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Should Brazil Just Abolish the Vice Presidency?

By Brian Winter

Tensions between Jair Bolsonaro and Hamilton Mourão reveal a deeper battle for the new government’s soul.

In 1829, Chile’s legislature named José Joaquín Vicuña as the country’s new vice president. While this may sound like the start of the world’s most boring history lesson, Vicuña was a sufficiently objectionable figure that his appointment triggered a coup - and then a two-year-long civil war that left some 2,000 people dead.

The experience was traumatic enough that Chile’s...

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