Down Rio Way: Things Set to Get Scary in Brazil

Supporters of Brazil’s Neofascist President Celebrate, Workers Party in Shock

by TRNN

October 30, 2018

They danced. They sang. They chanted for their new president. The far right, former military captain Jair Bolsonaro, is Brazil’s president elect.

Outside of his home in an upscale neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, supporters were ecstatic as the results rolled in.

He won with just over 55% of the valid votes.

With the election of neofascist Jair Bolsonaro as president of Latin America’s largest country, the people of Brazil could hardly be more polarized. An election night field report from Mike Fox