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Related: About this forumBrazil's Bolsonaro makes stumbling start as president
Mauricio Savarese, Associated Press
Updated 3:57 pm CST, Thursday, January 17, 2019
SAO PAULO (AP) A few days after being inaugurated, new Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announced a tax increase, only to have his chief-of-staff say hours later that the boss "had been wrong."
The former army captain also said he would be open to putting a U.S. base in his country, but military leaders quickly squashed the idea.
And the day after the nascent administration announced plans to abolish a land-reform program, officials said it would actually remain intact.
The far-right leader's first two weeks on the job have been filled with missteps and communication gaffes and little of his promised sweeping changes underscoring a steep learning curve for a president elected on promises to overhaul much of daily life in Latin America's largest nation.
"He has never been in the executive, his party is totally new to high offices and few members of his cabinet have experience," said Carlos Melo, a political science professor at Insper University in Sao Paulo. "It seems they are paralyzed by how complex Brazil's state is and also by internal disagreements."
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marylandblue
(12,344 posts)Could they be related?
Judi Lynn
(160,583 posts)From the Washington Post:
Trump finds a like-minded demagogue in Bolsonaro
By Ishaan Tharoor
November 5, 2018
As President Trump banged the drum of ultranationalism on the campaign trail this week, you could be forgiven for missing a declaration from the White Houses top foreign-policy official.
White House national security adviser John Bolton delivered a speech in southern Florida on Friday announcing new sanctions on leftist regimes in Cuba and Venezuela. He grouped the two countries together with Nicaragua into a troika of tyranny, reprising the axis of evil he once decried as an official in the George W. Bush administration.
Bolton, an inveterate Cold Warrior, pointed to a triangle of terror stretching from Havana to Caracas to Managua that was the cause of immense human suffering, the impetus of enormous regional instability, and the genesis of a sordid cradle of communism in the Western Hemisphere.
On one level, this could be boilerplate rhetoric from any hard-line Republican administration. The specter of Latin American leftism has long haunted Washington in the forms of communist leaders such as Fidel Castro, Marxist guerrillas such as the Sandinistas or left-wing populists such as Venezuelas Hugo Chávez and Bolivias Evo Morales.
On the other hand, the Trump administration has been willing to act on its ideological caprices, ordering travel bans and unraveling major diplomatic agreements. In addition to the new sanctions, Trump has also undone the brief Obama-era thaw with Cuba. But its not clear what the White House will achieve with its new, confrontational posture.
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Bolton has been wallowing in this racist hate-motivated fascist filth for decades, along with other conspicuous sociopaths. They actually intend to pound the Americas back into groveling submission, allowing US politicians and military and industrialists to use the natural resources and desperately impoverished cheap labor forces at will. They won't accept things any other way.
One day the world is going to hear the last of these scums. Until then, they will bring grief, and suffering to those without wealth, without contacts in high places, without leaders, since they have always found ways to destroy their leaders before real progress for the people can be made. They ARE going to get stuffed into the world's sewer, in time.