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    Another country shifts to far right in elections

    RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil on Sunday became the latest country to drift toward the far right, electing a strident populist as president in the nation's most radical political change since democracy was restored more than 30 years ago.

    The president-elect, Jair Bolsonaro, has exalted the country's military dictatorship, advocated torture and threatened to destroy, jail or drive into exile his political opponents.

    He won by tapping into a deep well of resentment at the status quo in Brazil — a country whiplashed by rising crime and two years of political and economic turmoil — and by presenting himself as the alternative.

    He appeared eager to dispel concerns that he would govern despotically, saying his government would be a "defender of the Constitution, democracy and liberty."

    Mr. Bolsonaro, who will take the helm of Latin America's biggest nation, is further to the right than any president in the region, where voters have recently embraced more conservative leaders in Argentina, Chile, Peru, Paraguay and Colombia. He joins a number of far-right politicians who have risen to power around the world, including Italy's deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, and Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary...

    ...Reeling from the deepest recession in the country's history, a corruption scandal that tarnished politicians across the ideological spectrum, and a record-high number of homicides last year, Brazilians picked a candidate who not only rejected the political establishment but at times also seemed to reject the most basic democratic tenets.

    Mr. Bolsonaro said that President Trump called to congratulate him, calling it "obviously a very friendly contact."

    Part of the reason for Mr. Bolsonaro's victory was the collapse of the left. Many cried foul after former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the longtime front-runner in the race, was ruled ineligible to run after he was imprisoned in April to start serving a 12-year sentence for corruption and money laundering...

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/28/w...-election.html

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    MBGA.

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    Brazil has gone Pentecostal!

    If the polls are correct, on Sunday October 27 the Pentecostal movement will effectively take power in the world’s fifth most populous country—the “Donald Trump of the Tropics,” former paratrooper and current senator Jair Bolsonaro, seems poised to win Brazil’s presidency. [Brazilian elections 2018: New poll claims far-right Bolsonaro may win over HALF of votes, by Joe Gamp, Daily Express, October 24, 2018]

    Bolsonaro may well move the country in a strongly conservative direction. But amid all the MSM panic about Brazil’s impending return to the “dictatorship” it emerged from 33 years ago [Brazil elections: prospect of Bolsonaro victory stokes fears of return to dictatorship, by Tom Philipps, Guardian, October 5, 2018], few seem to be asking a key question: How in Heaven (so to speak) have Pentecostals managed to take over a country which, less than 50 years ago, was 95% Catholic? [Brazil’s Changing Religious Landscape, Pew Research Center, July 18, 2013]
    https://vdare.com/articles/brazil-s-...talist-triumph

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    How in Heaven (so to speak) have Pentecostals managed to take over a country which, less than 50 years ago, was 95% Catholic?
    Well praise God! Sooo....how did it happen?

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    Quote Originally Posted by krystian View Post
    Well praise God! Sooo....how did it happen?
    The Pentecostal revival hit Argentina in the late 80’s-early 90’s at the peak. Revival has spread like wildfire over the decades. Venezuela and Chile have been affected culturally. There is a great testimony of a prison (terrible conditions) that was swept in revival with inmates and guards/warden repenting and being baptized in the Holy Spirit. We havent heard the half of what God does across the globe.

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    Brazil is still 64% Catholic. I think the article was referring to the fact that Bolsonaro is a Pentecostal, but I haven't seen any evidence of that. He was raised Catholic but has reportedly attended a Baptist church for the last ten years. Some people in Brazil consider all Evangelicals to be Pentecostals because the majority are, but most Baptists aren't.

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