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
Brazils far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has used his international debut to sound the death knell for South Americas 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 Brazils 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 Bolsonaros time as a Rio lawmaker, he had employed both the mother and wife of the gangs 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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(6,032 posts)... 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.