Jair Bolsonaro
 Ex-President Jair Bolsonaro | |
38th President
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| In office 1 January 2019 – 31 December 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Michel Temer |
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| Succeeded by | Lula |
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
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| In office 1 February 1991 – 31 December 2018 | |
Councillor of Rio de Janeiro
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| In office 1 January 1989 – 31 January 1991 | |
Additional positions
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| Born | 3 September 1955 Glicério, São Paulo, Brazil |
| Political party | PL (since 2021) |
| Spouse(s) | Rogéria Nantes Braga (m. 1978; div. 1997) Ana Cristina Valle (m. 1997; div. 2007) Michelle de Paula (m. 2007) |
| Children | 5 |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  Brazil |
| Service/branch |  Brazilian Army
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| Years of service | 1973–1988 |
| Rank | Captain of the Brazilian Army |
| Unit | 21st Field Artillery Group 9th Field Artillery Group 8th Parachutist Field Artillery Group |
Jair Messias Bolsonaro (born 21 March 1955) is a Brazilian retired military officer, a former congressman with a 27-year tenure, and the president of Brazil since 1 January 2019.
He has various less politically correct and otherwise controversial views, such as regarding homosexuality, gun control, and affirmative action. Less politically correct aspects of his election included race-related aspects and electoral support due to increasing crime in Brazil. See the "External links" section.
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Policies
In his tenure as the thirty-eighth President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro maintained a position of liberal conservatism (though often associated with the far-right by the Brazilian left). Your association with an alt-right is extremely erroneous. Bolsonaro, during his term, adopted a denialist stance against COVID-19 vaccines and, shortly before his term, maintained anti-abortion and anti-homosexual positions, although he himself often contradicts these. In foreign policy, he has advocated closer relations to the United States and Israel, possibly related to Christian Zionism.
Quotes
"They know everything, we're the fools paying taxes down here, including you, namesake [...] my advice, which I follow: I evade everything possible, if I can avoid paying something here, I don't pay! Because the money goes down the drain, goes to scams. You stop to repair the sewage system here for 30 minutes, money is taken out abroad, the money that comes in here just goes down the drain. Now, if it's going to pay interest on the external debt, to bankers. It's clear that the Brazilian elite, the top, invests abroad. [...] I advocate survival, survival, if you pay everything the government asks you to, you won't survive, because when you need a doctor, not having the money, you'll go to the public system, then you'll die in the public system."— Jair Messias Bolsonaro, interviewed.
"Then people complain: 'Oh, Lula and FHC (Fernando Henrique Cardoso)', I would vote for Lula in the second round, despite them saying he's not very educated, I see him as an honest person. There's no point in voting for someone as cultured as FHC if they're dishonest, you'll never have hope for anything in life. So what's lacking is honesty, you don't need a law to say you can't shoot me in the face, you know you can't shoot me in the face."— Jair Messias Bolsonaro, interviewed
"How can there be a president without the people by your side? You bring us hope! You bring us energy! You bring us determination! You bring us the certainty that we can win! We don't want socialism for our Brazil. We cannot admit communism among us. We don't want gender ideology for our children. We want respect for private property. We want the right to defend our own lives. We want respect for life from its conception. We don't want drug legalization in our country. But for this, we must work every day, at home, at work, with our neighbors and friends. We know what the period from 19 to 22 was like, and we are now experiencing how difficult it is to succeed in this country, with what we have to govern at the moment."— Jair Bolsonaro, in a speech on Paulista Avenue; 02/25/2024".
See also
External links
- Brazil’s Bolsonaro Shows Majority-Minority US May Not Work Out Quite How Left Hopes
- Brazil’s Bolsonaro—Among Other Things, A Pentecostalist Triumph?
- Bolsonaro: Brazil Has Been ‘Liberated from Socialism, Political Correctness’
- Bolsonaro: “Parts of France Are Now ‘Unliveable’ Due to Migrants ‘Who Want Their Culture to Prevail.’”
- Violence Spurs Support for a Radical in Once-Calm Southern Brazil
- Once Considered Too Extreme, Brazilian Right-Winger Homes In on Presidency
- Racial Politics in Latin America: What Race in Another America Tells Us About Our Destiny, Part 2
