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Brazil: A year of Jair Bolsonaro
Falling crime rates
The Bolsonaro government can therefore not credibly claim success where its public security legislative agenda is concerned. Federal initiatives to help fight crime through means other than legislation have been limited also, consisting principally of increased recourse to the Força Nacional de Segurança Pública (FNSP) national guard when met with a security crisis at state level, and of a small pilot project designed by Moro and which focuses resources on a mere five cities of middling size (although it aims to be scaled up if successful).
- 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