Last week you were complaining about anglophone media being outraged abut right-wing authoritarian Bolsonaro, weren't you?
I mean, I do find Anglophone media to be an absolute disaster when it comes to Latin America, but they're not a monolithic group. If you see, for instance, how Dilma Rousseff's impeachment (coup) was portrayed in essentially every media outlet, from more left-leaning ones like The Guardian to the liberal The Economist, you quickly realise that they care about democracy insofar as it maintains the neo-liberal status quo. Nevermind the several irregularities surrounding the process, the man who would come into power in her place was as 'liberal' as they come and the economy was absolutely tanked. So it's all good.
Bolsonaro poses a problem because he's very close to 'illiberal democracy', which can, more out of clumsiness than ideology, disturb this status quo. Then you'll get 'liberal left' outlets coming out against him, but there's still a great deal of sympathy for the guy in more 'classical liberal' outlets like The Economist and the Americas Quarterly, where Bolsonaro is portrayed as someone who does have good ideas and a good opportunity to change Brazil (i.e. pass draconian reforms. See
https://twitter.com/theeconomist/status/1080893334581923841?lang=en and
https://www.ft.com/content/ab6d338a-09f8-11e9-9fe8-acdb36967cfc ). Paulo Guedes, a Chicago-trained economist, was appointed by Bolsonaro to serve as his Minister of Economy in an obvious 'marriage' of convenience to keep the markets happy enough. The 'free world' and everything that comes with it ensures, firstly, that capital is free, and Latin America is their backyard.
