23 days ago
Peoples Dispatch
These buildings in the heart of the new political center of the country were monuments to a national project, of a vision for a modern Brazil. Brazil’s far right, galvanized around Bolsonaro, is a project of violent historical erasure and cultural destruction, in a physical and subjective sense. Like Di Cavalcanti’s paintings, this political act reinserts the people – the workers, poor, and dispossessed – as the protagonists of history and politics. This political act is also a battle of ideas, a battle over culture, emotions, and the image. Days later, Bolsonaristas, and their “project of national destruction” as Lula had called it, invaded that same palace.
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