Billboard for Bolsonaro's presidential campaign. Almanaque Lusofonista & Creative Commons Attribution.
The election of the extreme-right candidate Bolsonaro to the presidency of Brazil consolidates the wave of right-wing governments that have been recently dominating the election cycle throughout the region: Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras..They all opted for a right-wing political drift, away from the "pink tide" of the 2000's.
The immediate resemblance of Bolsonaro to Trump, or the explicit threat to the Amazon rainforest and social activism, show what the upcoming government may be capable of, a government that is so extreme-right that is occupies a space reserved for authoritarian tendencies.
