So Magic Grandpa's Progressed To Demanding Money With Menances Then.

https://news.sky.com/story/protesters-armed-with-batons-storm-cop30-venue-in-brazil-13468866

With timing so weak you'd think it was a US/UK coproduction.

Lula da Silva cultivated his Populist Cult of Personality in opposition to Brazil's Fifth Republic. As a Trade Unionist rather than an explicit member of the banned Communist Party he was particularly involved in the successor banned Peasants Leagues. These were heavily inspired by Maoisms fetishisation of the Peasant Class which starved millions upon millions of people in China and beyond.

Brazilian Maoism had a problem in that the Fifth Republic was extremely good at allowing Peasants to join the Urban Bourgeoisie. Rendering Brazilian Moaists irrelevant.

So Brazilian Maoists started fetishising the Indigenous Class instead. Any attempt to let Xiaoping's good cat carry the Indigenous Class into the Urban Bourgeoisie would be a Colonial, Imperial attempt to exterminate their "traditional knowledge and guardianship." Something they need a dear leader to protect them from.