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Caribbean-Latin America
Brazil: Bolsonaro Promises to Fire ‘Communist' Government Employees
2019-01-05
[Breitbart] Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s chief of staff Onyx Lorenzoni told reporters following a cabinet meeting Thursday that Bolsonaro intends to fire any "communists" who work for the government currently, contending that those holding opposing ideological views to the new government cannot properly execute its goals.

Bolsonaro, who defeated the socialist Workers’ Party (PT) candidate Fernando Haddad in October’s run-off presidential election, ran a campaign vowing to eradicate Marxist thought from the government and from Brazil’s schools and spearhead a movement of small-government conservatives in Latin America who opposed the ideologies of the region’s dictatorships, Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.

"Society said ’enough’ to socialist and communist ideas which, in the past 30 years, brought us to the chaos were are living today," Lorenzoni told reporters, explaining that this mandate made it necessary to remove Marxists from top positions in the government according to the Spanish news agency EFE. To accomplish this, the Bolsonaro administration will begin a review of some of the highest-ranking officials.

Posted by:Besoeker

#5  ...like withdrawing Kennedy's and Nixon's executive order on federal unions?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-01-05 20:08  

#4  Learning from Trump's mistakes.

In the US, government workers have union protections against firing. Until that changes, it’s not about President Trump’s mistakes but about what he can legally do.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-01-05 16:29  

#3  You say that like it's a bad thing, InBu.

In the olden days, when there was a regime change, everyone from the previous admin who didn't beat feet was tossed into a volcano or stood up against a wall. I'm not necessarily advocating for a return to those times, but I can see certain advantages.
Posted by: SteveS   2019-01-05 13:34  

#2  If we did that here, you'd have to fire more than half the State Department, and nearly all the social services agencies.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891   2019-01-05 13:22  

#1  Learning from Trump's mistakes.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-01-05 07:09  

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