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Jacobin Radio: Bolsonaro Comes to D.C.


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Suzi talks to political economist Pedro Paulo Zahluth Bastos (https://www.facebook.com/ppzbastos?__tn__=%2CdK-R-R&eid=ARAItTacRMpcC4K0_-rZ04Bk58hZFOgHSDGPFS6safOpEdZz2ir3LbvrEPfph5OTWVLHv4MtEFVzpv7X&fref=mentions) about the Trump-Bolsonaro love fest in D.C. last week, and the new Brazilian-US relationship. Bolsonaro was "summoned" to Washington to support a US invasion of Venezuela under the pretext of "exporting democracy," and we ask Pedro Paulo how that will go over in Brazil — and note the irony that Bolsonaro is a staunch defender of military dictatorships and no lover of democracy. We also get Pedro Paulo's view of Brazilian politics and economics under their new tweeter in chief — who campaigned as a murderous, homophobic, anti-feminist, declaring open season on the Left and on the Amazon rainforest, but governs as an extreme neoliberal.
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