“What I’m trying to offer the worker is this: fewer rights and jobs, or all their rights and unemployment.”

—  Jair Bolsonaro

On 21 July 2019. Brazil's Bolsonaro says government may cut worker protections to boost job creation https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-politics/brazils-bolsonaro-says-government-may-cut-worker-protections-to-boost-job-creation-idUSKCN1UG0PW. Reuters (21 July 2019).

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