Many Brazilians believe there is a ploy to free the younger Bolsonaro from baggage of his father’s name to return the family to power
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e possesses one of the most famous family names in Latin American politics. But when the Brazilian senator took to the stage at a conservative conference in Grapevine, Texas, last weekend it was only his forename that was on people’s lips.
“Flávio! Flávio! Flávio!” the audience shouted as the 44-year-old politician announced he would run for president in order to fight the “radical environmental and woke” agendas he claims have made Brazil awful again.
“Let me look you in the eyes and tell you: we will win,” the surname-less senator said in halting English, read from a teleprompter machine.
