¡Viva Brasilia!

While places like Venezuela and Nicaragua are slowly falling apart, places like Brazil are on the uphill slope since their last election. Even though the country itself has a reputation of poverty and crime, these attributes aren't natural, but man-made by past governments who don't do enough to bring the crime rates down. However, there's hope for the large South American country to turn its crime and poverty rates down. 

Brazil, the largest country in the continent of South America, has just recently elected a new right-wing president by the name of  Jair Bolsonaro. Jair was just sworn in as the official president of Brazil in front of a very large crowd of supports and spectators. This is a huge victory for the country because President Bolsonaro has already declared Brazil will move the embassy to Jerusalem in recognition to Israel's capital. Jair also removed all Palestinian offices in the capital and nationwide in protest of the Palestinian Authority and their corrupt ways. Speaking of Israel, Prime Minister Netanyahu visited Brazil and even attended the inauguration but when he arrived, thousands of Brazilians shouted "Israel" over and over again, showing tons of support for Israel. 

In his inauguration speech, Bolsonaro said, "We cannot continue flirting with communism" (Daily wire). He even goes on to say he'll get rid of all Marxist literature within the schools and universities of Brazil, which has sadly grown in the past few years in South America. President Trump congratulated him through twitter while Bolsonaro in kind returned his thanks and hopes for continued partnership with the United States. Even going as far as moving away from developing nations policies and aligning to western policies that could and would increase the economy immensely. Brazil has been swamped with Venezuelan refugees in its northern provinces that border the crumbling nation. 

But of course, there are always concerns about things like indigenous rights when it comes to a right-wing government. Most right swaying governments aren't very good to indigenous peoples but so are left swaying ones too. The Amazon is also a big problem too, as the country has had a bad history of destroying miles of forests and animal habitats. Reportedly Bolsonaro's agriculture minister has opposed several requests from native communities, which there are still many unreached tribes in the Amazon Rainforest. Poaching is also rampant in the Amazon as many species who live there are starting to fall on the "most endangered species" list. President Bolsonaro isn't showing much support to the natives and "Quilombolas" who are descendants of former slaves during Portuguese control and this is the one thing that concerns me the most about this new Brazilian government. I don't think completely disregarding the whole native population is going to be good for Brazil's domestic problems. 

Besides that issue, there's lots of good that'll come out of Bolsonaro's new government. Helping the lower income communities such as the "favelas" that are made up of weak wooden shacks that are very illegal but past regimes have done little except a few programs that just made it all worse. The thing about favelas is that its filled with corruption and gang violence and even violence by children who run around without any parental guidance. Many children died in the 1990s when the government tried eliminating the favelas but they're still here. Fires are also very frequent and natural disasters take a shard toll on the favela communities so hopefully, Jair can find a non-forceful way to help those who are troubled within the favelas. 

To sum up my thoughts: Jair Bolsonaro will be good for Brazil as a whole. Its economy will flourish, its foreign policies will change for the better, and any marxist ideology will be removed and stopped before it can create more chaos in South America. Like I said before, I worry some for the native communities. One of my Brazilians friends at Harding University basically described Bolsonaro as the Brazilian Trump so we'll see how President Bolsonaro's first term goes before I make any conclusions.