Brazilian journalist Mariana Simoes on Jair Bolsonaro, the torture advocate & likely next president

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🗓️ 26 October 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Bonus: Roger Waters on Brazil's election https://www.patreon.com/posts/22343702 Mariana Simoes talks about the elections in Brazil and why and how someone like Jair Bolsonaro, who openly praises torture and the country's military dictatorship, could become president of the largest country in Latin America. She tells me about the rise in hate crimes and violence that has been spurred by Bolsonaro's rhetoric and what happened to her on the street when she threw out a Bolsonaro flyer that someone had handed her.

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0:00.0	This is the climate. It's political instability. It's people distrusting institutions.
0:05.2	It's people distrusting political parties.
0:08.6	Sorry, my mom is calling me now.
0:10.8	Oh, sure. Let me just tell her to call, I'll call her back.
0:14.0	Okay, let me have to tell my mom, my aunt's called.
0:17.0	Hey mom, mom, I'm doing my interest here for a marriage, a lot of the
0:22.4	was needed. Please, follow the case. for a major major lot of the city of the need
0:23.0	to follow the process of the place
0:25.0	that's good, good, good, good,
0:27.0	so. Oh cool, we got some real life,
0:30.0	real life Portuguese.
0:31.0	Yeah.
0:32.0	I can play that during the opening. Oh my God you're going to play that you
0:35.6	gonna play me talking to my mom. Yeah. Sounds good. Very exotic. Very
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1:19.4	Again that's Patreon.com slash the Katie helper show. On today's episode I speak to at the I interviewed Marianna two days after the initial elections in Brazil.
1:36.0	So set up the Brazil elections, I'm going to pass the mic to a good friend of mine.
1:40.8	Put your hands together, ladies and gentlemen, for none other than Amy Goodman.
1:45.0	Round of applause. Okay, Amy Goodman is not here. She is the host of Democracy Now
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