Trump Pushes the Bolsonaros to the Brink
The family is in danger of losing the October election, and possibly more than that, writes AQ’s editor-in-chief.
BRASÍLIA—For almost a decade, Brazil’s establishment has been predicting the imminent fall of the House of Bolsonaro. During the 2018 campaign, they insisted Jair Bolsonaro was too extreme, too tosco (uncouth), to ever be elected president. During his four years in office, as scandals and then the pandemic wreaked havoc, they insisted impeachment was always just around the corner. After Bolsonaro lost the 2022 election by two percentage points, and was imprisoned for trying to overturn the result, many said the family would never sniff power again. Through it all, the family has...
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