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Bolsonaro Changes Dictatorship Commission to Support His Political Views
Change comes amid president attacks on people who went missing during military regime
Aug.2.2019 11:42AM
BRASÍLIA
The Jair Bolsonaro government (PSL) replaced 4 of the seven members of the Special Commission on Political Dead and Missing Persons (CEMDP), which works to recognize the dead and missing during the military dictatorship (1964-1985).
Among the four new members of the special commission are members of the Bolsonaro party, PSL, and the military.
The president justified the measure by stating that Brazil now has a right-wing government.
“The reason [is] that changed the president is now Jair Bolsonaro, from the right. End. When they [previous governments] put terrorists there, nobody said anything. Now the president has changed. It has changed the environmental issue as well,” he said, leaving Alvorada Palace on Thursday morning.
More:
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2019/08/bolsonaro-changes-dictatorship-commission-to-support-his-political-views.shtml
