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Brazil: A year of Jair Bolsonaro
A neo-liberal agenda
Addressing Brazil’s economic travails and the government’s widening fiscal deficit was going to be a necessity for whoever won the presidency. In 2018, Brazil was still struggling to recover from its biggest recession in recent history, which saw GDP contract by 7% in 2015-16. Growth was sluggish, unemployment stood at 12.3%, public debt amounted to 76.7% of GDP, and the government’s fiscal deficit totalled 7.1% of GDP.
- A new era in Brazilian politics
- The 2018 election
- Bolsonaro's inner circle
- Redrawing relations with congress
- A neo-liberal agenda
- An ambitious reform programme
- Concessions and privatisations
- Encouraging results
- A new way of doing politics
- Moro and Lava Jato
- The independence of institutions
- Scandals
- Tough-on-crime talk
- Attempts at implementing legislation
- Falling crime rates
- 'Brazil above everything, God above all'
- The crusade against 'cultural Marxism'
- Rhetoric has consequences
- The economy and security remain the key to re-election hopes