Jair Bolsonaro

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Focuses on how the evangelical movement paved the way for the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro and poses the threat of a national theocracy in Brazil.

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Bolsonaro was born on 21 March 1955 in Glicério, São Paulo, in southeast Brazil, to Percy Geraldo Bolsonaro and Olinda Bonturi. His family is mostly of Italian descent, with some German ancestry. In his final years in high school, Bolsonaro was admitted to the Escola Preparatória DE Cadetes do Exército (the prep school of the Brazilian Army), which he entered in 1973. In 1974, he went to the Academia Militar das Agulhas Negras (Brazil's main military academy), graduating in 1977, as an Artillery officer. He served in the 9th Field Artillery Group, in Nioaque, Mato Grosso do Sul.

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He is of predominantly Italian descent and some German roots. His paternal great-grandparents were from the Italian provinces of Veneto and Calabria. His German ancestry hails from his father's maternal grandfather Carl "Carlos" Hintze who was born in 1876 in Hamburg and emigrated to Brazil in 1883. His maternal grandparents were born in Lucca, Tuscany Italy and emigrated to Brazil in the 1890s.