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🗓️ 27 March 2019

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Suzi talks to political economist Pedro Paulo Zahluth Bastos about the Trump-Bolsonaro love fest in D.C. last week, and the new Brazilian-US relationship. Bolsonaro was "summoned" to Washington to support a US invasion of Venezuela under the pretext of "exporting democracy," and we ask Pedro Paulo how that will go over in Brazil — and note the irony that Bolsonaro is a staunch defender of military dictatorships and no lover of democracy. We also get Pedro Paulo's view of Brazilian politics and economics under their new tweeter in chief — who campaigned as a murderous, homophobic, anti-feminist, declaring open season on the Left and on the Amazon rainforest, but governs as an extreme neoliberal.

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0:00.0	This is Jack-Evin Radio and I'm Susie Wiseman.
0:07.0	This is Jack-Ein Radio and I'm Susie Wiseman.
0:12.0	Political economist Pedro
0:13.8	Paolo Zoluth Bostos joins us from Brazil with his analysis of the so-called
0:19.0	Trump of the tropics, Brazil's newly elected president Jayar Bolsonaro.
0:24.4	There's irony to the Trump Bolsonaro Love Fest in DC last week.
0:29.3	Bolsonaro, a staunch defender of military dictatorships, was summoned to support a U.S. intervention in Venezuela
0:36.3	under the pretext of exporting democracy.
0:39.4	And Pedro Paolo writes that in so doing, Trump was reviving the US policy of allying with dictators
0:45.2	quote who might be S.O. B's but at least there are S.O. B's. We'll get Pedro
0:50.3	Paolo's understanding of the new Brazilian U.S. relationship as well as his view of
0:54.5	Brazilian politics and economics under their new tweeter-in-chief who campaigned as a murderous,
1:01.0	homophobic, anti-feminist declaring open season on the left and on the Amazon
1:07.0	Rainforest.
1:08.0	All this when Jacobin Radio returns in just a moment. Welcome to Jacobin Radio, I'm Susie Weisman Radio.
1:17.0	I'm Susie Weisman.
1:20.0	Brazil's newly elected president, Gire Bolsonaro, is called the Trump of the
1:25.0	Tropics. He's far worse, and he tweets much more. Pedro Paulo
1:29.3	Ziluth Bostos who joins us this morning notes the irony of that Trump Bolsonaro Love Fest in
1:35.1	DC last week Bolsonaro's no lover of democracy and he was called to join the
1:40.6	United States in exporting democracy to Venezuela. to
1:43.2	the United States in exporting democracy to Venezuela. We're going to look at the new Brazilian
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