Group 2 Memo Blog

Who is Jair Bolsonaro? Jair Bolsonaro is Brazil’s new president and often compared to United States president Donald Trump. Bolsonaro vision of eradicating corruption, driving down crime, and promoting traditional family values led him to victory. During Bolsonaro’s 27-year career as a congressman, the far-right politician has been known for celebrating the brutal military dictatorship that ruled Brazil for two decades and for repeatedly attacking the country’s black, LGBTQ, and indigenous communities. Jair Bolsonaro has said racist, misogynist, and anti-LGBTQ statements such as “having a daughter is a "weakness", told a congresswoman she was "too ugly" to be raped, claimed some black people were not "even good for procreation", and said he would rather one of his four sons "die in an accident" than be gay.” These statements did not prevent him from winning. Factors that led to Bolsonaro winning the election was his populist message, a disi...

History of India Pakistan Relations: The relationship between the nations of India and Pakistan is one of the most interesting international relationships in the world today. Throughout the history of these two nations, their relationship has been very complex and very hostile to understand why this is we have to go back to the early 20th century when the British Empire ruled India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Malaya all as one state which was known as the British Raj. This rule came to a violent end in 1947 when the British Partition of India happened. This created the two separate states of India and Pakistan along mostly religious lines with Pakistan being Muslims and India being Hindu. As a result of this partition 200,000 to 2,000,000 people lost their lives. This event in history caused a great refugee crisis. It also kicked off the Kashmir conflict. We can trace this tension back to the British Partition. The new governments of India and Pakistan were very much unprepared for a ...

Executive Summary: Since the first meeting with President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un, the Supreme Leader of North Korea, it has been the United States ultimate goal to convince North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons. President Trump will host his second summit the end of February with North Korean Leader Kim-Jong Un in Vietnam.  Holding it in Vietnam would cast a spotlight on a country that has become an economic powerhouse in Southeast Asia after emerging from poverty and isolation in the decades after the Vietnam War. According to the United States, Vietnam could be a political and economic model for North Korea to follow. North Korea has still made no commitments to allow weapons inspections or to dismantle its growing arsenal of warheads and intercontinental ballistic missiles. The announcement about the second summit suggested that the U.S. was softening its refusal to relax sanctions against North Korea because Kim had earlier this month threatened to walk away fr...