{"id":9248,"date":"2018-10-29T22:16:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T22:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/jair-bolsonaro-far-right-candidate-wins-brazil-poll\/latin-american-news\/"},"modified":"2018-10-30T14:23:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T14:23:03","slug":"far-right-candidate-jair-bolsonaro-becomes-brazilian-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/far-right-candidate-jair-bolsonaro-becomes-brazilian-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Far-Right candidate Jair Bolsonaro becomes Brazilian President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil took a &#8220;Step to the Right&#8221; by electing former soldier\u00a0Jair Bolsonaro as president. The 63 year old Social Conservative is a deeply polarising character who is a big fan of pro-market policies and despite the misgivings of some seems popular with the regions leaders, with most voicing their support.<\/p>\n<p>Even Donald Trump got in on the act:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Had a very good conversation with the newly elected President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, who won his race by a substantial margin. We agreed that Brazil and the United States will work closely together on Trade, Military and everything else! Excellent call, wished him congrats!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1056885392522260480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 29, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>One group who were less keen are\u00a0Amnesty International who view his campaign pledges as a &#8220;huge risk&#8221; to Brazil&#8217;s many indigenous people, black youths, women and LGBT communities. Lets hope they are mistaken.<\/p>\n<p>You can read a bit more about the possible implications <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2018\/10\/29\/18037728\/bolsonaro-brazil-election-guide\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil took a &#8220;Step to the Right&#8221; by electing former soldier\u00a0Jair Bolsonaro as president. The 63 year old Social Conservative is a deeply polarising character who is a big fan of pro-market policies and despite the misgivings of some seems popular with the regions leaders, with most voicing their support. Even Donald Trump got in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latin-american-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9248"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9280,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9248\/revisions\/9280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}