Jair Bolsonaro has trashed Brazil's image but he hasn't broken its soul | Eliane Brum

The president has fomented hate, underplayed coronavirus and unleashed a financial crash. But there is rising resistanceIt is claimed that the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, had a prophetic start to his political career: he was accused (a controversial trial found him not guilty) of devising an aborted plan to press for higher wages by detonating bombs in his army barracks. Decades later, he finally seems to have managed to blow something up: his country’s im