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Portuguese to English: Biden, 306 - O Chronista's blog post General field: Social Sciences Detailed field: Government / Politics
Source text - Portuguese #086 - Biden 306
Recife, 6 de novembro de 2020.
Sexta-feira, 21h, UTC -3. Os resultados oficiais das eleições americanas ainda não saíram enquanto escrevo esta crônica, mas a expectativa está enorme. Desde muito antes desta eleição, é verdade. Mas a bagunça que está sendo a contagem fez o mundo inteiro parar o que estava fazendo, apenas para acompanhar essa apuração.
Muitos especialistas afirmam que essa é a mais importante eleição nos EUA nos últimos cem anos. Se brincar, desde a Guerra Civil. Os quatro últimos anos foram caóticos, preenchidos por mentiras incessantes, graves escândalos que vieram a público, quebras de importantes acordos internacionais e a consolidação de grupos de extrema-direita, antes marginalizados aos rincões invisíveis das redes sociais.
Isso tudo nem leva este atípico ano de 2020 em consideração. A pandemia da Covid-19 vem gerando uma crise multifacetada de proporções ainda difíceis de mensurar, e a recessão econômica escancarou ainda mais a desigualdade no país. Ainda nesse ponto, a morte de George Floyd e Breonna Taylor levantaram os maiores protestos contra o racismo desde a década de 1960. A inabilidade da Casa Branca em lidar com todas essas tempestades simultâneas apenas demonstrou o quão Donald Trump é despreparado e incapaz de ter um cargo de tanta importância.
Embora a quase-confirmada derrota do republicano Donald Trump para o democrata Joe Biden seja um alento para o mundo democrático, sua queda representa apenas o primeiro passo para conseguir desmantelar com sucesso as redes de extremismo e desinformação que se estabeleceram e elegeram líderes ao redor do mundo – como Viktor Orbán na Hungria; Rodrigo Duterte nas Filipinas; Jair Bolsonaro no Brasil, além do próprio Trump. Sua queda representará a queda do maior bastião desse movimento ao redor do mundo – afinal de contas, os Estados Unidos são a principal vitrine do mundo democrático. Se algo é bem aceito por lá, o resto do mundo tende a copiar.
Deixando os Estados Unidos de lado por ora, essa eleição também está mexendo com os nervos dos brasileiros – afinal de contas, Trump é o principal aliado da política externa do governo Bolsonaro. Sua vitória significaria um apoio extremamente necessário para o presidente brasileiro, podendo até catapultar sua reeleição em 2022.
Por isso que essa eleição se mostra tão importante no Brasil. Num país que socialmente se encontra tão dividido quanto os Estados Unidos atuais, cada turma sabe o candidato que vai ser melhor para o seu lado. Os bolsonaristas querem a vitória de Trump, pois isso é uma necessidade geopolítica para seu projeto de poder; já os opositores à Bolsonaro, querem que Trump vá para o raio que o parta.
Translation - English #086 - Biden, 306
Recife, November 6th, 2020.
Friday, 9 pm, UTC -3. The official results of the US elections are still not confirmed while I write this chronicle, but the expectations are enormous. I should say it has been like that even long before election day. But this messy counting method is making the whole world stop to watch the result announcements.
Many specialists affirm that this has been the most important American election over the past century. Maybe even the most important since the Civil War. The last four years were chaotic, filled with incessant lying, serious scandals uncovered, and several important international agreements were broken. But the most important fact was the consolidation of far-right groups in day-to-day politics, taking them out of the invisible corners of social media.
And we are not even considering 2020, which is such an atypical year. The Covid-19 pandemic is generating a multifaceted crisis that is still hard to measure at this point, and the economic recession is showing the real face of inequality in the country. The deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor fueled the largest protests against racism the country has seen since the 1960s. The inability of the White House in dealing with these simultaneous storms just demonstrated how Donald Trump is unprepared and unable of holding such an important office position.
The almost-confirmed loss of the Republican candidate, Donald Trump, to the Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, is a solace to the democratic world. Nonetheless, his defeat only means the first step to successfully dismantling the misinformation and extremism communication networks that have been established and elected leaders around the world.
Politicians such as Viktor Orbán in Hungary; Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines; Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, and even Trump himself - all reaped the benefits of these networks. Trump’s defeat will represent the fall of the largest stronghold of this movement around the world. After all, the United States is the main showcase of the democratic world. If something is well accepted there, the rest of the world tends to follow the trend.
Let’s leave the United States behind for now. This election is also affecting the nerves of the Brazilian population - after all, Trump is the biggest ally of Bolsonaro’s external policy. His victory would mean an extremely necessary support to the Brazilian President, even serving as a leverage to his reelection bid in 2022.
That’s why this election is so important to Brazil. In a country that currently finds itself as socially split as the United States, each political group knows which candidate will be the best to their side. The Bolsonarists (Bolsonaro supporters) want Trump’s victory, because it is a geopolitics necessity for their power project. Meanwhile, the opposers of Bolsonaro are cheering for Trump’s imminent defeat.
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