Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
State

GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF SÃO PAULO CLAIMS THAT IT IS NOT AN OBLIGATION TO REDUCE DEATHS CAUSED BY THE POLICE DURING OPERATIONS, DESPITE INCREASE OF DEATHS IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2019, AND THAT WHOEVER GETS KILLED IS A CRIMINAL

Theme(s)
Public security
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Legitimation of violence and vigilantism
State
São Paulo

Read more about the Governor’s statement here – in Portuguese [find out here] and about police brutality [1] [2] [3] [4] [5].

Sep 27 2019
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

BOLSONARO RECOMMENDS BOOK WRITTEN BY MILITARY DICTATORSHIP TORTURER FOR ‘LEFTIST’ TEACHER

Theme(s)
Dictatorship and memory, Political positioning
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Construction of enemies

Read more about it here – in Portuguese [find out here] and about its context [1]

Sep 30 2019
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

BOLSONARO SAYS TO MINERS THAT THE FOREIGN INTEREST IN THE AMAZON IS NOT RELATED TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OR BIODIVERSITY

Theme(s)
Armed Forces, Dictatorship and memory, Environment, Indigenous people
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Attacks on pluralism and minorities

Read more about this episode here [1] and an analysis on this matter [2]

Oct 01 2019
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
State

GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF RIO DE JANEIRO SUGGESTS THAT CLOSING NATIONAL BORDERS WITH SOME COUNTRIES WOULD REDUCE VIOLENCE IN RIO DE JANEIRO

Theme(s)
Public security
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Construction of enemies
State
Rio de Janeiro

Read more about it here – in Portuguese [find out here]. The governor is known for promoting police violence as a mean to reduce organized crime, and his ‘shoot to kill’ policy [1] [2] [3]. Read more about the police killings in 2019 here [4]

Oct 01 2019
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

DURING OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT CEREMONY, BOLSONARO STATES THAT HE RESCUED THE ‘HONOR’ OF MILITARY DICTATORSHIP TORTURER

Theme(s)
Dictatorship and memory
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Legitimation of violence and vigilantism

Read more about it here [1]. Bolsonaro has celebrated this torturer, Brilhante Ustra, on numerous different occasions; even before reaching the presidency, he did it while voting for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff [2] [3], he also had an official visit with Colonel’s widow, already in the presidency [4]

Oct 02 2019
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

BOLSONARO PRAISES MILITARY POLICE OFFICERS WHO KILL ON DUTY

Theme(s)
Public security
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Legitimation of violence and vigilantism

Read more about police brutality in Brazil here [1] [2]

Oct 04 2019
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

WHEN QUESTIONED ABOUT HIS SON’S FORMER ADVISOR, FABRÍCIO QUEIROZ, BOLSONARO RESPONDS IN AN OFFENSIVE TONE THAT ‘HE MUST BE SLEEPING WITH HIS MOTHER’

Theme(s)
Information
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Construction of enemies

Read more about this episode here – in Portuguese [find out here] and find more information about the corruption case involving Bolsonaro’s family and Fabrício Queiroz [1]

Oct 05 2019
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

BOLSONARO SAYS THAT VETOING WORKS OF ART IS NOT CENSORSHIP, BUT RATHER PROTECTION OF ‘CHRISTIAN VALUES’

Theme(s)
Artistic freedom, Culture
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Construction of enemies

Read more about this episode here – in Portuguese [find out here]. Read more about art and cultural censorship under the Bolsonaro administration here [1]

Oct 05 2019
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

BOLSONARO RAISES SUSPICION OVER MEDIA CONSPIRACY TO OVERTHROW HIS GOVERNMENT AND CRITICIZES MEDIA COVERAGE

Theme(s)
Press
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Construction of enemies

Read more about this episode here [1] and Bolsonaro’s attacks on the media [2] [3]

Oct 07 2019
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

EDUCATION MINISTER CRITICIZES JOURNALIST AND PROMOTES ATTACKS AGAINST HER ON SOCIAL MEDIA

Theme(s)
Gender and sexual orientation, Press
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Construction of enemies

Read more about this episode here – in Portuguese [find out here] and Bolsonaro’s attacks on the media [1] [2]

Oct 07 2019
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