It is the work of Brazilian and American activists. The next Brazilian president will be called on Sunday.
The electoral campaign and the political dispute that holds the whole of Brazil in the balance have reached Manhattan. It is that in the last few hours a video has been released showing a projection on one of the huge buildings of the city of New York with the face of Jair Bolsonaro accompanied by the phrase “goodbye”.
In seven different languages, a 76-meter tall building greeted the president of Brazil, with a projection of his face along with various elements showing controversial moments during his administration.
In addition to the head of state’s face, the images showed Bolsonaro’s children, Flávio and Carlos Bolsonaro, under the words “crime family”. The same painting showed Fabrício Queiroz, a former driver and close adviser to Flávio Bolsonaro, accused of being involved in a money laundering program supported by the president’s eldest son.
You could also read the phrase “Dinheiro vivo, gente morta” (Cash, dead), along with the image of former police officer Adriano da Nóbrega, murdered in 2020 and accused of leading a death squad in Rio de Janeiro, in addition to an alleged involvement in acts of corruption.
The urban intervention, carried out last Wednesday, a few days before the second round of elections in Brazil, was the work of Brazilian and American activists who, for fear of political reprisals, preferred to remain anonymous. The images were projected on the front of the Hilton hotel.
An image of former policeman Ronnie Lessa was also used on the wall of the building, accused of being the author of the shots that killed the councilor of Rio Marielle Franco in 2018, residing in the same condominium where Bolsonaro has his home in Barra da Tijuca. . “Bolsonaro’s neighbor killed Marielle,” reads the sentence.
According to the Folha de São Paulo newspaper, activists responsible for the screening in New York report that, on the eve of the elections, they want to draw the attention of the world and Brazilians to the alleged relations of the Bolsonaro family with the Rio de Janeiro militia.janeiro.
For the group, the world already recognizes Bolsonaro “for his disastrous handling of the pandemic, for his ‘laissez-faire’ in relation to environmental crimes and for his anti-democratic positions, but little is known of his proximity to organized crime”. “.
All or nothing debate in Rio, the last face to face between Lula and Bolsonaro
In the midst of a rarefied and worsening political climate, the two candidates in this Sunday’s ballot in Brazil will be protagonists this Friday evening of the last face-to-face of the election campaign, a meeting that should be very hard, everything or no battle.
President Jair Bolsonaro and his challenger, former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, will face each other starting at 9:30 pm (same time in Argentina) in Rio de Janeiro, on the Globo channel, the one with the largest audience in the country .
It will be the last chance for both, but above all for the head of state, to try to twist the voters in his favor and reduce the slight difference attributed to his opponent.
The polls, which were not efficient in their predictions in the first round, persistently record an advantage for Lula of about four points on average.
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