Brazil’s polarisation offers a warning to British voters
Somewhere along the line, though he cannot say exactly when, Leonardo Santos stopped trusting everything.He had grown up on the centre-Right. As a young man, he opened a small grocery in São Paulo’s Jardim Colombo favela, helped by the inflation-busting, pro-market reforms of Brazil’s Social Democrats, the PSDB – the closest thing Brazil has to Britain’s Conservatives.Staunchly anti-communist, Mr Santos saw the PSDB as the main bulwark against the dangerous ideas of the trade union movement and...
