Brazil General Discussion 2019: It's Slammer Time!

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Bolsoñaro’s support crashes to Trump levels

Despite easily winning October’s election, Bolsonaro’s government has the worst approval rating of any administration at this early stage since Brazil returned to democracy three decades ago.

Pollster Ibope said 34 percent of those surveyed found the Bolsonaro government doing a “great/good” job, compared to 49 percent in mid-January. The government’s “bad/terrible” rating rose 13 percentage points to 24 percent, Ibope said

Is this a faster collapse than Macron or Macri?

Also lol that he is net positive with Evangelicals.

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-corruption-maia/brazil-house-speaker-key-to-pension-reform-accused-of-bribe-taking-document-idUSKCN1RO22P

The federal police document was delivered to the Supreme Court, as part on an ongoing investigation into Maia. Brazilian politicians are protected from prosecution, unless the top court approves and agrees to hear a case.

The office of Rodrigo Maia, who has previously said he is innocent of graft allegations, did not respond to request for comment. Neither did his father, Cesar, a former federal congressman and mayor of Rio de Janeiro.

The accusations could prove a headache for the government of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, which is relying on Maia to guide its thorny pension reform through an unbiddable Congress.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-accident/two-dead-after-buildings-collapse-in-militia-controlled-rio-neighborhood-idUSKCN1RO1OF

“Two people were injured and two were killed, and teams are on the scene looking for survivors who may be buried,” a fire department spokesman said.

Powerful militias - originally created to defend inhabitants from drug gangs, but which now act as fearsome local crime outfits - have a strong presence in the neighborhood where the buildings collapsed. Militias often control gas and electricity services, but now make huge profits by stealing land and illegally selling it for construction projects.

“As (the region) is dominated by militias, the technicians of the municipal inspection office usually require the support of the military police to carry out inspections there,” the mayor’s office said in a statement, adding that it had shuttered several unauthorized constructions nearby last November.

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Indigenous people protest on Brasília against land expropriation

Thousands of people representing the more than 300 tribes native to Brazil marched to government offices in Brasilia on Friday to protest the policies of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro that threaten their reservation lands.

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“Our families are in danger, our children are under threat, our people are being attacked. In the name of what they call economic progress they want to kill our people,” said David Karai Popygua, an ethnic Guarani Mbya from the state of Sao Paulo.

Fighting the good fight against settler colonialism. I hope there is at least delays to policy so things aren’t that irreversibly damaged.


Meanwhile, reality tv never felt so real..

Mourão’s reprimand came after the president’s account shared an expletive-filled YouTube video in which Carvalho showed off his gun collection and skewered what he called the shameless, vain and boastful military regime which took power in the 1960s.

The video – reportedly shared by Carlos, who handles his father’s social media accounts – infuriated Brazil’s military establishment, forcing a partial retraction from the president.

But the president’s sons sprung to their Carvalho’s defence, with Carlos launching a barrage of overt social media attacks against Mourão – some reportedly sent from a shooting range where he was holed up.

“Mourão – you’re a disgrace. You betrayed us,” said a prominent conservative YouTuber said in a video painting the vice president as a vain attention-seeker bent on undermining his boss.

Bolsonaro’s son Eduardo who is also the South American representative of Bannon’s far-right group called “The Movement” joined the offensive launched by his brother, urging Mourão to keep his opinions to himself.

Can any Brazilian posters on the ground report more on these shenanigans? Specifically, the deal with what exact relevance Olavism entails and what led to this moment?

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What betrayal is Ciro Gomes facing from his own party? Also is the PSOL making any gains on their own or what with the two main left party’s in their own issues?

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Secretary of Culture, announcing an art contest, reproduced a Goebbels's speech, using exactly the same words. Of course, the German Ambassy, the Jewish Association complained.
Not good for a president and for a minister of foreign affairs who told last year that national socialism was left-wing.

Right wing Jews who support far right parties and leaders will always be surprised when they discover that these people are anti-semitic, huh?

There are Haredi Jews that support Le Pen, so either they are very deaf to the dog whistles or just don’t care.

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World's biggest meat company linked to 'brutal massacre' in Amazon

A new investigation has linked the world’s biggest meat company JBS, and its rival Marfrig, to a farm whose owner is implicated in one of the most brutal Amazonian massacres in recent memory.

The report by Repórter Brasil comes as JBS faces growing pressure over transparency failings in its Amazon cattle supply chain.

On 19 April 2017, nine men were brutally murdered in what became known as the “Colniza massacre”. The men had been squatting on remote forest land in the state of Mato Grosso when their bodies were found, according to court documents. Some showed signs of torture; some had been stabbed, others shot.

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https://twitter.com/salgado_ro/status/1246574367670140930?s=21

You know, I feel partly responsible for the US coup to succeed in the way it did. It makes no sense, but I feel that as I live here, I am responsible in allowing a military junta to be imposed on the Brazilian people.

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Is the opposition still disorganized without any sort of structure or common leadership? How have the Labour Party and PT jostled their way into the spotlight as of late?

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Interesting that his approvals on Indigenous Brazilians is so high. I would have thought it would be bad considering his actions in the Amazon.

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Thousands of families evicted in Sao Paulo amid pandemic

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Ibope Poll September 20th
Evaluation of Bolsonaro administration
40% good, very good
29% regular
29% bad, very bad

Well this seems like a major improvement for Bolsonaro, no?

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So is PSOL (lol) going to go anywhere in the upcoming federal election?

Also, can any Brazilian poster please tell me the difference between PSB, PMDB, and the other marginal , officially social democratic parties? I’m confused as to how such a fractured environment upon third way blairite parties exists. Also the green parties pls

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In a post-Lula Brazil, could Flavio Dino possibly have a path to the presidency. The information I’m getting is that he’s pretty pragmatic and well-liked in office.

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So for what reason did Flavio Dino leave PCdoB?

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Who is Popular Unity endorsing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Unity_(Brazil)