On New Year’s Day, Brazil’s new president, far-right and ex-parachutist Jair Bolsonaro, assumed office. The election has provoked numerous questions: how should we perceive the nationalist movement in Brazil? Why do its supporters keep attacking women, black and indigenous people? And how will Bolsonaro’s presidency leave the Amazon Rainforest?
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Henrik Brandão Jönsson is a free-lance journalist and Latin America correspondent for Dagens Nyheter. Henrik lives in Rio de Janeiro and has also written several books on Brazil.
Date: 08-04-2019
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