Declaring not just sympathy but outright admiration for a fascist who has threatened violence against his leftist political opponents, celebrated the use of torture, and promised to give the police free rein to murder at will, US national security adviser John Bolton on Thursday praised Brazil’s newly elected strongman President Jair Bolsonaro as a “like-minded” partner who shares the Trump administration’s commitment to so-called “free market principles.”This article says enough. Bolton has a horrible history in foreign policy, mostly in the middle east. Crushing the left in Latin America, including indigenous defenders, environmentalist activist, Venezuela, Cuba, liberation theology, progressives opposition parties and organized labor has been going on throughout the region for over 30 years. It really pisses me off that he now gets a chance to make things worse in the global south.
I will here just refer the reader by linking to several background blogs on the run up to the Bolsonaro coup in Brazil.
https://smashingcapitalism.blogspot.com/2018/10/possible-election-of-far-right.html
https://smashingcapitalism.blogspot.com/2018/10/brazils-far-right-candidate-jair.html
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