Reporters - Brazil: Jair Bolsonaro, a year later

Our report begins in Rio de Janeiro, last November, with the ceremonies of the 74th anniversary of the regiment of infantry parachutists, in the presence of the President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro. An official visit resembling a campaign meeting. During this event, it is clear that his most fervent supporters are always loyal to him. They remain convinced that thanks to him, the recovery of the Brazilian economy is on the right track.

On October 28, 2018, this former soldier won the presidential election hands down against his left opponent, Fernando Haddad. Today, at 64, he can always count on the unwavering support of about a third of the electorate, who defends him even when his outrageous statements make the headlines of the international press, be it fires. in the Amazon he accuses NGOs of having provoked, mocked the physique of the wife of French President Brigitte Macron or journalists, "an endangered species".

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But there are more and more people who reject his policy as a whole: Brazilian society is now even more divided than it was during the presidential campaign.

During our report, we were able to spend two days in immersion at the Brazilian Congress, alongside majority and opposition deputies. If Jair Bolsonaro managed to pass the pension reform after the failures of his predecessors, his most radical bills such as the liberalization of the carrying of weapons have been blocked by the Senate or the Supreme Court, which play the role of against powers.

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Another counter-power: that of the students, who took to the streets massively in May and last June against the budget cuts aimed at federal universities announced by the government. We met several members of the academic world, who have become the spearhead of the challenge against the far-right president, who believes that the public faculties are gangrened by Marxist ideology. With the support of an ultra-conservative government, he intends to lead a cultural counter-revolution in Brazil in the years to come.

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