Name: Why Brazilian Women Support Jair Bolsonaro | Dispatches
Uploaded: 2019-01-25T07:09:23.000Z
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is now party central for Brazil's far right.

Weekly rallies here celebrate the movement's

rising star and now future president, Jair Bolsonaro.

you likely know that he's made  some pretty outrageous remarks,

You may also know that women have come out en masse

to oppose Bolsonaro, taking to the streets across Brazil

under the banner of Ele Não, or “Not Him.”

But what may be surprising is that almost as many women

but women seem especially  divided about him.

In 1964, women marched against communist reforms,

Twenty-one years of dictatorship followed.

about the role women played in calling for the coup.

Crime — and especially violent crime —

Last year, nearly 64,000 people were murdered.

Now she's pro-life, and describes herself

She's been mobilizing her Facebook followers

The military already polices Rio's poorest neighborhoods.

We embed with  Lt. Commander Enrique Amaral —

His battalion is part of a federal intervention

Soldiers are looking for guns and gang members.

over 1,000 people in Rio since the federal takeover began.

It's why many women here — many mothers —

He wants to ramp up  the military's role,

What's at stake in this election for you?

But outside the war zone  in the favelas,

there's less concern about the cost of fighting violence

Bolsonaro also wants to make  it easier to buy guns,

with a lot of middle  and upper class people

at a school Mother's Day event standing outside

was recorded on CCTV shooting the gunman three times

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