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Opinion: “Yo, el Supremo”: Does Brazil’s President Have a Persistent Delusional Disorder?

Opinion, by Michael Royster

Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo –In 1974, Paraguayan author Augusto Roa Bastos published a novel entitled “Yo, el Supremo” (in English “I, the Supreme”).  The book’s central character, a quasi-fictional 19th century autocrat, refers to himself as “El Supremo”, and believes himself to be above all power and history: "I don't write history. I make it. I can remake it as I please…”

Fast forward to present-day Brasília, where Jair Messias Bolsonaro’s bizarre actions and reactions permit us to question whether he also considers himself . . .

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