Bolsonaro wants to end democracy in Brazil. Here's one way he could do it David Miranda
over 5 years in The guardian
Brazil’s far right knows it needs protests and chaos to justify a restoration of dictatorship-era measures
The challenges to democracy and civic order in Brazil, the world’s fifth most populous country, have increased significantly in the past couple of weeks. As dangers to Jair Bolsonaro, the Brazilian president, and his movement grow, so, too, do the threats emanating from them.
Tensions reached a boiling point last week when the former president Luiz Ignácio Lula da Silva was released from prison after Brazil’s supreme court ruled that the constitution bars imprisonment of defendants, such as Lula, before they have exhausted their appeals. Continue reading...
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