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They look so enamoured with each other...

I expect that to bite them in the butt in the future, in the whole world. I don't see good times for them in the next 50 years.

This was Lula trying to play Israeli partisan politics(trying to shake Netanyahu so he'll fall), like Biden is doing. He wouldn't have said anything near that had the Israeli PM been a leftist. For what is worth, I don't even think he has managed to break ties with the Jewish diaspora in...

Carnival is all too often taken to be a license to be an animal(or even worse), with predictable results. That is so no matter the government(but yes, the attitude of the current government doesn't help). I miss the 90s. Back then, about 10 percent of Rio's population would go to other towns...

What ever comes after the current iteration of the Republic will have most of its powers vested on the Executive Branch - the current state of things is a cautionary tale against having too much power in the Legislative and Judicial ones. So, yes, it will have shades of Vargas' Estado Novo. This...

This shit could only happen in Brazil. No one in the Left liked him - Dino, like Haddad, has plenty of enemies; unlike Haddad, his political career was outside PT(he always ran for office as a PCB member), which makes him even more disliked inside PT than his loathsome personality alone would...

Either Itamar Franco, or Lula, from the top of my head. Itamar Franco had more than 50% approval when he left, IIRC. I don't know how much approval Lula had when he left, but considering he easily elected his successor...

No, that was a contributing factor. Collor got impeached because: - He wanted to replace everyone who got their fingers in some pie(whether that pie was a hustle by congressmen to get themselves money from the government, or the biggest media conglomerate in Brazil) with his own cronies; that...

Bit later than that; mid-90s(FHC administration, IIRC). The earlier National Information Service was extinguished in the Collor administration, and that is said to have contributed to his impeachment(as he didn't have an eye on the political machinations to get him out going around).

The Brazilian Intelligence Agency(Abin) is extremely focused on internal politics, being more of a watchman for the Office of the President, and can't be really said to be an equivalent to CIA. AFAIK, only the Military really does foreign intelligence work, everyone else - with the possible...

Power. Congress let the STF run amok during the Bolsonaro administration, usurping many of the powers of the office of the president. Now it's time to see which branch of the government will emerge as the supreme one, the Judicial or the Legislative one. The fact that the new head of the STF...

Not yet, but that will change soon: looks like the Brazilian Supreme Court and Congress are headed for a fight.

He's old(he should be 78 right now), and his habits aren't conductive to a long life.

Zero. Bolsonaro is done. The only way Bolsonaro comes back(and it won't be in 2026) is if things go so horribly wrong for the establishment they'll put him up to try and save themselves('See, we were wrong , and now we are correcting our mistakes. So... don't kill us? Please?'). Not impossible...

I suppose this was on the Political Chat subforum? I avoid the place like the plague. A few comments on what was said: - BolsoLula has a bigger chance of happening than most people think - they are opposed rhetorically, but their actions are quite convergent. In fact, Lula has done more...

We are headed into troubled times, indeed. But there is a misconception here: Lula is a smokescreen; who rules Brazil is the Centrão, just as they did with Bolsonaro from 2020 onwards. The above is why leftists complain so much about there being 'undercover Bolsonarists' in the government...

I'd say there is a reasonably good chance of the next MBT of the Brazilian Army being the Chinese VT4 - the Brazilian Army already sent some people to check on them. It wouldn't be my choice, or the Brazilian Army's(the requirements for a future MBT fairly scream 'We want a Type 10'), but if...

No, I'm saying it was never that.

You can't defile what was never pure(or holy) to begin with. As for the charges. Yes they did it(and it was to be expected, given the people involved; that sort of pettyness isn't surprising), yes it wasn't the first time it happened(although this one got widely broadcast because of who did...

No, silly. They meddled in a Brazilian election to remove a president who was chummy with Trump, and put one in power that would be pro-Democrat Party. And then found out that his loyalty goes as far as the money they give him, money that they had no interest in giving. You should prosecute...