Brazil's far right former president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been in jail for 20 days now, and his supporters have not been able mobilize any major protests. Our correspondent Brian Mier has more. teleSUR
00:01Brazil's far-right former president has been in jail for 20 days now, and his supporters have not been able to mobilize any major protests.
00:08A correspondent, Ramir, has more.
00:11After Jair Bolsonaro was arrested on November 22nd, leaders of the Brazilian far-right across the country called on his supporters to take to the streets and promise massive protests that would shut down Brazil.
00:25The time has come for Brazil to mobilize. The time has come for Brazil to stop.
00:29The time has come for us to come out to the streets like we never have before.
00:34The time has come for us to do much more than we did in 2021.
00:39The protests that were promised in front of the federal police headquarters where Bolsonaro is held prisoner failed to materialize.
00:46A trucker's strike summoned by a far-right congressman flopped so badly that his allies posted a video of a traffic jam on a highway caused by an auto accident and falsely claimed it was a protest.
00:58Has the movement, which once brought thousands to the streets, finally begun to run out of gas?
01:03I think that some bolsonaristas on the far-right are beginning to believe that Bolsonaro's project is too personalized, too focused on his own family.
01:14Some sectors on the right have benefited from this, but many others are tired of Bolsonaro's lack of any coherent collective plan for the nation, unlike Lula.
01:23When Lula was imprisoned on charges he was later exonerated from in 2018, thousands of supporters immediately gathered on the street in front of his prison cell.
01:35For the entire duration of his political imprisonment, hundreds of people yelled good morning, good afternoon and good night to him every day.
01:42Bolsonaro's been in jail for 20 days, and the streets in front of the federal police headquarters in Brasilia are nearly empty.
01:50The lack of mobilization during the end of the trial against Jair Bolsonaro and his subquisition arrest is a result of the disorganization of the Brazilian far-right.
02:02They haven't even been able to establish a consensus on who their presidential candidate should be next year.
02:07A final hypothesis is that, from the start, Bolsonaro rallies have always been astroturf operations financed by elites who are now infighting too much to spend money on protests.
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