Brasil´s brand new, far right President Jair Bolsonaro mentioned God far too many times during his inauguration speech. He seems to have a direct line to Him and considers Him a sort of partner. Obviously, Bolsonaro wouldn´t see eye to eye with the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who said “God is dead” in his greatest book “Thus spoke Zarathustra”. For some reason, I link this with what Fernando Parrado (one of the survivors of the 1972 Andes tragedy) admitted in an interview: “When we heard on the radio that nobody was going to rescue us, we realized we had to get out of that place on our own”. Isn´t it more sensible to get down to work and do our best as humans, rather than expect magic solutions from above? I wonder…

Published on Buenos Aires Times