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.
02:24Brian Mir, Telesur, Recife.
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