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January 26, 2019 3:26 PM   Subscribe

The Dramatic Scandal Swallowing the Bolsonaro Presidency Just Drove an LGBT Congressman to Flee Brazil
tl;dr: President linked to militia suspected of killing Marielle Franco, a LGBT Rio de Janeiro councillor. Beacause of this, and of increasing violence, Jean Wyllys, a LGBT federal congressman, has resigned and fled the country.
posted by Tom-B (11 comments total) 24 users marked this as a favorite
 
I’ve been very scared for Brazil’s queers. They can’t all flee.
posted by schadenfrau at 3:36 PM on January 26, 2019 [21 favorites]


This is terrifying.
posted by dinty_moore at 3:38 PM on January 26, 2019 [5 favorites]


Plot twist! Jean's replacement, councilman David Miranda, is also gay! (and married to Glenn Greenwald)
posted by Tom-B at 4:41 PM on January 26, 2019 [1 favorite]


logically and factually i am aware that there was a time when i felt things other than despair but i can't actually remember when that was or what it felt like.
posted by poffin boffin at 4:52 PM on January 26, 2019 [23 favorites]


Don't worry guys! Tim Cook of Apple fame is totally chilling with Bolsonaro in Davos.
posted by symbioid at 4:53 PM on January 26, 2019 [16 favorites]


Gallows humor is all i have left, i apologize for the crudeness.
posted by symbioid at 4:54 PM on January 26, 2019 [9 favorites]


Tim Cook, please use your position to shake some sense into Bolsonaro. And for the love of god, Glenn and David, please be careful.
posted by gusandrews at 7:12 PM on January 26, 2019 [2 favorites]


Tim Cook? He’s the definition of amoral capitalism. Barking up the wrong tree there I think!
posted by Middlemarch at 2:30 AM on January 27, 2019 [2 favorites]


Well, this sucks.

But, having

As it turned out, Flávio Bolsonaro formally praised two of the leading members of that militia; gave an award to the militia’s chief; and, most astonishingly of all, kept the mother and the daughter of the militia chief on his payroll for the last 10 years. That the Bolsonaro family has been discovered to have such close and intimate ties with militias, including the one involved in Franco’s brutal assassination, stunned the country.

widely known and

Just this week in Davos, where Brazil planned to unveil its new face to foreign capital, Bolsonaro and his top ministers left a long-scheduled press conference empty to avoid answering questions about any of this, causing empty chairs abandoned by fear — rather than vibrant, investor-friendly policies — to be the face of the new government.

be the consequence seems less bad than it could be. Like Trump, his hubris makes him kludgy and sloppy. May he experience Brazilian prison sooner rather than later.
posted by saysthis at 4:19 AM on January 27, 2019 [3 favorites]


If Cook (or any of the tech vampires in fucking Davos, really) has a chance to ask Bolsonaro anything, it would be to get a pass on the import tariffs for their company.
posted by lmfsilva at 10:33 AM on January 27, 2019 [4 favorites]


Did it really 'stun the country' though? Bolsonaro was quite clear that he intended to kill a lot people during the election, and my impression was that he was elected as much because of that as in spite of.
posted by tavella at 7:22 PM on January 27, 2019 [3 favorites]


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