Many Brazilians worry that their country is heading towards a military dictatorship.
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Many Brazilians worry that their country is heading towards a military dictatorship.
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Many Brazilians worry that their country is heading towards a military dictatorship.
With Brazil in front of a historic presidential choice this weekend, many Brazilians are expressing growing concern that the right-wing candidate, Jair Bolsonaro, will return the South American nation to a military dictatorship.
"We know we're headed to that address if Bolsonaro is elected on Sunday," said Marcelo Leal 36, an unemployed, Afro-Brazilian from Rio de Janeiro to ABC News.
Many Brazilian fears were compounded this week when Bolsonaro, a former army captain, said during a 10-minute video conference at a rally in Sao Paulo that "Left" red politicians should "go abroad or go to jail."
Bolsonaro added that these "red outlaws will be expelled from our homeland."
The euphoric supporters of Bolsonaro wore yellow shirts and sang in Portuguese: "Brazil, love it or leave it!"
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Because of the way he spoke, he is only asking Brazilians to be violent, to hate their neighbor.
Leal was not so euphoric.
"Because of the way he spoke, he is simply asking Brazilians to be violent, to hate their neighbor," he said.
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The right-wing presidential candidate of Brazil for the Liberal Social Party (PSL) Jair Bolsonaro walks in front of the Brazilian flag as he prepares to cast his vote during the general elections, in Rio de Janeiro, on October 7, 2018.
The candidate of the Workers' Party, Fernando Haddad, reacted quickly to Bolsonaro's comments, and tweeted that "Bolsonaro threatened the survival of his opponents ... How can people feel safe if he threatens those who think differently than the?
ARKO Council political risk expert Thiago de Aragao said Bolsonaro's surface-level rhetoric is part of his campaign strategy.
"The strong[er] Comment by Jair Bolsonaro[s] will be, the less you need to deepen the meaning, "said Aragao.
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The Brazilian presidential candidate for the Workers' Party (PT), Fernando Haddad, speaks during a campaign rally in Rio de Janeiro, on October 23, 2018.
But Bolsonaro's energetic invective seems to be working, according to a poll by the Institute of Public Opinion and Statistics, which puts Bolsonaro ahead of his closest competitor, Fernando Haddad, from 57 percent to 43 percent.
Echoing the rhetoric of the president of the United States. Donald TrumpBolsonaro supporter Nailma Bispo told ABC News that "he is the one who will make Brazil big again."
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Hamilton Mourao, vice presidential candidate of Jair Bolsonaro, issues his vote in Brasilia, Brazil, on October 7, 2018.
"We need something brutal and shocking to ... stop the violence," he said.
Among the growing concerns that many Brazilians harbor is the possibility that Bolsonaro plans to appoint military leaders for important political positions in his possible administration, including the consideration of General Antonio Hamilton Mourao for his vice president.
The retired general recently suggested the prospect of a dictatorship, telling an audience last year that "if the institutions can not solve the problems ... we will have to impose the solutions ourselves".
Political violence continues to dominate the issues that animate the next crucial elections, especially the murder of Romualdo Rosario da Costa 63, who was assassinated on the day of the first round of elections.
While sitting in a bar, da Costa was stabbed by a Bolsonaro supporter after da Costa revealed that he had voted for Haddad.
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