“Brazil is living through a catastrophe: a political catastrophe, an administrative catastrophe, a financial catastrophe and a security catastrophe,” lamented the 53-year-old veteran of São Paulo’s military police. “It’s a political rupture,” enthused Lemos, one of 52 newly elected congressmen from Bolsonaro’s Social Liberal party (PSL). Politicians had long been soft on crime; in Bolsonaro’s Brazil calls to decriminalise drugs would be shunned and gun laws loosened. But Lemos reinforced the sense the left would come under siege in Bolsonaro’s Brazil – as would the press, which he alleged had been “fitted out” with fellow travellers. He claimed a fifth of voters supported a “military intervention” to remove Brazil’s disgraced political elite: “Get rid of them all.

Source: The Guardian November 03, 2018 02:00 UTC