Good primer of the Brazilian elections and what's at stake by @mikelasusa
#eleições2018https://www.vox.com/2018/10/5/17938024/brazil-presidential-election-2018-bolsonaro-haddad …
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@guardian editorial: "The forces that gave rise to [Bolsonaro] will not vanish by themselves. Rebuilding the economy, curbing crime and tackling corruption will be essential to constructing a healthier political culture."#eleições2018https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/04/the-guardian-view-on-brazils-elections-democracy-in-danger?CMP=share_btn_tw …Show this thread -
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@_pinheira &@LuciaMScalco: "The phenomenon of Bolsonarism goes beyond a single candidate: it represents the rise of a conservative zeitgeist in a time of profound social, political, and economic transformation."https://jacobinmag.com/2018/10/brazil-election-bolsonaro-corruption-security-pt …Show this thread -
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@jonleeanderson: "Brazil, has been lurching toward far-right authoritarianism. ... Jair Bolsonaro, is something like a Brazilian version of Donald Trump ... with a large dollop of the Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte thrown in."https://www.newyorker.com/sections/news/meet-brazils-presidential-front-runner-jair-bolsonaro-part-donald-trump-part-rodrigo-duterte …Show this thread -
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@BrazilBrian: “The path for Haddad to close that gap looks almost impossible ... This idea that Bolsonaro can save the country and make it safe ... and tend the corruption in Brasilia ... – that’s an idea most Brazilians now seem to have bought.”https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2018/oct/08/brazil-election-2018-polls-close-after-chaotic-and-unpredictable-campaign-live …Show this thread -
“Mr. Bolsonaro had 46% of the vote ... he remains an extremely divisive figure who alienated large segments of Brazil’s highly diverse population ... Fernando Haddad, the leftist Workers’ Party candidate ... faces a daunting task in the second round”https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/07/world/americas/jair-bolsonaro-brazil-election.html …
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@ggreenwald: "Bolsonaro’s ... party, and those most aligned with it, swept to victory all over the country with shocking margins ... It is virtually impossible to overstate the threat level posed to democracy and human rights"https://theintercept.com/2018/10/08/brazils-bolsonaro-led-far-right-wins-a-victory-far-more-sweeping-and-dangerous-than-anyone-predicted-its-lessons-are-global/ …Show this thread -
Paulo Guedes, Bolsonaro’s top economic adviser: “The last 30 years were a disaster -- we corrupted democracy and stagnated the economy. ... We should’ve done what the Chicago Boys instructed”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-02/chicago-boy-helps-calm-bankers-fears-about-brazil-wild-card …
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In a nutshell, this is Bolsonaro's environmental agenda: No more Paris agreement. No more ministry of environment. A paved highway cutting through the Amazon. Indigenous territories opened to mining. Relaxed environmental law enforcement and licensing...https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/09/brazils-bolsonaro-would-unleash-a-war-on-the-environment?CMP=share_btn_tw …
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@BrazilBrian: "Laugh if you want. But the Trumpian formula of a strong alliance with business, a hard line on crime, unapologetic nationalism and the rhetoric of economic liberty is now seen by the Brazilian right as a wildly successful test case"https://www.americasquarterly.org/content/what-expect-jair-bolsonaro …Show this thread -
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@domphillips reports on the “wave of attacks on journalists, activists and members of the LGBT community by supporters of far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro including beatings, a knife attack and a murder” in Brazil’s electionhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/11/brazil-election-violence-bolsonaro-haddad …Show this thread -
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@ffreff: “To date, Brazil has never fully reckoned with the political crimes of its military dictatorship. This void of justice and consequence has allowed rightwing to return and thrive.”https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/10/the-brazilian-nostalgia-for-dictatorship …Show this thread -
Michael Albertus, of
@UChicago: “he has made law enforcement, backed by military might and carte blanche policing, the main plank of his political platform ...a Bolsonaro win in the next round of the election could be a major step toward authoritarianism.”https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/10/08/the-military-returns-to-brazilian-politics-bolsonaro/ …Show this thread -
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@rachelgamarski, Gabriel Shinohara &@bruceecurb: “If ex-Army Captain Jair Bolsonaro wins the runoff vote ..., he has promised to name as many as five generals to his cabinet, giving the security forces their biggest public role in decades”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-14/brazil-s-military-poised-to-amass-power-after-three-decade-wait …Show this thread -
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@JoshKurlantzick: "in many respects Bolsonaro most closely resembles a Southeast Asian populist, Rodrigo Duterte ... Bolsonaro and Duterte thrive on brutal and misogynistic rhetoric, such as jokes about rape." https://www.cfr.org/blog/bolsonaro-ascendant-similarities-rodrigo-duterte …pic.twitter.com/v7c9yuQoro
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"Bolsonaro has already vowed to rethink membership in developing nation blocs Mercosur and BRICS and move the country’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, embracing Trump as few in Latin America have done."https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-election-diplomacy/brazil-right-winger-would-follow-trumps-lead-on-foreign-policy-idUSKCN1MQ2HR …
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Brazil's far-right candidate "Bolsonaro has been getting an illegal helping hand from a group of Brazilian entrepreneurs who are bankrolling a campaign to bombard
@WhatsApp users with fake news about" his rival Fernando Haddad#Caixa2doBolsonarohttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/18/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-whatsapp-fake-news-campaign …Show this thread -
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@agencialupa's Cristina Tardáguila,@pablo_ortellado &@fbenevenuto on how@WhatsApp has been used to spread lies for far-right presidential candidate; and why the company should take measures to rein in the deleterious spread of misinformation https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/opinion/brazil-election-fake-news-whatsapp.html …pic.twitter.com/bODybzpDIe
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“WhatsApp banned hundreds of thousands of accounts in Brazil as the Facebook Inc. messaging service struggles to contain spam, misinformation and other political shenanigans ahead of a runoff election in Latin America’s largest country”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-19/whatsapp-bans-more-than-100-000-accounts-in-brazil-election …
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@nytimes editorial: “The choice is for Brazilians to make. But it is a sad day for democracy when disarray and disappointment drive voters to distraction and open the door to offensive, crude and thuggish populists.”#EleNão#eleiçōes2018https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/opinion/brazil-election-jair-bolsonaro.html …Show this thread -
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@TheEconomist: "Compared with Mr Bolsonaro, who insults minority groups and likes dictators as long as they are right-wing, Mr Haddad is a reassuring figure....Brazil is poised to elect a president who poses a real threat to the country’s young democracy"https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2018/10/20/the-only-man-who-can-stop-jair-bolsonaro-from-becoming-brazils-president …Show this thread -
“The far-right favourite to become Brazil’s next president has vowed to spearhead a historic purge of his leftwing political foes in a menacing address that delighted supporters and left opponents outraged and unnerved.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/22/brazils-jair-bolsonaro-says-he-would-put-army-on-streets-to-fight …pic.twitter.com/JceWolu5CM
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@caetanoveloso: “I was forced into exile once. It won’t happen again. I want my music, my presence, to be a permanent resistance to whatever anti-democratic feature may come out of a probable Bolsonaro government”https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/24/opinion/caetano-veloso-brazil-bolsonaro.html …Show this thread -
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@jonathanwatts: “Bolsonaro is not unique: around the world, diminishing resources are fuelling a global rise of authoritarian leaders dedicated to doing the bidding of some of the world’s most environmentally damaging interests” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/24/planet-populists-brazil-jair-bolsonaro-environment …pic.twitter.com/2ubE8fK8Xs
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Excellent, informative thread on what the Duterte comparison tells us about Bolsonarohttps://twitter.com/vinncent/status/1055929727213559808?s=21 …
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