Four years ago, in the 2018 Brazilian presidential elections, "people were so angry with politics that they voted for people who try to destroy politics," Carol Pires told EL PAÍS at the end of September, before the first lap.
After the unexpected victory of Jair Bolsonaro, Pires (36 years old, Brasilia), decided to investigate the origins of the extreme rightist who governs his country and the roots of his thought, to try to understand the conditions that made his rise to power possible.
This is how the Narrated Portrait
podcast was born
, a sound profile of Bolsonaro that became a milestone in Brazil and was translated into Spanish by Spotify.
Pires, co-writer of the documentary
Democracia en vertigo
—nominated for an Oscar in 2020—, believes that Brazilian society has paid dearly for contempt for politics and that many sectors of Brazilian society live this Sunday's elections with a sense of urgency, aware that what is in dispute goes far beyond two candidates or two ideologies: these elections, he analyzes, put at stake the democratic system itself, the social security of millions of people and a future that exceeds the borders of the country.
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