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Undated: Jair Messias Bolsonaro (born 21 March 1955) is a Brazilian politician and retired military officer, currently serving as the 38th President of Brazil since January 2019. He served in the country's Chamber of Deputies, representing the state of Rio de Janeiro, between 1991 and 2018. He currently is a member of the conservative Social Liberal Party.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jair_Bolsonaro
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September 8: Brazil's presidential front-runner, Jair Bolsonaro, lost 40% of his blood after he was stabbed on Thursday, hospital officials say.
The far-right politician was attacked at a campaign rally in Minas Gerais.
Doctors say he suffered a deep and life-threatening wound in his intestines, but is now recovering well.
His son, Flavio Bolsonaro, said it was unlikely that his father would be able to return to campaigning before next month's election.
He said his father was still weak and had trouble speaking, adding: "He cannot go to the streets, but we can."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45451473
October 28: Bolsonaro wins Brazil election, promises to purge leftists from country
After the most polarized and divisive campaign in its modern history, Brazil has elected as its next president a right-wing politician who openly disdains human rights and admires military dictators.
https://theconversation.com/bolsonaro-wins-brazil-election-promises-to-purge-leftists-from-country-105481
October 29: Who is the 'Trump of the Tropics?': Brazil's divisive new president, Jair Bolsonaro— in his own words
Brazil’s far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro secured a sweeping election victory on Sunday, promising to drain the political swamp and fight corruption in Latin America’s largest country.
In a vote many considered to be the most important since the country returned to democracy three decades ago, the former military officer survived a near-fatal stabbing to comfortably beat leftist rival Fernando Haddad.
... critics of Bolsonaro are deeply worried about his brazen praise of the country’s former dictatorship and by his comments concerning women, race and human rights.
Here are some of the future commander-in-chief’s most incendiary remarks reported by various media outlets over the years:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/29/brazil-election-jair-bolsonaros-most-controversial-quotes.html
November 1: Bolsonaro Can’t Destroy Brazilian Democracy
Brazil’s new president is a throwback to its authoritarian past—but the country is more resilient than it used to be.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/11/01/bolsonaro-cant-destroy-brazilian-democracy/
-- 2019 --
January 12: Here’s How Jair Bolsonaro Wants to Transform Brazil
Land rights, education, the economy, and public security lie at the nexus of the Brazilian president’s priorities and critics’ concerns.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/01/heres-how-jair-bolsonaro-wants-to-transform-brazil/580207/
January 17: Brazil’s Bolsonaro makes stumbling start as president
A few days after being inaugurated, new Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announced a tax increase, only to have his chief-of-staff say hours later that the boss “had been wrong.”
The former army captain also said he would be open to putting a U.S. base in his country, but military leaders quickly squashed the idea.
And the day after the nascent administration announced plans to abolish a land-reform program, officials said it would actually remain intact.
https://www.apnews.com/8b61e33d4d0c42d18cd2a7616d8ec176
February 10: Bolsonaro’s financial guru plans free-market perestroika
Paulo Guedes sets out ambitious programme of economic liberalisation
Paulo Guedes touches a finger to his temple. “People from the left have soft heads and good hearts,” he says. “People from the right have hard heads, and . . . ” He searches for the correct phrase. “Not-so good hearts.” It is a moment of candour for Brazil’s “super economics minister”, given that the president he works for, Jair Bolsonaro, is a rightwing former army captain viewed internationally as something of a proto-fascist with a fondness for military dictatorship. It is also indicative of the breadth of Mr Guedes’ views, and his belief that Mr Bolsonaro is not the extremist bogeyman he is often viewed as abroad. “We are creating a Popperian open society,” he says, one of several times he recalls the Austrian philosopher Karl Popper — who advocated dynamic liberal democracy — during a wide-ranging conversation with the FT in his Brasília office.
https://www.ft.com/content/fd0b68d0-2b25-11e9-a5ab-ff8ef2b976c7
February 16: Jair Bolsonaro Praised the Genocide of Indigenous People. Now He’s Emboldening Attackers of Brazil’s Amazonian Communities.
https://theintercept.com/2019/02/16/brazil-bolsonaro-indigenous-land/
March 6: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro shocks with 'golden shower' tweet
The far-right Brazilian president sparked shock and outrage by tweeting a video of one man urinating on another during a Carnival parade.
Critics said Bolsonaro’s tweets showed he was more focused on riling his progressive critics than building consensus in congress for necessary reforms, such as an overhaul of the country’s budget-busting pension system.
In a statement, Brazil’s presidency defended Bolsonaro for posting a video that it said scandalized the whole country.
“There was no intention to criticize the carnival in a generic way, but rather to characterize a clear distortion of its spirit,” it said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/president-bolsonaro-shocks-brazil-golden-shower-tweet-n980476
March 7: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's Twitter militancy in the country's culture wars took an unexpected turn this week as he faced a backlash for sharing a video of the salacious behavior he has sought to condemn.
The right-wing Bolsonaro was weighing in on what he has described as the decadence of Brazil's street carnival — the annual festival known for its subversion of orthodox social norms.
"This is what many Brazilian street carnival parades have become," he tweeted, inviting readers to "comment and draw your own conclusions."
Bolsonaro, a former army captain who assumed office in January, won election on a wave of anti-establishment sentiment and a mix of socially conservative rhetoric, authoritarian innuendo and promises akin to "drain the swamp." But just weeks into his administration, Bolsonaro's approval rating in polls is lower than several of his immediate predecessors, at just 39 percent in mid-February.
... many carnival-goers were offended that Bolsonaro "reduced carnival, which is a very rich and complex cultural phenomenon, to an isolated and decontextualized scene," said Federal University of São Paulo political scientist Esther Solano.
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/07/701195364/brazils-president-faces-backlash-for-posting-salacious-carnival-video
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