okay
on a recent sunday morning a few hundred
active and retired members of brazil's
armed forces
took off their shirts and got together
to run down the beach to copacabana
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it was a show of force meant to protest
the killing of a young soldier in an
armed robbery
an example of the lawlessness that a new
breed of military men turned political
candidates are promising to eradicate
there are nearly a hundred veterans
running for office this year under that
promise
including marcelo suarez
a retired paratrooper who goes simply by
corporal cohere
and many were recruited by his vice
presidential candidate
a retired general named antonio hamilton
who took over the campaign after
bolsonaro was stabbed
both men are known for praising the
military dictatorship that ruled brazil
until 1985.
a regime that routinely tortured killed
and exiled its opponents
do you think that the military should be
in charge of the government
oh there is a lot of people that want
the military in charge of the government
but i don't think i think that we have
to go through elections and we try
in successive ways to better our
democracy our democracy has been very
shattered
you have said on at least a couple of
occasions statements that
don't quite square with what you're
telling me now
last september you said that if the
political institutions are incapable of
solving problems with corruption then
the military will
i'm paraphrasing yes correct correct and
just this month you mentioned that there
are situations where uh
a president with the help of the armed
forces can affect
what you call the self coup yeah what i
it was uh
both times we are discussing a
hypothetical situation
okay and what i say uh
if the country is the titanic okay
that's sinking
we the military will behave like the
orchestra we'll stray playing
and we go down with the country i think
no
in rio de janeiro the idea of a military
takeover is not so far-fetched
in february facing abysmal approval
ratings
the government ordered the armed forces
to take over security
and to fight the drug gangs that operate
in the favelas
but the intervention has had no effect
on crime
and people who live in the favelas say
that fighting fire with fire
only makes things more dangerous for
everyone
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michelle serda lives in hossena the
biggest favela in rio
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she knows people who've died from stray
bullets her uncle disappeared five years
ago
after he was arrested by security forces
and is now presumed dead
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how do you feel seeing that jair
bolsonaro
has a shot at the presidency
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brazil has always had ultra nationalists
and far right wingers
but this year their rhetoric is
appealing to a wider public
including people who used to support the
center-left government of the workers
party
but grew sick of rampant political
corruption
but if bolsonaro is going to win his
campaign will have to earn back voters
disgusted by his long history of
offensive statements
we have to reach the women okay because
there is some
some something's not good around the
women
when you say that there are some issues
or problems
with uh mr bolton's relationship to
women in the electorate what do you mean
why is that
now we he doesn't have issues or problem
okay
the other parties are making this okay
and this
is a campaign that has been coming a
long time
and showing that he's not fond of women
okay
he is famous internationally for having
uh
told a fellow member of congress who's a
woman
that she did not deserve to be raped by
him
yes right doesn't that suggest uh that
it might be reasonable to think that he
is a misogynist person yeah that was a
a figure okay brethoric okay
because when he says that that she was
very ugly that was what he wanted to say
okay and this was not a good thing that
he did he knows that
bolsonaro's allies and supporters are
convinced that brazilians are so sick of
the status quo
that they're sure to sweep him into
office but whether or not bolsonaro
himself
prevails on sunday the candidates he
inspired
still have a chance to shape brazilian
politics for years to come
what if bolsonaro
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you