Brazil will close the year reaching 620,000 deaths from Covid-19 in two years of pandemic. And the senator Romario happy because he won a soccer tournament against Ronaldinho Gaucho. Hunger has returned to Brazil as was made explicit in a cover that became global of the newspaper Extra in which desperate poor in Rio de Janeiro collected bones and carcasses in a truck that they would have to go to feed dogs. And the senator Romario taking photos in an aesthetic clinic to “correct my imperfections & rdquor; days before Christmas. Family income fell 12% this year in the state of Rio, where 50% of its workers are in the underground economy. And the senator Romario on the beach of Barra da Tijuca with two of her children. And so a thousand times.
At 55 years old, the now senator for the state of Rio de Janeiro, Romario de Souza Faria, lives alienated in his world of parties, dancing, soccer, expensive restaurants and Rio de Janeiro beaches, true to the style he wore when he was a soccer player.
Their social networks are an exercise in cynicism, superficiality and hypocrisy that turns the guts, when Brazil suffers an institutional, health and ecological collapse and is established in a permanent state of crisis, punished by inflation, the devaluation of the currency, unemployment and the alarming increase in poverty and hunger, direct consequences of the disastrous government far right of Jair bolsonaro.
Driven by his fame and looking for a stable source of income to heal debts with his ex-wives for alimony and a failed investment in a fraudulent pyramid scheme, or Baixinho entered the electoral arena in 2010 when he took a seat as a federal deputy for his home state, and, in the following elections, in 2014, he was elected senator for a term of eight years.
Romario enjoying his vacations, while Brazil is in full crisis
In his beginnings in Brasilia, Romario championed, from the parliament, the fight against corruption in the CBF (He was one of the main spurs of the then president Ricardo Teixeira) and in the structures of Brazilian soccer, and, in parallel, defended the inclusion of people (especially children and adolescents) with special needs, inspired by the experience with his daughter Ivy, with Down syndrome.
JOINED TO BOLSONARO AND TO THE EXTREME RIGHT
There is no longer a trace of that combative, scathing and regenerationist politician. Romario has become one more member of the Brazilian political caste, who enjoys institutional perks and already participates in the traditional party change, in his case, three in the last legislature. His last experience at the polls ended in a bang: in 2018, he tried to be governor of Rio de Janeiro, but only got 8% of the votes.
The only thing that interests him at this time is to guarantee himself a new seat in the October 2022 elections to continue with a fixed salary, living like a king, which is why he has not hesitated to embrace the extreme right. Nothing is definitive in a character with a liquid and fickle ideology who changes his mind like a weather vane, but the year ends by selling his soul to the devil himself, on a honeymoon with the family. Bolsonaro, who will support him en masse most likely to try a new eight-year term in the Senate.
