On Sunday, 63-year-old Jair Bolsonaro won the second round in Brazil’s presidential election at a canter, coming comfortably ahead of his leftist challenger, Fernando Haddad. From afar, Bolsonaro’s success can be seen as the latest and perhaps most emphatic victory of right-wing populism in the West. Had a very good conversation with the newly elected President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, who won his race by a substantial margin. He is bent on reversing or canceling protections that Brazil’s democracy had afforded to indigenous peoples and other disadvantaged minorities. But Bolsonaro’s victory has brought to the surface painful hatreds and divisions, especially those of class and race.

Source: Washington Post October 30, 2018 04:52 UTC