Running as an outsider and governing as one are two different things. We take stock of the Brazilian president’s performance so far with AS/COA experts Brian Winter and Roberto Simon.
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Brazil’s former Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira spoke to AQ about the new government’s green imperatives.
"Bolsonaro needs to get a symbolic pat on the back that he's going in the right direction," said AS/COA Vice President about the Brazilian President on Bloomberg Markets.
«Quant à Bolsonaro, il peut bénéficier de la légitimité que lui apporte cette mise en lumière sur la scène politique la plus importante du monde: la Maison Blanche», Brian Winter de AS/COA a dit à Libération.
Bolsonaro meets his idol in Washington – but risks absorbing all the wrong lessons, writes AQ's editor-in-chief.
"There's really no other leader anywhere in the world who has so openly tried to copy the Donald Trump model," said the AS/COA vice president about Jair Bolsonaro.
"Bolsonaro's story resembles what happened in the United States," said the Politics Editor of Americas Quarterly.