Brazilian music icon Caetano Veloso has penned a New York Times op-ed, revealed at this time, titled “Dark Times Are Coming for My Country.” The piece facilities on Sunday’s presidential election in Brazil, and particularly, the probability that right-wing candidate Jair Bolsonaro will win. Veloso describes Bolsonaro as a supporter of unrestricted firearms and somebody who “declares that a dead son is preferable to a gay one,” amongst different issues. “If Bolsonaro wins the election, Brazilians can expect a wave of fear and hatred,” he wrote. Read the op-ed in its entirety.
In the op-ed, Veloso describes how Bolsonaro has defended the Brazilian army dictatorship period of the ’60s and ’70s. In 2016, Bolsonaro paid homage to Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, who ran a torture middle within the ’70s. Veloso then described the interval within the late ’60s when he and Gilberto Gil had been arrested, together with different artists and intellectuals, for his or her political views. He wrote about listening to the screams of “political prisoners who the military thought were linked to armed resistance groups or poor youngsters who were caught in thefts or drug selling.” He added, “Those sounds have never left my mind.”
Read Pitchfork’s Sunday Review of Veloso’s classic 1968 album, and skim Pitchfork’s characteristic “The Story of Tropicália in 20 Albums.”
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