Bolsonaro begins to master negotiations with Congress with a timely victory

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Brazil’s Senate on Tuesday voted to approve right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro’s decree to revamp the executive branch, averting a potential crisis that had sown doubt about his ability to obtain the congressional backing he needs to push through legislation. Read full article

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Terence Hill
Birds of a feather flock together.
“Michelle Bolsonaro becomes investigation target by check from Queiroz
Federal Revenue Office will investigate the first lady's fiscal secrecy...
Among the atypical movements involving Queriroz in the Legislative Assembly of RJ, a cheque in the amount of R$24,000 was deposited to her account.”
https://noticias.band.uol.com.br/noticias/100000947143/michelle-bolsonaro-vira-alvo-de-investigacao-por-cheque-de-queiroz.html?fbclid=IwAR0A1HlhuX45b1bSBMiHwmRfNnBeR-oH3jMQfnhIeBphUAPux8GYQ2OJ7IE
May 29th, 2019 - 04:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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REF: ““Michelle Bolsonaro becomes investigation target by check from Queiroz”:

You worry just too much - NEEDLESSLY too!:
@Terence Hill

REF: ““Michelle Bolsonaro becomes investigation target by check from Queiroz”:

You worry just too much - NEEDLESSLY too!:
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May 29th, 2019 - 08:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Terence Hill
“After NY, French press against event with Bolsonaro government
GENEVA - After New York, it is now Paris that registers the mobilization of NGOs and activists against the presence of representatives of the government of Jair Bolsonaro in the French capital.
Next week, the powerful French Ministry of Economy will host an event organized by employers to promote business opportunities in Brazil. Among the main guests is General Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz, chief minister of the Secretariat of Government of the Presidency of the Republic.
But an action by French, Brazilian, Swiss and Belgian entities asks that the government of Emmanuel Macron not offer ”red carpet to the extreme right of Brazil“ in Bercy, name given to the site of the Ministry of Economy, and that the event be canceled.”
https://jamilchade.blogosfera.uol.com.br/2019/05/29/depois-de-ny-entidades-em-paris-pressionam-contra-evento-sobre-brasil/?fbclid=IwAR0yTIUUi3c9AYgLLXPRvbt9hn5EzYjeQ8YZ8iFHiybsJ4A089sVpyphoEw
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Brazil must accept the FACTS; while pursuing fantasies:
https://twitter.com/FinancialTimes/status/1134127385606000642
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Terence Hill
Economist May 30th 2019
Mafias run by rogue police officers are terrorising Rio
President Jair Bolsonaro is turning a blind eye
Late last year mysterious trucks started dumping industrial waste at a precolonial archaeological site in Duque de Caxias, an industrial city of 900,000 people some 24km (15 miles) north of Rio de Janeiro. Environmental activists thought they knew who was behind it. Over the past decade, their battle to protect local nature reserves and the poor people who live near them has become a battle against criminal groups known as militias.
Prosecutors say that from the mid-1990s these groups, often made up of rogue police officers, started snatching swampy federal land. They filled it with dirt and sold the lots to families, mostly poor migrants from other states. In São Bento, a neighbourhood in the city, a hill overlooks thousands of identical tin-roofed shacks. “The militias control all of it,” says an activist. For a fee, they provide transport, water, cooking gas, cable television and internet. But they also flaunt heavy weapons, run extortion rackets and threaten to kill anyone who opposes them.
According to an investigation last year by g1, a Brazilian news site, militias control 348 square kilometres of land—roughly a quarter of the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan region. That territory is home to 2m people. Unlike drug-traffickers, who also control plenty of neighbourhoods in Rio, militias have close connections to the state. “They’re untouchable by the law because they themselves are the law,” says José Cláudio Souza Alves, of the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro. As a congressman, Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s populist president, defended militias, though he is more careful now. “Where the militia is paid, there is no violence,” he claimed last year.
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@Terence Hill

Combine mafias+militias+cartels+politicians & you have:
= A Very Well Organized Crime Syndicate
= a City TODAY
= a Country TOMORROW
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DemonTree
@Terry
I saw this yesterday and could have posted to give you space, but I didn't because you refused to do the same for me. You reap what you sow.
Jun 01st, 2019 - 11:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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REF: ”red carpet to the extreme right of Brazil“

A pity, you seem to have a Very Low Opinion of the politicians, and that too unnecessarily; when actually they are out-performing themselves!
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Terence Hill
Claudia Wallin from Stockholm to Radio France International
The Swedish supermarket chain Paradiset announced on Wednesday (5) a boycott of all products in Brazil, as a result of the record release of new pesticides by the Brazilian government. Of the total 197 pesticides already authorized this year by the Ministry of Agriculture, 26% are banned in the European Union because of the risks to human health and the environment.
”We need to stop (the president) Bolsonaro, he's a maniac,“ Paradiset group president Johannes Cullberg told RFI.
”When I read in the press the news of the release of so many pesticides by President Bolsonaro and Minister of Agriculture Tereza Cristina, I was so enraged that I sent an email to all my staff, with the order 'boycott already in Brazil'” , added Cullberg.
Paradiset is Scandinavia's largest organic product network. She has already removed the following Brazilian products from her shelves: four different types of melon, watermelon, papaya, lemon, mango, coconut water and two brands of coffee, as well as a chocolate bar that contains 76% Brazilian cocoa in its composition .
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pt&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.claudiawallin.com.br%2F2019%2F06%2F05%2Fvideo-rede-sueca-de-supermercados-anuncia-boicote-a-produtos-brasileiros%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0M1GnUPl_FtMYDxSQYRyfzvvhbTEAHLWLP26gg7DcEcH-zAeJJzbR8Hgg
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@Terence Hill

REF: “Paradiset is Scandinavia's largest organic product network. She has already removed the following Brazilian products from her shelves: four types of melon, watermelon, papaya, lemon, mango, coconut water and two brands of coffee, as well as a chocolate bar that contains 76% Brazilian cocoa in its composition”:

And what about the oranges, cucumber, pineapple [laranjas, pepino, abacaxi]?

Besides; “Brazilian Products are for Brazilians”! [Sounds like a good (next election) Campaign-Slogan]!
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Terence Hill
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”What about the oranges ...
The fruit of the poisoned tree.
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