Brazil
Brazil’s new president to put privatization advocate in charge of state oil company
November 19, 2018Bolsonaro is putting a mining executive who wants to privatize public property in charge of the state oil company.
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Brazilian Communists rally to defend democracy after Bolsonaro win
October 31, 2018The party says the 46 million votes received by the joint Workers Party-Communist Party ticket laid the foundations for a “vigorous opposition that must begin now.”
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Brazil shifts right; Bolsonaro pledges to eliminate “the reds”
October 30, 2018According to the new president, the only problem with repression under the old military dictatorship was that it did not kill enough people.
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Springtime for fascism: a global struggle
October 25, 2018Bolsonaro, an Army captain, has praised the use of torture during the years of the junta, only suggesting that leftist critics of the regime should have been killed rather than simply maimed.
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Brazil’s Bolsonaro promises to purge the left if elected
October 25, 2018“These red outlaws will be banished from our homeland. It will be a clean-up the likes of which has never been seen in Brazilian history,” the candidate threatened on Wednesday.
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