The Global Far Right Is Betting the House on Bolsonaro
Far-right organizations like Project Veritas in the US and the Vox party in Spain are increasingly looking to Latin America as the key to consolidating their international network. To prevent that from happening, Jair Bolsonaro must be stopped from winning — or stealing — Brazil's 2022 election.
Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro speaks at Planalto Palace in Brasília on October 7, 2021. (Mateus Bonomi / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
From Donald Trump to Vox’s Santiago Abascal, the international far right is uniting around what, according to Steve Bannon, will be a top priority in 2022: getting Jair Bolsonaro reelected as president of Brazil.
For the Left as well, the 2022 Brazilian election is building up to be a contest that could deliver a crucial blow to an increasingly well-organized far-right network.
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Former Trump spokesman Jason Miller was recently detained and interrogated for three hours at Brasília airport. Miller, whose arrest was first reported by Portal Metrópoles, was in Brazil participating in the local version of the Conference on Conservative Political Action (CPAC Brasil). The yearly event hosted by the American Conservative Union has become increasingly international in the last three years, with conferences also held in Japan, Australia, and South Korea.
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