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Comprendre la montée de l’extrême droite au Brésil... pour mieux la contrer

L’extrême droite brésilienne n’a pas surgi ex nihilo avec l’ascension et la victoire de Jair Bolsonaro à l’élection présidentielle de 2018. Elle s’inscrit dans une trajectoire historique longue, jalonnée de continuités, de reconfigurations idéologiques et de résurgences successives. Dans un pays durablement marqué par l’esclavage – aboli tardivement en 1888 – et la persistance de profondes inégalités sociales et raciales, elle puise aux sources d’une tradition politique hiérarchique et autoritaire solidement enracinée. Nourrie par la défense des privilèges des élites économiques et par la crainte récurrente des mobilisations populaires, cette matrice politico-idéologique a durablement façonné le paysage politique brésilien et continue d’être un terreau propice à l’émergence et à la recomposition de forces qui s’en réclament

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