Posted on 01/05/2019 3:46:54 PM PST by lowbridge
The administration of Brazil's new President Jair Bolsonaro said Thursday it is starting a purge of government contractors to get rid of those who don't share its far-right ideology.
The government "will clean the house," chief of staff Onyx Lorenzoni told a news conference after the first cabinet meeting with Bolsonaro, who took office this week.
"It's the only way to govern with our ideas, our concepts and to carry out what Brazil's society decided in its majority," he said.
The sweep will target contractors deemed sympathetic to the centrist and left-wing parties that have ruled Brazil for most of the period since the country shucked off military dictatorship in 1985.
Bolsonaro and his team routinely identify those parties -- particularly the Workers Party that governed between 2003 and 2016 -- derogatively as "Socialists" or "Communists."
Bolsonaro in October decisively beat the Workers Party candidate in elections for the presidency.
The 63-year-old former paratrooper and veteran lawmaker won by promising to combat crime, corruption -- and leftwing ideology that he blamed for Brazil's recent record-busting recession and barriers to business.
He has pledged to roll back protections for the environment and minorities, boost investment, and ease gun laws.
Lorenzoni said the ideological purge of contractors aimed "to do away with the Socialist and Communist ideas that during 30 years have led us to the chaos in which we live."
The measure does not affect government employees, who enter Brazil's public service through a competitive exam and are protected from partisan politics by the constitution.
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Wish Trump could have got away with this.
Well if the dems destroy america brazil is now closer for me than hungary. I think we will all win though.
Another person to admire?
Wish he'd tried. Instead he promoted a bunch of them to his staff.
I’m going to give him a little benefit of the doubt on this one, He may have been ill advised and kind hearted enough to give some of them a chance. I think he is getting it figured out finally, he can’t trust any of them.
Absolutely... And he was actually trying to be bipartisan when he first got in. This was a mistake in trust.
He’s probably got an even bigger swamp to deal with than Trump!
I need a learn to speak Portugeuse book.
Can you actually drive to Brazil ? Asking for a friend.
All but the ‘Darien Gap’.
Interesting question. Google responses worth reading all say not directly possible due to the Darien Gap area in columbia.rest of the drive is theorectically possibly if your car is an armored tank, ie not all safe.
Things are about to get real in Brazil.
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