Evangelical pastor and indigenous leader José Acasio Serere Xavante, temporarily arrested yesterday, already criticized the President Jair Bolsonaro em 2018🇧🇷 The decision to temporarily arrest Serer Xavante triggered a series of attacks by Bolsonaro that led to car arson, vandalism of buses and an attempted invasion of the PF (Federal Police) headquarters in Brasilia.
Indigenous leader stands out for his activism in favor of Bolsonaro and for organizing demonstrations against the victory of the elected president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva (PT), with attacks on ministers STF (Federal Supreme Court) and TSE (Supreme Electoral Court).
However, in 2018, Serere Xavante faced off against Bolsonaro., then a federal deputy, after the politician spoke about the issue of indigenous peoples. “You can be sure that if I get there [na Presidência da República] there will be no money for NGOs. If I decide, every citizen in the house will have a firearm. There will not be a centimeter dedicated to the reserve of indigenous peoples or quilombola, ”the politician said in April 2017.
According to A Gazeta and Água Boa News, March 2018. Serere Xavante made a Facebook post criticizing the then federal deputy’s statement.🇧🇷 The portal even shared a printout of an Indigenous leader’s post criticizing at the time.
All those who threatened our indigenous people will not sit on the throne of the President of the Federative Republic of Brazil. The one who threatens will never win. Know that no one has ever manipulated us, wise people can even live with great risk, adversity, suffering, deceit, threats and persecution, but they lived richly for centuries, we were not destroyed, because we know how to live very well, non-Indians do not know this . Serere Xavante, posted on Facebook in March 2018.
The native continued the post by saying that he knows “his place and his limit” and that “everyone should do good for each other without interest.”
“Well, let’s remember, this year 2018 I’m thinking of voting for Cabo Dachiolo. And we’re going to vote together, united. Thank you very much. publication.
BUT review post is no longer available on the original Facebook.
One day after the first round of the 2018 elections, on October 8, the indigenous leader updated his Facebook photo with a filtered photo of “Presidente Bolsonaro 17”. [então número de urna do candidato] Muda Brasil de Verdade. In the second round, he updated the image with a filter asking for the politician’s victory in the second round.
In addition to Daciolo’s initial support in 2018, last year, the indigenous leader returned to video-sharing Cabo Dacholo and declared support for the politician’s name in the race for the presidency of the Republic in 2022.🇧🇷 Dacholo finished 6th in the presidential race 2018, the one in which Bolsonaro won.
“Cabo Dalciollo (sic) Patriota 51 President of Brazil in 2022,” Serere Xavante wrote in 2021, referring to the ballot box number and Dacolo’s former party, Patriota.
The temporarily arrested Serere Xavante also praised the politician Cabo Dacholo in 2021.
