Leftists usually insist that since the sexual revolution of the 1960’s, the return to the traditional mores of sexual abstinence until marriage is as dead as a doornail, but of all places, in the historically sexually libertine nation of Brazil, the right-wing government of President Jair Bolsonaro is championing the return of the idea.
A campaign titled “I Chose To Wait,” which was created by evangelical pastors, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/26/world/americas/brazil-teen-pregnancy-Bolsonaro.html">The New York Times</a>, has consulted with Damares Alves, the minister of human rights, family and women, who herself is an evangelical pastor. The campaign <a href="https://www.euescolhiesperar.com/">states</a> it  “has a message centered on the importance of living a life in holiness and purity based on the holy scriptures.” Alves has stated, “Our young people, by and large, are having sex as a result of social pressure. You can go to a party and have lots of fun without having sex.”
<a href="https://www.fox5vegas.com/news/us_world_news/latest-brazil-culture-war-salvo-sparks-ire-over-nazi-phrase/article_addbbe95-dd3f-5e95-bdcd-5ea1cb88d73d.html">Fox5 Vegas</a> reported, “Damares Alves, the minister of women, family and human rights, recently shared news of an approach to fighting teen pregnancy that would focus on advocating sexual abstinence. The campaign, expected to be unveiled in the coming days, will target youths, but also parents, educators and health workers, said Angela Gandra, secretary of family affairs at Alvares’ ministry … &#8216;We want to bring reflection to the parents and the children about what human relations are,&#8217; Gandra said …”
The Times notes, “The country’s teenage pregnancy rate, which peaked in the 1990s at about 80 per 1,000 births, followed the global downward trend in recent decades, but remains stubbornly high, at about 62 per 1,000 births, well above the global average of 44 per 1,000, according to a United Nations report issued last year. The rate in the United States was 18 per 1,000 in 2017.”
After she was named to her post, Alves <a href="http://evangelicalfocus.com/world/4066/We_want_a_Brazil_without_abortion_says_Damares_Alves_after_being_named_minister">stated</a>,“The greatest human right is the right to life &#8230; I am against abortion. We want a Brazil without abortion. How? A Brazil that prioritizes public policies of family planning, where abortion is never seen as a contraceptive method … I do not think women want to have an abortion. They take that option because they believe there was no other option… if pregnancy is a &#8216;problem&#8217; that lasts only 9 months, abortion is a burden you carry your whole life. We will always fight to save the two lives: the woman and the child.”
In an <a href="https://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/brazil/brazilian-family-minister-says-sexual-abstinence-should-be-discussed-in-schools/">interview</a> last June, Alves stated, &#8220;I would like abstinence also to be a method to be discussed in the classroom. I would very much like to discuss this with youths.”
<a href="https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-11-15/brazil-reduces-sex-education-amid-spike-sexually-transmitted-infections">PRI</a> noted, “Bolsonaro supports federal legislation that would limit sex education in classrooms, and since 2017 more than eight Brazilian cities have passed similar laws at the local level. Bolsonaro also supports a conservative social movement that instructs parents to lobby local governments and school principals — who have broad autonomy to set sex education curriculums — to cut them back.”
Roughly two-thirds of Brazil&#8217;s population is Catholic. The <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/resources/life-and-family/abstinence-and-chastity/10-12-reasons-to-be-chaste">Catholic News Agency</a> has explained the Catholic Church&#8217;s position on chastity this way as they quoted from the Catholic catechism:
<blockquote>&#8220;All Christ&#8217;s faithful are called to lead a chaste life in keeping with their particular states of life.&#8221; By &#8220;states of life,&#8221; the Church means that there is unmarried chastity, and there is married chastity. Part of chastity entails the proper ordering of sexual pleasure &#8212; which means engaging in it only within marriage. But more than that, it is really a way to look at all of one&#8217;s relationships so that they no longer become mere exchanges of commodities. It means experiencing others&#8217; presence &#8212; not just what they do, but their existence itself — as a gift.</blockquote>
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João Teixeira de Faria, the Brazilian self-proclaimed &#8220;spiritual healer&#8221; known as &#8220;John of God,&#8221; was sentenced Thursday to 19 years in prison on four rape charges after being accused of sexual abuse by hundreds of women, including his own daughter.
The spiritual guru and now convicted rapist became an international name after Oprah Winfrey interviewed the &#8220;inspiring&#8221; figure back in 2012, after which he reportedly was visited by several American celebrities, among them singer and songwriter Paul Simon and actress and model Naomi Campbell.
&#8220;A judge in Goias state issued a sentence of 19 years and four months for four rapes of different women, according to a statement from the court,&#8221; <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/brazil-spiritual-healer-sentenced-19-195501684.html">The Associated Press</a> reported Thursday. &#8220;Lawyers for the 77-year-old João de Deus said in a statement that they will appeal the decision.&#8221;
The court said the disgraced guru faces additional cases related to another 10 alleged sex crimes, AP notes.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/celebrity-spiritual-healer-charged-amid-sex-abuse-james-barrett">The Daily Wire</a> reported last December, Faria has been accused of sexual abuse by over 300 women and girls, including his own daughter. After being officially <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/39404/faith-healer-promoted-oprah-turns-himself-amid-james-barrett">declared a fugitive</a> in mid-December, and attempting to withdraw nearly $9 million from a bank, Faria turned himself into authorities, who initially charged him with sexual violation through fraud.
&#8220;Local outlets say Faria surrendered in a road to the small, centrally located town of Abadiania, where he has run his now-world famous spiritual center since 1976,&#8221; The Daily Wire reported at the time.
Though Faria had run his &#8220;healing center&#8221; for decades, and had built a strong local following in Brazil, he became an international name after Oprah&#8217;s 2012 special highlighting him and his center. After that time, the center began to attract thousands of international tourists, including some high-profile figures:
<blockquote>Faria founded his psychic healing center in 1976, but he did not reach true international fame until he was promoted by Oprah Winfrey about five years ago. Since she produced a special focusing on his “spiritual healing” methods, which include channeling “spirits of the dead” and conducting surgery on patients suffering serious illnesses without anesthesia, his center attracts thousands of tourists annually, including several celebrities, among them Paul Simon, Naomi Campbell, and, according to some, Bill Clinton.</blockquote>
Soon after the allegations against Faria first emerged, Winfrey disavowed him, saying, &#8220;I empathize with the women now coming forward and hope justice is served.&#8221;
Simon has also publicly commented on his contact with the &#8220;healer,&#8221; saying his visit to the center ultimately failed to help him with his chronic <a href="https://pagesix.com/2018/12/16/brazilian-healer-losing-celeb-following-amid-sex-abuse-claims/">“violent” dream</a> problem.
The first woman to come forward with accusations against the disgraced guru is a Dutch choreographer, who told Rede Globo on December 7 that Faria sexually abused her.
&#8220;Within days, prosecutors in Goias, the state where Abadiania is located, said they had received hundreds of similar allegations,&#8221; The Daily Wire reported. &#8220;A week after the Rede Globo report, a judge issued a warrant for Faria’s arrest, giving him until 2 p.m. the next day to turn himself in.&#8221;
Along with discovering that Faria attempted to withdraw nearly $9 million from a bank within days of the first accusation, prosecutors say they found &#8220;firearms and large quantities of cash in a house used by de Faria as a spiritual retreat.&#8221;

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A parrot was detained by police in Brazil after the feathered fiend warned its drug-dealing owners that police were approaching.
The parrot started yelling as the police approached its home Monday afternoon, The Guardian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/24/brazil-drug-parrot-trained-as-lookout-for-dealers">reported</a>. The bird shouted &#8220;Mama, police!&#8221; authorities said.
&#8220;He must have been trained for this,&#8221; one officer who was part of the raid <a href="http://g1.globo.com/bahia/videos/v/papagaio-que-alertou-donos-sobre-presenca-da-policia-e-apreendido/7562646/">told</a> Brazilian media outlets. &#8220;As soon as the police got close he started shouting.&#8221;
Since being detained, the bird, whose name has not been released according to The Guardian, has kept its beak shut. One Brazilian journalist <a href="http://g1.globo.com/pi/piaui/bom-dia-piaui/videos/v/papagaio-que-teria-avisado-sobre-a-policia-e-levado-para-o-zoobotanico-de-teresina/7564053/">described the animal</a> as a &#8220;super obedient&#8221; bird.
&#8220;So far it hasn&#8217;t made a sound &#8230; completely silent,&#8221; said the reporter, who appears to have attempted to interview the winged whistleblower.
A veterinarian in the area, Alexandre Clark, told one Brazilian media outlet that &#8220;&#8220;Lots of police officers have come by and he&#8217;s said nothing,&#8221; referring to the parrot.
Brazilian media outlet Meio Norte (Media North) posted footage of the bird refusing to answer questions. In the video, the bird sits atop police documents in what looks like an interview room, ignoring questions.
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The Washington Post reported that the accused human&#8217;s defense attorney, Salma Barros, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/04/25/mama-police-parrot-tipped-off-drug-dealers-raid-authorities-say-now-hes-custody/">doubted the police&#8217;s claims</a> of the talking bird because the animal had been so quiet in police custody.
Local media reported that the bird has been entered into a diversion program at a local zoo, where he will spend three months being taught to fly (and probably taught the error of his ways). The tight-beaked criminal will then be released.
Along with the bird, the police raid resulted in the arrests of an adult man and teenage girl, <a href="https://www.meionorte.com/blogs/efremribeiro/papagaio-e-detido-ao-tentar-impedir-que-traficantes-fosse-preso-332347">according to local Brazilian media</a>, as well as the seizure of bags of crack cocaine, so even though the parrot tried to warn his family of the impending raid, they were still caught.
The Guardian also reported that other animals have been detained for their involvement in the country&#8217;s drug trade.
&#8220;In 2008, <a href="http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/Rio/0,,MUL746458-5606,00-POLICIA+APREENDE+JACARES+DURANTE+OPERACAO+NA+FAVELA+DA+COREIA.html">police seized</a> two small alligators during a raid on a favela in western Rio de Janeiro, claiming local gangsters had fed their enemies to the animals. However, the father of one of the accused gangsters rejected those accusations, alleging his son&#8217;s gang had once tried to do so &#8211; but the alligator had refused to eat the corpse,&#8221; The Guardian reported.
This isn&#8217;t even the first parrot to aid his family in their drug dealings. The Post reported that in 2010, a Colombian parrot, who is not being named by The Daily Wire, yelled &#8220;Run! Run!&#8221; to his owners as police approached their home. The avian offender was alleged to have been guarding the family&#8217;s weapons and marijuana stash.
Colombian officials at the time <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duDEMtF-rkY">told the Associated Press</a> that this was one of 1,700 birds recently detained by authorities for acting as lookouts for their owners.

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Brazilian President <a data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="1" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/jair-bolsonaro" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jair Bolsonaro</a>, according to <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jair-bolsonaro-golden-shower-video-carnival_n_5c7feb3fe4b06ff26ba49c7d">HuffPost</a>, has tweeted out a video of an actual &#8220;golden shower&#8221; in protest of the hedonism present at the country&#8217;s Carnival festival.
&#8220;The video Bolsonaro presented to his 3.4 million followers (<a data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="2" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:2;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://twitter.com/jairbolsonaro/status/1103069837876711425" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">which is extremely NSFW</a>) shows someone peeing on someone else in front of a crowd of revelers at the annual festival,&#8221; reports the outlet. &#8220;The far-right president feigned shock and concern over the display, wondering about <a data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="3" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:2;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/what-is-a-golden-shower_us_587640bfe4b03c8a02d44151">the origins of the &#8216;golden shower</a>&#8216; in an apparent attempt to disparage a nationwide celebration that has turned against him.&#8221;
In his tweet, Bolsonaro lamented about what the Carnival festival has turned into. &#8220;I don&#8217;t feel comfortable showing this, but we have to expose the truth so the people can be aware,&#8221; <a data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="5" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:3;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://twitter.com/jairbolsonaro/status/1103069837876711425" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">he said</a>. &#8220;This is what many street parties during Carnival have turned into.&#8221;
Bolsonaro apparently did not know what the term &#8220;golden shower&#8221; meant and asked his Twitter followers on Wednesday morning, &#8220;What is a golden shower?&#8221;
The Carnival festival has reportedly taken a heavy anti-Bolsonaro tone in recent weeks due to his socially conservative policies. HuffPost has more:
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Carnival&#8217;s blocos &#8213; or traditional street parties &#8213; sounded off with <a data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="11" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:8;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.huffpostbrasil.com/entry/marchinhas-carnaval-bolsonaro_br_5c5c3479e4b09293b20c2386?utm_hp_ref=br-homepage" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">music criticizing Bolsonaro&#8217;s anti-LGBTQ policies</a> and his efforts to ease gun laws, while revelers wore costumes that mocked the president and his anti-gay, anti-black and anti-indigenous initiatives. (A pro-Bolsonaro bloco in São Paulo, meanwhile, drew nobody.)
The backlash spilled into the official aspects of the celebration: In Rio, a top samba school &#8213; one of the acting and dancing clubs that compete against each other in Carnival&#8217;s competitions &#8213; used its parade to honor Marielle Franco, the black, queer Rio city councilwoman <a data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="17" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:9;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/marielle-franco-assassination-rio_us_5aaa7a51e4b0004c0407fbe0">who was assassinated a year ago this month</a>. A top samba school in São Paulo turned its parade <a data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="18" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:9;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.huffpostbrasil.com/entry/vai-vai-carnaval-marielle_br_5c7c0535e4b0e5e313cbc50e?utm_hp_ref=br-homepage" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">into a similar demonstration</a>.
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Bolsonaro has come out against against teaching schoolchildren about LGBTQ acceptance and gender ideology. On the first day of his presidency, he also &#8220;<a data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="23" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:11;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.apnews.com/c754faab167c43d1bb883dda1b511c54" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">removed the LGBTQ community</a> from the list of those protected by Brazil&#8217;s human rights ministry.&#8221; Upon his election, he also tweeted that he would be removing &#8220;Marxist garbage&#8221; from the country&#8217;s schools.
&#8220;One of our strategies to get Brazil to climb from the lowest spots of the educational rankings is to tackle the Marxist garbage in our schools head on. We shall succeed in forming citizens and not political militants&#8221; he tweeted.
Bolsonaro has also promised to ease restrictions on the country&#8217;s gun laws.
&#8220;By decree we intend to ensure possession of firearm to the citizen without criminal record, as well as make his registration definitive,&#8221; he tweeted in January.
The Daily Wire&#8217;s Ashe Schow <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/39879/new-brazil-president-vows-tackle-marxist-garbage-ashe-schow">reported at the time</a> that Bolsonaro encouraged schools to cite teachers who expressed outrage in front of their students over the election.
&#8220;Just after Bolsonaro won the election, he showed support for a viral post from a high-school history teacher calling for students to <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/brazil-bolsonaro-education-repression/">report teachers who express outrage over the new president&#8217;s victory</a>,&#8221; Schow reported. &#8220;Bolsonaro suggested students across the country do this. Teachers told the Nation they have to now &#8216;police&#8217; themselves and are being &#8216;censored.'&#8221;

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A fashion director for Vogue Brazil has stepped down amid backlash over photos of what critics are describing as her &#8220;slavery&#8221;-themed 50th birthday party.
&#8220;The fashion director of the Brazilian edition of Vogue has resigned after photos from her 50th birthday party drew criticism for evoking colonial depictions of slavery,&#8221; <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/15/vogue-brazil-director-resigns-over-birthday-photos-evoking-slavery">The Guardian</a> reports. &#8220;Images from the party showed Donata Meirelles, who is white, sitting on a throne-like seat flanked by four black women dressed in white at the celebration in Bahia, Brazil&#8217;s blackest state.&#8221;
&#8220;Hey @CondeNast, Donata Meirelles, the director of Vogue Brazil, had her birthday party inspired in &#8216;Brazil Slavery Colonies&#8217; and even had black models dressed as slaves to use as photo props. Asking for a friend: does this align with your company&#8217;s values?&#8221; wrote one disgusted reader, who signed off with the hashtag #VogueRacista.
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Hey <a href="https://twitter.com/CondeNast?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CondeNast</a>, Donata Meirelles, the director of Vogue Brazil, had her birthday party inspired in &#8220;Brazil Slavery Colonies&#8221; and even had black models dressed as slaves to use as photo props. Asking for a friend: does this align with your company&#8217;s values? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/VogueRacista?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#VogueRacista</a> <a href="https://t.co/7K0DmnK7nd">pic.twitter.com/7K0DmnK7nd</a>
&#8212; Partido do Suco de Laranja (@ninaborges) <a href="https://twitter.com/ninaborges/status/1094256979520958464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 9, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The black women were used as objects to create an exotic scene,&#8221; wrote Marie Claire Brazil&#8217;s Stephanie Ribeiro, The Guardian notes. &#8220;It&#8217;s reminiscent of colonialism and romanticizes those times. She was recreating the image where whites are superior and blacks are dehumanized.&#8221;
Meirelles posted an apology on Instagram a day after the party, explaining the chair featured in the photos was an artifact of Candomblé, a religious tradition founded in Bahia, Brazil based on African religious practices. The white clothes the women were wearing was supposed to be traditional Bahian attire for a celebratory event. &#8220;Even so, if I caused any different impressions, I am sorry,&#8221; she wrote.
But her explanation and apology were clearly not enough. On Wednesday, Meirelles announced she was resigning her position.
&#8220;Vogue Brasil profoundly regrets what happened and hopes that the debate that has been generated serves as a learning experience,&#8221; the magazine said in a statement on Instagram Wednesday. In response to the controversy, the magazine is founding a &#8220;permanent&#8221; forum of &#8220;activists and scholars&#8221; to help them determine content and &#8220;combat these inequalities&#8221; going forward.
&#8220;We believe in affirmative and purposeful actions and also that empathy is the best alternative for the construction of a more just society, in which the historical inequalities of the Country are debated and faced,&#8221; reads the post (partial translation via Google Translate). &#8220;In pursuit of the constant evolution that has always guided us, we take the reflection generated to broaden the voices within the team and create, on a permanent basis, a forum formed by activists and scholars who will help define contents and images that combat these inequalities.&#8221;

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A post shared by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/voguebrasil/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Vogue Brasil</a> (@voguebrasil) on Feb 11, 2019 at 4:59pm PST
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Racially charged photos have become a regular feature of recent headlines amid the Democrat debacle in Virginia, where, after defending infanticide, Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam was hit with an old photo from his med school yearbook allegedly featuring him either in blackface or a KKK hood. Northam initially apologized for the photo, but then claimed he wasn&#8217;t either of the two men, while also admitting he did dress up as Michael Jackson around that time. Northam has since dug in his heels amid calls from his own party to resign.
Meanwhile, the first in line for the governorship, Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, is likewise facing pressure to walk away amid multiple sexual assault allegations. (Ironically, Fairfax has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43163/fairfax-accuser-hires-blasey-fords-attorneys-guess-james-barrett">hired</a> the legal team who represented Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to defend him, while one of Fairfax&#8217;s accusers has hired Christine Blasey Ford&#8217;s attorneys.) The second in line for the position, Attorney General Mark R. Herring, who has called for Northam to &#8220;step down,&#8221; has since revealed that he wore &#8220;brown makeup&#8221; in the 1980s,
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43387/va-gov-ralph-northam-will-launch-listening-tour-emily-zanotti">VA Gov. Ralph Northam Will Launch A &#8216;Listening Tour&#8217; Instead Of Resigning</a>

Here Are The ‘Slavery’-Themed Birthday Photos That Prompted One Vogue Director To Resign

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He&#8217;s called himself &#8220;Brazil&#8217;s Donald Trump.&#8221; Now, incoming Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro seems to be making good on that namesake by promising a series of major changes to the country.
Bolsonaro <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/39840/trump-tweets-brazils-new-president-jair-bolsonaro-ryan-saavedra?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=010219-news&amp;utm_campaign=Actengage">responded to a tweet</a> from President Donald Trump on January 1 after being sworn in, in which the American president congratulated him on &#8220;a great inauguration speech.&#8221;
Hours later, Bolsonaro tweeted that one of the changes he was looking to make as president would be to improve the nation&#8217;s school rankings. To do this, Bolsonaro promised &#8220;to tackle the Marxist garbage&#8221; in the school system.
&#8220;One of our strategies to get Brazil to climb from the lowest spots of the educational rankings is to tackle the Marxist garbage in our schools head on. We shall succeed in forming citizens and not political militants,&#8221; he tweeted.
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One of our strategies to get Brazil to climb from the lowest spots of the educational rankings is to tackle the Marxist garbage in our schools head on. We shall succeed in forming citizens and not political militants.
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He also, according to previous reporting from The Daily Wire, said he would ease the country&#8217;s gun laws.
&#8220;By decree we intend to ensure possession of firearm to the citizen without criminal record, as well as make his registration definitive,&#8221; he tweeted.
Brazil is a dangerous country, so allowing citizens to protect themselves could be an improvement. If the system is anything like America&#8217;s, however, dangerous people will still get their hands on firearms.
His point about the education system is encouraging, depending on how he goes about achieving this goal. Just after Bolsonaro won the election, he showed support for a viral post from a high-school history teacher calling for students to <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/brazil-bolsonaro-education-repression/">report teachers who express outrage over the new president&#8217;s victory</a>. Bolsonaro suggested students across the country do this. Teachers told the Nation they have to now &#8220;police&#8221; themselves and are being &#8220;censored.&#8221;
Bolsonaro enters the presidency with a 75% approval rating. If he can remove the left-wing bias from schools &#8212; without using totalitarian tactics &#8212; perhaps there is hope for students around the world.
While I was growing up in Florida, our teachers told us they were not supposed to discuss politics or share their political views. I thought this was the standard around the country. When I moved to Massachusetts, I learned that is not the case. Teachers openly discussed how awful they believed President George W. Bush was, and skewed teaching toward liberal ideology. In college, this is commonplace.
It would be nice if our school systems could simply teach children and young adults how to think and not what to think. Students deserve an education, not indoctrination.
Brazil is not America, however, so wishing for less liberal indoctrination here is not the same as supporting whatever tactics Bolsonaro will take in Brazil. If he uses authoritarian tactics, he would be no better than the Marxists he criticizes.

New Brazil President Vows To Tackle ‘Marxist Garbage’ In Schools

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Brazil&#8217;s president-elect Jair Bolsonaro says parts of France have become &#8220;unliveable&#8221; because migrants and refugees have flooded the country and &#8220;they don&#8217;t give up their roots.&#8221;
The outspoken Bolsonaro, whose conservative plans for Brazil have prompted some to dub him the &#8220;Trump of the Tropics,&#8221; also said he will pull Brazil out of a nonbinding global migration pact ratified by the United Nations on Wednesday.
&#8220;Everybody knows what is happening in France. Some parts of France are simply unlivable,&#8221; Bolsonaro said in a live video feed on Facebook. &#8220;You know how those people are, right? They have something in them, they don&#8217;t give up their roots and they want to make their culture, their acquired rights and their privileges prevail.
&#8220;France is suffering because of that. Part of the population, part of the military, some of the institutions are starting to complain about that. We don&#8217;t want that for Brazil,&#8221; he said.
Gérard Araud, the ambassador of France to the United States, hit Bolsonaro on Twitter, writing in French, &#8220;63,880 homicides in Brazil in 2017, 825 in France. No comment.&#8221;
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63.880 homicides au Brésil en 2017, 825 en France. Sans commentaires. <a href="https://t.co/C50HfPi8qB">https://t.co/C50HfPi8qB</a>
&#8212; Gérard Araud (@GerardAraud) <a href="https://twitter.com/GerardAraud/status/1075488826817167360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Bolsonaro takes office on January 1 after winning a campaign in which he vowed to take a hard line against crime and corruption. He has not pushed for tighter immigration controls, but won&#8217;t adhere to the U.N. pact.
&#8220;Unfortunately, Brazil&#8230; signed the pact. We are not against migrants, but we must be have very rigorous criteria for those entering Brazil. We are going to denounce and revoke this pact on migration,&#8221; he said.
France has suffered several terrorist attacks of late perpetrated by radicals. In 2015, 130 people were murdered in Paris by radicalized French and Belgian gunmen, and just last week a French ex-convict killed five people in a rampage in Strasbourg, claimed by the Islamic State group.
Trump has long said the flow of immigrants into Europe, especially Germany and France, has been damaging. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump said &#8220;they have sections in Paris that are radicalized, where the police refuse to go there. They&#8217;re petrified. The police refuse to go in there.&#8221;
Trump also said parts of London suffer from the same problems, and when he took office he quickly barred immigrants from seven terrorist hotbeds from entering the U.S.
Many countries in Europe have been strained by the influx of immigrants. The flow of refugees into Sweden has made that once idyllic country a mess. Police have set up &#8220;no-go zones&#8221; they deem too dangerous to go into, famed feminists have abandoned cities where refugees flock, and the number of rapes has skyrocketed.
Neighboring Denmark is also suffering dramatic effects from the deluge of refugees into that country.
&#8220;A recent study conducted by Denmark&#8217;s Ministry of Finance concluded that in 2014, immigrants and their descendants cost Danish taxpayers at net loss of 28 billion Crowns per year,&#8221; according to the National Economics Editorial. That&#8217;s $42 billion.
&#8220;Furthermore, when Western immigrants were removed from the equation, the net cost rose to 33kr billion.&#8221; That&#8217;s nearly $50 billion.
&#8220;In short,&#8221; the report says, &#8220;59% of the tax surplus collected from native Danes is spent on ethnic minorities, who are a massive drain on the system.&#8221;

Parts Of  France Are ‘Unlivable’ Due To Influx Of Migrants, ‘Tropical Trump’ Says

Immigrants

Last week, Brazilian soccer star Daniel Correa Freitas, 24, was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/37751/brazilian-soccer-star-found-dead-reports-gunshot-james-barrett">found dead</a> in Sao Jose dos Pinhais in Brazil&#8217;s southern state of Parana. Reports indicated that he was nearly decapitated and his genitals &#8220;severed.&#8221; In a stunning public statement, a suspect, businessman Edison Brittes Jr., told the Brazilian press that he murdered Freitas &#8212; and that &#8220;any man&#8221; would have done the same.
Brittes, 38, told Brasil Urgente program on TV Bandeirantes that he killed the San Paolo midfielder after finding him in his underwear attempting to rape his wife. The rape allegedly took place at Brittes&#8217;s home during the birthday party of his 18-year-old daughter, Allana.
Brittes says that he found Freitas in his underwear on top of his wife in their bedroom and that she was &#8220;screaming and begging for help,&#8221; <a href="https://nypost.com/2018/11/04/i-mutilated-nearly-beheaded-soccer-star-for-raping-my-wife/">The Sun</a> reports.
&#8220;[Freitas] had gone in, taken his clothes off and locked the door,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I knocked on the door to my room and when I opened it he was on top of my wife and she was screaming and begging for help. What I did was what any man would do, because the woman that was there was not my wife, she was every woman in Brazil. It could be your daughter, sister, mother or wife. At that moment it was my wife, Cris, who I have been married to for 20 years.&#8221;
In response to rumors about Freitas having romantic relationships with his wife and daughter, Brittes said, &#8220;The media said a lot of things. My wife never had anything with Daniel, never mind my daughter. Rumors always get started but the truth will come out. I know I did what I did, I want everybody watching to think what they would do to keep the moral integrity of your family and help a small and fragile woman.&#8221;
He added: &#8220;When I threw him off my wife, I threw him on the floor and stopped her being raped by that monstrous scumbag.&#8221;
Local media has reported that Freitas sent messages to a friend prior to the party declaring that he was going &#8220;to eat&#8221; the &#8220;birthday&#8217;s girl&#8217;s mom.&#8221; Photos posted online appear to show the soccer player lying next to an unconscious Cristiana. <a href="http://trome.pe/deportes/sao-paulo-tortura-asesinato-daniel-correa-freitas-le-mutilaron-genitales-vivo-102620?foto=1">Trome</a> reports (translation via Google):
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Daniel Correa Freitas was invited by the daughter of his murderer to his party of 18 years, he even took a photograph on his social networks before being killed by his father. Later, the soccer player went up to the room where Edson Brittes Júnior&#8217;s wife was and when he found her asleep, he began to take pictures and shared them with a friend, who, scared, warned him that they were going to throw him out of the place.
Apparently, Freitas had other intentions with the woman and when she realized it she began to scream. The businessman struggled through the door and according to his statement &#8220;he was on top of my wife and she was screaming and asking for help&#8221;. At that time, he took the athlete and started hitting him. &#8203;&#8230; Freitas , apparently with the help of other people, is taken to the trunk of the employer&#8217;s car and he drives to a place far from his home. The soccer player is brutally beaten and tortured again.
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&#8220;Edison&#8217;s friends allegedly tried to stop him from attacking the Sao Paulo star &#8212; who belonged to a club in the equivalent of the Premier League &#8212; but &#8216;they could not do it&#8217; because he was angry,&#8221; The Sun reports.
Police detained Edison, Cristiana and their daughter Allana as suspects. Allana reportedly told local media that she heard screaming from her mother&#8217;s room and denied ever being &#8220;involved&#8221; with Daniel, whom she said she met last year.
Police <a href="https://trome.pe/deportes/sao-paulo-tortura-asesinato-daniel-correa-freitas-le-mutilaron-genitales-vivo-102620?foto=1">say</a> that Freitas was found with &#8220;two deep cuts in his neck, his head was almost decapitated and his genitals were cut.&#8221;

Businessman: I Killed Soccer Star — And Any Man Would Have Done The Same

Brazil Surges Toward American Conservatism

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Daniel Correa Freitas, a 24-year-old midfielder for Sao Paulo, was found dead in Sao Jose dos Pinhais, Parana in southern Brazil on Saturday night. While police are guarding details of the tragic incident, early reports indicate that he may have been murdered.
&#8220;Freitas, who was playing this season on loan with second-division Sao Bento, died of gunshot wounds, according to official reports,&#8221; <a href="http://kwese.espn.com/football/sao-paulo/story/3683473/sao-paulo-midfielder-daniel-correa-freitas-found-dead-in-southern-brazil">ESPN</a> reports. &#8220;However, local police would not divulge any more details.&#8221;
Parana authorities say the investigation into his death is in advanced stages, ESPN notes.
While authorities have offered few details about the incident, the <a href="https://nypost.com/2018/10/29/soccer-star-found-dead-almost-beheaded-with-his-genitals-severed/">New York Post</a> cites a local report suggesting Freitas was brutally &#8220;tortured&#8221; before he was murdered; however, the original report has since been <a href="https://www.bandab.com.br/esporte/times/coritiba/homem-encontrado-morto-na-rmc-e-identificado-como-ex-meia-do-coritiba/amp/">deleted</a>.
Freitas&#8217; team issued a statement Monday in which they said they lamented his death and expressed &#8220;solidarity&#8221; with his friends and family.
&#8220;Sao Paulo Football Club deeply regrets the death of midfielder Daniel, who defended the club in 2015 and 2016, and was found dead in São José dos Pinhais, metropolitan region of Curitiba, last weekend,&#8221; reads the <a href="http://www.saopaulofc.net/noticias/noticias/sao-paulo-fc/2018/10/29/sao-paulo-fc-lamenta-o-falecimento-de-daniel">statement</a> (full text below). After detailing his history with the team, Sao Paolo concluded, &#8220;It is with deep regret that the São Paulo Football Club laments the death of Daniel and is in solidarity with friends and family in this moment of pain.&#8221;
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Nota de pesar: Daniel Corrêa Freitas <a href="https://t.co/ihLicR8ZqD">https://t.co/ihLicR8ZqD</a> <a href="https://t.co/a8J0LBIrrL">pic.twitter.com/a8J0LBIrrL</a>
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Below is the full text of Sao Paulo&#8217;s <a href="http://www.saopaulofc.net/noticias/noticias/sao-paulo-fc/2018/10/29/sao-paulo-fc-lamenta-o-falecimento-de-daniel">statement</a> on the tragic death of the young star (translation via Google):
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Sao Paulo Football Club deeply regrets the death of midfielder Daniel, who defended the club in 2015 and 2016, and was found dead in São José dos Pinhais, metropolitan region of Curitiba, last weekend.
The 24-year-old, who had a contract with the Tricolor until the end of the season, was on loan to São Bento and was in contention for the Brazilian Serie B Championship.
Mineiro de Juiz de Fora, Daniel Corrêa Freitas was revealed by Cruzeiro and he excelled in the base categories of the club of Belo Horizonte before arriving at Botafogo in 2013. It was for the team from Rio that the midfielder aroused the interest of São Paulo, who got it right hiring in early 2015.
Before his debut, in September of that year, the athlete recovered from a ligament injury in his right knee and had the entire structure of the Barra Funda Training Center and REFFIS available to return to the lawns.
The first match for the Tricolor was under the command of coach Juan Carlos Osorio, on September 2, against Joinville (0 x 0) in Santa Catarina. The following season, Daniel advanced with the São Paulo team until the semifinal of the Libertadores of America and also disputed the Championship Paulista and the Brazilian Championship.
In 2017, he was loaned to Coritiba and won the Campeonato Paranaense. After passing through the Thigh, the attacking midfielder worked on Ponte Preta and São Bento &#8211; a club that he defended after passing through Campinas.
It is with deep regret that the São Paulo Football Club laments the death of Daniel and is in solidarity with friends and family in this moment of pain.
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Brazilian Soccer Star Found Dead; Reports: ‘Gunshot Wounds’

Soccer

The new right-wing president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, is a staunch supporter of Israel who once said, &#8220;My heart is green, yellow, blue and white,&#8221; referring to the Brazilian and Israeli flags. Bolsonaro won 53% of the vote in the general election; his chief rival, far-left Fernando Hadad, won 42% of the vote.
When Bolsonaro gave his acceptance speech on Sunday, broadcast from his home, there was a Jewish menorah in the background. Bolsonaro&#8217;s middle name, Messias, literally means &#8220;messiah.&#8221;
Bolsonaro has said he will move the Brazilian embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv; he has also said his first international trip will be to visit Israel. In addition, he has vowed to close the Palestinian embassy in Brasilia. He said recently, &#8220;Is Palestine a country? Palestine is not a country, so there should be no embassy here. You do not negotiate with terrorists.&#8221;
Brazil&#8217;s former president, Dilma Rouseff, who was impeached, hated Israel; in 2014, the Brazilian government recalled its ambassador to Israel when Hamas went to war with Israel; a former special adviser to Rouseff called the IDF actions during the war a &#8220;massacre.&#8221;
Israel&#8217;s honorary consul in Rio, Osias Wurman, <a href="https://www.jta.org/2018/10/29/news-opinion/brazilians-elect-first-ardently-pro-israel-president">told JTA</a>, &#8220;Bolsonaro stood out among the many candidates for including the State of Israel in the major speeches he made during the campaign. He is a lover of the people and the State of Israel.&#8221;
After Bolsonaro was stabbed and seriously injured on September 6, he declined treatment at the Syrian-Lebanese Hospital and chose to be treated at a Jewish hospital in Sao Paulo.
JTA reports, &#8220;His three sons, also politicians, have been photographed wearing T-shirts with messages in Hebrew.&#8221;
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/americas/netanyahu-congratulates-bolsonaro-for-brazil-election-win-invites-him-to-israel-1.6609107">spoke</a> with Bolsonaro on the phone Monday and congratulated him on winning the election, adding, &#8220;I am confident that your election will lead to a great friendship between the two peoples and to the strengthening of ties between Brazil and Israel. We await your visit to Israel.&#8221;
Professor Arie Kacowicz, an expert on Latin America from the Department of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/253970">noted the change</a> in Brazilian leadership this way:
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In the past few years relations between Brazil and Israel have not been particularly good, including the crisis surrounding their refusal <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/209533">to accept the appointment</a> of Dani Dayan as ambassador. The election of Bolsonaro, who belongs to the Evangelical stream and who declared during the election campaign that Israel would be the first country he visits as president and that he will move the embassy to Jerusalem, marks a dramatic turnaround. Brazil has a multilateral foreign policy and close relations with Iran and the Arab states. We will have to wait and see if he actually keeps his election promises.
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Jews first arrived in Brazil after fleeing Portugal when the Spanish Inquisition reached there in the 16th century. The first synagogue in the Americas was built in Recife in 1636. The number of Jews rose when Moroccan Jews arrived in the 19th century, followed by Russian and Polish Jews fleeing the pogroms of Europe in the late 19th and early 20th century. In the 1930&#8217;s Jews fleeing Nazi Germany arrived; North African Jews came in the 1950&#8217;s.
Brazil now has the ninth largest Jewish community in the world. In 1989, the Brazilian Senate passed a law prohibiting the manufacture, trade and distribution of swastikas for the purpose of disseminating Nazism; someone violating the law can serve a prison term for between two and five years.

Brazil’s New President, Like Trump, Is Strong On Israel

Israel

The controversial right-wing presidential candidate nicknamed &#8220;Trump of the Tropics,&#8221; Jair Bolsonaro, easily won Brazil&#8217;s presidential election on Sunday, beating his Workers Party opponent Fernando Haddad by over ten points.
Bolsonaro, who has run on fighting government corruption and cracking down on crime, and whose populist and often incendiary rhetoric has brought comparisons to Trump&#8217;s presidential campaign, declared victory Sunday night. In his acceptance speech, he made clear again that his government would reject the failed socialist policies of the leftist regimes that ran the country for over a decade, before being ousted two years ago amid a crippling recession.
&#8220;We cannot continue flirting with communism,&#8221; the 63-year-old former army captain said in his acceptance speech, <a href="http://news.trust.org/item/20181028230046-ovczz">Reuters</a> reports. &#8220;We are going to change the destiny of Brazil.&#8221;
Along with his rejection of socialist policies and condemnation of political corruption, Bolsonaro&#8217;s message has focused on cracking down on crime by empowering law enforcement and encouraging gun ownership for citizens to defend themselves.
Last month, Bolsonaro was stabbed by a protester in the middle of a crowd while campaigning and spent several weeks recovering from the life-threatening wound. The shocking moment was caught on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/35554/watch-brazil-presidential-candidate-stabbed-rally-ashe-schow">video</a>. Despite the violence that occasionally erupted over the course of the campaign, however, election day was reportedly calm and orderly.
After he secured the victory, Bolsonaro&#8217;s supporters took to the streets to celebrate. Reuters describes the scene outside Bolsonaro&#8217;s home in Rio de Janeiro:
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Thousands of Bolsonaro supporters cheered and set off fireworks outside his home in Rio de Janeiro&#8217;s Barra de Tijuca beachfront neighborhood as his victory was announced. In Brazil&#8217;s commercial capital of Sao Paulo, Bolsonaro&#8217;s win was greeted with fireworks and the honking of car horns.
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White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said in a <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/413570-trump-congratulates-brazils-bolsonaro-on-presidential-win">statement</a> that President Trump called Bolsonaro to congratulate him and said they were looking forward to working &#8220;side-by-side&#8221; with each other as &#8220;regional leaders of the Americas.&#8221;
French President Emmanuel Macron also congratulated Bolsonaro. &#8220;The President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron congratulates Jair Bolsonaro, who was elected by the people of Brazil to become president of the federal republic of Brazil on Sunday, October 28,&#8221; Macron&#8217;s office said in a <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-election-france/french-president-macron-congratulates-bolsonaro-on-brazil-win-idUSKCN1N319Y">statement</a>. &#8220;France and Brazil have a strategic partnership based around common values of respect and the promotion of democratic principles.&#8221;

‘Trump Of The Tropics’ Bolsonaro Wins; Real Trump Calls Him

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Emmanuel Macron

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In Brazil, Catholics are furious at a priest who defied church doctrine and gave Holy Communion to the socialist presidential Labor Party candidate Fernando Haddad, whose party has endorsed abortion as a woman&#8217;s right.
The priests who hail from the same parish as Fr. Jaime Crowe, the priest who offered Haddad communion, defended him by quoting Pope Francis stating, &#8220;Who am I to judge?&#8221; They stated:
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Regarding the fact that the candidates received communion, we clarify that the Rite of the Eucharist in the Catholic Church is the unique moment of reflection and decision of the faithful. We trust in the conscience of each one, and to quote the words of Pope Francis, &#8220;if they seek God, who am I to judge?&#8221; We feel ourselves to be in communion with the Church of Brazil that also received other candidates for the government of São Paulo in the Basilica of Aparecida and in the Sanctuary of Saint Jude Thaddeus.
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Crowe greeted Haddad, saying, &#8220;We feel honored by your presence,&#8221; as O Globo reported.
But a woman who accosted Haddad after the mass took issue with him receiving Communion. That prompted Haddad to respond, &#8220;I am the grandson of a religious leader. You must be an atheist.&#8221; She told the Brazilian publication Estadão that Haddad entering the church was a &#8220;sacrilege &#8230; the Catholic Church doesn&#8217;t permit it. He is an abortionist. He shouldn&#8217;t be here inside [the church].&#8221;
Haddad himself has implied he could support abortion in certain cases although he has publicly claimed he is &#8220;personally against abortion.&#8221; Haddad&#8217;s vice presidential running mate, Manuela D&#8217;Ávila, wants to legalize abortion. The priest who gave Haddad Communion also allegedly offered it D&#8217;Ávila.
As <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/brazilian-priest-gives-communion-to-pro-abortion-presidential-candidate-quo?utm_term=0_12387f0e3e-a603afa99b-403758293&amp;utm_content=buffer4f539&amp;utm_medium=LSN&amp;utm_source=lifesitenews%2Btwitter&amp;utm_campaign=LSN">Lifesite News</a> explains:
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Canon 915 of the Catholic Church&#8217;s Code of Canon Law says that those &#8220;obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.&#8221; Despite this, many priests and bishops ignore the canon and distribute Holy Communion, which the Church teaches is the literal body, blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus Christ, to public officials who actively advocate for abortion while purporting to be Catholic.
But Crowe slammed Haddad&#8217;s opponent, Jair Bolsonaro, for suggesting that the Brazilian citizenry be armed. Crowe pontificated, &#8220;How did we get to this point? When someone can say to us that a good crook is a dead crook. Someone can say to us: it&#8217;s necessary to arm the whole world. Arms are instruments of death. A Christian must be in favor of life.&#8221;
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<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/08/06/tensions-flare-brazil-supreme-court-considers-loosening-abortion-restrictions/?utm_term=.034071a4e80f">The Washington Post</a> notes:
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Brazil&#8217;s supreme court is considering decriminalizing abortion through the 12th week of pregnancy, stoking activists&#8217; hopes that the country could follow other Latin American nations in loosening abortion restrictions. &#8230; Abortion is banned in almost all cases in Brazil and is punishable by up to three years in prison. Still, 1 in 5 Brazilian women younger than 40 has undergone an abortion, according to a 2016 poll. &#8230; A majority of Brazilians remains staunchly against the legalization of abortion, but polls show a growing number believe that women who have abortions should not go to jail.
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Brazilians Outraged At Priest Who Gave Communion To Pro-Choice Presidential Candidate

Jair Bolsonaro, the frontrunner for the Brazilian presidential election, is warning against Iranian interference in the upcoming runoff election. 
Fox News national security and foreign policy expert Walid Phares tweeted last week that the State Department and democracy agencies are paying close attention to the Brazilian presidential elections while the intelligence community is monitoring Iran and Venezuela for &#8220;nefarious activities inside Brazil, especially since the assassination attempt&#8221; on Bolsonaro at a rally in September.
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/US?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#US</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/StateDept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@StateDept</a> and democracy agencies are monitoring the Presidential election in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Brazil?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Brazil</a> &amp; the intelligence community is monitoring <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Iran</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Venezuela?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Venezuela</a> nefarious activities inside Brazil, especially since the assassination attempt on <a href="https://twitter.com/jairbolsonaro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jairbolsonaro</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/jairbolsonaro?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#jairbolsonaro</a><a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FoxNews</a>
&#8212; Walid Phares (@WalidPhares) <a href="https://twitter.com/WalidPhares/status/1051550791444652036?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2018</a></blockquote>
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When asked about Phares&#8217;s tweets <a href="https://jornalhoraextra.com.br/entrevista/entrevista-jair-bolsonaro-2/">in an interview with a Brazilian news outlet</a>, Bolsonaro said he is aware of &#8220;Iran&#8217;s interference and passed the information along to the authorities,&#8221; adding &#8220;[t]here is a lot of geopolitical interest in Brazilian elections.&#8221;
In the past, Bolsonaro pushed for legislation that would require the machines to print voting receipts &#8212;<a href="https://qz.com/1416512/bolsonaro-questions-brazils-voting-machines-especially-if-he-loses/"> an idea endorsed by experts</a> who say voting machines not connected to the internet can still be hacked.
Throughout his campaign, Bolsonaro has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/11/brazil-venezuela-jair-bolsonaro-workers-party">warned</a> against Brazil &#8212; the world&#8217;s fifth largest country &#8212; taking &#8220;the path&#8221; of socialist Venezuela, which is currently facing an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/36022/venezuela-maduro-enjoys-major-salary-increase-250-paul-bois">economic</a> and <a href="https://www.apnews.com/d4e050fc4fe741369928b2468694a16e">hunger crisis</a>.
Last week, Bolsonaro&#8217;s son Eduardo &#8212; who is also an elected official but often acts as a surrogate for his father &#8212;<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-10/brazil-to-shun-venezuela-and-embrace-israel-bolsonaro-son-says"> said that if he father won</a>, Brazil should sever ties with Venezuela and distance itself from Iran.
&#8220;You need to play tough with Venezuela. It&#8217;ll be a 180 degree-change in relation to Venezuela,&#8221; Eduardo said in an interview with Brasilia. &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t recognize the Venezuelan government.&#8221;
Of Iran, Eduardo said: &#8220;Pro-Iranian position? It&#8217;ll change.&#8221;
Eduardo reportedly gave the interview in his office with displays of pro-gun and pro-life slogans and miniature statues of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.
Bolsonaro is a 63-year-old congressman, a retired captain in the Brazilian Army, and a self-described conservative Catholic who is married to an evangelical Christian. Bolsonaro is extremely popular in Brazil in large part for his strong opposition to socialism and promise to curb crime in a country that suffered<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/world/americas/brazil-murder-rate-record.html"> 63,880 murders in 2017</a>.
The pro-America candidate has spoken positively of President Donald Trump and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/36117/7-things-you-need-know-about-trump-brazil-who-kassy-dillon">received the nicknames</a> &#8220;Trump of Brazil&#8221; and &#8220;Trump of the tropics.&#8221;
Bolsonaro placed first in the first election on October 7, with 46% of the vote, just short of the 50% required to prevent a run-off. 
The financial sector is enthusiastic about the effect Bolsonaro would have on Brazil&#8217;s economy due to his support for capitalism and his delegation of economic matters to his trusted advisor, Paulo Guedes, an economist that graduated from the University of Chicago. <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/as-jair-bolsonaro-heads-for-a-second-round-vote-fears-rise-over-whats-next-for-brazil">According to The New Yorker</a>, after Bolsonaro finished in first place during the first election, the stock market jumped 6%.
Bolsonaro will face Fernando Haddad of the Workers Party on October 28, who received 29% of the vote. Haddad was the replacement for Luiz Inacio Lula De Silva &#8212; the former president who is serving a 12-year jail term for corruption &#8212; after the electoral ruled De Silva could not run for the presidency from prison.
Currently, Bolsonaro <a href="https://www.oantagonista.com/brasil/exclusivo-bolsonaro-609-x-391-haddad-crusoe/?__twitter_impression=true">is leading the polls</a> by as much as 21 points.

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In the wake of the most severe recession in Brazilian history and a corruption scandal, Brazilians will vote for their new president on October 7. Thus far, the election has been unlike any other, with one pro-capitalist candidate as the frontrunner who has been deemed the &#8220;Trump of Brazil,&#8221; running against several socialists.
To make matters worse, the &#8220;Trump of Brazil,&#8221; Jair Bolsonaro, was stabbed in the street at an event a couple of weeks ago. He is recovering in the hospital and continuing his campaigning through surrogates and social media. Despite this, thousands continue to amass in the street to support him at a time when the future of Brazil hangs on the election.
Here are six things you need to know about Jair Bolsonaro:
1. He Calls Himself A Conservative
Bolsonaro is a 63-year-old congressman and retired Captain in the Brazilian Army. He is also a Catholic and is married to an Evangelical Christian. He calls himself a conservative and <a href="https://www.poder360.com.br/eleicoes/se-congresso-aprovar-aborto-eu-veto-diz-bolsonaro/">opposes abortion</a> and <a href="https://noticias.uol.com.br/politica/eleicoes/2018/noticias/2018/07/31/bolsonaro-diz-que-pretende-reduzir-cortas-nunca-escravizei-ninguem.htm">affirmative action</a>, <a href="https://www.oantagonista.com/brasil/bolsonaro-sobre-lei-da-migracao-povo-sofrera-as-consequencias/">wants stricter immigration laws</a>, <a href="https://www.otempo.com.br/capa/pol%C3%ADtica/bolsonaro-o-cidad%C3%A3o-armado-%C3%A9-a-primeira-linha-de-defesa-de-um-pa%C3%ADs-1.1060490">hopes to make</a> firearms more accessible to curtail crime, <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/its-jew-vs-jew-as-a-conservative-politicians-popularity-rises-in-rio/">is a vocal supporter of Israel</a>, and is <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/08/23/brazilian-presidential-candidate-considers-skipping-debates.html">a strong capitalist</a>.
Bolsonaro brands himself as an honest man surrounded by corrupt politicians. At a time when <a href="http://org/">95% of Brazilians say</a> corrupt political leaders are a problem, he also promises to crack down on both corruption and crime.
Despite serving as a congressman for 28 years, Bolsonaro still believes he is a political outsider fighting against the establishment and the socialist parties in power, and he also claims to vote with his principles instead of on party lines.
2. His Supporters Are Enthusiastic
Bolsonaro is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/19/jair-bolsonaro-brazil-presidential-candidate-trump-parallels">called</a> &#8220;the legend&#8221; by supporters; he seems to draw a crowd wherever he goes. An article in The Guardian describes the enthusiasm from a crowd which was greeting him at an airport: &#8220;When flight 2020 delivered the presidential hopeful to his sun-scorched destination in the northern state of Roraima, pandemonium broke out. &#8216;Legend! Legend! Legend! Legend!&#8217; the crowd chanted, hoisting their idol into the air and outside through a crush of police officers and partisans.&#8221;
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Bolsonaro supporters.
He has 6.3 million followers on Facebook and 1.45 million on Twitter. A new poll <a href="https://static.poder360.com.br/2018/09/BTG-Pactual-17.set_.2018.pdf">released by BTG Pactual</a> shows Bolsonaro leading the field with 33% of the vote. <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-brazil-election/">According to Bloomberg</a>, Bolsonaro is leading with 26% in one poll and 20% in another. Many predict that the election will go for a runoff vote due to no single candidate getting above the 50% threshold. Bolsonaro&#8217;s rejection rate, according to Bloomberg, is the highest among all the candidates at 44%.
<a href="https://www.americasquarterly.org/content/candidates-brazil">His support primarily consists</a> of the wealthiest and best-educated Brazilians as well as young people from 18-25 hoping that he can combat the crime corruption in the country.
3. He Was Stabbed While Campaigning
Bolsonaro was stabbed in Juiz de Fora at a campaign rally by a 40-year-old named Adélio Bispo de Oliveira, who has since confessed. <a href="https://twitter.com/FlavioBolsonaro/status/1037808900660256773">According to Bolsnaro&#8217;s son</a>, Flavio, the knife pierced his liver, a lung, and his intestinal tract. He <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45451473">reportedly lost</a> 40% of his blood. This has caused Bolsonaro to campaign from his bed through <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jairmessias.bolsonaro/">Facebook</a> with posts and live streams. <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-10/brazil-candidates-preach-peace-after-stabbing-of-front-runner">He also missed</a> a presidential debate due to being hospitalized, but prior to being hospitalized, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/08/23/brazilian-presidential-candidate-considers-skipping-debates.html">he hinted at</a> skipping some debates and instead focusing on campaign events.
4. He Has A Controversial Past 
Bolsonaro is considered unfiltered and has a long list of controversial comments. Bolsonaro served as a military officer during Brazil&#8217;s authoritarian military dictatorship lasting from 1964 to 1985 and praises the dictatorship claiming: &#8220;There was decency and respect for the family. Things today are disgraceful,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/03/opinion/in-brazil-a-new-nostalgia-for-military-dictatorship.html">according to The New York Times.</a> Despite this, <a href="https://www.valor.com.br/politica/5512567/bolsonaro-diz-ter-total-compromisso-com-democracia">Bolsonaro says</a> he is &#8220;totally committed&#8221; to democracy.
Bolsonaro has also made several remarks on his view of the LGBT community and women. In 2011, he <a href="http://noticias.terra.com.br/brasil/bolsonaro-quotprefiro-filho-morto-em-acidente-a-um-homossexualquot,cf89cc00a90ea310VgnCLD200000bbcceb0aRCRD.html">told Playboy</a> he would be &#8220;incapable of loving a gay son.&#8221; In 2014, Bolsonaro stated, &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t rape you. You&#8217;re not worth it,&#8221; when <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/16/brazil-lawmaker-rape-taunt">addressing a congresswoman</a> after she called him a rapist many years before.
Bolsonaro and his family believe that many of the comments that are attributed to him are taken out of context or were never said in the first place.
According to the Los Angeles Times, a &#8220;Women Against Bolsonaro&#8221; Facebook page was created two weeks ago and has 2.2 million members who plan to protest in the streets of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
5. He Supports President Trump
Bolsonaro who has also been given the nickname &#8220;Trump of the Tropics&#8221; says he welcomes being compared to President Trump. &#8220;I&#8217;m not richer than him,&#8221; <a href="http://time.com/5375731/jair-bolsonaro/">he told TIME</a>, &#8220;That&#8217;s all I do not admire.&#8221;
Both men have several similarities, including their disdain for political correctness and lack of a filter. Bolsonaro also hopes to pull out of the <a href="http://www.climatechangenews.com/2018/08/14/brazils-bolsonaro-threatens-quit-paris-climate-deal/">Paris Climate Agreement</a>, <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/brazil-presidential-front-runner-vows-to-close-palestinian-embassy/">says he will close</a> the Palestinian embassy in Brazil and move Brazil&#8217;s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and bases much of his campaign on strengthening immigration laws and fighting crime.
In an interview with The Daily Wire, his son, Eduardo, said his father is similar to Trump because &#8220;he doesn&#8217;t receive money from anyone&#8221; and because of &#8220;how [the media] handles us, how they work with us, they call us racist, homophobic, sexist, etc. All of these attacks are the same kind of attacks that Trump received.&#8221;
6. He Fears Election Fraud In The Upcoming Election
In 2015, a law that would require 5% of the ballots to be paper ballots was passed, but this summer, the Supreme Court in an 8-2 decision, <a href="https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2018/06/1971217-brazils-supreme-court-suspends-requirement-of-paper-votes-in-this-years-elections.shtml">suspended the requirement</a>.
Bolsonaro believes the best way to prevent election fraud is to have a printout of each electronic vote. &#8220;The possibility of a fraud is concrete,&#8221; Bolsonaro said, according to Bloomberg. The voting system in Brazil is electronic, and Bolsonaro believes &#8220;The Workers&#8217; Party found a way to the power&#8212; the electronic vote.&#8221;
Bolsonaro also believes his main competition, Fernando Haddad of the Workers&#8217; Party, will pardon disgraced former President Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva, who is serving a 12-year jail term for corruption, and make him chief of staff, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-brazil-election/">according to Bloomberg.</a> Lula de Silva was originally running in the race, but recently <a href="http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-brazil-election-explainer-20180915-story.html">was reportedly forced</a> to pull out of the race because of his conviction.
7. He Is One Of Brazil&#8217;s Last Hopes Against Socialism
In the upcoming election, Bolsonaro will face candidates from several left-wing and socialist parties: Workers&#8217; Party, Democratic Labor Party, and Sustainability Network and one somewhat moderate party: the Social Democracy Party.
At a time when Brazil&#8217;s socialist neighbor, Venezuela, is plagued with poverty and hunger, many in Brazil fear the same fate if a socialist party wins the presidential election. <a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/07/06/how-brazilians-view-their-countrys-economic-and-political-crises/">According to Pew Research</a>, 14 million Brazilians are out of work, and 82% of Brazilians believe their economy is bad.
Bolsonaro plans to reduce taxes and reduce the deficit, but admits that he doesn&#8217;t understand much about economics and relies heavily on his pro-market advisor, Paulo Guedes, who studied at the University of Chicago. 
Though Bolsonaro&#8217;s controversial past is well-known, many voters simply do not care. Renata Santana, a 44-year-old psychologist told the Guardian: &#8220;I won&#8217;t say he is perfect, but he is most aligned with family values.&#8221; 
&#8220;There are no jobs, and this is because of socialist policies that stopped business people taking projects forward,&#8221; another woman named Rose Limeira said. &#8220;People can&#8217;t afford to employ anyone because they pay so much to the government.&#8221;

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The man who stabbed a far-right Brazilian presidential candidate who has been described as &#8220;<a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/09/jair-bolsonaro-brazils-donald-trump-is-stabbed.html">Brazil&#8217;s Donald Trump</a>&#8221; is reportedly a socialist on a self-described &#8220;mission from God.&#8221;
In a shocking moment caught on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/35554/watch-brazil-presidential-candidate-stabbed-rally-ashe-schow">video</a>, Brazil&#8217;s leading presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro was stabbed with a knife while being carried by a crowd during an afternoon rally in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, in south east Brazil on Thursday.
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Juiz de Fora, há pouco! <a href="https://t.co/Z3M9S1pz6E">pic.twitter.com/Z3M9S1pz6E</a>
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Bolsonaro, 63, was rushed to a hospital and underwent what turned out to be life-saving surgery for what officials say were serious internal injuries. He is currently in stable condition.
The suspect, a 40-year-old man, was arrested by police, who say he declared himself to be &#8220;on a mission from God.&#8221;
The <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6142245/Brazils-far-right-presidential-candidate-survives-life-saving-surgery-stabbed.html">Daily Mail</a> provides some more details on the attacker: &#8220;[The suspect] was said to be a member of the left-leaning PSOL party from 2007 to 2014. On his Facebook page, the attacker recently posted messages criticizing Bolsonaro and supporting the socialist government of President Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela.&#8221;
His lawyer, Pedro Augusto Lima Possa, told the press Thursday that his client has &#8220;confessed and claimed responsibility for the attack,&#8221; but added that &#8220;he had not intended to kill&#8221; Bolsonaro.
&#8220;He told me that there were religious and political motivations and that he hated the prejudice that the Bolsonaro openly spoke about and held against different races, religion and women,&#8221; Possa said.
The suspect is unmarried, and though he reportedly has a teacher&#8217;s degree, &#8220;is believed to be currently unemployed but has been working as a waiter and is apparently estranged from his family.&#8221;
Hospital officials said in a press briefing Thursday night that Bolsonaro suffered a &#8220;blunt abdominal trauma&#8221; which damaged several organs and caused him to lose 2 to 2.5 litres of blood.

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Leading Brazil presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro was stabbed Thursday during a rally in Rio De Janeiro.
In a short clip posted to Twitter, Bolsonaro can be seen being carried through a crowd before an unidentified person stabs him in the chest.
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Bolsonaro&#8217;s son says his father is recovering.
The former military officer is considered a far-right populist and is currently leading the polls. He opposes abortion and same-sex marriage and has compared himself to U.S. President Donald Trump. Naturally, this makes the U.S. media hate him.

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Candidates looking for an entry-level position in southern Brazil law enforcement no longer need to be masculine in order to be considered.
The Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports that the word &#8220;masculinity&#8221; <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/brazilian-cops-drop-masculinity-requirement-175952287.html">has been dropped</a> from a job posting in the southern state of Paraná that listed 72 required attributes for interested candidates. The word will be replaced with &#8220;endurance.&#8221; The poster has also removed a prohibition on falling in love.
&#8220;After criticism from a national gay alliance, the Brazilian attorneys&#8217; association and the Paraná government, the police rewrote the rules,&#8221; the AFP reported.
The attribute was included as part of a psychological profile requested of candidates looking for 16 different jobs. Each were open to men and women.
Masculinity was defined on the job posting as &#8220;an individual&#8217;s capacity to remain unmoved by violent scenes, to put up with vulgarity, not to become emotional easily and not to have interest in romantic episodes or love.&#8221;
The Brazilian Daily Newspaper Folha De São Paulo reported that not being masculine enough <a href="https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/cotidiano/2018/08/masculinidade-e-criterio-em-avaliacao-psicologica-para-vaga-na-pm-do-pr.shtml">wouldn&#8217;t necessarily disqualify someone</a> from the job, as it was just one item on a list. Job applicants need only have two-thirds of the attributes to get the job. Candidates also need to be at least 30 years old and a high school graduate.
Other attributes on the list, according to Folha, include &#8220;empathy,&#8221; &#8220;extroversion,&#8221; and &#8220;conformity.&#8221; The list also includes attributes that may hurt a candidate, such as &#8220;depression,&#8221; and &#8220;vulnerability.&#8221;
After complaints were filed against the required attributes, police issued a statement claiming the list was supposed to help assess the &#8220;necessary aspects of day-to-day military police activity.&#8221;
&#8220;The Military Police of Paraná does not condone and tolerate discriminatory behaviors and positions of any nature,&#8221; the agency added.

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In a <a href="http://thefederalist.com/2018/06/07/no-amazon-tribes-not-allowed-kill-children/">chilling column</a> at The Federalist, John Daniel Davidson shows why cultural relativism can be downright evil, citing leftists who oppose laws that would prevent the murder of children by indigenous tribes in Brazil and in the Bay of Bengal.
Davidson notes a <a href="https://www.getreligion.org/getreligion/2018/6/6/should-amazon-tribes-be-allowed-to-kill-their-young-foreign-policy-isnt-sure">post at Get Religion</a> that asked, &#8220;Should Amazon tribes be allowed to kill their young? Foreign Policy editors aren&#8217;t sure.&#8221; The post linked to a <a href="http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/04/09/the-right-to-kill-brazil-infanticide/">story</a> in Foreign Policy magazine detailing indigenous tribes in Brazil that ritually murdered infants and children who were either disabled, twins, or the children of single mothers.
A law under consideration in Brazil that would outlaw ritual infanticide and child killings by indigenous groups, called &#8220;Muwaji&#8217;s Law,&#8221; is vehemently opposed by the the Brazilian Association of Anthropology, which called it &#8220;the most repressive and lethal actions ever perpetrated against the indigenous peoples of the Americas, which were unfailingly justified through appeals to noble causes, humanitarian values and universal principles.&#8221; The association disparaged the proposed law as placing indigenous peoples &#8220;in the permanent condition of defendants before a tribunal tasked with determining their degree of savagery.&#8221;
The Brazilian Association of Anthropology is not the only depraved participant in the drama; Brazil&#8217;s National Indian Foundation, according to Davidson, won&#8217;t &#8220;collect data on child-killing among indigenous tribes, resists even acknowledging its existence in public, and said in a 2016 press release that raising the issue at all &#8216;is in many cases an attempt to incriminate and express prejudice against indigenous peoples.&#8217;&#8221;
Davidson tells the horrifying story from<a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1555339/Girl-survived-tribes-custom-of-live-baby-burial.html"> The Telegraph</a> in 2007 about Márcia and Edson Suzuki, a pair of evangelical missionaries:
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In 1995, the Suzukis were living among the Suruwaha when tribal leaders decided that a two-year-old girl named Hakani, who still could not walk or talk, should be killed, and ordered her parents to do it. The harrowing story of what ensued was They committed suicide&#8212;eating a poison root&#8212;rather than obey the order. Hakani&#8217;s 15-year-old brother was then told he had to kill her. He dug a hole to bury her next to the village hut, which is where the tribe usually buries animals, and hit her over the head with a machete to knock her out. &#8232;However, she woke up as she was being placed in the hole and the boy found he could not go through with the killing. Hakani&#8217;s grandfather then shot her with an arrow. He was so upset he tried to commit suicide, too. But Hakani survived, although her wound became infected and she was left to live like an animal in the forest for three years. &#8232;At the age of five she was very undersized, still unable to walk and abused by other Indians. She survived only because a brother smuggled food to her.
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When the Suzukis brought the girl back to her tribe, she was rejected, so they adopted her. But then it got worse: &#8220;The Hakani affair prompted the public prosecutor&#8217;s office in the state of Amazonia to recommend in 2003 that all nonindigenous people be banned from lands occupied by the Suruwaha. According to Foreign Policy magazine, state officials relied on the judgment of anthropologist Marcos Farias de Almeida, who charged the Suzukis with advocating for Western values to the detriment of those held by the Suruwaha. By removing Hakani, the Suzukis &#8220;stood in the way of the realization of a cultural practice filled with meaning.&#8221;

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The demand for sperm from blue-eyed, blonde, white American males is skyrocketing in Brazil.
Women are importing the sperm of American men at unprecedented rates, says a <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-mixed-race-brazil-sperm-imports-from-u-s-whites-are-booming-1521711000?mod=trending_now_1">report</a> from The Wall Street Journal, and blue-eyed Caucasian males are the most sought after donors.
&#8220;Over the past seven years, human semen imports from the U.S. to Brazil have surged as more rich single women and lesbian couples select donors whose online profiles suggest they will yield light-complexioned and preferably blue-eyed children,&#8221; says the report.
Last year, over 500 tubes of frozen semen entered Brazil, up from 16 in 2011, notes the report.
&#8220;The vast majority of what we have and what we sell are the Caucasian blond-haired, blue-eyed donors,&#8221; Fredrik Andreasson told the Journal. Andreasson is the CFO of Seattle Sperm Bank, a bank that procures about a fourth of the country&#8217;s sperm imports.
With increasing gender equality, more and more Brazilian women are putting off marriage and children to establish themselves in the workforce. Additionally, the purchasing of sperm within the country is illegal. Thus, the demand for foreign sperm is unsurprising.
But why are Brazilian women yearning for the sperm of blonde, white males in a country where so much of the population is mixed race or black? The reasoning is seemingly economic, but also social, being tightly tied to the country&#8217;s racial history.
Race is perceived as an indicator of wealth and prosperity in the country; it is estimated that over 80% of the wealthiest top 1% in Brazil are white.
&#8220;More than 50% of Brazilians are black or mixed-race, a legacy of Brazil having imported more than 10 times as many African slaves than the U.S.; it was the last Western country to ban slavery, in 1888. The descendants of white colonizers and immigrants &#8212; many of whom were lured to Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when the ruling elite explicitly sought to &#8216;whiten&#8217; the population &#8212; control most of the country&#8217;s political power and wealth,&#8221; explains the Journal. &#8220;In such a racially divided society, having fair-skinned offspring is often viewed as a way to provide a child with better prospects, from a higher salary to fairer treatment by the police.&#8221;
Brazilian women are reportedly requesting blue-eyed donors specifically to up their probability of having a child with fair skin.
And for the women with less money to spare on such a pricey process? They are looking to obtain the sperm they desire via Facebook. &#8220;Every month, scores of Brazilian men post offers there to impregnate women free, either by having sex or with a needleless syringe,&#8221; the Journal reports.
A 61-year-old blonde, blue-eyed male and his wife essentially run a one-man sperm manufacturing business from their home. João Carlos Holland de Barcellos &#8220;sees children as a way to perpetuate his genes and ensure his existence beyond death,&#8221; says the report.
&#8220;It&#8217;s an atheist&#8217;s way to achieve immortality,&#8221; said the sperm donor.

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