Bolsonaro took the presidency today, his speech being as expected, railing against totalitarian gender ideologies and proclaiming socialism to be expelled.
Good on PT deputies for staying out of the swearing in of this radical candidate.
Life is unfair...
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From France24: Bolsonaro says Brazil 'liberated from Socialism' at inaugural ceremony
"I call on all congressmen to help me rescue Brazil from corruption, criminality and ideological submission," he said, earning a congratulatory message from Trump.
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A short time later, Bolsonaro spoke to thousands of supporters outside the Planalto presidential palace, promising to "free Brazil" from Socialism and political correctness.
At one point he pulled out a Brazilian flag and wildly waved it, prompting roars from the crowd and chants of "Myth! Myth! Myth!" – a nickname used by supporters for whom Bolsonaro, whose middle name is Messias, was chosen by God to lead Brazil.
"Our flag will never be red," he said, referring to left-wing ideologies he considers a threat to Brazil. "Our flag will only be red if blood is needed to keep it green and yellow."
The capital Brasilia was under tight security, with 3,000 police patrolling the event. Military tanks, fighter jets and even anti-aircraft missiles also were deployed. The increased security came at the request of the incoming president, who was stabbed in the stomach during a campaign rally in September.
Notable foreign leaders attending the inauguration include Hungary's hardline Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Israel's hawkish premier Benjamin Netanyahu, who has hailed a budding "brotherhood" with Brazil's new leader.
Leftist Presidents Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela, Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua and Miguel Díaz-Canel of Cuba, deemed dictators by Bolsonaro, were uninvited by Bolsonaro's team after the foreign ministry sent them invitations. The United States was represented by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Seven of Bolsonaro's 22 Cabinet ministers are former military personnel, more than in any administration during Brazil's 1964-1985 dictatorship. That has sparked fears among his adversaries of a return to autocratic rule, but Bolsonaro insists he will respect the country's constitution.
Shin Megami Tensei IV
Right Wingers are the main people that ensure that the far-left even manage to look good. Why they even still exist? They have done something good sometime?
Edited by KazuyaProta on Jan 2nd 2019 at 10:05:30 AM
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Oh, bother.
Kazuya, you keep asking this same question for some reason. I doubt you're going to get a different answer this time.
Disgusted, but not surprised
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It's impossible not doing it when it happens all the time. Why they still act like we're on the Cold War.
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Because scapegoats are how they hold onto power.
Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Jan 2nd 2019 at 5:04:00 PM
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It wouldn't be so bad if our left didn't fuck up everything, thus making our equality incompetent right wing look good.
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A mayor in Mexico was assassinated two hours after being sworn in.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/02/americas/mexico-mayor-killed-oaxaca/index.html
If things goes as I feel they will bolsonaro is going to create a mess and their suporter will excuse them, feel disapoint he isnt the great messiah or just be happy they can be a dick again.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
Oh, it's going to be a mess alright, but not everyone who voted for him is a total bootlicker. The first month or so after the election I started following two twitter accounts cataloguing our own version of "trumpgrets" when people realized they'd been conned, due to Bolsonaro selecting a bunch of corrupt/shady politicians as part of his administration.
Some of them are honestly funny as shit because they're trying to make demands of him and expecting him to live up to his rhetoric, because in their mind they voted for a regular politician and not an authoritarian power project. They almost seem to realize that it was a scam all along and that Bozo is just as corrupt and loathsome as they think PT is. What they don't seem to realize yet is he'll be even worse. At best he will be Collor:Extra Fascism Edition, and that's being optimistic.
Edited by Draghinazzo on Jan 2nd 2019 at 11:05:00 AM
Like I said, i know that, living in a doctatorship for almost 20 years let you know a couple of things about it.
So far things are going to be like this:
-Bozo is going to be some bring rethoric like the one he used about clean Brazil, people are going to like it because it apeal to their sense everything is going to be new, asome and pretty(isnt).
-Acusation and bullshit is going start happeing, and here we will see how much Bozo is going to deflect, here is where their defenders will demand to give them consideration while they didnt give any to their oponente, because how is facist rolls: be soft to me, but im going to be harsher on you.
-Mostly a aceptent the dictator is....well that, usually the worst part is that people dont learn, ether they will see themselves a duped or just avoid taking about it, if I have to guess that would be more stressing part for your guys, the lack of learing about the past, but them again, that is how latin america rolls.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
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I'm also worried about the fact that madness like this tends to spread. The region is still going through a bad time in general due to the recession so we are in the conditions for that kind of rhetoric to be repeated in other countries like Argentina.
Edited by raziel365 on Jan 2nd 2019 at 9:52:41 AM
Instead of focusing on relatives that divide us, maybe we should try to find the absolutes that tie us.
The fact that Bolsonaro was elected in the first place is, in and of itself, proof that the country has failed to learn anything. Even if we ignore the military dictatorship being dreadful (its own can of worms), not long ago we had Collor. A similar messianistic right-wing candidate, who ended up being a total crook and whose administration was completely inefficient in handling inflation.
That should have been enough for people to, at the very least, see the parallels and consider that maybe voting for the guy wasn't the best option. But the seething hatred for PT was ultimately too strong.
Also the accusations are already happening. Bolsonaro's son is being investigated for corruption.
Edited by Draghinazzo on Jan 2nd 2019 at 11:35:58 AM
That depend if Macri can make good thing of the problem he suffer.
Kinda but being a crook and being a authoritariam crook are two diferent things.
To reused a old quote, the best way to facist to win is to demcracy being stupid.
And they were, and they were.
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Bolsonaro targets Brazil minorities, rewards farm lobby on first day in office
Bolsonaro, a former army captain and seven-term congressman, won elections in October and was sworn in on Tuesday as Brazil's first far-right president since a military dictatorship gave way to civilian rule in 1985.
In his first order since taking over, Brazil’s new leader stripped the agency in charge of indigenous affairs of the responsibility to demarcate native lands, handing those powers over to the agriculture ministry.
The gift to the powerful agribusiness sector enraged environmentalists already worried by Bolsonaro's plans to loosen protections of the Amazon rainforest and remove Brazil's support for the Paris Agreement on climate change.
Areas set aside for "Quilombolas", as descendants of former slaves are known, will also be affected by Bolsonaro’s decision.
All the president's men: generals and hardliners to pack cabinet
Another order removed the concerns of the LGBT community from consideration by the new human rights ministry, headed by an ultraconservative evangelical pastor.
Damares Alves, the new human rights minister, did not discuss the LGBT order in her first address on the job, but the evangelical pastor has insisted over the years that "the Brazilian family is being threatened".
On Wednesday, she said: "The state is lay, but this minister is terribly Christian."
Bolsonaro has strongly criticised what he calls "gender-based ideology", describing it is a threat to Brazil's Christian values.
The newspaper Folha de S.Paulo said Bolsonaro was later expected to announce the closing of an agency within the education ministry that has been aimed at promoting diversity in public schools and universities.
Affinity with Trump
Bolsonaro's rise to power culminates a swing to conservative rule in Latin America that has isolated leftist-ruled countries such as Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.
A fan of US President Donald Trump, Brazil’s new president on Wednesday met with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who said the two countries would jointly defend democratic values in the region.
Pompeo later told Brazil’s new Foreign Minister Ernesto Araujo that the affinity between Trump and Bolsonaro created “a truly transformative opportunity” for relations between Washington and Brasilia.
"We have an opportunity to work alongside each other against authoritarian regimes," he added after discussing Venezuela with Araujo.
Bolsonaro was elected on a platform to clean up Brazilian politics, and he put the country's top anti-corruption figure, Sergio Moro, in charge of a justice ministry beefed up to fight graft and battle organised crime.
Moro, a former federal judge who spearheaded the "Car Wash" corruption trials that put former leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and other high-profile politicians in jail, said on Wednesday he would help usher in a new era of law and order.
"The top mission given to me by the president was clear: end impunity for corruption cases and combat organised crime to reduce violent crimes," Moro said after being sworn in.
The administration would propose an ambitious anti-crime bill to Congress next month that would stiffen prison sentences, Moro said.
Austerity measures
While Bolsonaro surprised Brazil's political establishment by surging to victory over a leftist coalition led by Lula's Workers Party, he takes office with the lowest approval rating of any new Brazilian president, according to a Datafolha poll Tuesday.
That suggests he will have an uphill battle to enact his agenda of austerity measures to bring down a budget deficit of about 180 billion reais ($47.31 billion) that has investors worried.
To pass legislation, he is expected to rely on lobbies in Congress representing the interests of agribusiness and a burgeoning evangelical movement, instead of reaching out to the leaders of other parties.
Markets are optimistic that Bolsonaro's economic team, led by former investment banker Paulo Guedes, will succeed in passing reforms needed to reduce the deficit and restore confidence and growth to a slow-moving economy.
One of Bolsonaro's first steps was to decree a lower-than-expected increase to the minimum wage for this year, to 998 reais ($260) a month from 954 reais.
Laying out his priorities as finance minister, Guedes singled out pension reform as the most pressing issue facing Brazil.
The University of Chicago-trained economist vowed to slash the state's outsize role in the economy, cut taxes, carry out privatisations and tame what he said was excessive government spending.
Shares in the country's largest utility Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras jumped over 10% after Bento Albuquerque, the new energy minister, said the company would be partially privatised.
Doing even better was gun manufacturer Forjas Taurus, whose shares rose 27% on Bolsonaro's plan to ease gun controls, to help Brazilians arm themselves in self-defence against crime.
(FRANCE 24 with AP, REUTERS)
Well that was quick, and I not a expert in economics, what efect this will have in long term?.
I'm not an expert either but most people seem to think Paulo Guedes is a disaster waiting to happen. He has no experience with public policy, and most economists seem to be of the opinion that his plans aren't viable.
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https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2019/02/12/analysis-of-nicaraguas-paramilitary-arsenal/
An interesting OSINT research report on Nicaraguan paramilitaries.
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So. People, uh...
How do You think the region would react to the Bolivarian diaspora.
My country is relatively accepting of them (apparently PPK was praised for his pro refugee polices) but even then, we already are having issues. As I've said in other thread, The Sunedu is getting overwhelm with the new refugee students.
I'm worried for how the situation in Venezuela would affect us.
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Peruvian Ex-President Alan Garcia apparently shoot himself in the head when he was being arrested for a preliminar investigation.
All points to a Better to Die than Be Killed (arrested, in his case) situation.
He's still alive as I post this, but in a very delicate situation. I don't know if he's gonna survive.
Alan was corrupt, very corrupt but...wow.
Edited by KazuyaProta on Apr 17th 2019 at 8:08:23 AM
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One of our past presidents did something similar back in the 50's.
Turns out suicide is a fantastic way to raise approval rates.
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From what I have heard, Garcia is already dead, it just needs to be made official.
Can't say I have any sympathy for him, the guy preferred his ego rather than face justice and be judged for his crimes.
Instead of focusing on relatives that divide us, maybe we should try to find the absolutes that tie us.
CNN was reporting that he's already been resuscitated three times. That's not a good sign.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
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Thought. Given how news work here, he may be alive
Edited by KazuyaProta on Apr 17th 2019 at 10:34:30 AM
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Heard that he liked police/criminal dramas. He also admitted that he was born in Medellin before he moved to NY.
There's a young woman who requested to leave jury duty because she's worried about the pressure her mom will have over the trial.
Another had a panic attack and another made a living as a Michael Jackson impersonator, which made him easily identifiable in case someone was able to get a hold of Chapo's sicarios. There's also a jurist who "liked an “El Chapo” sandwich at a deli near his workplace, who complained that could also make him identifiable."
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