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For 2 years, Brazilian elites lied to themselves, insisting Bolsonaro's Economics Minister - the Pinochet-admiring Paulo Guedes - would be an anchor of stability. In DC yesterday, he justified the return of dictatorship-era measures Bolsonaro’s son advocated to counter protests:
While Bolsonaro's Economic Minister trapes around Washington justifying the return of dictatorship-era tyranny, the Brazilian real reaches an all-time nominal low against the US dollar - a key metric they used against Dilma to justify her impeachment:
Who could have guessed that an extremist right-wing economist who admires Augusto Pinochet would be comfortable with - even eager for - the return of dictatorship-era repression to Latin America???
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