Bolsonaro's 'banana republic' military parade condemned by critics

[MiroJarvis]

Source: The Guardian

Critics have denounced Jair Bolsonaro’s “banana republic-style” decision to send combat vehicles on to the streets of Brazil’s capital for a rare military parade in what was widely seen as a beleaguered president’s ham-fisted attempt to project strength.

Bolsonaro, whose ratings have plunged as a result of his chaotic response to the Covid pandemic, looked on from the marble ramp outside the presidential palace as a motorcade of armoured vehicles trundled past on Tuesday morning.

“Ridiculous. Grotesque. Pitiful. Needless. Banana Republic stuff,” tweeted the Brasília-based journalist Brunno Melo as the procession advanced under a perfect blue sky.

The hastily arranged parade – which experts said had no precedent in the years since the restoration of democracy in 1985 – was reportedly ordered by Bolsonaro last Friday and came on the same day members of congress were scheduled to vote on highly controversial Bolsonaro-backed plans to change Brazil’s voting system.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/10/bolsonaro-banana-republic-military-parade-condemned-by-critics-brazil

[SKKY]

1. I bet TFG is still pissed he never got his military parade.

[tanyev]

2. You know it.

Probably at the top of his to-do list for the second term he thinks he’s going to get.

[kimbutgar]

3. My masseuse told me Sunday that one of his customers has a brother who lives in Brazil

And there are dead bodies In the streets of Brazil of people who died of covid. Bolsonaro has muzzled the media there and it’s not being reported. But the stench of death is prevalent. I don’t know exactly where in Brazil this person lives but if it is true it is appalling.

[dalton99a]

4. It is true

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