{"id":387246,"date":"2018-12-01T03:04:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T02:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bolton-visits-bolsonaro-a-us-meeting-of-the-minds-with-brazils-fascistic-president-elect\/"},"modified":"2018-12-01T03:04:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T02:04:08","slug":"bolton-visits-bolsonaro-a-us-meeting-of-the-minds-with-brazils-fascistic-president-elect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bolton-visits-bolsonaro-a-us-meeting-of-the-minds-with-brazils-fascistic-president-elect\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolton visits Bolsonaro: a US meeting of the minds with Brazil\u2019s fascistic president-elect"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Bolton visits Bolsonaro: a US meeting of the minds with Brazil\u2019s fascistic president-elect<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Bill Van Auken<br \/>\n    <br \/>30 November 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Brazil\u2019s fascistic president-elect, former army captain Jair Bolsonaro, hosted a meeting Thursday at his home in Barra de Tijuca, the wealthy beachside neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, with President Donald Trump\u2019s right-wing national security adviser John Bolton.<\/p>\n<p>The hour-long discussion reportedly touched on Venezuela, Cuba, Chinese influence in Latin America and Bolsonaro\u2019s proposal to ape Trump by moving Brazil\u2019s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>Bolton staged the brief stop in Rio and breakfast meeting with Bolsonaro on his way to the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, where the main question posed is the US trade war against China.<\/p>\n<p>Bolton gave no statement to the press following the meeting, but tweeted: \u201cWe enjoyed a broad and productive discussion with the president-elect of Brazil and his security team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Bolsonaro, who takes office on January 1, used his Twitter account to describe the encounter as \u201ca very productive and pleasant meeting with the National Security Adviser of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Accompanying Bolsonaro in the meeting was a group of incoming cabinet members who are representative of the most right-wing and military-dominated government to take office since the end of the two-decade-long US-backed military dictatorship in 1985.<\/p>\n<p>These included his future defense minister Fernando Acevedo e Silva and head of the Institutional Security Cabinet Augusto Heleno Ribeiro, who are both retired generals. Also present was his foreign minister, Ernesto Araujo, who has described climate change as a plot by \u201ccultural Marxists\u201d to undermine Western economies and boost China, and declared that his mission will be to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/11\/30\/bols-n30.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Bolton visits Bolsonaro: a US meeting of the minds with Brazil\u2019s fascistic president-elect By Bill Van Auken 30 November 2018 Brazil\u2019s fascistic president-elect, former army captain Jair Bolsonaro, hosted a meeting Thursday at his home in Barra de Tijuca, the wealthy beachside neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, with President Donald Trump\u2019s right-wing national security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-387246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}