Right-wing Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro stabbed while campaigning
Source: The Washington Post
By Marina Lopes
September 6 at 3:56 PM
BELEM, Brazil — Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro, the frontrunner in the country’s October elections, was stabbed in the abdomen during a campaign rally in southeastern Brazil on Thursday, his family said.
He was in stable condition at a local hospital, his son said in message posted to Twitter..
Cellphone footage released by local media showed the candidate sitting on a supporter’s shoulders and waving to the crowd when someone plunged a knife into his abdomen. He was carried by his supporters to a car, clutching his side.
A right-wing former soldier and evangelical, he has topped the polls with an estimated 22 percent of prospective votes, after a judge barred former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from running last week due to corruption charges.
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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017 / 5:47 PM / A YEAR AGO
Far-right presidential hopeful aims to be Brazil's Trump
Anthony Boadle
BRASILIA (Reuters) - He is anti-gay, pro-gun and warns that China is taking over Brazil. And with one year to go before Brazil’s presidential election, right-wing Congressman Jair Bolsonaro is running second in opinion polls.
Bolsonaro, a 62-year-old former paratrooper, lacks a major party behind him but hopes to emulate Donald Trump’s unexpected rise to the U.S. presidency with the support of Brazilians fed up with corrupt politicians and bad government.
“Trump faced the same attacks I am facing - that he was a homophobe, a fascist, a racist, a Nazi - but the people believed in his platform, and I was rooting for him,” Bolsonaro told Reuters in an interview this week in his office in Brasilia, decorated with the portraits of five military presidents from Brazil’s 1964-1985 dictatorship.
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Bolsonaro is appealing a conviction for inciting violence after he told a female congresswoman on the floor of the lower house that he “would not rape her because she did not deserve it.”
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-politics-bolsonaro-interview/far-right-presidential-hopeful-aims-to-be-brazils-trump-idUSKCN1C2384
The Attack on Brazilian Democracy is an Attack on Women
Religious Fundamentalism, Sexual Politics, and Feminist Resistance After Dilma Rousseff
By Kristina Hinz
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Imminent Danger: Right-wing Extremist Jair Bolsonaro Leads Predictions for Presidential Elections
Despite the massive protests against the attacks on human rights and democracy, the prospects for the upcoming presidential election are more than gloomy. After Lula’s arrest in April of this year, ex-military Jair Bolsonaro is now leading the election forecasts. The former captain defends torture and military dictatorship. Due to his discriminatory statements against quilombolas [descendants of enslaved persons that escaped from plantations], indigenous people and refugees, he was charged with racism at the Federal Court of Justice (STF). Nevertheless, he has currently accumulated almost 25% of the votes in the election forecasts. The prospects for women, black and persons of colour, Indigenous and LGBTIQ are not only bleak, but seem almost hopeless in the event of the triumph of the “Donald Trump of the Tropics”, as the Guardian has euphemistically described Bolsonaro.
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https://theleftberlin.wordpress.com/current-debates/the-attack-on-brazilian-democracy-is-an-attack-on-women/
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Wikipedia:
Jair Messias Bolsonaro (born 21 March 1955) is a Brazilian politician and former military officer. He has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies since 1991, and is currently a member of the Social Liberal Party (PSL). A highly controversial figure in Brazil, he is known for his far-right and populist political views, including sympathetic comments about Brazil's 1964–1985 military dictatorship.
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Jair Bolsonaro is known for his strong opposition to left-wing policies. Most notably, he has been a vocal opponent of same-sex marriage,[22] abortion,[23] affirmative action (particularly racial quotas),[24] immigration[25] (particularly refugees from Haiti, Africa and the Middle East, whom he once called "the scum of humanity" ),[19] drug liberalization,[26] land reforms,[27] and secularism at the state level,[26] among other things.[28]
He has also made statements in defense of the Brazilian military regime[29] (a dictatorship known for constant human rights violations).[30] He claims that torture is a "legitimate practice" and says that he would change the Brazilian penal code and would try to pass new legislation regarding the introduction of life imprisonment and capital punishment (which is currently banned under the Brazilian Constitution of 1988).[31] Bolsonaro supports the privatization of state owned companies and advocates for pro-free market policies,[32] although critics have stated that his policy-making record doesn't in fact show him to be a supporter of economic liberalism.[33]
In a 2017 interview with journalist Claudio Dantas Sequeira from O Antagonista, Bolsonaro said that despite the "left-leaning media frenzy" against him, his views are actually directly aligned with centrist to right-wing US citizens' views on gun ownership, abortion, gender politics, and trade. Bolsonaro reiterated that he intends to reverse some disarmament laws, improve public security, and also improve trade ties with the United States, which he said were broken during Lula da Silva's and Dilma Rousseff's administrations.[34]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jair_Bolsonaro
Jair Bolsonaro: Hope his injury was nothing trivial.
