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Jair Bolsonaro: The President Who Promised to Kill 30,000 People

Behind the Bastards

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Bolsonaro's Childhood in El Dorado Polista

Jair Bolsonaro grew up in El Dorado Polista, a rainforest banana growing town that was occasionally host to vicious gunfights between different militant groups and criminals. Jair spent his childhood regularly taking shelter with his five brothers and sisters underneath beds as like people in town would just start shooting at each other. So violence is pretty normalized in his childhood. Yeah, it's not rare, which is again, the same kind of thing you see with a guy like Duterte. It makes harder people.

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