Jair Bolsonaro, waves after voting in the presidential runoff election in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo / File
Rachel Stewart's views on Brazil's President-elect [Jair Bolsonaro] are understandable, for someone living in the New Zealand bubble.
But Brazilians live in a country the size of the USA where it takes 10 years for a legal case to come to trial, even a murder case; where 95 per cent
of taxes are funnelled into politicians own bank accounts, where there are almost no non-corrupt judges.
It is a country where there is no infrastructure spending unless officials are bribed. Where every municipal and federal post is farmed out to friends and relatives, where the police require payment to investigate crimes. Where there is no government health-care to speak of.
Against such a backdrop a military intervention isn't a bad idea, especially as the army already police the streets. It isn't about freedom, it's about survival.
GJ Philip
Taupo
