Brazil's right on the rise as anger grows over scandal and corruption

Brazil's right on the rise as anger grows over scandal and corruption

ernando Holiday is one of the few openly gay black politicians in Brazil, but before he won a single vote, he first reached national fame in 2015 with a string of viral videos in which he attacked Brazil’s affirmative action system for black, indigenous and poor people.

“We blacks and poor can win in life on merit,” he said in one Facebook video. “I don’t play the victim.”

That year, Holiday became a leading figure in the Free Brazil Movement – a rightwing pressure group instrumental in the mass street demonstrations against the corruption unveiled by Operation Car Wash, an investigation into a multibillion-dollar graft scheme at state-run oil company Petrobras.
                                                                                                     Read More...