Brazil’s 2018 Election: Bolsonaro defeats Haddad to become President of Brazil
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Just what the city needed, MORE heavily armed crackdowns in the favelas.
Clearly this tweet was pre-election, but it still gives insight into how some Brazilians feel
interesting
It was in the first locality that Luigi Polo, the mayor, an obsessed with local history, found the records that proved: the Brazilian presidential has its origin in Anguillara. It was here that his great-grandfather Vittorio Bolzonaro was born, who emigratedto Brazil in April 1888, at the age of ten, in the company of his father, mother and two other brothers. Weeks after boarding in Genoa, the family arrived at the port of Santos, in the State of São Paulo, where it grew and still has roots today.
Angelo, the son of Vittorio born in Brazil years later, married a Brazilian descendant of Germans, and in 1927 the couple had Percy Geraldo. Twenty-eight years later, the third of Percy's six children, Jair Messias Bolsonaro, was named after a famous Palmeiras player (father's heart team) in the 1950s.
The first Bolzonaro to emigrate to South America, according to records available in Anguillara, was exactly the branch from which the retired army captain descends. Vittorio, the Brazilian's great-grandfather, was ten years old when he left Italy, immersed in poverty at the time.
He accompanied his father, Angelo, a recurring name in several generations of the family, both in Italy and in Brazil - one of Bolsonaro's brothers is Angelo.
At least 13 other Bolzonaro members left the Veneto region in those years to try their luck on the other side of the Atlantic. But the contact between those who stayed and those who moved was lost over time.
The Italian captain's ancestry also comes from the maternal side. The family of Olinda Bonturi, his mother, is originally from Tuscany and also emigrated to Brazil in the late 19th century.
The wars that shook Europe in the first half of the last century caused casualties in the Bolzonaro family - according to a dictionary with the origins of the Veneto surnames, the name derives from "bolzon", which means dart, arrow.
In the archive of Anguillara it is said that he died in 1942, during World War II, in a military hospital in Senigalia, a town on the Italian coast south of Veneto, Luigi Bolzonaro, a relative of another part of the family. He joined the Italian army allied with Nazism. "He probably died after being injured on the battlefield, we do not know how to need it," said Luigi Polo.
Decades before, during World War I (1914-18), the victim was Diego Bolzonaro - this conflict left much more dead in the Veneto region than the next war.
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The great Italian immigration at the end of the 19th century brought to Brazil, according to IBGE, more than 1.2 million people in the period from 1876 to 1920. Almost one third - more than 365 thousand people - came from the Veneto. The destinations were the coffee farms of São Paulo or States such as Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Paraná, Espírito Santo and Minas Gerais.
In recent years, according to Luigi Polo and his colleague Vinicio Piasentini, mayor of San Martino di Venezze, the requests of Brazilians for dual citizenship have increased. The request requires searching the archives for ancestor information. The data on the Bolsonaro had never been searched before.
You can't make this up. The fascist Brazilian president in 2018 descended from a family that fought for Mussolini in the 1930s/40s
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As sad as this is going to sound.
Pray for a military coup within a year. Junta's are historically too dysfunctional to function on macro issues. So the stalemate will give the region time to bulwark itself at least a little.
We're fukked regardless.
Those in glass houses. The Chinese system is literally one giant circle of nepotistic favors and cronyism, it's not sustainable long term and the minute someone less powerful or stable than Xi Jinping comes to the fore it's going to collapse. China is the textbook cautionary tale against this method of governance. Corruption is so rampant and open that the justice system is just "who can bribe me more money".
This is literally Duterte 2.0 except this one has far more money and a far larger and less stable country. I give it a week before we hear about absurd death tolls from random mob justice killing anybody they label a drug user.
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Well. At least, illusions about Brazil are now gone.
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Yep, people dikkriding China to attack authoritarian is always funny to me.
A lot of democratic countries are stable, some others are not. It's not about democracy.
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China just made Xi Jinping dictator for life.
Democracies are messy I agree,
Stable dictatotorship with no freedom
Messy Democracy with rights.Then again stable democracies are not out of the question either....see Scandanavia....of course they are mostly homogeneous countries.