'Threat to Democracy': Brazil's Bolsonaro Faces Growing Calls to Resign

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'Threat to Democracy': Brazil's Bolsonaro Faces Growing Calls to Resign
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Brett Wilkins is a staff writer for Common Dreams.

Beset by political, public health, and environmental crises amid an emerging progressive consensus for his impeachment, historic Cabinet turnover, and soaring Covid-19 deaths, Brazil ian President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday faced a chorus of calls to resign. 'There is no shortage of examples of the way authoritarianism can emerge from the shadows if societies are careless and fail to speak up in defense of democratic values.

' On Wednesday, six potential candidates for the 2022 presidential election released a joint statement remembering the destruction of democracy in 1964 and warning that three decades after the restoration of the democratic constitution, 'Brazil's democracy is under threat.' 'There is no shortage of examples of the way authoritarianism can emerge from the shadows if societies are careless and fail to speak up in defense of democratic values,' cautioned the statement.

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