The two videos below concern the recent presidential election in Brazil, which has been described as fraudulent by numerous observers both inside and outside the country. I don’t have much information on the context of these two videos, but they are quite interesting nonetheless.
Many thanks to José Atento for the translations, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling.
The first video is from Brasilia, possibly from the national assembly. It features an indigenous Brazilian in a tribal headdress, with impressive tattoos. He is evidently a supporter of outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro:
The second video shows a protest in a shopping mall, which is said to be the largest shopping mall in Brasilia. Some of the protesters are wearing interesting headdresses, but I don’t know what they signify:
Video transcript #1:
| 00:00 | Speaking to the Brazilian nation now | |
| 00:03 | is chief Roni Pareci. On behalf | |
| 00:07 | of these people, I come here to bring the true sentiment that they are feeling, in their heart, | |
| 00:12 | heart, skin and soul. In these thirty days that we’ve been here | |
| 00:16 | in Brasília at the HQ. With the diversities | |
| 00:20 | that nature offers and also | |
| 00:23 | the diversity of the atrocities that | |
| 00:26 | have been committed by the “Egg Head” [Alexandre de Moraes], | |
| 00:29 | which is nothing more than a stick ordered | |
| 00:32 | by the corrupt international system that is | |
| 00:35 | increasingly entering our political system. | |
| 00:38 | Both of you: Like the Senate, like federal deputies, | |
| 00:43 | all authorities, and we have an obligation not to let this happen. | |
| 00:48 | We have to have that courage. | |
| 00:51 | Today I’ve been here for days, thirty days, | |
| 00:54 | being threatened, being coerced, being scolded, | |
| 00:58 | my village, my family who are there, | |
| 01:03 | being threatened. But, as the warrior Silvia Waiãpi said: | |
| 01:09 | we carry the spirituality of real warriors. | |
| 01:13 | But today we are fighting to be able to have this freedom, | |
| 01:18 | of the Indian being a contemporary patriot. | |
| 01:22 | I was at the COP27 in Egypt. | |
| 01:30 | I had 33 minutes to speak. | |
| 01:33 | because we’ve been here for thirty days, and with three minutes I can’t convey the feeling | |
| 01:39 | of several Brazilians who are there today. | |
| 01:42 | In any case, being fined, | |
| 01:45 | being arrested and we have [only] three minutes here in our own house, | |
| 01:49 | with these limitations, which are | |
| 01:52 | a lack of respect, not for me, but for those Brazilians who are | |
| 01:56 | camped in front of the HQ — how many millions are here in Brasilia | |
| 02:00 | and how many in all the capitals of our Brazil? Resisting. And we don’t have space in the media | |
| 02:07 | to show what happens. But today | |
| 02:11 | the feeling of the Brazilians | |
| 02:14 | is that they want to have transparency | |
| 02:17 | in our elections, | |
| 02:21 | in the vote counting. | |
| 02:24 | If it had transparency, we would not be here. | |
| 02:29 | Thirty days ago we wouldn’t have been here. | |
| 02:32 | Perhaps discussing a more relevant public policy agenda to be | |
| 02:36 | able to improve the whole issue | |
| 02:39 | of our health, education, development, in short. | |
| 02:42 | But we’re wasting time here, | |
| 02:45 | because of the person who calls himself | |
| 02:48 | God, who is Alexandre Moraes, who acts | |
| 02:51 | like the owner of Brazilians. | |
| 02:54 | Meanwhile, the authorities who are here, who were elected, you don’t have the courage | |
| 02:58 | to face a person. Is he holy? What is he? | |
| 03:01 | So there has to be more action on the part of | |
| 03:04 | the representatives. And today the Brazilian people | |
| 03:08 | are united to put an end | |
| 03:11 | to this corrupt system that has been rooted | |
| 03:14 | for years and is being plastered, | |
| 03:17 | in order to have awareness, the greatness | |
| 03:20 | of a political vision to no longer elect | |
| 03:23 | corrupt people, people who have no dignity. | |
| 03:27 | And from now on the Brazilian people will start walking and taking care | |
| 03:33 | of their own legislation, taking care of their own country. And, finally, | |
| 03:37 | I ask you: Senate, are you going to act? | |
| 03:43 | Or you will spend the whole afternoon | |
| 03:46 | talking, which was a very rich conversation, but now we have to talk less | |
| 03:51 | and start taking action. If you Senate, all systems of authority, | |
| 03:56 | do not come into action. | |
| 03:59 | Until today, the Brazilian people have done only movement a mobilization manifestation of form, | |
| 04:04 | and mobilization, demonstrating peacefully, | |
| 04:08 | in an orderly manner, following the Constitution. But that has a limit. | |
| 04:35 | What are we waiting for? Everybody knows our election was a fraud. | |
| 04:41 | Otherwise, the source code would have been opened, | |
| 04:44 | given to the authorities, presented to the population. | |
| 04:48 | To end the anguish we are living with until now. | |
| 04:51 | For this reason, Brazilian people, | |
| 04:54 | the indigenous people, are no longer indigenous today. Today we are a big Brazilian family; | |
| 05:00 | we have to watch over our public policy and our democracy, | |
| 05:05 | because this system is being used by international interests. | |
| 05:09 | Brazil today is a diamond | |
| 05:12 | that shines on the planet and everyone wants that diamond. | |
| 05:15 | That’s why everyone is there today corrupting these weak people, | |
| 05:19 | who don’t have the dignity to be able to represent us. |
Video transcript #2:
| 00:04 | Brasília, December 3rd, 2022 | |
| 00:07 | Park Shopping Brasília | |
| 00:12 | Singing “I’m Brazilian, with a lot of pride, and a lot of love.” | |
| 00:31 | “Lula, thief, your place is in prison” [referring to convict ex-president] | |
| 00:53 | “Lula, thief, your place is in prison.” | |
| 01:28 | If necessary, we camp, but the thief will not go up the ramp [of the presidential palace]. | |
| 01:54 | December 3rd, 2022 | |
| 01:58 | The largest mall in Brasília, Park Shopping |
Leonard Cohen is smiling in the musicians Valhalla.
“We will corrupt the West so bad that it stinks.”
Willi Munzenberg, Frankfurt School.