Bolsonaro congratulated police officers who killed 11 criminals – 04/05/2019

A police case in Brazil that quickly became a political fact. Brazilian police killed 11 criminals in Guararema, São Paulo, and President Jair Bolsonaro immediately praised the agents for "their swift and effective action." The president, who is facing a remarkable fall in his image just three months after the start of the government, is illustrated in this success and applauded the "work" of the officers of the special operations battalion of the military police of San Pablo. This team foiled the attempted badault on two bank branches.

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"Congratulations to the ROTA police (initials of the specialized group) for quick and effective action against 25 heavily armed and equipped bandits … 11 bandits were killed and no innocents were injured. Good job! ", Said the president on Twitter, his favorite platform to communicate his views.

These were two agencies of Banco do Brasil and Santander. The badault took place on Thursday at dawn, but the criminals were arrested by the police with known balance.

Bolsonaro seeks to rebadert itself on security issues, one of the keys to his campaign, in the midst of a bad moment for his collapsed image, notably because of the lack of legislative progress and the fundamentalist tone some of his ministers. persistent eulogy for the last military dictatorship.

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Despite these positions, the sector of the military cabinet questions Vélez Rodríguez and Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo, another leader of Christian fundamentalist ideas. The army, for example, opposed the transfer of the Tel Aviv embbady to Jerusalem, as pointed out by these ministers, with particular attention to trade between Brazil and the Arab League and because of the previous position of non-interference of Brazilian diplomacy. Araújo drew attention a few days ago when he described Nazism as a left-wing movement and led the president to visit Israel to repeat the same unsuccessful comment.

The current approval of the president has reached 35%, which represents a decrease of 5% compared to the month of January of his taking office, according to a survey released Friday by consulting firm XP. The Ibope company, in turn, had detected a 49% drop in support in January, falling to 35% in the first half of March. Bolsonaro hinted that he was about to dismiss the Minister of Education, Ricardo Vélez Rodríguez, a fundamentalist who said that history books needed to be corrected in order to eliminate critics of the dictatorship.

To make matters worse, rumors of Cabinet conflict between the minister of military origin and the right wing sector respond to the president's adviser, the philosopher Olavo de Carvallo. The president had to leave this Friday to deny these clashes. But in the United States, US political strategist Steve Bannon, former campaign coordinator for Donald Trump and Bolsonaro ally, has demanded the immediate resignation of Vice President Hamilton Mourao, a general who is the main reference of the ministers of terrorism. 39; army.

Bannon has described as "unacceptable" the fact that Mourao "is trying to show that he is ready" to occupy the presidency if Bolsonaro fails to maintain his position, according to the Folha newspaper of San Pablo. If Mourao is "a man of principles, of honor". , should resign tomorrow morning at the post office and go to the opposition, "shot Bannon, who then left the Trump government, became the mentor of the world right group The Movement The expert in political strategy and election campaigns was the main invited to a dinner hosted by the president at the Embbady of Brazil in Washington last month.

Agencies San Pablo and Clarín