Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's presidential front-runner, stabbed at rally

[Judi Lynn]

3. Jair Bolsonaro: tropical Trump who hankers for days of dictatorship

Jair Bolsonaro: tropical Trump who hankers for days of dictatorship
The far-right Brazilian presidential candidate injured in a knife attack is an ex-paratrooper known for lashing out at women, black, gay and indigenous people and foreigners

Guardian staff
Thu 6 Sep 2018 18.48 EDT

Jair Bolsonaro, who has been seriously injured in a knife attack while campaigning to become Brazil's next president is a polarising figure in an unpredictable election campaign.

He has praised Pinochet, expressed support for torturers and called for political opponents to be shot, earning him the label of “the most misogynistic, hateful elected official in the democratic world”.

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He paints himself as a tropical Trump: a pro-gun, anti-establishment crusader set on draining the swamp into which Brazil’s futuristic capital has sunk.

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On the stump – and broadcasting to his 5 million Facebook followers – he lambasts not slimeballs and bad hombres, but vagabundos (losers), canalhas (creeps) and bandidos (crooks).

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