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Bolsonaro tells students to read book by dictatorship-era torturer
Source: The Guardian
Bolsonaro tells students to read book by dictatorship-era torturer
Brazil’s president accused of ‘drinking from the sewers of history’ by recommending The Suffocated Truth
Sam Cowie in São Paulo
@samcowie84
Mon 30 Sep 2019 19.47 BST
Last modified on Mon 30 Sep 2019 21.19 BST
Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been accused of “drinking from the sewer of history” after urging teenage students to read a book by a notorious dictatorship-era torturer accused of directing interrogation sessions where victims were were whipped, given electric shocks and pounded with vine wood canes.
Bolsonaro, an outspoken fan of the 1964-1985 military regime during which hundreds of political opponents were murdered and thousands more tortured, met with students at the gates of the presidential palace in the capital, Brasília, on Monday.
Video of the encounter shows one of the students saying, “Send a hug to my teacher.”
“You teacher is a leftist?” the president replies, as the crowd erupts with laughter.
“Tell her to read the book The Suffocated Truth. Just read it,” Bolsonaro says. “There are facts, not the blah blah blah of the left.”
The book he recommended was written by Col Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, who in 2008 became Brazil’s first military man convicted for kidnap and torture during the dictatorship.
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Brazil’s president accused of ‘drinking from the sewers of history’ by recommending The Suffocated Truth
Sam Cowie in São Paulo
@samcowie84
Mon 30 Sep 2019 19.47 BST
Last modified on Mon 30 Sep 2019 21.19 BST
Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been accused of “drinking from the sewer of history” after urging teenage students to read a book by a notorious dictatorship-era torturer accused of directing interrogation sessions where victims were were whipped, given electric shocks and pounded with vine wood canes.
Bolsonaro, an outspoken fan of the 1964-1985 military regime during which hundreds of political opponents were murdered and thousands more tortured, met with students at the gates of the presidential palace in the capital, Brasília, on Monday.
Video of the encounter shows one of the students saying, “Send a hug to my teacher.”
“You teacher is a leftist?” the president replies, as the crowd erupts with laughter.
“Tell her to read the book The Suffocated Truth. Just read it,” Bolsonaro says. “There are facts, not the blah blah blah of the left.”
The book he recommended was written by Col Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, who in 2008 became Brazil’s first military man convicted for kidnap and torture during the dictatorship.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/30/bolsonaro-tells-students-to-read-book-by-dictatorship-era-torturer