By Eric Nepomuceno on December 20, 2019
The year is coming to an end and the battle for the title of “the most ridiculous” within the absurd government of ultra-right-wing Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil is increasing sharply.
Another title in dispute, “the most dangerous”, is already in its final stages, with three unbeatable qualifiers: the Minister of Environment, Ricardo Salles, the Minister of Justice, Sergio Moro, and the Minister of Education, Abraham Weintraub.
In this tournament for the most ridiculous, however, the picture remains unclear. And in the face of no clear winner there is an escalation in the competition when on Wednesday the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Ernesto Araujo, decided to increase his odds.
His most direct competition remains the Minister of Women, Family and Human Rights, Damares Alves, and the Minister of Education, Abraham Weintraub.
With the goal of widening the gap between the two, Araujo published an article analyzing the political scene in Latin America, which is beyond ridiculous. Along with other previous initiatives, he has most likely succeeded in meeting his objective.
It is worth remembering that, not satisfied with transforming the former Ministry of Foreign Relations, which was responsible for one of the most respected diplomacies in the world for many decades, into a Ministry of Foreign Confusion. In this new onslaught the always surprising minister launches an urgent warning about the return of the communist threat on the Latin American continent.
Instructing us in his infinite wisdom, Araujo warns about a subtle difference that should not go unnoticed; communism already installed is one thing, but equally dangerous, is the “communists on the horizon”.
And now the communist horizon “is trying to strangle Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Ecuador and to make Venezuela, Argentina and Mexico return to the darkness”, countries where a leftist dictatorship is already installed and there are other center-left governments that are equally evil.
Returning to one of his most obsessive concerns, Araujo once again denounces the very high risks of “globalism”.
As we all know – or at least should know -, globalism means “the capture of the globalized economy by the Marxist ideological apparatus, through political correctness, gender ideology, climate obsession and anti-nationalism”.
Moreover, it is fully proven that Latin America has lived “within a communist horizon since 2005, or a little earlier, since the victory of Lula in 2002 or Chavez in 1999. And then he corrects it, to remind us that in reality that horizon began to emerge with the creation of the Sao Paulo Forum, in 1991.
It could not be missed in Araujo’s article, a harsh criticism of those who believe in the “fictitious figure of a certain communism defeated in 1989” by strictly refusing to recognize – much less confront – “the real communist project that acts everywhere today”.
Another great danger lies in the construction of societies that are liberal only on the surface, “with the appearance of a capitalist economy, with democratic institutions and human rights but which, underneath, hide communist ideals, anti-Christianity and manipulation of science”.
And, to conclude, he boasts that in Brazil “we are breaking the communist horizon and beginning to frame liberalism within the horizon of freedom.”
Wow! And one thought that his ultimate ridiculousness was his abject vassalage at the feet of Donald Trump…
Ah, yes, a pertinent observation.
The rules of both tournaments, the most ridiculous and the most dangerous, are absolutely strict, and that is why, in order to maintain a minimum balance in the contest, the far-right president does not get to participate in either one: after all, it has been clear from the very beginning that his capacity for the ridiculous and for destroying this poor country is unparalleled throughout the history of the Republic, including a military dictatorship from 1964 to 1985.
Source: Pagina 12, translation Resumen Latinoamericano, North America bureau