For Brazil's Bolsonaro, culture war is the only one worth fighting
This President plans to tackle ravaging crime by making guns more readily available – like many of his other ideas, it's one many Brazilians are keen on.
Elton do Nascimento cocks his Brazilian-made .380 handgun and smiles. “Finally, we have a President who understands what we want,” he says, sporting a T-shirt with the map of Brazil and the face of the country’s far-right leader, Jair Bolsonaro, stamped on it. “I believe”, reads an inscription –and he is far from alone.
Do Nascimento is a manager at a supermarket in the rural town of Treze de Maio, in the southern state of Santa Catarina, where more than 89 per cent of the population voted for Bolsonaro in last year’s election. That made it the municipality where the President secured the largest share of voters.
