{"id":178552,"date":"2018-10-28T19:09:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/10\/28\/brazil-is-completely-fed\/"},"modified":"2018-10-28T19:09:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T00:09:00","slug":"brazil-is-completely-fed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/10\/28\/brazil-is-completely-fed\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil is Completely F%$#ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Right wing lunatic Jair Bolsonaro has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/oct\/28\/jair-bolsonaro-wins-brazil-presidential-election\">been elected President of Brazil<\/a>, and we should expect things to get much, much, worse for the people of Brazil.<\/div>\n<p>Unfortunately, the move to a mild form of social democracy so unnerved the Brazilian elites that they have conducted a years-long coup against a fairly mild left-wing party, and it looks like Brazil is in for some truly unsettled times as a result:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A far-right, pro-gun, pro-torture populist has been elected as Brazil\u2019s next president after a drama-filled and deeply divisive election that looks set to radically reforge the future of the world\u2019s fourth biggest democracy. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/jair-bolsonaro\">Jair Bolsonaro<\/a>, a 63-year-old former paratrooper who built his campaign around pledges to crush corruption, crime and a supposed communist threat, secured 55.5% of the votes after more than 94% were counted and was therefore elected Brazil\u2019s next president, electoral authorities said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Over nearly three decades in politics, he has become notorious for  his hostility to black, gay and indigenous Brazilians and to women, as  well as for his admiration of dictatorial regimes, including the one  that <a data-link-name=\"in body link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/may\/11\/ernesto-geisel-brazil-cia-memo-torture-executions\">ruled Brazil from 1964 until 1985<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe extreme right has conquered Brazil,\u201d Celso Rocha de Barros, a  Brazilian political columnist, told the election night webcast of Piau\u00ed  magazine. \u201cBrazil now has a more extremist president than any democratic  country in the world &#8230; we don\u2019t know what is going to happen.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Expect massive logging, and an explosion of violence against the LGBT and indigenous people for a start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right wing lunatic Jair Bolsonaro has been elected President of Brazil, and we should expect things to get much, much, worse for the people of Brazil. Unfortunately, the move to a mild form of social democracy so unnerved the Brazilian elites that they have conducted a years-long coup against a fairly mild left-wing party, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[505,375,485],"class_list":["post-178552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-disaster","tag-elections","tag-latin-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}