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In Ñspel: The Guardian view on Bruno and Dom’s legacy: defend nature’s defenders

The relatives of British journalist Dom Phillips and activists with a banner with his image, on the left, and that of Indigenous activist Bruno Pereira, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photograph: Bruna Prado/AP
Ɖ reḷtivz v Britiś jrṇlist Dóm Filips n acṭvists wɖ a banr wɖ hiz imij, on ɖ left, n ɖt v Indijṇs acṭvist Bruno Pereira, in Rio de Janeiro, Bṛzil. Foṭgraf: Bruna Prado/AP
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Ɖ Gardịn vy on Bruno n Dóm’z leġsi: dfnd nećr’z dfndrz

(Transcription of a Guardian editorial of 5 June 2023)

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Wn yir aftr Bruno Pereira n Dóm Filips wr cild in ɖ Aṃzn, ɖer wrc xplenñ ẃt z haṗnñ ɖr gz on

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Munde, 5 Jūn 2023

Ɖ  dsiźn bî Bṛziłn p’līs t ćarj tū mor men wɖ ɖ mrdrz v Bruno Pereira n Dóm Filips, in ɖ Javari Vali rījn v ɖ Aṃzn, brñz ɖ posbiḷti v justis wn step closr. T ɖ ʈri fiśrz olrdi in cusṭdi fr ɖ śūtñz, ẃć tc ples wn yir ago, hv bn add ɖ alejd līdr v a trnznaśnl ilīgl-fiśñ netwrc, Ruben Dario da Silva Villar, nicnemd Colombia (ẃr h olso hz sitiznśp). A forʈ fiśr, Jânio Freitas de Souza, z alejd t hv bn wn v Silva Villar’z hnćṃn on ɖ Itaquaí Rivr, ẃr ɖ cilñz tc ples.

Fr frendz n s’portrz v ɖ tū men’z wrc dfndñ ɖ Aṃzn n its Indijṇs inhabitnts, ɖ invstgeśn’z progres ofrz sm rlif. F sć acts v vayḷns g unpuniśt, criminl orġnîześnz ɖt wīld pǎr in ɖ Aṃzn wl b frɖr imboldnd in ɖer ys. Bt īvn f cnvix́nz r s’krd, ɖs wl b ɖ xpśn n nt ɖ rūl ẃn it cmz t atacs on invîrnmntl dfndrz – dfînd bî ɖ Ynîtd Neśnz az ppl hu strîv t pṛtct hymn rîts rletñ t nećr.

Ɖ riscs asośietd wɖ sć wrc n actvizm hv rizn az ɖ clîṃtcrîsis hz esc̣letd. Cilñz linct t invîrnmntl campenz hv bn monitrd bî Globl Witnis, an NGO, fr a deced. It rcordd 200 in 2021. Fr rportrz, last yir wz ptiklrli dedli. Ɖ Cmiti t Pṛtct Jrṇlists cǎntd 67 victimz, includñ Filips. Fiftīn v ɖz wr in Ycren; olmst haf wr in Latin America n ɖ Caṛbiyn. Ɖs yir ɖr hv so far bn 12 deʈs.

It z tù sn t asrt wɖ confidns ɖt Prezidnt Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva hz s’xidd in endñ ẃt h cōld ɖ “nîtmer” v Jair Bolsonaro’z ira v devsteśn, includñ dīfoṛsteśn n hymn-rîts abysz. Ẃt z srtn z ɖt ppl arnd ɖ wrld, az wel az in Bṛzil, nīd akṛt inḟmeśn abt ɖ complex sićueśn in ɖ wrld’z larjist renforist, ẃć plez a vîtl part in ɖ clîṃtsistm n z amñ ɖ most bîodîvrs plesz on ɖ planit.

Orġnîzd crîm z wn ʈret, wɖ wn formr p’līsćīf wornñ ɖt ilīgl mainrz n drugtraficrz cd form armiz, n tec ovr ɖ rījn, az hapnd in Colombia. Bt multinaśnl mainñ n agṛculćṛl bizṇsz olso cōz hyj damij ẃl mcñ vast profits līġli. Dīfoṛsteśn linct t catlranćñ n logñ axeḷretd dṛmaticli undr Bolsonaro. Bt Lula’z atmts t rvrs it fes pǎrfl opziśn. Ɖ Wrld Banc, ẃć prīvịsli fînanst foristclirñ inḍstriz, hz b’letidli rec̣gnîzd ɖ dstrux́n v ɖ Aṃzn az a marcitfełr on a masiv scel. It, alñ wɖ uɖr globl insttyśnz, mst nǎ b proactiv in fînansñ ɖs jaynt carbn snc. Justis az wel az slf-inṭrest dmandz ɖt globl-norʈ cuntriz contṛbyt t ɖs eḟt, n d nt līv it t Bṛzil.

Wrc t cnsrv ẃt z left v ɖ Aṃzn, in conṣt wɖ its Indijṇs rezidnts, mst b inṭnaśnl bt olso locl. Wɖt îz on ɖ grǎnd, dīp in ɖ jungl az wel az in ɖ wrld’z bōrdrūmz n parḷmnts, nwn nz ẃt z acć̣li haṗnñ ɖr. Pereira n Filips lost ɖer livz trayñ t unḍstand, n t tel ɖ wrld, abt eḟts t dveḷp ɖ Aṃzn – n abt eḟts t rzist sć dveḷpmnt in fevr v les dstructiv oltrṇtivz. It’s in ol ǎr inṭrests t cari on ẃt ɖe bgan.

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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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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: Lula: Bolsonaro leading Brazil ‘to slaughterhouse’ over Covid-19

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Gravediggers wearing protective suits carry the coffin of 68-year-old Natalina Cardoso Bandeira, who died after contracting coronavirus. Photograph: Bruno Kelly/Reuters
Grevdigrz wẹrñ pṛtctiv sūts cari ɖ cofin v 68-yir-old Natalina Cardoso Bandeira, hu daid aftr cntractñ c’roṇvîṛs. Foṭgraf: Brūno Ćeli/Rôtrz
Lula: Bolsonaro līdñ Bṛzil ‘t slōtrhǎs’ ovr Covid-19

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

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Formr prezidnt brandz cuṛnt līdr a ‘trogḷdît’ hu śd b rmuvd fṛm ofis

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Tom Filips in Rio de Janeiro. 17 Epril 2020

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Jair Bolsonaro z līdñ Bṛziłnz “t ɖ slōtrhǎs” wɖ hiz irisponsbl hanḍlñ v c’roṇvîṛs, ɖ cuntri’s formr prezidnt Inácio Lula da Silva hz sd.

In an impaśnd inṭvy wɖ ɖ Gardịn – ẃć cem az Bṛzil’z Covid-19 deʈtol hit 1,924 – Lula sd ɖt bî unḍmainñ sośl distnsñ n dfeṇstretñ hiz ǒn hlʈministr, Bṛzil’z “trogḷdît” līdr risct rpitñ ɖ devstetñ sīnz pleyñ ǎt in Eqdor ẃr faṃliz hv hd t dump ɖer luvd wnz’ corpsz in ɖ strīts.

“Unforćṇtli I fir Bṛzil z gwñ t sufr a gret dīl bcz v Bolsonaro’z reclisnis … I fir ɖt f ɖs groz Bṛzil cd si sm cesz lîc ɖoz hrific, monstṛs iṃjz w sw in Guayaquil,” sd ɖ 74-yir-old leftist.

“W c’nt jst wont t topl a prezidnt bcz w d’nt lîc him,” Lula admitd. “[Bt] f Bolsonaro cntinyz t cmit crîmz v rsponsbiḷti … [n] trayñ t līd ssayti t ɖ slōtrhǎs – ẃć z ẃt h z dwñ – I ʈnc ɖ insttyśnz wl nīd t fînd a we v sortñ Bolsonaro ǎt. N ɖt wl mīn y’l nīd t hv an impićmnt.”

Bolsonaro – a prǎdli hoṃfobic formr armicaptin olrdi dspîzd bî pṛgresiv Bṛziłnz fr hiz hostiḷti t ɖ invîrnmnt, indijṇs rîts n ɖ arts, az wel az hiz alejd lincs t Rio’z mafia – hz ełnetd miłnz mor wɖ hiz dsmisiv stans twdz ɖ c’roṇvîṛs, ẃć h b’litlz az mīdia “hstiria” n a “bit v a cold”.

Sins ɖ Wrld Hlʈ Orġnîześn dclerd ɖ pandemic on 11 Marć, Bṛzil’z prezidnt hz rpitidli ʈumd hiz nǒz at sośl distnsñ, frst bî egñ on n atndñ pro-Bolsonaro protests n ɖen wɖ a siriz v pṛvoc̣tiv vizits t bec̣riz, sūṗmarcits n farṃsiz. Jrñ wn uņesṣri ǎtñ Bolsonaro dclerd: “Nwn wl hindr mî rît t cm n g.”

In Marć ɖ rîtwñ popylist īvn sjstd Bṛziłnz nīd nt wuri abt Covid-19 sins ɖe cd beɖ in xcrimnt “n nʈñ hapnz”.

Sć muvz pt Bolsonaro at logrhedz wɖ hiz ǒn hlʈministr, Luiz Henrique Mandetta, a doctr-trnd-poḷtiśn hu wz fîrd on Ʈrzde aftr ćaḷnjñ ɖ prezidnt’s bhevyr.

Mnẃl Bolsonaro’z poḷtiśn sun, Eduardo, hz tecn ɖ recñbōl t tîz wɖ Bṛzil’z most importnt tredpartnr, Ćîna, bî akzñ its Coḿnist parti līdrz v biyñ t blem fr ɖ c’roṇvîṛs crîsis.

Bolsonaro’z ax́nz hv sparct nîtli pot-baññ protests in sitiz p n dǎn ɖ cuntri n drwn scorn fṛm acrs ɖ p’liticl spectṛm.

“C’roṇvîṛs mst b lafñ its hed of,” Eliane Cantanhêde, a coḷmnist fr ɖ cnsrvtiv Estado de São Paulo nyzpepr, rout v Bolsonaro’z antics ɖs wīc.

Ɖ rîtwñ guvnr v Bṛzil’z most popyḷs stet, São Paulo, hz dclerd ɖ cuntri at wor wɖ bʈ ɖ c’roṇvîṛs n ɖ “Bolsonaro-vîṛs”.

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Lula da Silva, the former president of Brazil. Photograph: Andre Lucas/The Guardian
Lŭla d’Silva, ɖ formr prezidnt v Bṛzil. Foṭgraf: Andre Lūc̣s/Ɖ Gardịn

Lula, hu guvnd fṛm 2003 untl 2010, clemd ɖt Bolsonaro’z “gṛtesc” ax́nz wr indenjrñ lîvz bî ignorñ distnsñgîdlînz pt in ples bî Bṛzil’z ǒn hlʈmiṇstri.“It’s naćṛl ɖt a porśn v ssayti dz’nt unḍstand ɖ nīd t ste at hom or hǎ sirịs ɖs z – ispeṣ́li ẃn ɖ prezidnt v ɖ rpublic z a trogḷdît hu sz it’s jst a litl flu,” Lula sd bî vidiocōl fṛm ɖ Bṛziłn siti v São Bernardo do Campo, ẃr h z in slf-îṣleśn aftr rtrnñ fṛm a tur v Yṛp.

“Ɖ truʈ z Bolsonaro dz’nt ʈnc abt ɖ impact hiz dstructiv acts hv on ssayti. H’z reclis.”Bolsonaro sz hiz opziśn t distnsñ stemz fṛm hiz dzîr t pṛtct Bṛzil’z most vulnṛbl sitiznz n ɖer jobz.

Aftr sacñ hiz hlʈministr, Bolsonaro clemd t b fîtñ fr “ɖ loñ-suf̣rñ Bṛziłn ppl” n wornd c’roṇvîṛs ʈretnd t bcm “a veriṭbl mìtgrîndr v jobz”.

“At no pônt hz ɖ guvnmnt abandnd ɖ nīdiist … Ɖ impoṿriśt masz canot ste stuc p at hom,” Bolsonaro sd. “I nǒ … lîf z prîslis. Bt ɖ icoṇmi n jobz mst rtrn t norml.”

Lula, hu wz born intu rṛl poṿti n wún inṭnaśnl plōdits fr hiz fît agnst hungr, scoft at ɖ îdīa Bolsonaro wz a ćampịn v ɖ pur.

“Bolsonaro z onli inṭrestd in himslf, hiz cidz, sm priti cnsrvtiv jenṛlz n hiz paṛmilitri frendz,” h clemd, in refṛns t loñstandñ aḷgeśnz ovr ɖ Bṛziłn prezidnt’s faṃlitîz t ɖ Rio de Janeiro mafia.

“H dz’nt spīc t ssayti. Bolsonaro dz’nt hv irz t lisn. H jst hz a mǎʈ t tōc nonsns.”

Ẃl Bṛzil’z formr prezidnt clemd impićmnt wz an opśn, h cnsidd ɖr wz nt cuṛntli s’port fr ɖt in ɖ cuntri’z congres, az ɖr wz ẃn hiz leftwñ s’xesr Dilma Rousseff wz rmuvd fṛm ofis in 2016.

H sd mni rîtwñ poḷtiśnz ʈt it wîzr t alǎ Bolsonaro t cntiny saḅtājñ hiz ćansz v riilex́n in 2022 ʈru hiz ǒn incompitns – bfr ilectñ anɖr prezidnt fṛm ɖ rît.

Lula, hu wz sîdlînd fṛm 2018’z ilex́n aftr biyñ jeld on dspytd c’rupśnćarjz, signld h wd nt b ɖ leftwñ canddet in ɖt contest.

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Workers in protective gear bury a person alongside rows of freshly dug graves at the Vila Formosa cemetery in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Photograph: André Penner/AP
Wrcrz in pṛtctiv gir beri a prsn alñsd roz v freśli dug grevz at ɖ Vila Formosa seṃtri in São Paulo, Bṛzil. Foṭgraf: Andre Penr/AP

“I’v lost mî p’liticl rîts so I’m nt tōcñ abt mslf,” sd Lula, hu wz rlist in Nvmbr 2019 fṛm 580 dez in prizn aftr a s’prīm-cort rūlñ.“Bt I’l tel y smʈñ, y cn b srtn ɖ left wl b guṿnñ Bṛzil agn aftr 2022. W d’nt nīd t tōc abt hu ɖ canddet z rît nǎ. Bt w wl vot fr smwn hu z cmitd t hymn rîts n rspcts ɖm, hu rspcts invîrnmntl pṛtx́n, hu rspcts ɖ Aṃzn … hu rspcts blacs n ɖ indijṇs. W’r gwñ t ilect smwn hu z cmitd t ɖ pur v ɖs cuntri.”

Obzrvrz v Bṛziłn poḷtics r les śr Bolsonaro z toṭli finiśt – or ɖt ɖ left z wel pziśnd t rples him. Sm b’liv Bolsonaro – wn v jst for wrldlīdrz stl dǎnpleyñ c’roṇvîṛs alñsd ɖ oʈoṛterịn prezidnts v Nic̣rağa, Beḷrŭs n Trcmenistan – hz obliṭretd hiz ćansz v a secnd trm wɖ hiz rspons t ɖ crîsis.

Bt Thomas Traumann, a p’liticl comntetr n cḿṇceśnzministr undr Rousseff, sd sć srtnti wz preṃtyr: “Ɖr r tū snć̣riz t g untl 2022.”

Traumann sd it wz clir Bolsonaro hd svirli wìcnd himslf – bt so far rîtwñ poḷtiśnz sć az ɖ guvnrz v Rio de Janeiro n São Paulo apird t b capiṭlîzñ on Bolsonaro’z blundrz ɖ most.

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Jair Bolsonaro, right, with Luiz Henrique Mandetta, whom he has fired as health minister. Photograph: Adriano Machado/Reuters
Jair Bolsonaro, rît, wɖ Luiz Henrique Mandetta, hūm h hz fîrd az hlʈministr. Foṭgraf: Adriano Machado/Rôtrz

N ultiṃtli Bṛzil wz hrtlñ intu sć an unpridictbl n ptnṣ́li tymulćs fy wīcs ɖt it wz imposbl t nǒ ẃt ɖ p’liticl fōlǎt mt b.

“W nǒ Bolsonaro wl cm ǎt v ɖs wìcr. W nǒ hiz mstecs wl nt b fgivn,” Traumann sd. Hǎ ɖ p’liticl ćips wd fōl aftr ɖt wz enwn’z ges, Traumann add, lîc̣nñ Bṛzil’z pridic̣mnt t ɖ start v a rolrcǒstr rîd.

“Ol w nǒ z ɖt mni lūps lî ahd … W r muvñ intu an uņoun wrld … W r sêlñ in ɖ darcnis.”

Lula sd h wz srtn v wn ʈñ: ɖt at a momnt v naśnl crîsis, Bṛzil nīdd a līdr ceṗbl v ynîtñ its 211 miłn sitiznz.

“A prezidnt śd b lîc ɖ cnductr v an orcistra,” h sd. “Ɖ probḷm z ɖt ǎr cnductr nz nʈñ abt ḿzic, c’nt rīd a scor n dz’nt īvn nǒ hǎ ɖ batnz wrc.

“H’z trayñ t ple clasicl ḿzic wɖ ɖ instṛmnts y yz t ple samba. H’z trnd hiz orcistra intu a madnis – a Tǎr v Bebl,” Lula sd. “H dz’nt nǒ ẃt h’z dwñ in ɖ preẓdnśl palis … Nt īvn Trump tecs him sirịsli.”

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