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Brazil’s Bolsonaro targets LGBT people, racial minorities on 1st day in office

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Brazil’s Bolsonaro targets LGBT people, racial minorities on 1st day in office

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New far-right Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro.

1/3/19
Sao Paulo • Newly installed President Jair Bolsonaro targeted Brazil’s indigenous groups, descendants of slaves and the LGBT community with executive orders in the first hours of his administration, moving quickly after a campaign in which the far-right leader said he would radically overhaul many aspects of life in Latin America’s largest nation. One of the orders issued late Tuesday, hours after Bolsonaro's inauguration, likely will make it all but impossible for new lands to be identified and demarcated for indigenous communities. Areas set aside for "Quilombolas," as descendants of former slaves are known, are also affected by the decision.Sao Paulo's stock market, meanwhile, jumped 3.56 percent to a record closing of 91,012 points as new Cabinet ministers reinforced the intent to privatize state-owned companies and a Brazilian arms maker benefited from Bolsonaro's plans to loosen gun controls. Similar spikes in stock prices also occurred during the presidential campaign. Another order removed the concerns of the LGBT community from consideration by the new human rights ministry. In removing LGBT concerns from the responsibilities of the human rights ministry, Bolsonaro did not name any agency to consider such issues. He has strongly criticized what he calls "gender-based ideology," saying it is a threat to Brazil's Christian values.

Also on Wednesday, the Brazilian Press Association criticized restrictions on journalists at Bolsonaro's inauguration. Reporters had to arrive seven hours before the events began and were forbidden to move freely in Congress and the presidential palace. Food was seized and access to bathrooms and water was limited. "What was seen in different scenarios of Brasilia is incompatible with a democratic regime," the association said in a statement. "Respect to the press is one of the main indicators of nations that consider themselves civilized."

Another far-right authoritarian-leaning regime that the Trump administration will cozy up to.

Related: Nikki Haley praises Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro after he targets LGBT on 1st day in office

Brazil Is About To Show The World How A Modern Democracy Collapses
 

The USA will fawn over Bolsonaro while he destroys democracy. He wouldn't antagonize/demonize the minority groups if he thought there would be actual voting in the next election. He'll likely eliminate elections with martial law decrees and manipulation. Corporatism/fascism will reign supreme. Wall Street will love him, same as Republicans.
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I think that Brazilians were conflicted when it came time to vote.


On the one hand, they want indigenous people and gay people to be treated in a humane manner.


On the other hand, they have had it up to their keister with violence and corruption.


So they went for the proverbial lesser of two evils.


Something like what happened in 2016 in a country called the United States of America.
 
I think that Brazilians were conflicted when it came time to vote.


On the one hand, they want indigenous people and gay people to be treated in a humane manner.


On the other hand, they have had it up to their keister with violence and corruption.

Well the answer isn't to put another Erdogan in office.
 
Pure yellow journalism. Bolsonaro's plans are to integrate residents of black and indigenous RESERVATIONS into Brazilian society. I already read about this from a non-hatchet job source.

https://observador.pt/2019/01/03/bo...terio-da-agricultura-e-quer-aculturar-indios/

The new President of Brasil put the power to designate Indian reservations in the hands of the Minister of Agriculture and reiterated his objective to integrate into Brazilian society peoples who live in these zones.

O novo presidente do Brasil colocou o poder de demarcar reservas índias nas mãos do ministério da Agricultura e reiterou o objetivo de integrar na sociedade brasileira os povos que vivem nessas zonas.
 

Rogue Valley:

I agree with you that another authoritarian government is the last thing South America and Brazil need. However it is not surprising that Washington has endorsed this right-wing thug. It echoes the endorsement which the Johnson Administration gave to the Brazilian generals in 1964 when they threw out President Joao Goulart in a coup d'etat and plunged Brazil into 21 years of torture, arbitrary arrests disappearings, murders/extrajudicial killings and undemocratic oligarchy. So while President Trump is making a morally questionable/bankrupt call in backing Bolsonaro, he is still nonetheless in the mainstream of US foreign policy over the last 60 years. The only difference is that Mr. Trump seems to relish such vicious authoritarian leaders publicly while in the past the US Admnistration's public position has been far more hypocritical and duplicitous regarding its support for such thugs in chief.

Cheers.
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Bolsonaro is a known Nazi sympathizer and part of the branches of international right-wing populism threatening far more than just the marginalized people of their own country, but every single person on the planet who still needs oxygen to breathe.

The right-wing populist wave is a threat to the climate
The Amazon rainforest fires reveal a lot about this political movement.
By Zack Beauchamp@zackbeauchampzack@vox.com Aug 22, 2019, 2:50pm EDT

The Amazon rainforest is on fire — and the consensus is that Brazil’s far-right populist leader, Jair Bolsonaro, is to blame.

Bolsonaro, who took office in January and has been referred to as “Captain Chainsaw,” gutted funding for agencies protecting the massive rainforest, essentially giving wink-and-nudge approval for illegal loggers to do their thing. Fire is used as a tool for clearing Amazon land for ranching (Me: although I think this is a cover for state-sponsored ecoterrorism), and the more trees are cut down, the more vulnerable the rainforest is to wildfires. There have been almost twice as many fires detected in 2019 so far as there were in the entirety of 2018.

Right-wing populism today centers on a particular kind of chauvinistic nationalism — an “America First” style obsession with the importance of their (typically ethnically defined) home nation and its independence from international institutions. European populists hate the European Union, with its open-borders approach to immigration and transnational economic regulations; both Trump and Bolsonaro have insulted international institutions and withdrawn from global agreements.

This brand of populism poses a particular challenge for the effort against climate change. It’s a global issue that no one country can solve on its own; it requires collective action, negotiated through some forum like the Paris Climate Agreement. It’s a paradigmatic example of the limits of nationalism and the need for organizations like the UN and EU. You can’t propose an effective solution to a transnational problem through a narrowly nationalist framework, and yet the nationalists are here attacking both climate policies in their own country and the very idea of global governance itself.


Also,

Something tells me Bolsonaro is weaponizing deforestation. If another one-fifth of the Amazon is cut down it will release around 44 gigatons of asphyxiating carbon monoxide in a sort of carbon bomb with a blast radius literally inter-****ing-continental in scale. Where are all of the ****ing interventionist Neocon warhawks when you need them? Oh, that's right, misguidedly obsessing over Iran or China, or even So-Incompetent-It-Can't-Into-Economy-Venezuela.

(By comparison, the most powerful explosion ever detonated was Russia's 'Tsar bomba' at 50 megatons. 1 gigaton is equal to One-****ing-Thousand megatons. Meaning Brazil has a bomb equal to or greater than every single ****ing other nuclear ARSENAL ON EARTH (Not combined, but's that equal to approximately a thousand Tsar Bombas. Only country that probably has a nuclear arsenal that's stronger than Brazil's makeshift 'dirty WMD' is the United States of America itself, and even that's iffy))

Report Shows Corporations and Bolsonaro Teaming Up to Destroy the Amazon
 
Bolsonaro is little different than Trump. To Hell with ecology and the environment.

The most important thing for them is to remove regulations so [campaign donor] corporations can further enrich themselves by despoiling a national legacy.
 
Re: Brazil’s Bolsonaro targets LGBT people, racial minorities on 1st day in office

When I saw this, I thought to myself that Trump is just like Bolsonaro and if he had enough time and was allowed to, he'd make the USA into Brazil. Neither of them care about the environment or safety and survival of the people and wildlife. Video in link.


The Trump of the Tropics

In the Amazon rainforest, historic levels of deforestation and fire have prompted global outcry. But what’s driving the devastation? Amna Nawaz and producer Mike Fritz traveled to Brazil to better understand both the physical and political dynamics at play.

The series' first report focuses on the influence of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, an advocate for logging and developing the Amazon.

He's been dubbed the Trump of the Tropics, both for his surprising rise to power and for a history of controversial and offensive speech.

President Jair Bolsonaro swept into office in January, promising to jump-start a failing economy by fighting widespread corruption and high levels of violence in Brazilian cities.

Over his 27 years in Congress, Bolsonaro built a reputation for holding far-right views and a thundering disdain for political correctness, like in 2003, when he told a fellow Brazilian lawmaker she wasn't worth raping.

The former army captain has long praised Brazil's former military dictatorship. He's said he'd be incapable of loving a homosexual son, and advocated for the use of firing squads to kill suspected criminals.

But last September, Bolsonaro became a target of violence himself, stabbed in the stomach while campaigning for president. He survived, saying God saved him to lead Brazil, then cruised to victory weeks later by tapping into national outrage over a massive corruption scandal known as Operation Car Wash.

The years-long probe uncovered a vast and unprecedented web of political and corporate racketeering. Several lawmakers went to jail, including former President Lula da Silva. Public backlash against the establishment was swift and severe.

The most recent crisis? The anti-corruption candidate now faces his own corruption scandal. Leaked messages and audio allege collusion between prosecutors and a then judge, now Bolsonaro's handpicked justice minister, an effort, critics say, to keep former President Lula locked up on corruption charges and out of last year's election.

Recently, Bolsonaro, who was elected with 55 percent of the vote, has seen his support start to slip. Polls show only about a third of Brazilians now view his presidency positively.

But the president still enjoys strong support and loyalty from his base. Thousands of Bolsonaro supporters took to the streets earlier this summer at pro-government rallies around Brazil, this one in Sao Paulo.

What Bolsonaro’s presidency means for Brazil and the Amazon | PBS NewsHour


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