Commentary
Jair Messias Bolsonaro is a retired military officer who has been the 38th President of Brazil since January 2019. When he was elected the nation’s president in November 2018, he singlehandedly brought an end to four decades of notoriously corrupt left-wing rule in the country.
Bolsonaro’s presidential campaign first gained traction when he promised to radically reduce crime in what used to be the world’s most homicidal countries. Bolsonaro himself was the victim of a brutal political crime while campaigning for the presidency, nearly fatally stabbed during a public rally in the city of Juiz de Fora near Rio de Janeiro.
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