"Bosonato and his administration, in a way, are marrying these two different things. One is the kind of self indulgent and self reverential narrative of the dictatorship," he says. "And i think that's why he has such loyalty among t e rank and file members of of the security forces."
Bolsonaro is presiding over mass COVID deaths and the destruction of the Amazon. Lula is free and polling way ahead for next year's presidential election. But the conditions that brought the far-right to power remain in place. Sociologist Sabrina Fernandes and historian Andre Pagliarini on Brazil.
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