Today's my last day working in Brazil. When I arrived here at the end of 2012 I was only planning to stay a few months. But then I found myself with a sunga, a cpf and a child on the way. Now, after seven years, 7,348 paes de queijo and two sons, I'm finally leaving (thread, 1/?) After 7 years, it's hard to describe Brazil w/ "words at once true and kind,/ Or not untrue and not unkind." Still, I'll miss it. Brazilians are good-looking, resilient, charming, wittingly & unwittingly hilarious. I was never going to fit in. I'm not cool enough to stay. (2/?)

I first interviewed Jair Bolsonaro in April 2015, when he was already well-known for his inflammatory speeches. He was still politically insignificant, but part of a rising tide of Brazilian deputies advocating a hardline on law and order issues theguardian.com/world/2015/apr… The far-right in Brazil has been on the up for a while. Movimento Brasil Livre, Brazil's self-styled "Tea Party"equivalent, sprung up in the wake of Dilma's re-election in 2014. Its leader, Kim Kataguri, is likely to be elected to congress on Sunday theguardian.com/world/2015/apr…