‘Bolso shows all signs of fascism’: the journalist who predicted Brazil’s future – and paid the ultimate price
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/24/jair-bolsonaro-fascism-journalist-dom-phillips-predicted-brazil-future
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Dom Phillips warned that Jair Bolsonaro would make life more dangerous for reporters and the Amazon rainforest, and that his sons were even more extreme “Bolso shows all signs of fascism, as do his supporters,” the murdered British journalist Dom Phillips told me before his death. “His sons are all more extreme if anything.” These words were written in 2018 by the Guardian contributor shortly before the election of the far-right former army captain Jair Bolsonaro as president of Brazil – a prospect that Dom viewed with dread. Continue reading...
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