1/ Let's see what this means: "Brazilian police launched a corruption probe on Tuesday into the head of President Jair Bolsonaro’s right-wing Social Liberal Party (PSL) Luciano Bivar"
reuters.com/article/us-bra…
reuters.com/article/us-bra…
2/ Let's take a quick look at the Brazilian party system. Like many European countries and unlike the USA, Brazil has several political parties
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_p…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_p…
3/ The PSL (Social Liberal Party - yes, the name sounds like a joke to Americans, since it's one of the few far to the right far-right parties) was chosen by Bolsonaro because of its ideology.
4/ Until the decision, by the far-right segments of Brazilian society (particularly the Militias and Evangelicals), to "invent" Bolsonaro out of a not-very-popular Congress clown, it was so low profile that few people had heard of it.
brazilian.report/power/2019/10/…
brazilian.report/power/2019/10/…
5/ Bolsonaro electoral platform was a hate list (pun intended on "hit list", since he is a Militia man). It was important for them to frame the Labor Party as "corrupt as hell".
es.reuters.com/article/financ…
es.reuters.com/article/financ…
6/ But his own government proved to be one of the most corrupt in the country's recent history and the coalition that elected him is showing serious signs of fracture.
journals.openedition.org/revestudsoc/46…
journals.openedition.org/revestudsoc/46…
7/ It is still uncertain where this fracture will take the country, already shaken by institutional instability.
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