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Brazil, Scared And Leaderless, Looks To The Military

Post by Riddick » 07-21-2018 04:02 PM

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Frightened, leaderless, shockingly pessimistic, Brazil is is a country where years of corruption, violence and economic destruction have obliterated faith in not just President Temer, not just the political class, but in democracy itself. There will be elections in October, but most voters profess little faith in any of the candidates.

Given that vacuum, many Brazilians – perhaps 40 percent of them, according to a new private poll circulating among worried politicians – believe the military should somehow act to restore order. The once unthinkable is now becoming normal: Many feel forceful intervention is the only answer in the adrift and scandal-ridden country.

This was all unquestionably good news for the presidential candidate most identified with the armed forces, retired Army captain Jair Bolsonaro, who was already running first in polls. It’s a red alert for anyone else – foreign investors and ordinary Brazilians alike – with the old-fashioned belief that healthy civilian institutions are the key to long-term prosperity, or who still hold out hope that Brazil’s economy and political outlook might finally stabilize this year.

Society seems entirely focused on tearing down existing structures, without much thought to what comes next. Perhaps surprisingly, the most lucid comment to that effect came from President Temer, at a press conference for foreign journalists. “Every 20 or 30 years in Brazil, there’s an attempt to reinvent things ... to destroy what is there and build a new order,” he said.

He’s right. And for that, Brazilian politicians can largely blame themselves.

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‘I’m Totally Freaked Out’: More Brazilians Weigh Fleeing The Country

Post by Riddick » 08-02-2018 03:43 PM

With gun violence surging, along with pessimism about the country’s political and economic future, the number of Brazilians who are emigrating is soaring. FULL STORY
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Re: Brazil, Scared And Leaderless, Looks To The Military

Post by Doka » 08-02-2018 08:58 PM

What a blankety, blank, crazy world this is!

Do you realize that all these broken countries, with their people leaving them are of a Socialist, Communist, nature. ! Wanting to come to the US, a blatantly, obvious, Capitalist , country, of which, most hate(envy). And with them the desire, knowingly or unknowingly, to change the country into the crapper, they are familiar with.!?

Then the Radical Muslims , whose country, religion, rules and laws carried within their radical, by the book ,(Koran) mission to convert or kill. They are mobile ,their domain is where ever they currently live. (In a place near you?)Even peaceful Muslims will face the face the death or conform question like the rest of us.

Crazy crazy :shock: :twisted: :evil:
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