, 29, hu bōlct at Bolsonaro’z ptreyl v himslf az a God-firñ Crisćn. “Crîst cem t dlivr a mesij v śltr n incluźn, nt segṛgeśn, slfiśnis n conflict.”

Az ɖ drumr wormd p, Almeida vôst confidns ɖt ɖ Bolsonaro ira wz enṭrñ its fînl ćaptr, wɖ Lula līdñ in ɖ poulz.

“God wilñ [h’z finiśt],” h sd, pôntñ hevnẉdz. “N ɖs mst b ẃt H wonts.”

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Fṛm Đ Gardịn │ Bolsonaro’s ‘genocidal’ Covid response has led to Brazilian catastrophe, Dilma Rousseff says

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Dilma Roussefff told the Guardian: ‘We are adrift on an ocean of hunger and disease … It truly is an utterly extreme situation that we’re witnessing in Brazil.’ Photograph: Ricardo Maldonado Rozo/EPA

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Bolsonaro’z ‘jeṇsîdl’ Covid rspons hz léd t Bṛziłn ctastṛfi, Dilma Rousseff sz

(Transcription of a Guardian article of 10 April 2021)

Formr prezidnt tlz Gardịn Bṛzil fesz phps grevist momnt in its hisṭri n z ‘adrift on an ośn v hungr n dziz’

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Tom Phillips is the Guardian's Latin America correspondent

Tom Filips in Rio de Janeiro, 10 Epril 2021

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Jair Bolsonaro’z pvrs n “jeṇsîdl” rspons t wn v ɖ wrld’z dedliist Covid ǎtbrecs hz left Bṛzil “adrift on an ośn v hungr n dziz”, ɖ cuntri’s formr prezidnt Dilma Rousseff hz clemd.

Spīcñ t ɖ Gardịn ɖs wīc – az Bṛzil’z c’roṇvîṛs deʈtol hit devstetñ ny hîts, wɖ mor ɖn 12,000 deʈs in ɖ last ʈri dez – Rousseff sd hr cuntri fest phps ɖ grevist momnt in its hisṭri.

“W r livñ ʈru an xtrimli dṛmatic sićueśn in Bṛzil bcz w hv no guvnmnt, no stywdśp v ɖ crîsis,” sd Rousseff, a formr leftist g’ríla hu wz prezidnt fr jst ovr fîv yirz untl hr contṛvrśl 2016 impićmnt.

“W r siyñ 4,200 deʈs p’ de nǎ n evrʈñ sjsts ɖt f nʈñ ćenjz w’l rīć 5,000… Yt ɖr z an abṣlutli rpulsiv norṃlîześn v ɖs riaḷti undr we. Hǎ cn y norṃlîz ɖ 4,211 deʈs rejistrd [on Tyzde]?” Rousseff asct az Bṛzil’z ofiśl deʈtol rouz t ovr 345,000, secnd onli t ɖ YS.

Bṛzil’z frst fīmel prezidnt, lîc a growñ numbr v sitiznz, b’livz mć v ɖ blem le wɖ Bolsonaro, a far-rît popylist huz antisạntific rspons t ẃt h cōlz a “litl flu” hz md him an inṭnaśnl bôgiman. Opińnpoulz n potbaññ protests sjst growñ public angr at ɖ Trump-admîrñ poḷtiśn hu wz ilectd in 2018 aftr Rousseff’z mntr, formr prezidnt Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, wz jeld n privntd fṛm runñ bî a juj hu lêtr jônd Bolsonaro’z cabiṇt.

Rousseff clemd Bolsonaro’z saḅtājñ v cntenmnt n vax̣neśn eḟts, rfyzl t ordr a locdǎn n fełr t ofr adiqt ic̣nomic s’port t ɖ pur hd cntribytd t a traɉdi v “caṭstrofic pṛporśnz”.

“I’m nt seyñ Bṛzil wd’nt hv sufrd deʈs [wɖ a difṛnt rspons] – ol cuntriz dd,” ś sd. “I’m seyñ ɖt part v ɖ levl v deʈs hir z funḍmnṭli dǎn t inc̣rect p’liticl dsiźnz, ẃć r stl biyñ tecn.”

Bṛzil’z brecdǎn wz olso an inṭnaśnl ʈret. “Ɖ absns v an ifctiv fît agnst ɖ pandemic [in Bṛzil] līdz t smʈñ xtrimli sirịs: ɖ imrjns v ɖ so-cōld ny verịnts, ẃć r hîli infx́s n hv incrist ɖ numbr v deʈs in neḅrñ cuntriz,” Rousseff sd, pôntñ t hǎ Sǎʈ Americn nebrz wr clozñ ɖer bordrz fr fir v ɖ mor cntejs P1 verịnt linct t Bṛzil’z Aṃzn.

Mni critics nǎ argy Bolsonaro’z ax́nz amǎnt t “jeṇsîd” – n Rousseff sd ś wz amñ ɖm.

“I yz ɖt wrd. Ẃt caṛcṭrîzz ɖ act v jeṇsîd z ẃn y ple a dlibṛt rǒl in ɖ deʈ v a popyleśn on a masiv scel,” ɖ 73-yir-old sd fṛm hr hom in Porto Alegre, wn v mni sitiz ẃr hospitlz hv bn oṿẃlmd n doctrz forst t ple God.

“It’s nt ɖ wrd [jeṇsîd] ɖt inṭrests m – it’s ɖ consept. N ɖ consept z ɖs: rsponsbiḷti fr deʈs ɖt cd hv bn avôdd.”

On Ʈrzde, Bṛzil’z s’prīm cort ordrd a cngreśnl invstgeśn intu ɖ guvnmnt’s conduct – a śocmuv ɖt xprts cōld a mejr blo t Bolsonaro, hu stl injôz ɖ s’port v abt a ʈrd v votrz bt fesz record levlz v rjx́n.

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Bolsonaro in March. Brazil’s official death toll is more than 345,000. Photograph: Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters
Bolsonaro in Marć. Bṛzil’z ofiśl deʈtol z mor ɖn 345,000. Foṭgraf: Ueslei Marcelino/Rôtrz

Bṛzil’z dzastr – ẃć z biyñ trboćarjd bî ɖ P1 verịnt – z xpctd t dīpn frɖr in ɖ cmñ dez. Mor ɖn 66,000 Bṛziłn lîvz wr lost t Covid in Marć. Epril’z deʈtol z xpctd t xid 100,000. On Frîde ɖ Wrld Hlʈ Orġnîześn sīńr advîzr Brūs Êlẉd cōld ɖ ǎtbrec “a rejñ infrno”.

“It’s despṛt. T b onist, I c’nt slīp proprli. I g t bed wɖ ɖz numbrz n siḿleśnz in mî hed n I jst c’nt ʈnc stret,” sd Miguel Nicolelis, a prominnt sayntist huz grim pṛjx́nz abt ɖ ǎtbrec hv rpitidli bn cnfrmd.

“Ɖ YS hd wn de wɖ mor ɖn 5,000 deʈs n w’r gwñ t oṿtec ɖ YS – in ɖ numbr v dêli deʈs n probbli in ɖ totl numbr v ftaḷtiz tù,” Nicolelis pridictd.

“W’r gwñ t start siyñ bodiz pîlñ p in ǎr hlʈclinics n ppl dayñ in ɖ strīts sn in ɖ bigist siti in Bṛzil,” h sd v São Paulo, cōlñ fr a wn-munʈ neśnwîd locdǎn n ɖ cloźr v rodz, erports n rivrz.

Rousseff olso rjd an imīɉt śutdǎn, olɖo Bolsonaro hz rpitidli rjctd ɖt îdīa, apaṛntli firñ it wd cripl ɖ icoṇmi n hiz hops v riilex́n in 2022. “Ɖr wl b no neśnwîd locdǎn,” Bolsonaro insistd jrñ a trip t suɖn Bṛzil ɖs wīc.

Spīcñ ǎtsd hiz rezidns on Tyzde, Bolsonaro, 66, śrugd of criṭsizm. “[I’v bn cōld] hoṃfobic, resist, fasist, a torćrr … Nǎ I’m jeṇsîdl,” h smrct. “Z ɖr enʈñ I’m nt t blem fr in Bṛzil?”

Rousseff agrìd Bolsonaro wz nt ɖ onli culprit fr ɖ Covid c’laṃti śecñ hr cuntri, n ɖ wrld. Ś olso blemd ɖ ic̣nomic ilits, militri ćīfs, mīdịmǒglz n poḷtiśnz hu hlpt ɖ rîtwñ xtrimist win pǎr bî bacñ hr rmuvl fṛm ofis n ɖen ćirñ Lula’z dǎnfōl n Bolsonaro’z rîz. Wrldlīdrz includñ Doṇld Trump hd olso handld ɖ pandemic dzastṛsli.

“Ppl wl hv t b hld rsponsbl fr ɖ ctastṛfi ɖt hz bn enɉnird in Bṛzil,” Rousseff sd, ćartñ its cuṛnt tribyleśnz bac t hr sspnśn fṛm ofis xacli fîv yirz ago fr alejidli mnipyletñ ɖ bujit t masc ic̣nomic mleiz.

“Bolsonaro z a product v ɖs… orijinl sin: ɖ impićmnt,” ś sd v ẃt hr s’portrz cōl a p’liticli-drivn “cù”.

On Súnde 16 Epril 2016, Bolsonaro, ɖen an obskr congresmn, wz wn v 367 depytiz hu apruvd Rousseff’z impićmnt jrñ an unrūli seśn in ẃć h dedcetd hiz vot t a dictetrśp-ira torćrr hu oṿsw ɖ abys v leftist reblz sć az hr.

Bac ɖen, Rousseff sd ś hd nvr imajind Bolsonaro wd wn de bcm prezidnt. Nr cd ś invizij Bṛzil fesñ tde’z imrjnsi undr mor inadiqt līdrśp. “Ɖ riaḷti z wrs ɖn enʈñ I cd hv poṣbli imajind. It’s az f w’r adrift. W r adrift on an ośn v hungr n dziz… It trūli z an utrli xtrim sićueśn ɖt w’r witṇsñ in Bṛzil.”

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Fṛm Đ Gardịn │ The vagina dialogues: 33-metre artwork draws far right’s ire in Brazil

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Artist Juliana Notari installed the artwork, entitled Diva, in rural art park in Pernambuco, Brazil. Photograph: Juliana Notari
Artist Juliana Notari instōld ɖ artwrc, intîtld Dīva, in rṛl artparc in Pernambuco, Bṛzil. Foṭgraf: Juliana Notari
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Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Ɖ vjîna daylogz: 33-mītr artwrc drwz far rît’s îr in Bṛzil

(Transcription of a Guardian article of 3 January 2021)

Juliana Notari’z hilsîd sculpćr sparcs claś btwn Bolsonaro-s’portñ rît n left-wñ culćṛl cḿṇti

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Tom Filips, Rio de Janeiro, 3 Jańri 2021

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A 33-mītr riinforst concrīt vjîna hz sparct a Bolsonarịn baclaś in Bṛzil, wɖ s’portrz v ɖ cuntri’z far-rît prezidnt claśñ wɖ left-wñ art admîrrz ovr ɖ insṭleśn.

Ɖ hand-md sculpćr, intîtld Dīva, wz unveild bî viźl artist Juliana Notari on Saṭde at a rṛl artparc on ɖ grǎndz v a formr śŭgrmil in Pernambuco, wn v Bṛzil’z most culćṛli vîbṛnt stets.

In a Fes-bc post, Notari sd ɖ scarlit hilsîd vulva wz intndd t “qsćn ɖ rleśnśp btwn nećr n culćr in ǎr faḷsntric n anʈṛṗsntric wstn ssayti” n pṛvoc dbet ovr ɖ “probḷṃtîześn v jndr”.

“Nawdez ɖz iśuz hv bcm incrisñli rjnt,” ɖ artist add in ẃt apird partli t b a refṛns t ɖ incrisñli intolṛnt clîṃt in Jair Bolsonaro’z Bṛzil.

Ɖt coment wz imīɉtli bòrn ǎt bî ɖ angri n ofn obsin riax́nz t Notari’z art, az ʈǎzndz v critics – mni sīmñli Bolsonaro s’portrz – fludd ɖ artist’s Fes-bc pej wɖ ɖer îr. “Hu d y leftiz ʈnc y’r fūlñ? Apart fṛm ysfl idịts on ɖ left, v cors,” wn v ɖ mor rstrend dtractrz rout.

Bolsonaro’z YS-best p’liticl gŭru, ɖ pṛfeśnl p’leṃsist Olavo de Carvalho, weid in wɖ a custmṛli fǎl-mǎɖd twīt.

Mni rspondd mor poztivli t Notari’z rezin-cuvrd sculpćr, ẃć tc 11 munʈs t bild. “Ɖr’z a lot t ʈnc abt in ɖs wrc,” twītd ɖ seḷbretd tranz cartūnist Laerte Coutinho.

Anɖr fan rout: “I luvd it! An intiṃt part v s xpozd wɖ sć byti. W nīd mor sć wrcs ɖt eḷvet feṃnizm n its ńuansz.”

Kleber Mendonça Filho, a film d’rectr fṛm Pernambuco, prezd Notari fr rspondñ t sć a cnsrvtiv momnt in Bṛziłn hisṭri wɖ a jîgantic vjîna. “Ɖ riax́nz t yr wrc r a mirr [v ssayti], a s’xes,” h twītd.

Sins tecñ ofis in 2019, Bolsonaro hz rpitidli mlînd culćr, pentñ artists – mni v hūm opoz hiz guvnmnt – az dec̣dnt spunjrz hu milc public fundz t pédl coḿnist garbij. A s’xeśn v rnǎnd artists daid last yir, mni fṛm Covid-19, n Bolsonaro rspondd wɖ sîḷns.

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Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Trump, Putin and Bolsonaro have been complacent. Now the pandemic has made them all vulnerable

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Simon Tisdall
Sîmn Tizdl

Trump, Pūćin n Bolsonaro hv bn cmplesnt. Nǎ ɖ pandemic hz md ɖm ol vulnṛbl

(Transcription of an article published in the Guardian on 17 May 2020)

Ɖ wrld’z stroñmen me wel end p peyñ a p’liticl prîs fr ɖer siṇsizm n incompitns

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Sîmn Tizdl, Súnde, 17 Me 2020

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Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, centre, and his ministers arriving in Brasilia. Photograph: Joédson Alves/EPA
Bṛziłn prezidnt Jair Bolsonaro, sntr, n hiz ministrz arîvñ in Bṛziła. Foṭgraf: Joédson Alves/YPA
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F  Boris Jonsn z mshanḍlñ ɖ pandemic, h z nt alon. Fōlsli clemñ evrʈñ z undr cntrol, dojñ rsponsbiḷti, hîdñ fṛm public vy, xplôtñ ɖ crîsis fr p’liticl gen, mǎntñ arṭfiśl dstrax́nz n blemñ ɖ mīdia: ɖz r comn bhevyrpatnz xibtd bî sm v ɖ wrld’z most pǎrfl – n śifti – līdrz.

Wl ɖe pe a prîs fr ɖer līʈl incompitns n siṇsizm? It’s poṣbl sm wl, ɖo it me tec a ẃl. Ɖ pandemic z ćenjñ p’liticl calkleśnz arnd ɖ glob. Līdrz hu lct invulnṛbl sudnli apir les so. Ɖt in trn cd śift ɖ stṛtījic calkḷs n oltr ɖ baḷns v pǎr btwn cuntriz in wez bʈ unixpctd n prṃnnt.

Doṇld Trump’s pformns z a lésn in hǎ nt t handl an imrjnsi. It me bcm a cmpulsri ceștudi fr fyćr stydnts v crîsismanijmnt. Trump miṇmîzd ɖ ʈret rli on, ofrd foni aśuṛnsz, n feld t mc a plan. H hz sins akzd Ćîna v dlibṛtli spredñ “pleg” ẃl weṗnîzñ ɖ crîsis t smir hiz Deṃcratic rîvl, Jo Bîdn.

Ɖ prezidnt’s mirịd caṛctrflwz nīd no rhrsl hir. Bt it sīmz a despṛt Trump wl stop at nʈñ t rībūt hiz riilex́nprospects. F ɖt mīnz f’mntñ a cold wor wɖ Ćîna, or stǒcñ reśl dviźnz n anti-mîgṛnt, anti-Mŭzlim bays, h’z p fr it. N f ol ɖt felz, h me trî t dle Nvmbr’z ilex́n, a s’nario nt rūld ǎt bî hiz sic̣fantic sun-in-lw.

C’roṇvîṛs hz md a sort v lepr v Trump. A lac v fedṛl līdrśp n hiz s’port fr preṃtyrli endñ stet locdǎnz h nvr trūli s’portd apirz t b pṛpelñ a rîz in Covid-19 cesz in smōl mid-wst tǎnz n rṛl cḿṇtiz fṛm Aywa t Texs. Ɖz r ɖ hartḷndz v Trump’s America, ẃr hiz most loyl votrz liv.

Az a rzult, Rpublicnz runñ fr Congres r runñ awe fṛm Trump, firfl v infx́n fṛm ɖ miazma v lîz n dstrust inveḷpñ ɖ Ẃît Hǎs. Az jobz dis’pir bî tnz v miłnz, Deṃcrats’ hops v winñ ɖ Senit r rîzñ. Bîdn’z līd in ci batlgrǎnd stets z wîḍnñ, fyld bî ic̣nomic meltdǎn n Trump’s gafs.

Vlajīmir Pūćin z anɖr līdr in sirịs vîṛl dificlti. Onli munʈs ago, h lct invinsbl. Ol ɖ tōc in Ruśa wz v consttyśnl “rformz” ɖt wd ifctivli mc him prezidnt fr lîf. Ɖoz planz r nǎ on hold, phps prṃnntli. Pūćin’z dsiźn t śīld himslf fṛm harm, îṣletñ awe fṛm Mosco, hz badli dntd hiz imij az firlis tuf-gai līdr.

Aftr wīcs v cmplesnsi at ɖ top, Ruśa fîndz itslf wɖ ɖ secnd fastist ret v Covid-19 infx́nz in ɖ wrld. Pūćin’z hand-pict prîm̦inistr, Miħîl Miśŭstin, z in hospitl, az z ɖ Cremlin spocsmn Dmitri Piskov. In vidioconfṛnsz hld t dscus ɖ crîsis, Pūćin hz lct mor bord ɖn cnsrnd. Emṗʈi wz nvr hiz stroñ sūt.

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People wear face masks and gloves on the Moscow Metro. Russia now finds itself with the second fastest rate of Covid-19 infections in the world. Photograph: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP
Ppl wer fes mascs n gluvz on ɖ Mosco Metro. Ruśa nǎ fîndz itslf wɖ ɖ secnd fastist ret v Covid-19 infx́nz in ɖ wrld. Foṭgraf: Alexander Zemłańićenco/AP

Ɖ p’liticl impḷceśnz r ptnṣ́li far-renjñ. Añśs t avôd prsnl blem fr twin hlʈ n ic̣nomic dzastrz, Pūćin hz śiftd rsponsbiḷti fr maṇjñ ɖ crîsis t ɖ rījnz, ẃć hv ifctivli bn left t fnd fr ɖmslvz. Wlʈi biznisṃn – ɖ so-cōld oligācs – hv stept intu ɖ brīć. In sć wez dz a līdr’z pǎr irod n slip awe.

Uɖr poḷtiśnz r śowñ a dgri v reclis insūsịns ɖt mcs Boris Jonsn lc poztivli swićt on bî cmparisn. Bṛzil’z prezidnt Jair Bolsonaro hit a ny lo fr irisponsbiḷti bî ridklñ public-pṛtx́n meźrz. Bṛzil hz ɖ hîist Covid deʈret in Latin America. Bt Bolsonaro prifŕz barḅkpartiz t hospitlvizits. H me yt pe wɖ hiz job in a cuntri ẃr preẓdnśl impićmnt acć̣li wrcs.

In Trci, mnẃl, ɖ vîṛs hz bròt a gret mni pijinz hom t rūst. A strucćṛli frajîl icoṇmi, a holoud-ǎt sivl ssayti n mīdia, n a clîṃt v fir crietd bî Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hz nt pruvd cndysiv t a yṇfaid naśnl ef̣t – līdñ aṇlists sjst ɖ sultnprezidnt’s rên me b drw̃ t a cloz.

Mjoṛti Crdiś eriaz in īstn Trci, fr xampl, ɖ sīn v frīqnt conflict wɖ ɖ sntṛl guvnmnt, hv rportidli bn hard hit. Diyarbakir-best acṭvist n oʈr Nurcan Baysal tlz a fmiłr têl v hlʈwrcrz afreid t g t wrc dy t a lac v pṛtctiv iqipmnt. Bt it’s a p’liticl probḷm, tù.

“Tde, ɖr r nt inuf tsts, nt inuf doctrz, no sivl ssayti, no mẹrz, n nt inuf meźrz t tacl ɖ c’roṇvîṛs in Crdiś sitiz,” Baysal sd – partli bcz mni Crdiś doctrz n nrsz wr sact in Erdoğan’z prjz.

A sntṛl actr in ɖs globl drama, Ćîna’z modn-de emprr Śí Jñpñ z nt abt t fōl – olɖo h rićli dzrvz ɖ sác. Rɖr, an imboldnd Śí riscs ovr-pleyñ hiz hand az h sīcs t trnsform a c’laṃti intu a PR vicṭri fr Ćînīz soft pǎr, streñʈ̇nñ Bêźñ’z clǎt at ɖ xpns v wìcnd wstn cuntriz.

Americn fumḅlñ, plus Ruśn n Yṛpiyn dbiḷti, ofr Śí a mcābra oṗtyṇti t advans hiz viźn v Ćîna az dominnt globl pǎr. Bt ɖ agresiv, Boxr Rbełn-stîl provceśnz v hiz “wlf-worịr” dipḷmats n parti cādraz r fīdñ an inṭnaśnl baclaś.

Preśr z growñ t rtaliet bî qoṛntīnñ Bêźñ, p’liticli n ic̣nomicli. N ɖt, in trn, būsts Trump’s confṛnteśnl, slf-xculṗtri campeņaṛtiv.

Trump clemz Ćîna wonts t dnî him a secnd trm. Yt ɖ oṗzit me b tru. Śí nz a ysfl idịt ẃn h siz wn – n ɖs YS prezidnt z īẓli ǎtfoxt. Ɖ ʈt ɖt Ćîna’z oṗziśnl tactics cd hlp gt Trump riilectd z inuf t mc enwn sic.

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Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Brazil’s President Bolsonaro must ‘drastically change course’ on Covid-19, says The Lancet

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Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro waves after a meeting at the Ministry of Defense headquarters in Brasilia on Friday. Photograph: Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters
Bṛzil’z Prezidnt Jair Bolsonaro wevz aftr a mītñ at ɖ Miṇstri v Dfns hedqortrz in Bṛziła on Frîde. Foṭgraf: Ueslei Marcelino/Rôtrz

Bṛzil’z Prezidnt Bolsonaro mst ‘drasticli ćenj cors’ on Covid-19, sz Ɖ Lansit

(Transcription of an article published in the Guardian on 9 May 2020)

Britiś medicl jrnl’z edtorịl sz ɖ Bṛziłn prezidnt’s disrigard fr locdǎn meźrz z daṃjñ

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Rôtrz, Saṭde, 9 Me 2020

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Ɖ  bigist ʈret t Bṛzil’z abiḷti t s’xesf̣li combat ɖ spred v ɖ c’roṇvîṛs n tacl ɖ unfoldñ public-hlʈ crîsis z ɖ cuntri’z prezidnt, Jair Bolsonaro, acordñ t ɖ Britiś medicl jrnl Ɖ Lansit.

In an edtorịl, Ɖ Lansit sd hiz disrigard fr n flǎtñ v locdǎn meźrz wz sǒwñ cnfyźn acrs Bṛzil, ẃć rportd a record numbr v Covid-19 deʈs on Frîde, n z fast imrjñ az wn v ɖ wrld’z c’roṇvîṛs hotspots.

Bṛzil’z hlʈmiṇstri on Frîde rejistrd 10,222 ny cnfrmd cesz v ɖ c’roṇvîṛs n 751 rletd deʈs, bìtñ ɖ prīvịs record v 615. Ɖt bròt ɖ totl v cnfrmd cesz in Bṛzil t 145,328 n deʈs t 9,897, ɖ most dedli ǎtbrec in an imrjñ-marcit neśn.

Bolsonaro, a formr armicaptin, z bcmñ incrisñli hamstruñ bî p’liticl crîsis folowñ hiz rīsnt sacñ v popylr hlʈministr Luiz Henrique Mandetta n ɖ reẓgneśn v justisministr Sergio Moro, Ɖ Lansit sd.

“Ɖ ćalinj z ultiṃtli p’liticl, rqîrñ cntinẏs ingejmnt bî Bṛziłn ssayti az a hol. Bṛzil az a cuntri mst cm tgɖr t gv a clir ansr t ɖ ‘So ẃt?’ bî its Prezidnt. H nīdz t drasticli ćenj cors or mst b ɖ nxt t g,” ɖ edtorịl sd.

In rspons t a jrṇlist’s qsćn last wīc abt ɖ record numbr v deʈs fṛm c’roṇvîṛs, Bolsonaro sd: “So ẃt? I’m sori, bt ẃt d y wont m t d?”

Bolsonaro’z pres-ofis dclînd t coment on ɖ Lansit edtorịl. On Frîde, ɖ prezidnt sd h pland t hv 30 frendz ovr t ɖ preẓdnśl palis fr a barḅk. Lêtr in ɖ de, h joct ɖt h me xtnd ɖ invteśn t ʈǎzndz mor, includñ p’liticl s’portrz n membrz v ɖ pres.

A rport bî Impirịl Colij Lundn publiśt on Frîde śoud ɖt “ɖ eṗdemic z nt yt cntrold n wl cntiny t gro” in Bṛzil, in starc contrast t parts v Yṛp n Eźa, ẃr inforst locdǎnz hv hd s’xes.

“Ẃl ɖ Bṛziłn eṗdemic z stl reḷtivli nesnt on a naśnl scel, ǎr rzults sjst ɖt frɖr ax́n z nīdd t limit spred n privnt hlʈsistm oṿlod,” ɖ Impirịl Colij rport sd.

In its edtorịl, Ɖ Lansit notd ćaḷnjz Bṛzil fest. Abt 13 miłn Bṛziłnz liv in śantitǎn “fvelaz”, ẃr hîjīnrec̣mndeśnz n fizicl distnsñ r nir imposbl t folo.

Ɖ cuntri’z indijṇs popyleśn wz olso undr “svir ʈret” īvn bfr ɖ Covid-19 ǎtbrec dy t ɖ guvnmnt trnñ a blînd î t or īvn incuṛjñ ilīgl mînñ n logñ in ɖ Aṃzn renforist.

“Ɖz logrz n mainrz nǎ risc brññ Covid-19 t rmot popyleśnz,” it sd.

Most v Bṛzil’z 27 stet n district guvnmnts r tecñ ɖ ʈret v ɖ vîṛs mor sirịsli ɖn Bolsonaro.

On Frîde, ɖ guvnmnt v São Paulo, Bṛzil’z most popyḷs stet, xtndd manḍtri qoṛntīn-ordrz ʈru t 31 Me. Ɖe hd bn scedyld t xpîr on 11 Me.

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