Will the new Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) confront Bolsonaro's fascist tendencies?

Last Thursday (31), the federal council of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) elected Felipe Santa Cruz as the entity's new president. Immediately, the entire press highlighted that the lawyer is the son of a militant murdered during the military dictatorship and that he has already picked several fights against the former deputy and current president Jair Bolsonaro. He presided over the OAB of Rio de Janeiro for two terms and will lead the national body until 2022, replacing the opportunistic pachyderm Cláudio Lamachia, who supported the coup crusade against Dilma Rousseff and did nothing against Michel Temer's gang. 

According to the profile published in Folha de S.Paulo, the new president of the OAB (Brazilian Bar Association) “is the son of Fernando Santa Cruz, a left-wing activist who disappeared politically in March 1974. According to investigator Cláudio Guerra in the book 'Memoirs of a Dirty War', his body was burned at the Cambahyba Power Plant, in the Campos region, north of Rio de Janeiro. This history, in fact, led Felipe to oppose Jair Bolsonaro, then a federal deputy. The disagreement began in 2011, when, in a lecture at the Federal Fluminense University, he said that Fernando Santa Cruz 'must have died drunk in some carnival accident'. In 2016, Felipe requested the revocation of the deputy's mandate for 'apology for torture', after the parliamentarian, during the impeachment vote of Dilma Rousseff, honored Colonel Carlos Brilhante Ustra, who commanded the DOI-Codi in São Paulo. At the time, Felipe stated that parliamentary immunity could not be used to 'safeguard actions'." "criminals". 

The magazine Época reveals that one of Felipe Santa Cruz's first measures will be the creation of the Press Freedom Observatory, "to safeguard the free work of journalists in the country and create partnerships to guarantee the safety of the profession." This initiative is unlikely to please the censor Jair Bolsonaro and his cronies, who have been spewing venom against journalists and do not hide their visceral hatred of freedom of expression. Given the serious risk of the country becoming fascist, many people are encouraged by the new president of the OAB – an entity that played a prominent role in the fight for the democratization of Brazil and which, in recent times, has suffered an impressive shift to the right and stagnation. We shall see! I confess, however, that I don't have much faith!