Interesting results from their Presidential election - from Reuters:
Far-right Bolsonaro wins Brazil presidential race
Far-right lawmaker Jair Bolsonaro won Brazil's presidential election on Sunday, riding a wave of frustration over corruption and crime that brought a dramatic swing to the right in the world's fourth-largest democracy.
With 94 percent of ballots counted, Bolsonaro had 56 percent of the votes in the run-off election against left-wing hopeful Fernando Haddad of the Workers Party (PT), who had 44 percent, according to the electoral authority TSE.
"We cannot continue flirting with communism ... We are going to change the destiny of Brazil," Bolsonaro said in an acceptance address in which he vowed to carry out his campaign promises to stamp out corruption after years of leftist rule.
The former army captain's rise has been propelled by rejection of the leftist PT that ran Brazil for 13 of the last 15 years and was ousted two years ago in the midst of a deep recession and political graft scandal.
Thousands of Bolsonaro supporters cheered and set off fireworks outside his home in Rio de Janeiro's Barra de Tijuca beachfront neighborhood as his victory was announced. In Brazil's commercial capital of Sao Paulo, Bolsonaro's win was greeted with fireworks and the honking of car horns
I would question the far-right moniker. Bolsonaro sounds like a typical libertarian to me. But then again, the losing party was the far-left Workers Party so anything right of middle will be hair-on-fire - Hitler personified - Far Right to them.
He will have a couple years in office and we will be able to measure the results of his policies. Much like we are doing now with President Trump with record low unemployment, tens of thousands of people quitting welfare, a booming economy. Low taxes. That kind of thing.
Rhetoric is one thing but it is what the liberals do - they pass a law that sounds good. They don't care about if it DOES good. For me? Give me numbers. Give me traceable facts.
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