>>212643887Brazil like most countries in the world is a boomercracy run by geriatrics, our boomers lived under the cold war era dictatorship during their prime and formative political years and were either very supportive or very against the regime.
Bolsonaro was member of the military, althought just a captain at the time.
Lula was an union leader.
Some of our right wing politicians had ties with the CIA back in the day, some are the children of our former dictators
Some of our left wing politicians were soviet assets, lived in exile in the east, or were literal communist terrorists.
You see this trend all over post-junta LATAM countries.