Giant doll depicting Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro, front, and first lady Michelle Bolsonaro, are paraded during carnival celebrations in Olinda, Pernambuco state, Brazil, Monday, March 4, 2019. Bolsonaro made the post Tuesday night criticizing the freewheeling celebrations of Carnival, which many Brazilian conservatives like himself detest as heathen and immoral. Bolsonaro wrote, “I feel uncomfortable showing it, but we have to expose the truth for the population to know and always make its priorities.”“This is what many street parties in Brazil’s Carnival have become. While such comments always draw sharp criticism, they also garner Bolsonaro attention and feed his narrative as being somebody unencumbered by political correctness. Brazil’s Carnival is famed for an anything-goes atmosphere, and Sao Paulo alone had more than 500 street parties, called “blocos,” during Carnival.

Source: Washington Post March 06, 2019 14:51 UTC