Brazil “Anyone looking for bone is a dog”. Pocket hunger humiliates the population

 

No, it's not dogs that seek out any source of protein like their wolf ancestors. In Bolsonaro's Brazil, the hungry are people who wait patiently in long lines for donations behind a butcher shop in Cuiabá, the capital of the state that produces the most meat in the country.

Before becoming president, then-deputy Jair Bolsonaro hung a poster on the door of his office in Brasília offending family members and human rights activists who were struggling to find and identify the remains of the dead and missing by the military dictatorship. That was just before Brazil finally came off the UN Hunger Map, a historic disgrace for one of the world's biggest food producers . The photo he distributed to the press was marked in many people's minds as the mockery he represents and one more complete proof (if necessary) of his fascist nature. But at that time it was still not imagined that he could rise to the highest position in the nation in order to fulfill the promise, made in 1999,which foresaw a coup and a civil war in which at least 30,000 would die .

In the wake of the Coup against the Dilma Roussef government in 2016, Brazil began to rapidly regress in the minimal social achievements (such as full employment and the end of structural hunger) that it had achieved with great difficulty in previous years. Since the 2015 demonstrations, a part of the population wearing the corrupt CBF shirt was asking for “their” country back . One of the biggest scandals of Michel Temer's coup government was based exactly on the corruption of one of the biggest meat producers in Brazil and in the world, JBS.

As soon as he took over, Bolsonaro said at a dinner at the Brazilian embassy in the US to Steve Bannon and Olavo de Carvalho that  “Brazil is not an open field to build anything. We have to deconstruct a lot of things that have been done in recent years ”. His promise, then, was to go back to the “good old days of the dictatorship”. You can't say we didn't know.

We currently have more than 19 million hungry people and 49 % of the population with “food insecurity” , that is, when they wake up they do not know if they will have something to eat during the day. Meanwhile, the Minister of Economy, the “Ipiranga post” of the government, the “trust of the 'Market'”, saying that the rich can donate leftovers from restaurants and the Minister of Agriculture saying that there is no hunger in the country because people pick up mangoes in the streets .

Scorn, mockery, mockery and no flesh !

It's bone, just bone!

This week, a butcher shop located in the CPA II neighborhood, in Cuiabá, capital of Mato Grosso and agribusiness in Brazil, gained national prominence because of a bone distribution action that has been going on for ten years for anyone who asked. A lot of people took it to give it to the dogs. But that has changed in the last three years . Demand started to grow and distribution had to be organized at fixed times every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Although it starts at 11 am, around 8 am some residents of the region arrive, who wake up early to walk to the butcher's.

The line is long. The sad looks. The bones, of people, right under the thin skin. And it's not “just” homeless people. Many are among the millions who have returned to the poverty line or extreme poverty but still have a roof, even if precarious or “in favour”. Entire families with children, old people, women. People in helmets, probably app workers who bring good food to the upper class but can't get the food to take home. Most are ashamed to be in this situation and cover their face. Shame we should have. 

According to data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), Mato Grosso had 180,000 unemployed people in the first quarter of 2021. Parallel to this, the gas canister in the state costs around R$ 125 and is the most expensive in the country. parents. In Cuiabá, the basic food basket costs R$ 594.99, becoming the second most expensive in Brazil. The capital of Mato Grosso is second only to the city of São Paulo, where the value is R$ 595.87, according to the National Survey of Basic Food Basket carried out by the Inter-Union Department of Statistics and Socioeconomic Studies (Dieese).

This is the Brazil that returned to its original “owners”. Like a dog that tries to escape the aggression of an imbecile owner and is forced to return, humiliated, to eat leftovers and not starve. Until when are we going to accept this role?

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