Planted in front of a Coco Bambu restaurant in Brasília, doctor from Ceará Mayra Pinheiro recorded a video in support of the owner of the chain, accused by Ciro Gomes of evading taxes. Next to Mayra was federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PSL-SP). At the end of the video, the duo shouts in unison: “We are all Coco Bambu!”.
I don’t know if Ciro’s accusations have substance, but I know one thing. When Captain Chloroquine and Dudu Bananinha are in favor of something, common sense dictates that they take the opposite position.
Mayra says that Coco Bambu is “a reason for national pride” because it “brings quality food to millions of Brazilians”. What planet does this person live on?
The quality of the food is, to say the least, debatable. Coco Bambu is famous for crushing the delicacy of seafood with tons of white sauce, cottage cheese, mozzarella and parmesan.
As for taking such food to “millions of Brazilians”, it’s a crazy statement – to use Captain Chloroquine’s vocabulary. An individual plate of shrimp does not cost less than R$138 at Coco Bambu do Lago Sul, where the video was recorded.
It should be intrigued by the readiness with which Mayra and Dudu rushed to Lago Sul to defend the honor of a restaurant. But don’t intrigue. Afrânio Barreira, owner of the Coco Bambu chain – from Ceará, as well as the doctor and Ciro Gomes –, is a first-time supporter of Jair Bolsonaro.
It continues to close ranks with the president, despite the announced and imminent coup, ready to march when electoral defeat comes. Or was it because of the coup?
Barreira is part of a caste of entrepreneurs that insists on celebrating a parallel reality of progress, order, God, family, homeland and the four-way exchange in the land devastated by Bolsonaro. These people pretend that there is no uncontrolled inflation, banana corruption, misery, hunger and the deliberate implosion of the traces of civility that, badly and badly, still keep us as a nation.
In the food business, Barreira is paired with Júnior Durski, the czar of Madero’s dry hamburgers. Both dress up as Zé Carioca and go to celebrate, with their comrade Luciano Hang, the caricatured fascism (pardon the redundancy) that thrives in scorched Brazil.
As Ruy Castro said in Wednesday’s column (4), this very peculiar elite seems to be content with all the destruction perpetrated by Bolsonaro. What does anyone gain from this?
In a sensible world, the owners of the money would run away from the chaos that ultimately drives away money as well. But they flirt with the apocalypse. They are mesmerized by the annihilating beast that, they assume, will soon have full power to run the plane over everything.
They’ve already poured champagne on ice to toast the tyrant. They must have something to gain from the end of Brazil.
At Bolsonaro’s coup party, if there is a coup, there will be Madero’s burger. There will be shrimp from Coco Bambu. And maybe, by then, Bolsonaro will have learned to chew shrimp.
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