Safatle sees a leaderless coup and a country adrift.
“Police arresting bankers, the press framing members of the political elite, evangelicals pressuring the government for their fundamentalist agendas: these movements are merely a power struggle within a leaderless coup and a country adrift. This is one possible version of the power vacuum,” says philosopher Vladimir Safatle.
247 - According to philosopher Vladimir Safatle, not even the most enthusiastic supporter of the oligarchic coup perpetrated in Brazil could have imagined such a disastrous sequence of events as the one we are witnessing.
“In these first 20 days, the interim government was bombarded daily by leaked recordings that led to the resignation of two ministers in less than a month. Sectors of the press did not fail to echo the archaisms and flaws of the new occupants of power, undermining the popularity of a government that started low. The number of measures announced and revoked in less than a day demonstrates the profound fragility of the governing arrangement and its program,” he emphasizes.
He emphasizes that the five groups that spearheaded the process of overthrowing Dilma's government have their own agendas, which are not necessarily convergent. "The only thing they have in common is the same external enemy, namely, the left in power. What unites them is the violence against the same enemy, which will need to remain as such. What we will see now, therefore, is these actors fighting each other to impose their hegemony."
“Police arresting bankers, the press framing members of the political elite, evangelicals pressuring the government for their fundamentalist agendas: these movements are merely a power struggle within a leaderless coup and a country adrift. This is one possible version of the power vacuum,” he concludes (read more). here).