Jair Bolsonaro, a controversial ultra-conservative ex-military leader in Brazil

Euskaraz irakurri: Jair Bolsonaro, soldier ohi ultraeskuindar bat Brasilgo agintari

The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, is a far-right ex-military man who has been characterized by his racist, sexist and homophobic statements. He has also publicly defended Brazil’s military dictatorship between 1964 and 1985. He has been dubbed as the “Tropical Trump”.

Of his presidency, they highlight his questioned management of the covid pandemic (with denialist positions in a country with more than 10% of those affected by covid deceased) and its environmental policy, which has led to the destruction of the amazon in favor of the economic lobby.

The rise to power of the extreme right-winger, a native of Campinas, in the state of Sao Paulo, fueled the disappointment and phobia of many Brazilians towards the Workers’ Party (PT), the formation of former president Lula da Silva, who governed Brazil between 2003 and 2016 and that many point to as responsible for the corruption that ruined the country.

The nicknamed Brazilian Donald Trump, of whom he confesses to be an admirer, accumulates an extensive history of statements of a sexist, racist, homophobic and xenophobic tonefor which it has earned a strong rejection in part of Brazilian society and the international community.

Bolsonaro, considered by many to be a threat to democracy, has been the subject of numerous controversies for his controversial positions and incendiary statements. “I would be incapable of loving a homosexual son,” he stated in 2011. His words towards women also raised blisters when in 2014 he told a deputy that he would not rape her because she “didn’t deserve it”: “She wouldn’t deserve to be raped, because she is very bad, very ugly”.

The reserve captain graduated at the age of 22 from the Agulhas Negras Military Academy in Rio de Janeiro, to which he was linked for 10 years during the military regime, of which in 1999 he said that his biggest mistake “was to have tortured and not killed”.

Their strong defense of the “traditional family” It hasn’t stopped him from getting married three times, the last in 2013.

The standard-bearer of the Social Liberal Party (PSL), which believes that minorities should bow to the majorityhas repeatedly acknowledged his limited economic knowledgea matter in which he places his entire trust in Paulo Guedes, a Brazilian economist linked to the liberalist Chicago School.

Weapons and their free use in the population is a hallmark of the next president, who promises a “hard hand” against crime and defends a more aggressive policy in the fight against crime.