Fernando Alcoforado*
Brazil is currently facing the four horsemen of its apocalypse. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are characters described in the third prophetic vision of the apostle John in the biblical book of Revelation or Apocalypse that are Pest, Death, War and Hunger. In this view of the apostle John, the white horse and its rider represent the Plague represented by the new Coronavirus and its ally, Jair Bolsonaro, the Antichrist, the false Christ, the false religion, which presents itself as if it were the promised Messiah and deceives the nation with your insane acts. The yellow horse symbolizes the growing Death of the Brazilian population by the plague due to the Bolsonaro government’s lack of fight against the new Coronavirus and the death by hunger of Brazil’s poor populations due to the lack of financial support from the Bolsonaro government. The red horse is a symbol of War and bloodshed, representing the scourges that may occur in Brazil if the civil war happens in the country encouraged and desired by the current government. The black horse symbolizes the Hunger resulting from the collapse of the Brazilian economy resulting from the incompetence and inaction of the Bolsonaro government in the economic recovery of the country that generates the greatest unemployment in the history of Brazil and the death by hunger of the poor populations of Brazil due to the lack of financial support of Bolsonaro government to vulnerable populations.
The Coronavirus pandemic and the Bolsonaro government can be considered one of the horsemen of the Apocalypse of the apostle John, the Plague. The new Coronavirus and its ally, the Bolsonaro government, can therefore be considered the Plague. The Bolsonaro government is allied with the new Coronavirus because its attitudes contribute to the advancement of the Plague by taking a stand against vaccines and taking a stand against the use of masks and restrictive measures on the agglomeration of people adopted by governors and mayors under the pretext that it is I also need to save the Brazilian economy from the debacle. Even in the face of the current collapse of the Brazilian health system with the dizzying escalation of the new Coronavirus, Bolsonaro remains an ally of the virus by not assuming responsibility to lead the fight against the pandemic. The indispensable condition for Brazil to win the war is to be united against the common enemy, the new Coronavirus. In Brazil, this condition is not respected because the President of the Republic, Jair Bolsonaro, does not assume this responsibility stating that companies must continue to operate and people must return to work to keep their jobs. In Brazil, many companies continue to operate and workers move to work because the Bolsonaro government does not offer them the financial conditions necessary for companies to stop their activities and workers to stay at home and not to crowd in the means of transport. The result of the Bolsonaro government’s action is the horror of the catastrophe of the collective murder of the Brazilian people by the new Coronavirus by one of the horsemen of the Apocalypse, Death, and also by another horsemen of the Apocalypse, the Hunger.
Brazil’s economic catastrophe and famine, which multiplies throughout the country, can be associated with one of the horsemen of the Apocalypse of the apostle John, Death. Brazil is a country that had its economic system in a terminal stage before the spread of the new Coronavirus and that worsened with the Bolsonaro government. The economic catastrophe experienced by Brazil is reflected in the meager GDP growth since 2014, which worsened in 2019 and 2020 when they presented negative growth. The drop in GDP growth in 2019 and 2020 resulted from the drop in consumption by the population caused by the mass unemployment aggravated by the new Coronavirus, by the fall in private investment as a result of the country’s economic stagnation and by the fall in public investment due to the fiscal crisis and the establishment of the spending ceiling in the budget, as well as the government’s effort to reduce the State’s participation in the economy with its neoliberal policies. The result of the Bolsonaro government’s action is the horror of the economic catastrophe characterized by the bankruptcy of the Brazilian economy with the widespread bankruptcy of companies and by mass unemployment unprecedented in the history of Brazil with about 28 million unemployed and discouraged Brazilians. Hunger is one of the consequences of the government’s inaction in the recovery of the economy and the lack of financial support for the majority of the poor population who are facing a life of extreme poverty.
The political catastrophe of Brazil can be associated with one of the horsemen of the Apocalypse of the apostle John, the War. The civil war could happen in Brazil as a result of the actions of Jair Bolsonaro with his attempt to arm the population and involve the civil and military police in his purpose of implanting a dictatorship in Brazil that can lead to the bloodshed of the Brazilian population and the destruction democratic institutions in the country. The political catastrophe is being prosecuted by Bolsonaro with his various attempts to implant a fascist dictatorship in Brazil like those of involving the Armed Forces in a coup d’etat. The Bolsonaro government itself has intensified the conflict between the Presidency of the Republic and the other powers of the Republic and the confrontation with its opponents to justify the implantation of a dictatorship in Brazil to govern without the obstacles currently imposed by the 1988 Constitution.
The social catastrophe of Brazil can be associated with one of the horsemen of the Apocalypse of the apostle John, the Hunger. In a pandemic year of the new Coronavirus, more than 300 thousand people died due to the disease in Brazil, millions were infected and millions more lost their jobs and income. Hunger is a reality for thousands of people in Brazil and with the crisis caused by the pandemic of the new Coronavirus this problem is significantly increasing. Hunger and misery knock on the doors of these families’ homes. Hunger comes from the lack of food that affects a high number of people in Brazil. This process is the result of income inequality. The lack of money causes about 32 million people to go hungry and another 65 million people to eat precariously. Faced with this social catastrophe, the Bolsonaro government does nothing to mitigate it.
As long as Jair Bolsonaro remains in power, there is no possibility of turning aside the Apocalypse scenario in Brazil. There is no possibility that the Bolsonaro government will overcome the horror represented by the expansion of the new Coronavirus, prevent the escalation of the death of the Brazilian population by the new Coronavirus, avoid the constant threat of implanting a dictatorship that could lead to civil war in Brazil and avoid a dizzying escalation of hunger in the country. Brazil is therefore facing the greatest humanitarian catastrophe in its history with the four horsemen of the Apocalypse who are demanding from the Brazilian people the struggle in defense of life against the new Coronavirus, of democracy against the dictatorial threats of the Bolsonaro government and of social peace in Brazil against the civil war and against the hunger and misery of the population. Brazil is experiencing decisive moments in its history. It is in the hands of the Brazilian people to put an end to the Apocalypse that is underway.
Let’s go to the fight Brazilian citizens, let’s battle together to change this sad reality in which we live, because only then will we make tyrants tremble with their dictatorial and genocidal projects.
* Fernando Alcoforado, 81, awarded the medal of Engineering Merit of the CONFEA / CREA System, member of the Bahia Academy of Education, engineer and doctor in Territorial Planning and Regional Development by the University of Barcelona, university professor and consultant in the areas of strategic planning, business planning, regional planning and planning of energy systems, is author of the books Globalização (Editora Nobel, São Paulo, 1997), De Collor a FHC- O Brasil e a Nova (Des)ordem Mundial (Editora Nobel, São Paulo, 1998), Um Projeto para o Brasil (Editora Nobel, São Paulo, 2000), Os condicionantes do desenvolvimento do Estado da Bahia (Tese de doutorado. Universidade de Barcelona,http://www.tesisenred.net/handle/10803/1944, 2003), Globalização e Desenvolvimento (Editora Nobel, São Paulo, 2006), Bahia- Desenvolvimento do Século XVI ao Século XX e Objetivos Estratégicos na Era Contemporânea (EGBA, Salvador, 2008), The Necessary Conditions of the Economic and Social Development- The Case of the State of Bahia (VDM Verlag Dr. Müller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2010), Aquecimento Global e Catástrofe Planetária (Viena- Editora e Gráfica, Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo, São Paulo, 2010), Amazônia Sustentável- Para o progresso do Brasil e combate ao aquecimento global (Viena- Editora e Gráfica, Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo, São Paulo, 2011), Os Fatores Condicionantes do Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2012), Energia no Mundo e no Brasil- Energia e Mudança Climática Catastrófica no Século XXI (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2015), As Grandes Revoluções Científicas, Econômicas e Sociais que Mudaram o Mundo (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2016), A Invenção de um novo Brasil (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2017), Esquerda x Direita e a sua convergência (Associação Baiana de Imprensa, Salvador, 2018, em co-autoria) and Como inventar o futuro para mudar o mundo (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2019).
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