In this article, an excerpt from the article published in The Guardian is presented, with quote from my opinion. As a matter of fact, my statements were published by the British correspondent in Brazil, Dom Phillips, in a telephone interview. It is curious to note that in this article he uses only one sentence from the interview. In the article published on October 29, the day after Bolsonaro's victory in the presidential election, several statements from the interview granted earlier were used.
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Brazil elections: prospect of Bolsonaro victory stokes fears of return to dictatorship
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Ex-paratrooper who compares himself to Trump leads polls ahead of Sunday’s election
Fri 5 Oct 2018 16.05 BST
Last modified on Tue 9 Oct 2018 17.48 BST
“This is the most important election in the history of Brazil,” said James N Green, the director of Brown University’s Brazil Initiative. “There is just no other time at which voters’ decisions will determine the fate of the country and its direction [to such an extent] … We are at a moment in which a conservative, rightwing pro-fascist-type person is possibly going to be the president,” added Green, the author of several books on Brazil’s 1964-85 dictatorship.
“I don’t even want to imagine what that is going to be like [if he wins] … It would be the beginning of the end of democracy.”
Hoping to foil Bolsonaro, a 63-year-old ex-paratrooper, is the former São Paulo mayor Fernando Haddad, who is lying second in the polls. Haddad, 55, replaced jailed former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as the Workers’ party (PT) candidate last month after Lula was forced to drop out of the race.
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Green said a Bolsonaro victory would undo decades of political and social advances since democracy was restored in 1985 and risked a return to military rule. “It is just an amazingly dangerous moment for everything that has been achieved,” he said.
“I’m really hesitant to make analogies with the 1930s – but similar things happened to Germany. We know Hitler came to power through legitimate forces.”
“We have a tradition of dictatorships in Brazil – we’ve had two of them, one from [19]38 to 45 and another from 64 to 85. These are not things that could not happen. They can happen. They could happen.”
But millions of Bolsonaro supporters, who include many evangelical Christians, are cheering his social-media propelled rise. They hail him as an anti-establishment crusader who will restore conservative family values and tackle corruption, communism and soaring crime.
“Every robbery is one more vote for Bolsonaro,” said Daniela Gouveia, 47, an entrepreneur and actor from the north-eastern city of Recife.
Tens of thousands of protesters have joined anti-Bolsonaro “not him” demonstrations with strong echoes of the 2017 Women’s March on Washington against Trump. Further protests are scheduled for Saturday.
Gouveia claimed Bolsonaro was “a true defender of women”, not their enemy. “Rightwing women don’t care about being empowered – they already are powerful … There’s nothing about Bolsonaro that threatens us,” she said. “When we can carry guns, and know we have a president who has no time for rapists, that’s when I’ll feel safe.”
Retired general Aléssio Ribeiro Souto, a member of Bolsonaro’s military-dominated campaign team, rubbished what he called phony “narratives” painting his candidate as anti-democratic.
“He is not a threat to democracy,” Ribeiro Souto told the Guardian. “If he is elected – and I think he will be – he will be a force for Brazil, as South America’s biggest country, to consolidate itself as one of the world’s greatest democracies.”
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