Article 5P655 Fears of violence on Brazil’s streets as millions rally to back Bolsonaro

Fears of violence on Brazil’s streets as millions rally to back Bolsonaro

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Tom Phillips in Sinop
from World news | The Guardian on (#5P655)

His rural voters see the embattled president as a messenger from God'. And this week they will march in the cities to support him

Jair Bolsonaro supporters aren't hard to find in Sinop, an agricultural boomtown in the Brazilian Amazon where nearly 80% of voters backed the country's ultra-conservative leader in the 2018 election.

He's a president of the people," said Marcos Watanabe, the head of the city's conservative association, sporting a T-shirt stamped with Bolsonaro's name.

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