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denem

(11,045 posts)
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 08:35 PM Jun 2020

Top Brazil newspaper in pro-democracy drive as unease grows about Bolsonaro

Source: The Guardian

One of Brazil’s leading newspapers has launched a major pro-democracy campaign as unease grows about the threat many fear Jair Bolsonaro and his most militant supporters pose to the country’s political future.

Unveiling the initiative on Sunday, the Folha de São Paulo said systematic attacks from pro-Bolsonaro extremists were putting Brazilian democracy through its greatest “stress test” since the return of civilian rule in 1985.

The broadsheet urged readers to wear yellow in support of democracy and said voters needed to urgently remember the dark days of Brazil’s 1964-85 military regime, when hundreds of political opponents were killed or disappeared.

“We saw, and will never forget, the horrors of dictatorship, and we will always champion democracy,” the Folha de São Paulo declared.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/28/top-brazil-newspaper-in-pro-democracy-drive-to-counter-bolsonaro

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Top Brazil newspaper in pro-democracy drive as unease grows about Bolsonaro (Original Post) denem Jun 2020 OP
It is strange to see so many parallels between Bolsonaro and trump. mwb970 Jun 2020 #1
Once again, this proves once and for all: ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES!! Initech Jun 2020 #2
So Predictable What Rulers Like Bolsonaro Will Do DallasNE Jun 2020 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author CatLady78 Jun 2020 #4

mwb970

(11,299 posts)
1. It is strange to see so many parallels between Bolsonaro and trump.
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 08:51 PM
Jun 2020

My knowledge of Brazil is a bit sketchy, but it would be interesting to dig a little deeper into the similarities between the two.

Initech

(99,909 posts)
2. Once again, this proves once and for all: ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES!!
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 09:09 PM
Jun 2020

Doesn't matter who you are voting for, right wing assholes are the same no matter what country you're in. Don't vote for the right wing assholes.

DallasNE

(7,392 posts)
3. So Predictable What Rulers Like Bolsonaro Will Do
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 10:15 PM
Jun 2020

Strong men only know how to be ruthless and when the enemy is a virus then ruthless backfires. And that is what we are seeing here once again. When being a bully doesn't work they have nothing to fall back on and that is exactly what is happening in Brazil and right on schedule. Their infection numbers are the same as ours currently and will likely pass us this week. And this disease will roar through the slums in Brazil with catastrophic quickness. The surprise has been that it has taken longer than expected to get up a full head of steam but that also represents a lot of squandered time, making Bolsonaro look that much worse.

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