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rww 220<div>...</div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">Eduardo Bolsonaro’s comments reportedly shocked many Brazilians, but they aligned with previous statements made by his father, who also served in the legislature before being elected president in 2018 During his presidential campaign, the theme of which was “Brazil before everything, and God above all,” Jair Bolsonaro supported the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/19/dilma-rousseff-impeachment-comments-torture-era-brazil-history" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">torture</a> carried out by the military dictatorship that ran the country from 1964 to 1985, and warned that under his regime, minorities would have to <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/Jair_Bolsonaro_Brazil" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">“bow to the majority … or disappear.”</a><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">Right Wing Watch <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/u-s-right-wing-cheers-swearing-in-of-brazils-far-right-president/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">noted</a> last year, a week after Jair Bolsonaro’s inauguration, that he “didn’t waste much time <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-brazil-bolsonaro-minorities-20190102-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">issuing executive orders</a> and <a href="http://agenciapresentes.org/2019/01/03/activistas-en-alerta-por-medidas-anti-lgbt-de-bolsonaro/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">taking other actions</a> going after the people <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-brazils-bolsonaro-targets-minorities-on-first-day-in-office/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">he had targeted</a> in his campaign rhetoric<a href="https://thehill.com/policy/international/human-rights/423594-brazils-new-president-removes-lgbt-concerns-from-human" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">: the LGBTQ community</a>; <a href="https://bintroo.com/brazils-environmental-chief-resigns-after-bolsonaro-criticism-news/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">indigenous people</a>; <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/brazils-bolsonaro-hinders-demarcation-of-indigenous-lands/2019/01/02/14bb5074-0e9a-11e9-8f0c-6f878a26288a_story.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">descendants of former slaves</a>; <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jair-bolsonaro-brazil-president-civil-servants-fire-far-right-left-wing-a8711116.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">civil servants</a> deemed not on board with Bolsonaro’s ideological agenda; <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-brazils-bolsonaro-targets-minorities-on-first-day-in-office/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">nonprofit organizations</a>; and the <a href="https://www.lanacion.com.ar/2207386-un-discurso-ambiguo-que-sigue-apostando-a-dividir" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">media</a>.”<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">Just this week, Eduardo Bolsonaro <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/04/bolsonaro-government-petra-costa-brazil-oscar-nominee" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">launched a social media attack</a> on filmmaker Petra Costa, whose documentary “<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jun/21/the-edge-of-democracy-review-petra-costa-brazil-documentary" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">The Edge of Democracy</a>” has been <a href="https://oscar.go.com/news/nominations/documentary-feature-oscar-nominations-2020" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">nominated</a> for an Academy Award, The Guardian reported. Eduardo Bolsonaro tweeted that Costa was a “scumbag” and a liar. He and other government officials are angry about the movie and an <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-company/video/oscar-nominee-petra-costa-on-threats-to-democracy-in-brazil/" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">interview</a> in which Costa criticized government policies encouraging the plunder of the Amazon region, a spike in police killings, the administration’s anti-gay actions and increased government censorship.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">In August 2018, months before the election that made his father president, Eduardo Bolsonaro met with Bannon and announced that Bannon would be offering suggestions on online strategy and data analysis for his father’s presidential campaign. He declared that he and Bannon would “join forces” against “cultural Marxism.”<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">Jair Bolsonaro’s campaign was <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/steve-bannon-and-michele-bachmann-promoting-brazils-far-right-presidential-candidate/" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">backed</a> by U.S. <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/brazils-bolsonaro-calls-election-a-miracle-sides-with-trump/" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">religious-right</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/u-s-right-wing-cheers-swearing-in-of-brazils-far-right-president/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">leaders</a>, including former Rep. Michele Bachmann, who met with Eduardo Bolsonaro and <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/steve-bannon-and-michele-bachmann-promoting-brazils-far-right-presidential-candidate/" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">recorded a video message to Brazilian Christians</a> urging them to vote “only for a candidate for the president of Brazil who will support moving the Brazilian embassy [in Israel] to Jerusalem.” Trump-supporting “prophet” Cindy Jacobs and her husband Mike Jacobs <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/cindy-and-mike-jacobs-jair-bolsonaro-is-making-brazil-a-sheep-nation/" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">declared</a> that Jair Bolsonaro is establishing God’s kingdom in Brazil—turning it from a “goat nation” into a “sheep nation.” (There’s a biblical passage that refers to Jesus’s second coming when all the nations will be gathered before him and he, like a shepherd, will separate the sheep from the goats.)<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">The Times of Israel <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/brazils-other-bolsonaro-sees-elusive-embassy-move-as-start-of-pro-israel-shift/" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">reported</a> that, in a visit to Israel in December, Eduardo Bolsonaro portrayed the trip as a first step toward moving Brazil’s embassy to Jerusalem this year. He refused to endorse a two-state solution to peace and said he could imagine the government closing the Palestinian embassy in Brazil. While in Israel, Eduardo “reiterated his opposition to gay marriage,” saying in a television interview “that if he wedded his dog it would still not make them a family,” the Times of Israel <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/brazils-other-bolsonaro-sees-elusive-embassy-move-as-start-of-pro-israel-shift/" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">reported</a>.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">The Bolsonaro government has been <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/religious-right-excited-by-white-house-visit-of-brazils-president-jair-bolsonaro-trump-of-the-tropics/" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">warmly embraced</a> by the Trump administration as an <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/u-s-partners-with-anti-choice-anti-equality-pro-family-authoritarians-at-hhs-event/" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">ally</a> in promoting “family values” around the world. At Jair Balsonaro’s inauguration, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-brazil-bolsonaro-taking-office-20181231-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">gave the new president a hug.</a><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;">Last summer Jair Bolsonaro announced <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/world/americas/jair-bolsonaro-son-ambassador.html" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">plans to make Eduardo Bolsonaro the country’s ambassador to the U.S</a>, touting <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/world/americas/jair-bolsonaro-son-ambassador.html" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">Eduardo’s friendship with President Trump’s sons</a>, but the plan was abandoned in the face of <a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/08/13/eduardo-bolsonaro-pro-trump-son-brazils-president-track-ambassador-u-s/" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">resistance</a> to “<a href="https://theglobalamericans.org/2020/01/bolsonaros-first-year-balancing-the-economy-and-cultural-wars/" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em;">such a blatant act of nepotism</a>.” President Trump had supported the plan, saying, “I know his son, and that’s probably why they did it. I don’t think it’s nepotism.”...</div>