Stark irregularities and suppression efforts could plunge the country back into instability and economic decline.On the streets of some of Brazil’s biggest cities on Sunday night, many of Mr. Bolsonaro’s supporters responded to the results with claims of fraud — and then a swift exit.The bitterly fought election went into a run-off on 30 Octo
“We will stay here until there is a military intervention or the electoral court changes what is happening,” said Antoniel Almeida, 45, the owner of a party-supply store who was helping run the blockade. Mr. Almeida believed the election was rigged. “We need an investigation,” he said.After signaling that the company would reorganize its ma
Brasil por Bolsonaro tem elevado proporção do militares como ministros do de que Venezuela; especialistas veem riscosTelevision screens up and down the country only showed jubilant crowds, draped in the Venezuelan flag, dancing and cheering on the president.On June 27 matters appeared to escalate yet again when militants in an apparently stolen p
He has described his childhood as difficult, affected by his parents' divorce, bullying at school and his own difficulty picking up on social cues because of Asperger's Syndrome.Brazil is the only country to use a fully digital voting system without paper backups. Mr. Bolsonaro has seized on that as a crucial flaw that leaves the system open to fra
Social unrest, looting, and violence were on the rise, and in April the government was forced to reduce its workweek to two days in order to save energy (partly because of shortages of hydroelectric power brought about by El Niño-derived drought). Meanwhile, the opposition pushed forward with an effort to put Maduro to a recall vote. By early May