Source: www.theguardian.com - Wednesday, October 31, 2018
This week, our international news magazine surveys the damage that Jair Bolsonaro could do to Brazil, considers Angela Merkel’s endgame and looks forward to the US midterms. Subscribe to The Guardian Weekly Since the first round of the Brazilian presidential election in October, the world – and what we now know is a minority of voting Brazilians – looked on aghast at the prospect of Jair Bolsonaro ruling 210 million people. Last Sunday it came to pass, with Bolsonaro defeating his opponent Fernando Haddad with 55% of the vote. Bolsonaro joins a growing list of demagogues with their hands on the global levers of power, and it was no surprise that among the first of those to call and congratulate the seven-term congressman “outsider” were Rodrigo Duterte , Matteo Salvini and Donald Trump. Our cover story this week includes Simon Tisdall’s analysis of why Brazil turned out for a man who once announced that “elections won’t change anything”. We also look at what Bolsonaro’s policies are likely to mean in practice and why his rhetoric has Brazil’s LGBT community already living in fear. Across America many citizens are also living in fear thanks to the vicious rhetoric of their president. Last week was one of the bleakest yet of the Trump era. It began with a series of pipe bombs sent to prominent Democrats and Trump opponents and ended with the murder of 11 Jewish worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh . Next Tuesda
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This week, our international news magazine surveys the damage that Jair Bolsonaro could do to Brazil, considers Angela Merkel’s endgame and looks forward to the US midterms. Subscribe to The Guardian Weekly Since the first round of the Brazilian presidential election in October, the world – and what we now know is a minority of voting Brazilians – looked on aghast at the prospect of Jair Bolsonaro ruling 210 million people. Last Sunday it came to pass, with Bolsonaro defeating his opponent Fernando Haddad with 55% of the vote. Bolsonaro joins a growing list of demagogues with their hands on the global levers of power, and it was no surprise that among the first of those to call and congratulate the seven-term congressman “outsider” were Rodrigo Duterte , Matteo Salvini and Donald Trump. Our cover story this week includes Simon Tisdall’s analysis of why Brazil turned out for a man who once announced that “elections won’t change anything”. We also look at what Bolsonaro’s policies are likely to mean in practice and why his rhetoric has Brazil’s LGBT community already living in fear. Across America many citizens are also living in fear thanks to the vicious rhetoric of their president. Last week was one of the bleakest yet of the Trump era. It began with a series of pipe bombs sent to prominent Democrats and Trump opponents and ended with the murder of 11 Jewish worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh . Next Tuesda
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