Bolsonaro was elected last year under the promise of changing whatever was wrong in our country. For example: corruption, the State’s budget, retirement rights, sexual freedom… The spectrum of ideas is broad.
In these three first months of his government, he has been trying to implement some of his ideas. For example, one of the first things he did was to make it easier for people to have guns. In between, he and his ministers have been changing policies known as “left” policies. Such as higher eeducación investment.
His last decision was to cut 30% off all the public universities budget for next semester. Actually, his first decision was to cut the budget of those universities which were promoting “balbúrdia”, to use his government’s own word. Balbúrdia means mess, basically.
When they announced that, they pointed to three universities which would be the first to get the cut: UNB, UFBA and UFF. Three of the best universities in Brazil, however, somehow, they are not good enough for this government. They think they should be doing less political events and more “science” (as long as this science brings something for the people).
That is just the new controversy this government got into. It has been like that since day one. What we, Brazilians, are questioning is: when are they going to start working for us? When are they going to stop the controversies and start thinking about implementing policies? One of theses days I was wondering: how much more days do we have left? Some one told me… I couldn’t believe. We have more than three years and a left.
This wave to the right that is hitting South America, shows us that the answer is not really on voting for someone with the “right” speech (to use this word). To be honest, we have a lot to understand about our roots, and our reality and it is not easy to address our problems.
On this very website, we could learn that Argentinians are dealing with high levels of inflation. Families are struggling to keep the basics inside their houses. And they were expecting for the new (not so new now) government, which is more conservative, to help and develop the country. Similar to Brazil, they went through a process of changing from a left-wing government to a far-right wing government. How are our neighbors doing now? Did they win corruption? Were they able to grow economically? Those are questions to provoke Brazilians who, eventually, are reading this.
I intend to talk about the changes Bolsonaro are willing to do in our country as someone who studies political science. So far, I cannot see exactly an action plan for his government, so far what I see is they are trying to destroy and undo anything relatively to “the left-wing governments” before him. The problem is: people will get hurt and suffer.
Next text, I will talk about the main reform everybody wants him to do: retirement rights reform. It is an important issue and it makes our economy shake just by talking about the proposals. Let’s see next what to expect from Bolsonaro’s proposal.
Por: Tassiana Moura de Oliveira