So far, the deaths of Brazilian indigenist Bruno Araújo Pereira and English journalist Dom Phillips, disappeared since June 5th in the Amazon, have not been confirmed, but our project of democracy is certainly dead.
And we are so exhausted.
It’s much more than the feeling of mourning in this same country that can’t stand to lose anyone anymore and, even so, people keep dying and we keep losing.
We are losing even more than people, we are losing the future.
Marielle died, the victims of the Jacarezinho massacre died, the mothers’ children died in Vila Cruzeiro, and we have no prospect that those responsible for all these deaths will be punished.
How can a country continue to stand when it knows that it will continue to grieve more and more often and cannot put the blame for that grief on those who are to blame, because they don’t give us the right to know who they are?
Ascribing everything to governments of death, while tempting, is too little and can make things a lot easier for those who want to kill us. There are many more interested and benefited in the maintenance of fratricidal structures than the occasional governments, even those who are ostensibly in favor of them.
Before, we used to say that Brazil was the country of impunity, because we saw people convicted of serious crimes escaping from serving sentences that we already considered light – even though we have, on the other hand, the third largest prison population in the world. Now we don’t even see this condemnation: we stop before we can name the culprits.
Who is afraid of committing crimes, the worst of them, in such a scenario? Who is afraid to kill in Brazil?
It is too late to believe that sharing thousands of tweets that say thousands of times that we are living through government projects of extermination and genocide can help us to stop this cycle.
Our democracy died before it was even born for most of the Brazilian population. We continue to die daily with her – and we can no longer even afford to know who kills us.
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