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Brazil: A year of Jair Bolsonaro
The independence of institutions
Bolsonaro has not only failed to credibly deliver progress in the fight against corruption, but actually overseen a number of setbacks in this area during his first year in office. In the last months of 2019, international organisations such as NGO Transparency International (TI) and the working group on bribery in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) raised concerns over this, listing actions by the judiciary, legislature, and executive which have weakened existing frameworks.
- 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