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S8 Ep1133: Evan Ellis analyzes judicial cruelty in Brazil, where Flavio Bolsonaro is barred from visiting his ill father. In El Salvador, President Bukele is seeking an unconstitutional third term. Despite his high approval ratings and security successes, the move r

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John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Evan Ellis analyzes judicial cruelty in Brazil, where Flavio Bolsonaro is barred from visiting his ill father. In El Salvador, President Bukele is seeking an unconstitutional third term. Despite his high approval ratings and security successes, the move raises alarms about the global trend of abandoning democratic constraints. (12)
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This is a high risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. I'm John Batchel with Professor Evan Ellis of the U.S. Army War College, Democracy, The Vote.

0:51.9

Two odd stories. One in El Salvador, one in Brazil. I'll tell the Brazil story

0:56.5

quickly and puzzle. The Brazilian Assembly, Congress, has voted to Barr Flavio Bolsonaro, a candidate

1:05.6

for the presidency in this year, his vote, from talking or visiting with his father who is under house arrest,

1:13.4

former president, Charles Bolsonaro.

1:16.1

Bizarre.

1:17.3

At the same time, there's news from El Salvador, but let's begin because we need to be with dispatch.

1:23.2

What are they thinking, Evan, help me understand this.

1:27.4

They're borrowing a son from talking to his very ill father.

1:31.2

Why?

1:33.2

Well, certainly in optics and really probably in the broader scheme, it just smacks of unnecessary cruelty.

1:41.5

The technicality given was that the previous court ruling had said that

1:47.0

Jayre Bolsonaro could not directly or indirectly use Internet and social media to do political communications.

1:54.0

And so the fact that a handwritten letter given by Tyra Bolsonato. Flavio chose maybe with or without his father's

2:03.9

knowledge to read that in one of his social media commentaries. That was taken as evidence by

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