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Recent polls suggest that the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, is the favorite to win the country’s 2022 election. This is the president who, rather than urging his citizens to avoid gatherings to slow the spread of COVID-19, went for a swim on a crowded beach on New Year’s Day.
The president who, in the middle of a pandemic, announced a series of decrees to make owning guns easier. His repeated downplaying of the severity of the pandemic, as well as the changes to gun laws, may have damaged Bolsonaro’s image among some of his voters, but not to the extent that many expected. Why?
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With increasing resistance abroad to Chancellor Ernesto Araújo, a direct aide to President Jair Bolsonaro (non-party) has participated in diplomatic missions to countries whose relations with Brazil are in trouble.
Without ministerial status, but considered the closest assistant to the president, the special secretary of the SAE (Secretariat for Strategic Affairs), Admiral Flávio Rocha, recently visited countries with which the chancellor has lost control. ability to speak due to ideological positions, such as China and Argentina.
The army’s performance, which calls itself the President’s “Eyes and Ears”, earned him the nickname “02 do Itamaraty” at the Planalto Palace. The nickname, however, is refuted by the admiral, who has previously told government officials he has no political ambitions.