LATIN AMERICA on a New Course

OE Watch Commentary: For over fifteen years, Brazil has been led by a leftist party, the Workers Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores). The accompanying excerpted reference from El Tiempo proffers the key highlights of President Bolsonaro’s inauguration speech, which the article’s author opines will mark the new azimuth. The author does not appear to be a Bolsonaro fan, however. According to the article, President Bolsonaro intends to move the Brazilian Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, pull out of the migration pact and perhaps out of the Paris climate change agreement. The article also indicates that Bolsonaro will be taking a confrontational posture against the Marxist Maduro regime in Caracas. The suggested positions of the new Brazilian president appear to be more overtly in line with United States policies than any time in recent decades. The second accompanying reference is from the British Broadcasting Company news service, BBC News Mundo. It reports on the deployment of Brazilian troops to , a city on Brazil’s northern coast. Violence there seems to be the first test of Bolsonaro’s , but it is somewhat early to determine either the true nature of the violence or the effectiveness of the new president’s response. Interestingly, the English language version of the same BBC article (“Brazil deploys troops to stop violence in Fortaleza”) carries pieces of notably different language with a distinct editorial perspective, not about the events, but about the president. For instance, the English language version includes the sentence “He is seen as a deeply divisive figure whose racist, homophobic and misogynistic remarks have angered many.” That sentence is not included in the Spanish language version. No version was found. End OE Watch Commentary (Demarest)

Source: “Claves del discurso de posesión de Bolsonaro como presidente de Brasil Source: Editors, “Brasil: Bolsonaro envía tropas (Key points in Bolsonaro’s inaugural speech as ),” El Tiempo, a Fortaleza para frenar la ola de violencia (Brazil: 2 January 2019. https://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/latinoamerica/claves-del- Bolsonaro sends troops to stop the wave of violence),” discurso-de-posesion-de-bolsonaro-como-presidente-de-brasil-310600 BBC News Mundo, 6 January 2019. https://www.bbc. com/mundo/noticias-46775173 “In his inaugural speech this Tuesday, President of Brazil launched a crusade of conservative values against criminality, corruption and “Some 300 military troops were sent to the northeast leftist ideologies…He affirmed that his arrival marked the day in which the of the Brazilian city of Fortaleza to combat a wave of people began to liberate themselves from socialism, to liberate themselves from violence, authorities of that Latin-American country the inversion of values, from state gigantism, and from political correctness… said this Saturday…The disturbances originated after Bolsonaro thanked God for having survived the knife wound to his abdomen a series of protests against new in local prisons, during the campaign…Bolsonaro promised to move the Brazilian embassy from [which are] mostly controlled by criminal gangs… Tel Aviv to Jerusalem…He also announced the withdrawal of Brazil from the [President] Bolsonaro praised the decision of [Justice United Nations’ World Migration Accord and threatened to do the same with the Minister] Moro to send the army…” Paris Accord against climate change…”

“Bolsonaro launched a crusade of conservative values against criminality corruption and leftist ideologies.”

Seashore of Fortaleza (2012). Source: Arthur Fonseca [CC BY 3.0 br (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/br/deed.en)], via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fortaleza,_Brazil_(3).jpg. OE Watch | February 2019 66