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We were joined from Sao Paulo by the author Richard Lapper, who's written a book about the rise of right-wing populism in Brazil entitled Beef, Bible and Bullets - Brazil in the age of Bolsonaro.
Lapper’s Beef, Bible and Bullets provides an excellent guide through Brazil’s current political complexities and the man who would be Trump. It is strongly recommended.
“I’ve got five kids but on the fifth I had a moment of weakness and it came out as a girl”, Jair Bolsonaro said in 2017, a year prior to
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