The fascism of the Bolsonaro government is characterized by disrespect for human rights and the environment, the identification of enemies as a unifying cause, the emphasis on militarism, the high level of sexism, the control of the media, religion and interconnected governments, attack to labor rights, disdain for intellectuals and the arts, obsession with crime and punishment and the creation of a police state. Jair Bolsonaro's political goal is to gain full power through the dominance of the legislature and judiciary, as well as the executive branch and, if necessary, the closure of the first two to put his fascist government project into practice.

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NO TO FASCISM IN BRAZIL OF BOLSONARO GOVERNMENT
Fernando Alcoforado*
The fascism of the Bolsonaro government has the following characteristics:
1. Disrespect for human rights and the environment - During presidential campaign
in the city of Araçatuba, in the interior of São Paulo, Bolsonaro spoke on a sound car,
condemning organizations that defend human rights. According to the then presidential
candidate, these movements do a “disservice to Brazil” and, therefore, do not deserve
government money transfer. Jair Bolsonaro's Brazil is the new environmental villain for
the planet by not declaring new areas of environmental protection, dismantling
indigenous land reserves and not demarcating new ones, distorting the Amazon Fund (a
Norwegian-funded millionaire fund mainly to curb deforestation) ), questioning the
climate change and the official data on destruction of rainforests by government bodies
through Inpe, and accelerating the approval of new pesticides, including some with
banned substances in the European Union..
2. Identification of enemies as a unifying cause - In a live broadcast on his Facebook
page on October 6, 2018, the eve of the first round of the election, Bolsonaro says the
leftist Brazilian parties have failed in other Latin American countries such as Venezuela
and Argentina. Leftist enemies are seen as bad guys and deserve punishment and
extermination.
3. Emphasis on militarism - As a candidate, Bolsonaro also defended the dictatorship's
military governments, saying "that was a wonderful time." Bolsonaro always defended
the torturer during the military dictatorship, Brilhante Ustra. Several ministers and
occupants of various Bolsonaro government agencies are military.
4. High level of sexism - "I would never rape you because you don't deserve it." This
was Bolsonaro's statement addressed to deputy Maria do Rosario in the corridors of the
Chamber of Deputies. The candidate even pushed the deputy, threatening to slap her
and calling her a "slut." In 2014, Bolsonaro repeated the offense to the deputy, this time
in a speech to the House of Representatives. For the offense, Bolsonaro was sentenced
by the Federal District Court to pay compensation of R$ 10,000 to Maria do Rosario.
5. Control of the media - Bolsonaro often delegitimizes the work of the press, and his
campaign was based on the spread of false news. Jair Bolsonaro has made systematic
attacks on the press using false information showing his lack of commitment to the truth
of the facts, as well as using his power position to try to intimidate media outlets and
journalists. When a ruler mobilizes a significant part of the population to assault
journalists and vehicles, it undermines one of the pillars of democracy, the existence of
a free and critical press.
6. Religion and interconnected governments - “We are a Christian country! God
above all. This little story of the secular state, no! It is a Christian state! And minorities
who bow! ”This was a statement from Bolsonaro in a speech over a sound car in
Campina Grande, Paraíba, in February 2017, when he said that those who do not believe
in God are the minority of the population and therefore they must "bow" to the Christian
state.

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7. Labor rights attacked - "One day the worker will have to decide: less rights and
employment or all rights and unemployment". This was Bolsonaro's statement in an
interview with the Jornal Nacional, when he said that it gives voice to the claim of
Brazilian employers and entrepreneurs, who understand labor rights as obstacles to the
growth of companies.
8. Disdain for intellectuals and the arts - Bolsonaro systematically disqualifies
scientific work that goes against his conservative ideas. Bolsonaro demoted the Ministry
of Culture to the secretary under the direction of Ministry of Education. With
censorship and siege on art, Bolsonaro repeats dictatorship, which feared culture. By
threatening Ancine's closure, Bolsonaro also attacks a millionaire market that employs
thousands of people.
9. Obsession with crime and punishment - In a debate at the Bandeirantes TV, on
August 9, 2018, Bolsonaro credited the violence in the country with the “human rights
policy”, which, according to the candidate, “disarmed the good citizen”, while “the
bandit remains very well armed”. Bolsonaro defends the armament of the population
and a more punitive prison system.
10. Creation of police state - Justice Minister Sergio Moro has filed an anti-crime bill
that has several unconstitutional measures, especially on arrest after second instance
conviction, the prescribing of crimes, and changes in the institute of self-defense and the
Jury Court, in addition to lowering a decree authorizing the summary deportation of
persons “dangerous to the security of Brazil”, violating the presumption of innocence
for foreigners, which is openly unconstitutional and threatening journalist Glenn
Greenwald who revealed the crimes committed by Moro and prosecutors in Paraná
under the Lava Jato Operation.
One of the cornerstones of the Bolsonaro government is the destruction of the critical
memories of the 1964 civil and military dictatorship, as well as all the horror
experiences Brazil experienced, such as those that place us at the head of rankings of
incarceration, deforestation, group murder vulnerable, destruction of public health and
education, judicialization of social life, overexploitation of work. Bolsonaro's speech is
similar to what Hitler preached in his 1932 campaign in Germany. The construction of
the Nazi party was a construction focused on the very militaristic anti-corruption idea of
the state, based primarily on the idea that there was a Germany that was ending
economically.
The advance of fascist political figures such as Jair Bolsonaro and Sérgio Moro is
driven by two fundamental factors: a strong idea of creating an enemy responsible for
all the country's problems. In Brazil, the left-wing political forces and the PT were
blamed for the corruption issues in the country that were central to Bolsonaro's victory
in the presidential election. Bolsonaro's speech gives voice not only to the political
dissatisfaction of the population, but above all to internalized hatred. There is a very big
class hatred in Brazil, a gender hatred as well, as well as a LGBT hatred. Bolsonaro
manages to bring together several of these hatreds.
Bolsonaro's absurd pronouncements at the time he was a deputy and more recently in
the presidency have always been classified as mental insanity. His inhuman opinions

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and explosive temper make many people see him as crazy. We must not forget that
Mussolini and Hitler were also considered crazy with the practice, respectively, of
fascism in Italy and Nazism in Germany. This kind of inhuman and explosive behavior
is also characteristic of every fascist leader such as Bolsonaro.
It should be noted that the political objective of Jair Bolsonaro is the conquest of full
power with the dominance of the Legislature and the Judiciary, as well as the Executive
Power and, if necessary, the closing of the first two to put into practice his fascist
project of government. The escalation of fascism is already a concrete fact, widespread,
rooted and may become irreversible in Brazil at the present time if there is no resistance
against its advance. In order to avoid the end of the current democratic system in Brazil,
it is not enough, therefore, to rely on republican institutions that can undergo changes
contrary to the interests of the vast majority of the population through bills and
amendments to the Constitution by the Bolsonaro government and even, come to an end
with a coup d´état.
In order to prevent the escalation of fascism and the establishment of a far-right
dictatorship in Brazil, it is urgent to form an anti-fascist democratic front in Parliament
and Civil Society to defend the 1988 Constitution and to fight against acts of
government that are contrary to interests of the vast majority of the population and
Brazil.
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Fernando Alcoforado, 79, awarded the medal of Engineering Merit of the CONFEA / CREA System,
member of the Bahia Academy of Education, engineer and doctor in Territorial Planning and Regional
Development by the University of Barcelona, university professor and consultant in the areas of
strategic planning, business planning, regional planning and planning of energy systems, is author of the
books Globalização (Editora Nobel, São Paulo, 1997), De Collor a FHC- O Brasil e a Nova (Des)ordem
Mundial (Editora Nobel, São Paulo, 1998), Um Projeto para o Brasil (Editora Nobel, São Paulo, 2000),
Os condicionantes do desenvolvimento do Estado da Bahia (Tese de doutorado. Universidade de
Barcelona,http://www.tesisenred.net/handle/10803/1944, 2003), Globalização e Desenvolvimento
(Editora Nobel, São Paulo, 2006), Bahia- Desenvolvimento do Século XVI ao Século XX e Objetivos
Estratégicos na Era Contemporânea (EGBA, Salvador, 2008), The Necessary Conditions of the
Economic and Social Development- The Case of the State of Bahia (VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2010), Aquecimento Global e Catástrofe
Planetária (Viena- Editora e Gráfica, Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo, São Paulo, 2010), Amazônia Sustentável-
Para o progresso do Brasil e combate ao aquecimento global (Viena- Editora e Gráfica, Santa Cruz do
Rio Pardo, São Paulo, 2011), Os Fatores Condicionantes do Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social
(Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2012), Energia no Mundo e no Brasil- Energia e Mudança Climática
Catastrófica no Século XXI (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2015), As Grandes Revoluções Científicas,
Econômicas e Sociais que Mudaram o Mundo (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2016), A Invenção de um novo
Brasil (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2017), Esquerda x Direita e a sua convergência (Associação Baiana de
Imprensa, Salvador, 2018, em co-autoria) and Como inventar o futuro para mudar o mundo (Editora
CRV, Curitiba, 2019).