Fernando Alcoforado*
This article aims to demonstrate that the Brazilian people are living the hell represented by the political, economic, social and environmental catastrophes that are leading the country to a humanitarian disaster unprecedented in its history of gigantic proportions. The political catastrophe in Brazil may occur with the end of the democratic process resulting from the escalation of fascism in society by the action of President Jair Bolsonaro, who seeks to put into practice his typically fascist government proposal based on the explicit cult of order, state violence, authoritarian government practices, social contempt for vulnerable and fragile groups, and anti-communism. In addition to the political catastrophe, the economic catastrophe characterized by the stagnation of the Brazilian economy after a recession in 2020, aggravated by the new coronavirus pandemic, because the GDP fell 4.1% compared to 2019, the lowest rate in the historical series, started in 1996, as well as with the unemployment rate at a record level of 14.8 million people looking for a job in the country. The social catastrophe is manifested in the fact that the Bolsonaro government does nothing to reduce unemployment rates reactivating the economy, acting to the detriment of workers’ interests, promoting measures against the social rights of the population and contributing to the high number of people infected and killed by the coronavirus in Brazil by sabotaging the fight against the virus. Finally, the environmental catastrophe is manifested in the fact that the Bolsonaro government contributes to the inaction of government agencies responsible for monitoring against aggressions to the environment, opening the way for mining, agriculture, livestock and logging activities in the Amazon Forest and keeping Brazil away from the Paris Climate Agreement.
The hell of political catastrophes can happen in Brazil because, since the beginning of his government, the Bolsonaro government’s attitude has been to intensify the division existing in Brazil between its supporters and opponents. In no time, Bolsonaro proposed to govern for all Brazilians. Most likely, Bolsonaro’s attempt to establish a dictatorship in Brazil will face strong opposition that could lead the country to a social upheaval that could lead to a civil war that has never occurred in Brazil, with unpredictable consequences. A fascist dictatorship and a civil war are two of the catastrophes that could happen in Brazil in the near future at the political-institutional level. The hell of economic catastrophes is represented by the bankruptcy of the Brazilian economic system that has been stagnant for 5 years and of the national state itself as a result of the gigantic fiscal crisis that has caused the government to accumulate successive deficits in its public accounts that impose the need to suspend the payment of the internal public debt for a period of 5 years or renegotiate with its creditors in order to extend its payment so that the government would have the necessary resources for public investments aimed at reactivating the economy. The hell of economic and social catastrophes tends to worsen simultaneously with the hell of political catastrophes that may occur, deepening the stagnation of the Brazilian economy and increasing the suffering of the Brazilian population. This scenario could be catastrophic and could lead the country to a social upheaval that could lead to a civil war that had never occurred in Brazil, with unpredictable consequences. The three catastrophes, political, economic and social feed each other creating the scorched earth environment capable of taking the country into a bloodbath resulting from the civil war that would result from this process.
For these reasons, the prospects for the future of Brazil are extremely negative with the Jair Bolsonaro government, whose actions will be disastrous for the country in view of the catastrophe that it can produce for democracy, social rights, the national economy and the environment. With the Bolsonaro government there is no room for the advancement of democracy, social rights, the Brazilian economy and the defense of the environment. On the contrary, there is a risk of the elimination of democracy and social rights and the deconstruction and denial of the achievements already made by Brazil in the political, economic, social and environmental fields. The political, economic, social and environmental catastrophes in Brazil during the Bolsonaro government can be considered, therefore, as the hell experienced by the Brazilian people. The Bible’s conception of hell is very clear and terrifying. The Bible teaches that the eternal life of the redeemed from sin alongside God will be glorious in Heaven and it also teaches that eternal torment in hell is terrible for the wicked, that is, for those who have no faith or who have contempt. by religion. The difference between hell in the Bible and in Brazil lies in the fact that in our country the entire population goes to hell unjustly. The word hell is of Latin origin and means “depths”. Brazil is already in the depths of its hell. Hell in its final state is the place of eternal damnation after the final judgment. Brazil is experiencing its final judgment because it is in a final state towards its redemption or its destruction. How is hell? The Bible describes hell as a place where the fire will never go out, the furnace of fire, a place of “weeping and gnashing of teeth”, the place prepared for the devil and his angels, the place of eternal destruction, a place where punishment is constant, not ceasing by day or night, the lake of fire that burns with brimstone. The Bible teaches that Satan with his angels does not rule hell because he himself will be sentenced to eternal torment in the lake of fire, that is, hell is not a place that was created to serve as an empire for the devil, on the contrary, it was created to serve, too, as the place of punishment for him and his agents. Similarly, those responsible for Brazil’s problems will also be punished by the hell they generated in Brazil.
* 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), Como inventar o futuro para mudar o mundo (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2019) and A humanidade ameaçada e as estratégias para sua sobrevivência (Editora Dialética, São Paulo, 2021) .
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