6 Nov, 2018
For Brazil, the world’s fourth largest democracy, to have elected the extreme right-wing Jair Bolsonaro is stunning.
Just a decade ago Brazil’s president...
By David Chazan
4 November 2018
Marine Le Pen’s National Rally has overtaken the centrist party of Emmanuel Macron, the French president, for the first...
Brazil’s far-right presidential candidate divides Jewish voters
While many Brazilian Jews abhor Jair Bolsonaro’s praise for military regime and divisive rhetoric, others praise his pro-Israel...
12 October 2018
According to Agencia Publica, Bolsonaristas have been behind at least 50 separate attacks targeting left-wing activists and groups since Sep 30.
Thousands of...
Stripped to its essence, the Brazilian presidential elections represent a direct clash between democracy and an early 21st Century neofascism, indeed between civilization and...
By Glenn Greenwald
October 8 2018
For the past thirty years, Congressman Jair Bolsonaro was a fringe extremist in Brazilian politics, known mostly for outlandish, deliberately inflammatory...