Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said this Friday that his Argentine counterpart Javier Miley and former president Jair Bolsonaro “against the system” and called defend democratic values ​​from the far right what they both represent.

“Democracy is at risk”Lula made the announcement in a fiery speech at an event in Porto Alegre in southern Brazil, and attributed the threats to the new far right.

According to the progressive leader, “the system used to be criticized by the left,” but now the far right is doing itwhat imposes new “challenges” to democracy and its values.

“Those who are now against the system are Miley in Argentina or Bolsonaro, who to this day does not admit his defeat in the 2022 elections,” said Lula, who in these elections was elected president for the third time since ruling Brazil for two consecutive periods, from 2003 to 2010.

“We used to have opponents in politics,” not “enemies”but now “it has ended in Brazil, in the United States, in Spain and ends in Portugal,” said the president, who called restore “humanism” and “the value of institutions that are guarantors of democracy.”

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He stated that “today politics is filled with hatredand that “in the coming struggle it is important to remember that what is under threat in the world is democracy“.

According to Lula, these risks are associated with extension “fascism, Nazism, this rabid, ignorant and violent far rightwhoever offends people does not believe in them” and “cheating with lying machines” distributed via the Internet and social networks.

“It’s easier to say that all politicians are thieves, that institutions don’t work, that supreme courts are annoying, that unions are useless and that nothing is worth anything,” he stressed, adding that this is necessary. “fight this perverted and evil thought”.

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He also warned of the dangers posed by new technologies and stated that people “are not using all their intelligence and now they want to replace it with artificial intelligence”, in response to which he did not hold back and added: “What the hell!” .

According to Lula, the world lives one of his most “grotesque” momentsin which “truth is worth nothing and lies are worth everything,” so the progressive field must “struggle” to convince people that “they are not algorithms” but “human beings who desire solidarity and brotherhood.”

EFE