Augusto Heleno's absolute consistency

By Eric Nepomuceno, for 247

Few peremptory statements are as valid as the one that asserts that nobody, absolutely nobody close to or surrounding Jair Messias, is worth anything whatsoever.

This included, of course, in addition to his family, everyone he had spread throughout his government.

Among the military personnel surrounding him, there is a bit of everything. There were those who thought they could control their most primal impulses and were summarily dismissed, and there are those who remain by his side and will stay by his side until the end.

And among these loyal vassals, one always stood out: the pajama-clad General Augusto Heleno. He is not a conservative. He is a perfect and round example of what is most reactionary in this shattered country. Reactionary and abject.

On Monday, the statement he made the previous Sunday, when speaking to Bolsonaro supporters gathered in one of Brasília's "pigpens," continues to reverberate.

Augusto Heleno said that the rumors circulating on social media indicating that Lula had been hospitalized were incorrect. In his typical style, he declared: "This business about Lula being sick... Unfortunately, he isn't."

And, of course, he called the president-elect a "drunkard".

Augusto Heleno, an Olympic member of the government responsible for more than half of the nearly 700 Covid deaths, was genuinely disappointed that Lula was healthy.  

Saying this publicly, in any case, only highlights a parallel and solid consistency in Augusto Heleno's existence: his character and decency manage to be even less significant than his physical stature.

This is a worm of ridiculously grotesque dimensions. And from the first day of 2023 it will be sent back to the sewer from where it should never have emerged.   

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