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It is all about anger and change, stupid! This blog doesn’t endorse Jair Bolsonaro, his views go against the liberal and feminist values of this blogger.   Foreign media have rightly described him as a far-right firebrand, a Brazilian Trump, a Brazilian Duterte and worse, a tropical clone of Hitler.   The media publicized his inflammatory viewpoints on women, blacks, gays, democracy and his yearning for the past military dictatorship.   All this is true.   Conversely, Haddad, the Worker Party (PT) candidate is celebrated as a decent and able politician.   While the foreign media admonishes the Brazilians not to vote for Bolsonaro, it failed or was unwilling to understand why he will almost certainly be elected on Sunday, October 28.   How did we get there? 1-This election is all about anger (violence, corruption, worse-ever economic recession, lack of opportunities and unemployment) and change (get rid of self-serving parties and their corrupt polit...

We joined the crowd to visit the landmarks: Corinth, Mycenae, Mystras, Epidaurus and Monemvasia.   But we went off the beaten track to discover Peloponnese’s hidden or less popular treasures.   Thanks to the European bail-out, Greece has finally emerged from its self-inflicted financial mess.    However, it is still the land of a carefree, and I could add careless behavior and flouting the rules is a national badge of honor.   This local trait is particularly noticeable on the road where rules seem to apply to foreigners only, and since in summer the Greeks become a minority population within their own country, this free-for-all is manageable.   Last year, Greece welcomed 32 million tourists, a three tourists per inhabitant ratio!! In all matter of road safety, Greece compares with a third world country, and it stands near the bottom of the EU safety ranking.   Fortunately, in Peloponnese there is much less traffic than in Italy and France.  ...