{"id":391517,"date":"2019-01-04T01:23:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T00:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bolsonaro-inaugurated-as-head-of-brazils-most-right-wing-government-since-dictatorship\/"},"modified":"2019-01-04T01:23:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T00:23:35","slug":"bolsonaro-inaugurated-as-head-of-brazils-most-right-wing-government-since-dictatorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bolsonaro-inaugurated-as-head-of-brazils-most-right-wing-government-since-dictatorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolsonaro inaugurated as head of Brazil\u2019s most right-wing government since dictatorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Bolsonaro inaugurated as head of Brazil\u2019s most right-wing government since dictatorship<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Bill Van Auken and Gabriel Lemos<br \/>\n    <br \/>3 January 2019<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Jair Bolsonaro, the fascistic ex-army captain and federal legislator, was formally inaugurated as president of Brazil January 1 in a ceremony marked by a massive mobilization of security forces, the deliberate suppression of the media and extreme right-wing rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>Bolsonaro, wearing a bulletproof vest and surrounded by a heavy guard, delivered two public speeches on Tuesday. The first was his swearing-in before the Brazilian Congress, which was boycotted by the Workers Party (PT), which he defeated in last year\u2019s elections. It included words about his supposed \u201ccommitment to build a society with no discrimination nor divisions,\u201d and a call for a \u201cnational pact\u201d to revive Brazil\u2019s crisis-ridden economy based upon free-market policies.<\/p>\n<p>He called upon the congress members to join him in the \u201cmission\u201d of \u201cliberating\u201d Brazil from \u201cthe game of corruption, criminality, economic irresponsibility and ideological submission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He paid tribute to the police and vowed that the armed forces would \u201chave the necessary conditions to complete their constitutional mission of defense of sovereignty, the national territory and the democratic institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He inveighed against \u201cgender ideology\u201d\u2014a buzz phrase of the religious right directed against any policy promoting gender equality along with abortion and LGBT rights\u2014and vowed that schools would be transformed to prepare \u201cchildren for the labor market and not for political militancy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A second speech delivered in front of Pal\u00e1cio do Planalto, the official presidential residence, was, if anything, more reactionary. Reviving his campaign rhetoric before a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/01\/03\/bols-j03.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Bolsonaro inaugurated as head of Brazil\u2019s most right-wing government since dictatorship By Bill Van Auken and Gabriel Lemos 3 January 2019 Jair Bolsonaro, the fascistic ex-army captain and federal legislator, was formally inaugurated as president of Brazil January 1 in a ceremony marked by a massive mobilization of security forces, the deliberate suppression of [&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-391517","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\/391517","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=391517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}