Podcast examines the Bolsonaro family’s rise in Brazil

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A podcast episode examined how members of Brazil’s Bolsonaro family have gained influential positions. It reported that Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, had a good chance of becoming president in the following weekend’s election and would likely make pardoning his father, who was sentenced to 27 years in prison for an attempted coup, one of his first actions.

The episode also explored how Brazil had continued to embrace the family despite these events.

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