Jair Bolsonaro

ABOUT JAIR BOLSONARO

Politician and former military officer who began serving as the President of Brazil on January 1, 2019. He is best known for his far-right and populist political agenda which has been compared to that of Donald Trump . He became the first President of Brazel to lose his re-election, which caused his supporters to call for a coup d'etat.

He served as an army parachutist and was elected as city councilor of Rio de Janeiro in 1988.

In 2017, he was interviewed by the investigative journalistic website O Antagonista. His political fame has resulted in gaining over 25 million followers on his Instagram page.

He married his wife Michelle in 2013.

American journalist Glenn Greenwald wrote a scathing article about him.