FILOSOFIA PARA LA BUENA VIDA

Portents Tony Wood 06 September 2025  PARA LA REVISTA nlr sidecar , original en este  ENLACE On 12 May 2016, the Brazilian Senate voted to suspend Dilma Rousseff’s presidential powers – a key moment in the march towards her impeachment and removal later that year. On the same day, more than six thousand miles to the east, Jair Bolsonaro was being baptized in the River Jordan by the evangelical pastor Everaldo Dias Pereira. In hindsight, the two events could be seen as causally interconnected portents: Rousseff’s removal signalled the waning power of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT; Workers’ Party), while Bolsonaro’s holy plunge foreshadowed the alliance with right-wing evangelicals that helped carry him to the presidency in 2018. Within the broader story of the rise of evangelicalism in Latin America, Brazil represents an especially dramatic case of political success for the Christian right. Not only are evangelicals a rapidly growing slice of the Brazilian electorate – they...