Enough for the necro-government

Bolsonaro has been denounced before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the OAS and the International Criminal Court of the UN.

He is accused of violating human rights and committing environmental crimes; inciting violence against indigenous and traditional populations, committing crimes against humanity, and representing a genocidal threat to the population, especially the black and poor majority.

Trials in international courts take a long time to happen, but the mere acceptance of the accusations has very significant political and symbolic value, because the accusations are in line with international law.

The appeal from the governments of the US, England, France, Germany, and Italy for their citizens to immediately leave Brazil demonstrates the perception of foreign leaders regarding the threat that the Brazilian necro-government represents to the integrity and lives of their own nationals.

In a statement released on April 10th, Human Rights Watch denounced that "Bolsonaro has sabotaged the efforts of governors and his own Ministry of Health to contain the spread of COVID-19, putting the lives and health of Brazilians at risk."

In addition to international accusations, Bolsonaro is also the target of accusations in national bodies, such as the Chamber of Deputies and the Supreme Federal Court. However, despite the abundance of impeachable offenses committed by the genocidal president, Rodrigo Maia does not release the impeachment requests for legislative processing, nor is he pressured to do so.

The Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) has also received several criminal complaints due to Bolsonaro's attacks against public health, sanitary protocols, and the International Health Regulations. However, in order to judge, convict, and remove the genocidal president from office and then order his arrest, the Supreme Court depends on the authorization of 2/3 of the deputies.

On the same day that the number of infected and dead reached a worrying peak and the spread of the disease exploded uncontrollably around the world, the Bolsonaro-aligned head of the Attorney General's Office announced the necro-government's intention to reverse in court the social isolation measures imposed by state and municipal governments.

On the other hand, the president's son and the education minister gratuitously offended China and intentionally created a diplomatic impasse with the country best positioned to scientifically support the SUS (Brazilian public health system) and meet the national demand for mechanical ventilators, supplies, reagents, personal protective equipment, etc.

This makes it clear that the necro-government is willing to double down on chaos and is committed to obstructing and dismantling any national strategy to combat COVID-19 that should be coordinated by the central government, as is the case in all countries.

The necro-government thus opts for large-scale slaughter. A slaughter that will predominantly affect the poorest and most vulnerable population.

The necro-government's denial of the World Health Organization's standards and the protocols defined by the world's leading scientific authorities cannot be considered mere ideological folly, because it is clear that the human death toll is a macabre choice of this government.

The rejection of globally agreed-upon epidemiological norms is not merely proof of imbecility or medieval flat-earth thinking. Above all, it signifies the choice of necropolitics as official state policy.

The Bolsonaro necro-government, currently led by a military junta, is synonymous with death, destruction, and economic, health, and racial devastation.

Slums like Paraisópolis discovered this early in the pandemic. Realizing that the necro-government wasn't abandoning the periphery by chance, but because it had reserved for Black and favela residents the macabre trap of death and extermination, many favelas began to self-organize, receiving some social solidarity.

Aware of the official threat, the people of the favelas did not wait, and devised strategies of self-defense and self-care to protect themselves against the abandonment and omission of the necro-government.

That is why every day there is a growing number of pot-banging protests and popular demonstrations in the suburbs, joining the dissatisfaction with the Bolsonaro government that has been expressed for weeks in the central regions and even among pockets of repentant former Bolsonaro supporters.

The struggle for human life and survival is a struggle against official necropolitics. And the central slogan of this struggle is "Out with Bolsonaro and his genocidal necro-government."

The program for the defense of life, employment, and human dignity, which encompasses [i] SUS health policies, [ii] calls for solidarity action as seen in favelas, the MST, and other social movements, and [iii] economic measures to confront the COVID-19 pandemic, is a politicizing device that generates critical awareness and allows for the forceful denunciation of the cruel and genocidal nature of the necro-government.

We urgently need to put a stop to Bolsonaro and his necro-government.