There are things that you should be in Brazil at the moment. This includes, in one inspired round of the with dedicated words against the since 1. To January President Jair Bolsonaro striking. It is not likely to end up in a heated discussion – fisticuffs excluded.

The country is divided like never before in the nearly 200 years of its independence. You are either for the right-wing populist President, who is not stingy with polemics against the minorities of the country, or one is against him. The Bolsonaro-a question that has already divided the peaceful families into warring camps, relationships and friendships destroyed, even the Dead has already happened.

Ex-President as a vampire

As of the morning of the beginning of the end of the carnival just at the right time – you might think: a week of hiding in Brazil, everyday life and the problems and the celebrations in the track pomp send gives. The images of the Rio carnival produces each year, are sufficiently known: Gold, glitter and feather Boas, dancing people and a lot of silicone under the upholstered skin. For policy for a long time, it was the biggest Party in the world. Only in the last two years, more offensive performances were to be seen, in which, for example, the then President Temer to the vampire, it was stylized.

in 2019, the most of the groups in terms of policy now, again, strikingly restrained. The fear is to be applied to gross, one of the political camps. Most of the Samba schools take refuge, therefore, in motifs from the fairy tale world, or summon the power of positive thinking. However, a Samba school wants to continue this Trend. No matter how heated the mood.

the base of The Rebellion is a factory hall specifically for the top 14 Samba schools built in the district of Cidade do Samba. It is the control center of Mangueira, one of the oldest and most successful Samba schools of Rio. It represents the homonymous district, close to the world famous stadium Maracanã. Mangueira can be found on any postcard of Rio. In the once-notorious Favela, which was built in the hills of Morro da Mangueira, lives the majority of black under layer Rios, those residents often dream of a life in vain of “ordem e progresso” “order and progress”, the slogan which adorns the flag of Brazil.

It meets the Rebellious degree is particularly hard. The lust for battle in the home of the Mangueira is prodded.

In the workshop, there is still a Drive relaxed. To peak times, hundreds of workers here with the production of the carnivalesque glory busy. Here are tailored to the year 3000 costumes of the participants and the house-high figures, and structures made to be mounted thereafter on the scary rusty tractor. Gold is no longer behind the Scenes, far from everything.

most of The schools that compete this weekend in the Sambódromo of Rio to the ultimate competition, in financial difficulties, since the new mayor, Marcelo Crivella, the subsidies for the Samba schools has significantly reduced. For personal reasons, as many believe, because of the former cult priest was at the parades have often been the subject of ridicule and Häme. He himself indicates, to put the money in crèches.

Alternatives are Sought, therefore, to the licentious Goings-Finance landscape: there are even guided tours through the once top-secret production halls, and, most recently, the organizer of the festival Rock in Rio was asked if he could not develop a business plan for the privatization of the carnival of Rio. Earlier, the schools were in the choice of the annually changing theme of potent sponsors. Companies like Volkswagen or BASF acted as donors, which is why the dancers beetles then in addition to Bouncing VW-or pest-exempt meadows to topics such as Germany or agriculture on the slopes.

Video: colorful carnival in Rio (2018) In the Sambadrome the best Samba schools. Video: Reuters

As of 2015, Swiss companies such as Nestlé, UBS and Ruag, the carnival of Rio to it for the purposes of advertising used and the Samba school Unidos came da Tijuca from the Favela Borel them stocked up with a lot of money, it is a funny misunderstanding. The song writer should write a Samba Schlager on the subject of Switzerland, confused Switzerland with Sweden and accused Borel on the Nobel. The main stage of the carnival – stop remedy moderate Swiss Nobel laureates have been singing and dancing in the Sambódromo of Rio.

However, sponsors are to be found in the crisis, just hard to come by. So dramatic, the financial situation is supposed to be now, that in the last few months, even with the strike and cancellation of the carnival was threatened. The arrest of the President of Mangueira, last November fits: He should have funded his school with funds of a criminal organization. And two weeks ago, the lead singer of Mangueira was arrested during rehearsals in the Sambódromo – due to outstanding child support payments. It meets the Rebellious, therefore, particularly hard. The lust for battle in the home of the Mangueira is prodded.

Dark spots light

While a group of tourists in the factory hall of the house Cachaça tasting and a Vortänzerin lessons in Samba receives, explains the marketing Manager Bruno Tenório is the theme of this year’s Mangueira Parade: “We will draw attention to the darkest spots of the Brazilian history,” he says and drinks a swig from the Caipirinha.

your move, in honour of those fighters, for the, as yet, no statues erected were: the forgotten, black women would have rebelled against, slavery, military dictatorship, and social inequalities and Silenced. Deivid Domênico, wrote the accompanying Song, explains his Ambition: “The history of Brazil is told as a story of a peaceful people, the has received from the elites of the blessings. In fact, we are a nation that has fought to overcome the inequalities and prejudices. We are a racist, don globalist, elitist country. This is a story we want to tell now.”

range: The dancers are on the loose again (2016)

Mangueira will also Broach the issue of the murder of the left politician, Marielle Franco. The lesbian Afro-Brazilian councillor Rios died on the 14. March 2018 with the driver in a hail of bullets. Strongly of the murder of a gang that sought to fight against Franco politically is suspected: the militia – para-military organized groups of former, still active police officers, prison guards and military, the size of the Favelas dominate and whose contacts are to submit to the policy. So, it turned out that the mother of the main suspect at Flávio Bolsonaro, the oldest son of the President, in the Pay.

will sound If in the Sambódromo of Rio at the weekend so an Ode to Marielle Franco, Dandara or Leci Brandão, then this is also a political attack on the powerful, white Elite in the country. This is likely to trigger heated Controversies. But, in fact, the appearance of Mangueira is, above all, a return to the roots of Samba, which was banned until 1937, like any other cultural asset of the Black. The Samba, this rhythm powerful track of the carnival, is in its origin a musical action against the racism.

(editing Tamedia)

Created: 27.02.2019, 17:35 PM