With Bolsonaro’s arrest, Brazil shows the world how democracy survives

These were scenes that synthesized a project of destruction, which we call between 2019 and 2022 “government”. Bodies that, faced with lack of assistance, carried out anthropophagy to guarantee enough energy to survive. They consumed themselves until, with no more mass to fall back on, they went out.

It was a country project that included only part of the Brazilian population, seeking to exterminate any type of existing diversity and plurality.

During the Bolsonaro government, we saw the deaths of children, the premature interruption of dreams. We were faced with the murder of elderly people, the real burning of a library. When the guardians of the forest are murdered by hunger, poisoning, viruses, bullets or omission, it is a part of all of us that ceases to exist.

I am also thinking at this moment of the cemeteries in Manaus, of the mockery faced with the deaths of 700,000 people, of the perpetrators of so much suffering.

I think of all those thousands of Brazilians who died unassisted by omission or deliberately.

I think about every tree felled, every body slaughtered in the outskirts where democracy is still a fiction.