Agribusiness and the Bolsonarist far-right: A symbiosis that engenders and amplifies socio-environmental barbarism in Brazil

Abstract

 Agribusiness is a complex economic sector due to the range of relationships established among the different agents that make up its material framework. However, its main employers present themselves as a monolithic political party, organized and well articulated when the subject is the defense of the sector's interests. A group that imposes a set of actions to deconstruct the rules and circumvent the laws that can hinder the advance of capital over the totality of social relations. This work, highlights the expanded hegemony of agribusiness in the current power bloc, whose representatives occupy half of the seats in the House and Senate, as well as prominent positions in the last government (2019- 2022). On this path, they have transformed the State's institutional apparatus into a mechanism that creates implicit immunities, legalizing deforestation and violence in the countryside, through laws and norms that have favored the maintenance and expansion of the tragic historical picture that the country is currently experiencing, whether in the social, economic, or environmental sphere. Thus, agribusiness has consolidated itself as one of the main bases of support for the Bolsonaro Far-Right, with its political agenda largely favorable to the aforementioned model. A relationship that expands and deepens social inequalities and environmental degradation in Brazil.