Historical Figure
Jair Bolsonaro
b. 1955
President of Brazil from 2019 to 2023
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Biography
Jair Messias Bolsonaro is a Brazilian politician and former military officer who served as the 38th president of Brazil from 2019 to 2023. He previously served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1991 to 2019.
Timeline
The story of Jair Bolsonaro, told in moments.
Elected to Rio de Janeiro city council. Began a political career defined by provocative statements about minorities, women, and the military dictatorship. He served seven terms in Congress over 27 years.
Stabbed at a campaign rally in Juiz de Fora. The knife pierced his intestine. He nearly died. He campaigned from a hospital bed and won the presidency two months later.
Took office as president of Brazil. Amazon deforestation accelerated sharply. He dismissed climate scientists and fired the head of the space agency for publishing satellite data showing the destruction.
His supporters stormed Brazil's Congress, Supreme Court, and presidential palace. Bolsonaro was in Florida. He'd left the country two days before his term ended without attending the inauguration of his successor.
In Their Own Words (20)
You're an idiot. [...] You are an illiterate. [...] You're censored. [...] You're an ignorant. [...] I don't give a shit about you.
Responding to the reporter Manuela Borges after asked about the 1964 coup d'état denial on 1 April 2014. Câmara suspende sessão sobre golpe militar após tumulto no plenário. G1 (1 April 2014); Jair Bolsonaro se irrita e chama jornalista de “analfabeta” e “idiota”; assista. Veja SP (4 April 2014), 2014
I would not rape you. You don’t merit that. Stay here to hear this!
To federal deputy Maria do Rosário at the Chamber of Deputies on 9 December 2014. The Most Misogynistic, Hateful Elected Official in the Democacratic World: Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro. The Intercept (11 December 2014)., 2014
We even have a gay pride march and we're thinking of having a heterosexual pride also. You'll not be invited.
Interview to Stephen Fry in October 2013. Jair Bolsonaro provoca polêmica em documentário do ator Stephen Fry sobre homofobia. Veja SP (23 October 2013)., 2013
To not like is not the same as to hate. You don't like the Taliban, do you? We Brazilian people don't like homosexuals, but we don't persecute and hunt homosexuals.
Interview to Stephen Fry in October 2013. Jair Bolsonaro provoca polêmica em documentário do ator Stephen Fry sobre homofobia. Veja SP (23 October 2013)., 2013
Are [gays] demigods? ... Just because someone has sex with his excretory organ, it doesn’t make him better than anyone else.
On 11 February 2014. A única coisa boa do Maranhão é o presídio de Pedrinhas, diz Bolsonaro. UOL (11 February 2014)., 2013
Artifacts (15)
by marriage with a Pollexfen, we have given a tongue to the sea cliffs
h personally and symbolically, his "country of the heart". So too did its location by the sea; John Yeats stated that "by marriage with a Pollexfen, we have given a tongue to the sea cliffs". The...
the tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
ed at last" was how another of his lovers described the event. Yeats was less sentimental and later remarked that "the tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul." The...
it seems to me that she [Gonne] brought into my life those days—for as yet I saw...
and she had a significant and lasting effect on his poetry and his life thereafter. In later years he admitted, "it seems to me that she [Gonne] brought into my life those days—for as yet I saw only...
If I had not made magic my constant study I could not have written a single word...
sation "The Ghost Club" (in 1911) and was influenced by the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg. In 1892 Yeats wrote: "If I had not made magic my constant study I could not have written a single word of my...
We hope to find in Ireland an uncorrupted & imaginative audience trained to list...
cendancy of the playwright rather than the actor-manager à l'anglais". The group's manifesto, which Yeats wrote, declared, "We hope to find in Ireland an uncorrupted & imaginative audience trained to...
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