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It’s been six miserable years. After 14 years of resumption of economic growth, income distribution, job creation. After the Brazilians have elected president, fulfilling the responsibilities and rituals of his office.
After being respected and even envied by the world now. After having cordial and cooperative relations with neighboring countries. After having a prestigious image all over the world.
After having abandoned the shameful habit of finding thousands of people abandoned in the streets, living in the open. After getting used to being the most unequal country on the continent and the most unequal in the world.
After traditionally inhabiting the Hunger Map. After being known as a country of structural unemployment. After being a country that lived with structural racism.
After living in a country of social exclusion, social and structural inequalities. After agreeing to have the poorest region in the northeast, with more hunger and disease.
Sadness. After getting used to having coups that, from time to time, break with democracy. After living with the sadness of the vast majority, their hopelessness. After being surrounded by the lies of the mainstream media.
After accepting that the northeast would be a region without water, without rights, without work, without a future. After accepting that the country’s wealth was appropriated by large foreign companies.
After having women discriminated against, attacked, murdered on a daily basis. After living with millions of workers without a work contract, without rights, without elementary guarantees.
After getting used to living with the large estate, with the lack of access to land for the vast majority of rural workers. After accepting that millions of Brazilians are illiterate, they live many years less than the rich, they have many more diseases than others.
After accepting that only the elites have access to the media. Let the elite speak through newspapers, magazines, radio, television, books, art. That those who walk the streets with cars, safely, calmly, being a minority.
After seeing the rich elect and re-elect their candidates for deputies, mayors, governors, presidents.
The Brazilians have decided to elect a worker, northeastern, poor, unionist president. They decided that they were no longer going to let Brazil be ruled by the rich, based on their interests.
They have decided to no longer let people die without care, without hospitals and without medicine. They decided to stop being unemployed, to have temporary jobs to survive, to work without a work permit, without rights, without unions.
Access to decent housing. They decided that no one needs to live on the street, abandoned. That everyone has the right to have their home, their place to live. That every person has the right to eat three times a day. That all rural workers have the right to access land and live with dignity.
They have decided that a woman can be president of Brazil. And they have been right, because she has done very well. They have decided that without economic development, income distribution and job creation, they cannot be happy.
The Brazilians enter the new year happy, even after having had a very bad performance in the Soccer World Cup. They think about the future again with hope.
They are once again sure that at the end of the year the country will be rebuilt. They will stop having so many people living abandoned on the streets.
That he will return in a few days to have a government that takes care of the country, that takes care of the people. To have a respected country. Maybe even with a slightly better national team.
It will be a very different rebellion, much bigger than the one the Brazilians have had in the previous six years. Knowing that better, joyful, happy years return.
