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'It smells dirty': scandals loom over Bolsonaro after first month in office
Source: The Guardian
‘It smells dirty’: scandals loom over Bolsonaro after first month in office
Far-right Brazilian president plagued by scandal and disaster – not that the bolsonaristas mind
by Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent and Anna Jean Kaiser in Rio de Janeiro
Fri 1 Feb 2019 05.00 GMT
Pietro Sambugaro wept with joy when the far-right firebrand Jair Bolsonaro was confirmed as president of the world’s fourth-largest democracy. A month into Bolsonaro’s reign, he remains on cloud nine.
“The mood is of immeasurable satisfaction,” the diehard 28-year-old bolsonarista gushed this week.
“It is wonderful to be able to count on the government, to be able to believe that politics can change, that politics can be more honest, that we can trust [our leaders],” Sambugaro continued, heaping praise on Bolsonaro’s early relaxation of gun laws and vow to eradicate corruption.
“The contentment Brazilians are feeling is just gigantic, thank God.”
But as Bolsonaro marks his first month as president on Friday – an anniversary overshadowed by a mining disaster that has claimed at least 99 lives and left 259 people missing – not everyone is so sure.
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Far-right Brazilian president plagued by scandal and disaster – not that the bolsonaristas mind
by Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent and Anna Jean Kaiser in Rio de Janeiro
Fri 1 Feb 2019 05.00 GMT
Pietro Sambugaro wept with joy when the far-right firebrand Jair Bolsonaro was confirmed as president of the world’s fourth-largest democracy. A month into Bolsonaro’s reign, he remains on cloud nine.
“The mood is of immeasurable satisfaction,” the diehard 28-year-old bolsonarista gushed this week.
“It is wonderful to be able to count on the government, to be able to believe that politics can change, that politics can be more honest, that we can trust [our leaders],” Sambugaro continued, heaping praise on Bolsonaro’s early relaxation of gun laws and vow to eradicate corruption.
“The contentment Brazilians are feeling is just gigantic, thank God.”
But as Bolsonaro marks his first month as president on Friday – an anniversary overshadowed by a mining disaster that has claimed at least 99 lives and left 259 people missing – not everyone is so sure.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/01/it-smells-dirty-scandals-loom-over-bolsonaro-after-first-month-in-office
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