Bolsonaro leads a government built on a lie. On lies. Elected on a campaign based on fake news, insults to opponents and speeches of hatred against LGBT people, women, quilombolas (Afro-Brazilian residents of quilombo settlements) and “communists”, when he assumed the presidency Jair Bolsonaro decided to run the country using the same ingredients and surrounding himself with people so morally corrupt as to carry on his fascist-like enterprise.
Even though the Brazilian press is still cautious about using this word (and even the expression "far-right government" used by the European press to refer to the Bolsonaro administration), the truth is that the country is under a fascist-like government.
And if two key elements had been missing – anti-Semitism and the use of the state apparatus, especially the police, to stifle the press and persecute political dissenters – and thus prevented us from characterizing Bolsonaro and his gang as fascists once and for all, that is no longer the case.
