In this context, he tried to lead the armed forces to an authoritarian escalation. It was repeated so much these days that there was no possibility of a coup that everyone suspected otherwise. Basically, the president wanted General Edson Pujol to speak out against the Supreme Court's decision to restore Lula's political rights. On the Whatsapp Mobile Number List last Sunday in March, Bolsonaro said, for example, that the Armed Forces are nationalist and on the side of the people, which meant that they would be on his side. In the midst of health and administrative chaos -Brazil already has the fourth health minister in four years- he wanted the military to support him to set up a kind of state of emergency that would give him more powers. The armed forces said no, at least not now, and remained loyal to the Constitution.

The problem is that unlike other countries, such as Argentina, where the crimes of the dictatorship were judged and the past was analyzed and Whatsapp Mobile Number List discussed, in Brazil, the amnesty law generated a kind of balance Whatsapp Mobile Number List power and civil power. For this reason, the Armed Forces end up being above the Constitution, above the laws. That is the most serious problem of Brazilian democracy. Recently there was a letter from sectors of the economic elite that criticized the Bolsonaro government. How far does this distance go?

that letter is very significant because it is signed by several bankers, including the two main shareholders of Banco Itaú, and by several neoliberal economists. There is a sector of the business community, old-fashioned and histrionic, that benefits from cheap labor, which continues to be Bolsonarist. But the most dynamic industrial Whatsapp Mobile Number List sectors want Bolsonaro less and less. They would like a Bolsonarismo without Bolsonaro. The government is so incompetent that it cannot even guarantee the reforms that they would like. For example, the provisional reform, one of the few that was approved, came out because the then president of the Chamber of Deputies, Rodrigo Maia, of the Democratic party, passed it. But others, such as the deepening of the labor reform approved during the government of Michel Temer,