{"id":14300,"date":"2019-01-01T15:28:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T15:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=14300"},"modified":"2019-01-01T15:28:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T15:28:41","slug":"i-jair-bolsonaro-takes-over-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=14300","title":{"rendered":"I Jair Bolsonaro takes over in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brazil will swear in today as president right-wing nationalist Jair Bolsonaro, who has vowed to crack down on political corruption, violent crime and ignite a moribund economy with deregulation and fiscal discipline.
\nThe former army captain and seven-term fringe congressman rode a wave of anti-establishment anger to became Brazil\u2019s first far-right president since a military dictatorship gave way to civilian rule three decades ago.
\nBolsonaro plans to realign Brazil internationally, moving away from developing nation allies and closer to the policies of Western leaders, particularly U.S. President Donald Trump, who sent Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to his inauguration.
\nAs a clear sign of that diplomatic shift, Bolsonaro plans to move the Brazilian embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, breaking with Brazil\u2019s traditional support for a two-state solution to the Palestinian issue.
\nBacked massively by conservative sectors of Brazil, including Christian evangelical churches, Bolsonaro would block moves to legalise abortion beyond even the current limited exceptions and remove sex education from public schools, opposing what he calls \u201ccultural Marxism\u201d introduced by recent leftist governments.
\nBolsonaro, 63, has faced charges of inciting rape and for hate crimes because of comments about women, gays and racial minorities. Yet his law-and-order rhetoric and plans to ease gun controls have resonated with many voters, especially in Brazil\u2019s booming farm country.
\nHis vow to follow Trump\u2019s example and pull Brazil out of the Paris Agreement on climate change has worried environmentalists. So have his plans to build hydroelectric dams in the Amazon and open up to mining the reservations of indigenous peoples who are seen as the last custodians of the world\u2019s biggest forest.
\nBrazilian businesses are eager to see Bolsonaro take office and install a team of orthodox economists led by investment banker Paulo Guedes, who has promised quick action in bringing Brazil\u2019s unsustainable budget deficit under control.
\nGuedes plans to sell as many state companies as possible in a privatisation drive that he forecasts could eventually bring in up to 1 trillion reais ($257 billion).
\nThat would help restore order to government finances. The key measure, however, for reducing the deficit and stopping a dangerous rise of Brazil\u2019s public debt will be the overhaul of the country\u2019s costly social security pension system.
\nPension reform will be Bolsonaro\u2019s biggest challenge since he has yet to build a base in Congress, where he has eschewed the political horse-trading that has traditionally helped Brazilian presidents govern the nation of nearly 210 million people.
\nBolsonaro may find that lax protection of the environment and human rights could have negative economic effects, more so than those faced by other far-right leaders, given the spotlight on Brazil\u2019s Amazon jungle as a protection against global warming and because the country has more murders than any other nation.
\n\u201cI think they will be good on the economy and they will probably be bad for human rights and the environment,\u201d said Brian Winter, vice president for policy at the Americas Society and Council of the Americas in New York.
\n\u201cThe key question is whether those things can be separated. Most of Wall Street says \u2018Yes.\u2019 I have my doubts’.
\nBy NAN<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brazil will swear in today as president right-wing nationalist Jair Bolsonaro, who has vowed to crack down on political corruption, violent crime and ignite a moribund economy with deregulation and fiscal discipline. The former army captain and seven-term fringe congressman rode a wave of anti-establishment anger to became Brazil\u2019s first far-right president since a military […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}