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A giant cutout of far-right Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro
FAR-RIGHT Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro came under fire on Wednesday after taunting UN human rights commissioner Michelle Bachelet over her and her parents’ torture by Chile’s Pinochet dictatorship in the 1970s.
Mr Bolsonaro hit out after Ms Bachelet criticised rising killings by police in Brazil and warned of a “shrinking” space for democracy.
He responded saying: “She is defending the human rights of vagabonds. Senhora Michelle Bachelet, if Pinochet’s people had not defeated the left in ’73 — among them your father — Chile would be a Cuba today.”
Newly revealed documents reveal that MI5 taught Brazilian secret police the techniques deployed by the 1964-85 military dictatorship in horrific prisons like Rio de Janeiro’s House of Death. SARA VIVACQUA reports
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
