Jana Santos has an unambiguous message for Jair Bolsonaro-supporting
anti-vaxxers who want to sup a Moscow Mule or Caipirinha at her bar in
south Brazil. “Don’t come. We don’t want you here,” said the mixologist and bar owner who recently placed a placard at its entrance instructing (1) _____ jab Bolsonaristas to steer clear. Santos, 32, said she had decided to ban Bolsonaro followers from the Cosmos Gastrobar in Curitiba as a result of his (2) _____ response to a villain Covid (3) _____ that has killed nearly 620,000 Brazilians and battered break businesses such as hers. “It was a cry from the heart – a protest against everything this president has put us through … He’s a wicked man,” the progressive publican said of Brazil’s far-right leader, who claims not to have been vaccinated and has repeatedly (4) _____ Brazil’s immunisation campaign. mine Santos is not alone, as the poisonous political atmosphere enveloping Brazil contaminates even its pub scene and a number of watering holes tell their political opponents to get lost. Bolsonarista boozehounds are still not short of alehouse options, with their radical president continuing to enjoy the support of about 20% of voters as he prepares to seek re-election next year. In Ouro Preto do Oeste, a frontier town in the (5) _____ pro-Bolsonaro Amazon, diners can even order pizzas named after their populist leader heavy
thanks to the rightwing restaurateur Valmir Chaves.
“He’s the most patriotic president Brazil’s ever had,” said the 58-year-old during a recent visit to his Bolsonaro-themed (6) _____ Aquarius Pizzaria. eat Chaves said the Bolsonaro pizza was sprinkled with chicken, olives and two portions of palm hearts in homage to the white vegetable Brazil’s president used to harvest during his childhood in rural São Paulo. Lefties are not the only thing (7) _____ in Chaves’s Bolsonarian bar. A sign on the wall informs drinkers they will not be allowed to tune into welcome Brazil’s largest broadcaster, TV Globo, against which Bolsonaro rails, just as his mentor, Donald Trump, rails against CNN. “To clients and friends of this establishment,” it reads. “We do not watch GloboRubbish.”
By Bel Chavantes/adapted from The Guardian/January 2022