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Judi Lynn

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Tue Jan 22, 2019, 05:51 PM Jan 2019

Bolsonaro's Davos debut overshadowed by growing scandal around son

Source: Guardian


Flávio Bolsonaro denies Brazilian newspaper claims he once employed the mother and wife of an alleged death squad leader

Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent
Tue 22 Jan 2019 16.17 EST

Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has used his international debut to sound the death knell for South America’s “Bolivarian” left and proclaim a new, conservative era of clean governance and godliness in the region.

But his terse and widely-panned appearance at the World Economic Forum on Tuesday was overshadowed by a snowballing scandal back home involving one of his sons, the recently-elected senator Flávio Bolsonaro.

As the president – who came to power vowing to free Brazil from corruption and criminality – prepared to take to the stage in Davos, reports in one of Brazil’s leading newspapers linked his son with members of a Rio de Janeiro death squad called the Escritório do Crime (The Crime Bureau).

Rio broadsheet O Globo claimed that during Flávio Bolsonaro’s time as a Rio lawmaker, he had employed both the mother and wife of the gang’s alleged leader, a former special forces agent called Adriano Magalhães da Nóbrega.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/22/jair-bolsonaro-flavio-brazil-davos-scandal-gangs

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Latin America nations at this point seems to either have left wing dictators... nycbos Jan 2019 #1
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nycbos

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1. Latin America nations at this point seems to either have left wing dictators...
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 05:57 PM
Jan 2019

... like Venezuela or right wing dictators like Brazil.

I hope one day we will see the center left and the center right make a come back.

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