Jair Bolsonaro
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.
In foreign policy, he has advocated closer relations to the United States and Israel, possibly related to Christian Zionism.
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
