Posted on 03/31/2025 5:00:57 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
There were cries of joy in progressive parts of Rio on Wednesday as Brazil’s supreme court ruled that the former president Jair Bolsonaro should stand trial for an alleged coup plot.
“No amnesty! No amnesty!” one elated lefty roared from his balcony into the sunny autumn afternoon.
Across the bay in the city of Niterói, the composer Edu Krieger was so delighted by the prospect of Bolsonaro serving time he wrote a song – a parody of a Tom Jobim bossa nova classic called Waters of March – celebrating the downfall of the “coup-mongering fascist”.
“It was a feeling of relief,” Krieger, one of many progressive Brazilians who abhor the far-right populist for his attacks on culture and human rights, said of the court’s decision.
Thousands of miles north, deep in the Amazon, the Yanomami leader Júnior Hekurari also voiced satisfaction. “Never before were we so abandoned by the Brazilian state [than during Bolsonaro’s 2019-23 administration] … His words encouraged thousands of illegal miners to infiltrate our forests, bringing mercury, violence and environmental destruction,” Hekurari recalled.
Bolsonaro’s critics have said they hope this week’s ruling will end his divisive and hate-filled 36-year career, in which the paratrooper turned politician underwent an astonishing transformation from eccentric backbencher to the country’s most powerful man.
“He turned his back on us – and now the world can see the consequences of his acts,” said Hekurari, condemning Bolsonaro’s “negligence and omission” for plunging his Yanomami people into a deadly crisis of hunger and pain.
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It is very difficult to vote your way out of Communism.
The coup attempt was their trying to stop a clearly stolen election.
If only America’s CIA weren’t busy trying to assassinate our own President…
Brazil needs to go full Augusto Pinochet.
Just like Trump trying to "overturn the result of the election."
Oh, they were engineering his demise. Rest assured.
Time to tariff all them Embraer Jungle Jets.
The Democrats were very close to imprisoning their opposition for political office just like many of these “democracies” have.
And with Lula in charge, they have their own SloJo. Corrupt, leftist, and brain-damaged.
Brazil’s judiciary is a cautionary tale for all of those who just want things to play out through the courts.
“Time to tariff all them Embraer Jungle Jets.”
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Right. Just as soon as the United States has a commercial aircraft maker whose planes don’t scare off passengers.
ask any Venezuelan who have eaten all thier zoo animals, they live next door and still they refuse to see
They knew he was going to be arrested.
Details, Details
PS, Airbus does have a manufacturing plant in Mobile, Alabama, and in addition to producing US sold A320s, it produces the A220 which is a credible competitor to the Embraer E series and also the B737.
The ONLY reason Airbus has a plant in Mobile (famous for fried shrimp and rusting shipyards) is due to US tariffs. The ONLY reason the A220 manufacturing was moved there was the Boeing attempt to keep the Bombardier C series out of the US with punitive tariffs...which were actually overturned by a US International Trade Commission ruling. But Airbus had already bought the C Series and renamed it.
Tariffs actually work. But sometimes they can be a bit overdone, as was the case when Boeing freaked out over the C Series.
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