Conservative
Analysis of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s UN Speech in 2019
By
Julio
Severo
Brazilian
President Jair Bolsonaro delivered the opening speech of the 74th United Nations
General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters in New York, United States,
on September 24, 2019. His speech had several important points from the conservative
viewpoint. I will highlight the points that I think are the most important.
“I
present to you a new Brazil that resurfaces after being on the brink of
socialism,” said Bolsonaro, adding, “My country was very close to socialism.”
Bolsonaro’s
criticism of Cuba’s communist dictatorship deserves praise. He said:
“In
2013, an agreement between the socialist Workers’ Party administration and the
Cuban dictatorship brought to Brazil 10,000 doctors without any professional verification.
They were prevented from bringing spouses and children, had 75% of their wages
confiscated by the Cuban regime and were prevented from enjoying fundamental
rights, such as coming and going. Real slave work, believe me… Backed by human
rights groups from Brazil and the UN.”
Bolsonaro’s
stance on Cuba was 100 percent conservative.
Bolsonaro
also exposed the fruits of Venezuelan socialism:
“In
Venezuela, these agents of the Cuban regime, taken by Hugo Chávez, have also
arrived and today there are approximately 60,000 and they control and interfere
in all areas of local society, especially in intelligence and defense.
Venezuela, once a thriving and democratic country, today is experiencing the
cruelty of socialism. Socialism is working in Venezuela! All of them are poor
and without freedom! Brazil also feels the impacts of the Venezuelan
dictatorship. Of the more than 4 million who fled the country, a part migrated
to Brazil, fleeing hunger and violence. We have done our part to help them
through the Welcomed Operation by the Brazilian Army and praised worldwide.”
Bolsonaro’s
stance on Venezuela was 100 percent conservative.
But
one point ignored by Bolsonaro was that both Cuba and Venezuela are
overwhelmingly Catholic countries. Venezuela is 97 percent Catholic. It was
impossible for socialism to dominate Venezuela without the help of the Catholic
Church.
In
fact, when Hugo Chavez, who was a military man, came to power, even Bolsonaro
supported him, knowing that he was a socialist.
Brazil
has only escaped socialism because 30 percent of its population is evangelical
and they continue to grow. Most evangelical churches have an aversion to
socialism, especially its policies of abortion and homosexuality.
Bolsonaro’s
UN speech then said:
“The
São Paulo Forum [Foro de São Paulo], a criminal organization created in 1990 by
Fidel Castro, Lula and Hugo Chavez to spread and implement socialism in Latin
America, is still alive and has to be fought.”
It
is an exaggerated idea to think that a leftist group of poor socialist nations called
the São Paulo Forum would be a greater international threat than communist
China, which has the largest communist army in the world.
In
fact, the one who most funded Hugo Chavez’s socialist project was the United
States, the largest purchaser of Venezuelan oil throughout Chavez’s
dictatorship. Oil was the most exported Venezuelan product and by being the
largest buyer of this product the U.S. under Bush and Obama financed Chavez’s
revolution.
The
problem with Bolsonaro following Olavo de Carvalho’s ideas is that he has many
similar ideas that look more like conspiracy theories. Carvalho thinks that smoking
does no harm and that tobacco industries are victims of media disinformation propaganda.
Carvalho
also defends the theory that no Jew was tortured and killed by the Catholic
Inquisition, which for him was a sheer lie and invention of Protestants.
Although
the Flat Earth theory is usually viewed as a scientific aberration, Carvalho
attempts to reconcile his pose as a philosopher with a passionate closeness to
the Flat Earth theory while attacking the idea that the Earth is a spherical
globe.
Therefore,
it is impossible to see in the universe of Carvalho the São Paulo Forum disconnected
from his other showy theories.
Bolsonaro
also said: “It is a fallacy to say that the Amazon is a world heritage site.”
It was a nationalistic and patriotic point. It was a conservative stance.
Americans and Europeans have big interests in the Amazon.
The
conservative Republican mindset in the 1970s was that by reducing the Brazilian
population there would be fewer people to use Brazilian natural resources,
including from the Amazon. Result: These resources would be stored for U.S.
use.
During
the military rule, Brazil began to swallow the NSSM 200 trap, and today
population control policies have become so normal in Brazil that Bolsonaro
himself has openly advocated various birth control measures to reduce poor
populations.
The
largest pro-abortion organization in the world is the Planned Parenthood
Federation, whose Brazilian branch, BEMFAM (Civil Society for Family Well-Being),
was established under the military rule. Thus, while the military administration
was fighting communism, a powerful American group settled on Brazilian soil to
promote the largest anti-family agenda in Brazil’s history.
Receiving
money from the U.S. government, the Planned Parenthood Federation has for
decades been promoting abortion, contraception and the homosexual agenda, which
functions today under the guise of gender ideology.
BEMFAM,
which receives money from the U.S. government through USAID, has been working
since 1966 to implement the U.S. population control agenda in Brazil. USAID
also participated in the drafting of NSSM 200. In the 1990s, BEMFAM distributed
to educators throughout Brazil a handbook convincing Brazilian authorities of
the need for a sex education conducive to family destruction and homosexual
ideology. The handbook was not printed in Cuba. It was printed in the official
printing press of the U.S. government during the Bush presidency. How would the
conservative Republican Bush administration not collaborate with Planned
Parenthood and BEMFAM when their goals are perfectly aligned with NSSM 200?
It
cannot be said that the CIA and U.S. Republican administrations have changed
their mindset and intentions regarding obtaining raw materials from other
countries at the expense of drastic population reductions.
At
least for me, as an evangelical, the only kind of relationship you can have
between Brazil and the U.S. on the basis of trust is with evangelicals, who
have no U.S. government-backed Planned Parenthood and no population-control
policy. Conservative American evangelicals are the most trusted Americans.
While
the U.S. took advantage of Brazil’s anti-communist military climate to bring in
Billy Graham and Rex Humbard, U.S. groups, mainly Planned Parenthood and
several large pro-abortion foundations, entered Brazil to inject anti-family
culture.
Considering
NSSM 200, Brazil’s relationship with the U.S. should be cautious, especially
with the U.S. government. John Perkins, who worked as an economic hit man for
the U.S. government, revealed in his book “Confessions of
an Economic Hit Man” that in the 1970s
several military governments around the world obtained multi-million-dollar
loans to build huge hydroelectric dams, ending in equally huge debt. These
countries received malicious advice from U.S. economic killers. Brazil was one
of them.
NSSM
200 is much worse than the São Paulo Forum. But while the conspiracy theory of
a lover of smoking and the Inquisition gets spotlight from a Brazilian president,
NSSM 200, which has drastically reduced Brazil’s population, gets no spotlight.
Brazil
is experiencing an accelerated demographic aging, with the birth of babies
decreasing year after year. The U.S. and Europe only suffered a demographic
aging after experiencing abundant prosperity. But Brazil is already aging
demographically long before it reaches the level of prosperity of Europe and
the U.S. This demographic aging seriously threatening Brazil’s future and
prosperity was all planned in NSSM 200 in 1974. Brazil is a victim of the CIA’s
population control policy and an American government under the leadership of
the Republican Party.
Thanks
to NSSM 200, Brazil’s demographic suffering is granted for the future.
Although
Bolsonaro is not the first Brazilian president to attack socialism, no
Brazilian president has ever attacked NSSM 200 and its violation of Brazilian
sovereignty.
Brazil’s
foreign debt during the military rule (1964-1985) grew so much, with the help
of U.S. economic hit men, that it was the breeding ground for the left to move
forward. And it did move forward.
Although
Bolsonaro indicated that the socialism of Luiz Inacio Lula da
Silva and Dilma Rousseff destroyed the economy of Brazil, actually even before
these two socialists became presidents of Brazil, Bolsonaro himself confessed
that he was evading all taxes he could, because historically, even without any
socialism, taxes in Brazil are exorbitant. For example, during the military rule
that was anti-communist, the Brazilian people who could afford to buy a car
paid half the value just in taxes. A telephone line was as expensive as a
house.
Exorbitant
taxes on cars and phone lines look like socialism, but it is not. It was just
the military rule continuing the old tradition of high taxes in Brazil.
Another
important point in Bolsonaro’s speech was to treat Indians as humans, not as
zoo animals, as they are usually treated by environmentalists and leftists.
Bolsonaro said:
“Unfortunately,
some people inside and outside Brazil, supported by NGOs, insist on treating
and keeping our Indians as true cavemen.”
It
was a 100 percent conservative stance.
Bolsonaro
also undid a serious injustice of leftist governments that welcomed communist
terrorists. Bolsonaro said:
“In
my administration, Italian terrorist Cesare Battisti fled Brazil, was arrested
in Bolivia and extradited to Italy. Three other Paraguayan terrorists and one
Chilean terrorist, who lived in Brazil as political refugees, were also
returned to their countries. Terrorists under the guise of persecuted
politicians will no longer find refuge in Brazil.”
It
was a 100 percent conservative stance.
Bolsonaro’s
speech also dealt with religious persecution, but leveling all religions —
Christianity, Judaism, and Islam — as if they all suffered equal attacks. It
was a generalizing and politically correct speech. He said:
“In
recent years, we have witnessed, in different regions, cowardly attacks that
have victimized the faithful gathered in churches, synagogues and mosques.
Brazil strongly condemns all these acts and stands ready to collaborate with
other countries to protect those who are oppressed because of their faith. Of
particular concern to the Brazilian people is the increasing persecution, discrimination
and violence against missionaries and religious minorities in different regions
of the world. That is why we support the creation of the ‘International
Memorial Day for Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief.’”
Putting
Christianity, Judaism, and Islam as equal victims of religious persecution is a
huge disfavor to Christians, who by far suffer about 100,000 martyrs in the
hands of Muslims alone. If anyone can show that 100,000 Muslims are martyred by
Christians a year, I will fully support Bolsonaro’s politically correct speech
of placing all religions as equal victims of religious persecution.
It
was not a conservative stance.
Perhaps
realizing the specific absence of Christians, Bolsonaro later cited them as
victims of religious persecution, but making it clear that other religions are
also victims. He said:
“It
is unacceptable that in the 21st century, with so many laws, treaties and organizations
to safeguard rights of all kinds, there are still millions of Christians and
people of other religions losing their lives or their liberty because of of their
faith.”
Bolsonaro’s
speech gave importance to the partnerships his government is seeking through
international visits. Bolsonaro said:
“These
visits will strengthen friendship and deepen relations with Japan, China, Saudi
Arabia.”
Partnership
with Japan is a laudable attitude. The Japanese people are democratic and
hardworking. But China is a communist dictatorship that persecutes Christians
violently. If Bolsonaro is so serious against communism, why partner with the
largest communist country in the world?
Bolsonaro
does not want to partner with poor communist nations like Cuba, Bolivia and
Venezuela, but does he open his arms to rich communist nations like China?
And
why partner with Saudi Arabia, which bans the Bible on its territory and
persecutes Christians? In addition, Sunni Islam followed by the Saudis is
behind ISIS and most Christian killings.
Another
very important point is that if Bolsonaro is concerned about the humanitarian
crisis in Venezuela, why has he shown no concern about the biggest current
humanitarian crisis, which is the Yemeni population starving and dying of bombing
from Saudi Arabia with American weapons? In this crisis, thousands of Yemeni
children are dying.
Why
does Bolsonaro want to partner with Saudi Arabia, the great Islamic “Venezuela”
in the Middle East?
China
systematically persecutes and kills Christians. Saudi Arabia also kills them.
Venezuela, with all its socialist problems, has no Chinese and Saudi history of
persecution of Christians. However, Bolsonaro prefers partnership with China
and Saudi Arabia, not Venezuela.
It
would make no sense for Bolsonaro to partner with Venezuela and condemn China
and Saudi Arabia, or vice versa. To be consistent, he should condemn Venezuela
and Saudi Arabia for human rights violations. To be consistent, he should
condemn China and Venezuela for communist dictatorship.
Studying
for many years the issue of persecution of Christians, I do not understand the
attitude of Bolsonaro, who says he is concerned about religious persecution but
wants to partner with great persecutors of Christians.
Sunni
Islam from Saudi Arabia is far more dangerous than the São Paulo Forum, but how
will Rasputin say otherwise, or advise his poor victim Bolsonaro to the
contrary, when he himself has already received a Saudi award for a biography of
Muhammad that he wrote?
At
a very important point, Bolsonaro’s speech attempted to address directly the
issue of gender ideology or homosexual ideology. But all he could do was to talk
about these problems without directly citing gender ideology or homosexual
ideology. He said:
“Over
the past few decades, we have been seduced, without realizing it, by
ideological systems of thought that sought not truth but absolute power.
Ideology has settled in the field of culture, education and the media,
dominating the media, universities and schools. Ideology has invaded our homes
to attack the mater cell of any healthy society, the family. They are still
trying to destroy the innocence of our children, perverting even their most
basic and elemental identity, the biological one.”
If
he could clearly mention São Paulo Forum, why not more clearly gender ideology
or homosexual ideology?
Indirectly,
Bolsonaro’s speech attributed exclusively to socialism the negative changes in
society and family. These changes include the homosexual and abortion ideology.
But
if Bolsonaro had read NSSM 200, which I read nearly 30 years ago, he would
understand that many of these changes were projected not only by socialism, but
also by the CIA and U.S. Republican administrations in their eagerness to
reduce Brazil’s population to grab the Brazilian natural resources. If
Bolsonaro had read NSSM 200 he would never have advocated population control
policies that underlie the systematic destruction of the family today.
Trying
to attribute to the São Paulo Forum, not to NSSM 200, the anti-family system
that has been in place in Brazil since the beginning of the military rule is sheer
smoke screen.
Concluding,
Bolsonaro’s speech said:
“In
matters of climate, democracy, human rights, equality of rights and duties
between men and women, and so many others, all we need is this: to contemplate
the truth, following John 8:32: ‘And you know the truth, and the truth you
shall make free.’”
Sometimes
Bolsonaro quotes biblical verses, probably because of the influence of his
evangelical wife. The Bible is a good influence. But the other influences on
Bolsonaro’s life are not so good and often prevent him from having a serious
perspective on reality.
The
reality is: The UN is worse than the São Paulo Forum. China is worse than the Sãoo
Paulo Forum. NSSM 200 is worse than the São Paulo Forum.
If
Bolsonaro does not see this reality, his upcoming UN speeches may say that smoking
does no harm, that the Inquisition is a victim of the lies of Jewish and
Protestant historians and that the Earth is flat.
However,
the Bolsonaro team, especially Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo and Bolsonaro’s
special adviser, Filipe G. Martins, has been seeking to camouflage the stances
guided by them in the Bolsonaro administration as Trump’s stances. Martins, who
helped write Bolsonaro’s speech at the UN, said of the speech:
“The
media is wondering if there was any coordination between President Bolsonaro
and President Trump’s teams, due to the convergence of ideas and values
observed in their speech. This convergence is not the result of prior
coordination, but the fellowship of perennial values.”
“Perennial”
has several meanings, but those who are connected to the perennialist movement
only use it to mean their own causes. The perennialist movement is linked to the
Islamic occultist René Guénon, promoted in Brazil for decades by Olavo de
Carvalho, whose adherents follow perennialism.
Martins,
who is a Carvalho adherent, is not a pioneer in linking Trump to perennialism
and traditionalism. Prior to becoming Foreign Minister, Araujo authored a diplomatic document
entitled “Trump and the West.” However, he praised Trump not
because Trump is Trump, but because for him Trump embodies the soul of Steve
Bannon’s values, who is a Guénon adherent.
For
Araújo, Trump is the result of the values of Bannon and Guénon.
Araujo,
as an adherent of Carvalho and Guénon, only used Trump in his document as an
instrument for his Guenonian or perennialist revolution. Not unlike Bannon, who in 2016 described
“Trump as a ‘blunt instrument for us.’” The “us” means the Guenonian or
perennialist movement.
Yet,
Trump was able in time to identify the opportunistic and treacherous nature of Guenonian
Bannon. Bolsonaro has not yet reached this point of discernment. That’s why he has
given much opportunity for Guenonians and perennialists like Araújo and Martins
to use Bolsonaro for their revolution and talk about “fellowship of perennial
values.” They are hijacking the victory that evangelicals gave
Bolsonaro to advance perennialism or
Guenonianism.
They
know very clearly that what guides the Bolsonaro administration, which is
guided by them, is not Christian values. These are perennial values, of
perennialism. In fact, they use Christian values to exalt perennial or
Guenonian values.
In
their revolution one sees the same opportunism and betrayal of Bannon against
Trump.
For
Araújo and Martins, Bolsonaro is just an instrument for perennialism or for the
values of Guénon or Carvalho.
If
Bolsonaro does not wake up in time, his upcoming UN speeches may say that
Brazil has been saved by perennial or Guenonian values.
With information from Agência Brasil.
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