La reacción patriota en Brasil

Abstract

This article analyzes the mobilization process that began in 2013 in Brazil, whose culmination is the election of Jair Bolsonaro in 2018. My argument is that there was no sudden irruption of a new right wing in Brazil as various authors and public intellectuals have proposed. On the contrary, reactions to reforms began to appear from the beginning of the redemocratization process in the 1980s and have grown gradually ever since, having especially accelerated with the 2003 election of the first left-wing president since the 1964 coup.